Yuan Ping
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Yuan Ping (Chinese: 平远) is a Chinese-American computational materials scientist and theoretical chemist whose research focuses on first-principles many-body theory, open quantum dynamics, spin dynamics, quantum defects, and optoelectronic properties of materials. She is an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, with appointments in materials science and engineering and affiliated appointments in physics and chemistry. She was previously a faculty member at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Career
Ping joined the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California, Santa Cruz as an assistant professor in 2016.[1] She was also affiliated with the Department of Physics at UC Santa Cruz from 2017 to 2023.[2] In 2022, she became an associate professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.[3]
In 2023, Ping joined the University of Wisconsin–Madison as an associate professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.[4] She is also affiliated with the university's departments of physics and chemistry. She has continued as an adjunct professor in the Department of Physics at the University of California, Santa Cruz.[5]
Research
Ping develops first-principles quantum many-body theory and computational methods for describing nonequilibrium dynamics in solid-state materials. Her work includes density-matrix-based open quantum dynamics methods for predicting quasiparticle relaxation, dephasing, and transport from electronic structure calculations rather than from empirically fitted parameters.[6]
A central part of Ping's research is the development of first-principles open quantum dynamics methods for relaxation and decoherence of quasiparticles in solids.[6] This framework describes coherent and incoherent processes in materials through the time evolution of reduced density matrices, including interactions among electrons, phonons, photons, and other quasiparticles.[6] In 2020, Ping and collaborators introduced an ab initio density-matrix approach for calculating spin-phonon relaxation in solids.[7] She and collaborators later extended this approach to ultrafast spin dynamics in solids,[8] spin relaxation, dephasing, and diffusion,[9] and spin relaxation and dephasing in bulk halide perovskites.[10]
Ping has also developed first-principles methods for predicting the optical and spin properties of solid-state quantum defects. Her group developed a many-body perturbation theory approach for charged defects in two-dimensional materials, including defects studied for quantum technology applications.[11] Ping and Tyler J. Smart later described computational approaches for designing quantum defects in two-dimensional materials.[12] Her group has also developed first-principles approaches for excited-state dynamics and spin-dependent optically detected magnetic resonance contrast in solid-state spin defects.[13]
Another area of her research concerns first-principles descriptions of electronic excitations and coupled electron-ion dynamics in complex materials. Her work on halide perovskites has addressed carrier localization and the formation of two-dimensional polarization domains in these materials.[14] Her group has also contributed to non-collinear real-time time-dependent density functional theory methods for spin dynamics in GPU-accelerated electronic-structure software.[15]
Earlier in her career, Ping developed first-principles methods for electronic excitations in light-absorbing materials, including many-body perturbation theory approaches for photoelectrochemical energy conversion.[16]
Awards and honors
- 2018 – Hellman Fellow[17]
- 2021 – COMP OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, American Chemical Society[18]
- 2021 – Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Research Program award, Air Force Research Laboratory[19]
- 2022 – NSF CAREER Award[20]
- 2022 – Sloan Research Fellowship[21]
References
- ↑ Stephens, Tim (3 March 2021). "Yuan Ping wins OpenEye award for outstanding junior faculty". UC Santa Cruz News.
- ↑ "Dr. Yuan Ping". University of Wisconsin–Madison.
- ↑ Stephens, Tim (15 July 2022). "DOE supports UCSC 'spin chemistry' research with $1.2 million grant". UC Santa Cruz News.
- ↑ "Yuan Ping". College of Engineering - University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- ↑ "Yuan Ping". UC Santa Cruz.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Simoni, Jacopo; Riva, Gabriele; Ping, Yuan (2025). "First-principles open quantum dynamics for solids based on density-matrix formalism". The Journal of Chemical Physics. 163 (17): 170901. doi:10.1063/5.0277603. PMID 41195798 Check
|pmid=value (help). - ↑ Xu, Junqing; Habib, Adela; Kumar, Sushant; Wu, Feng; Sundararaman, Ravishankar; Ping, Yuan (2020). "Spin-phonon relaxation from a universal ab initio density-matrix approach". Nature Communications. 11: 2780. doi:10.1038/s41467-020-16063-5. PMC 7275074 Check
|pmc=value (help). PMID 32493901 Check|pmid=value (help). - ↑ Xu, Junqing; Habib, Adela; Sundararaman, Ravishankar; Ping, Yuan (2021). "Ab initio ultrafast spin dynamics in solids". Physical Review B. 104 (18). doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.104.184418. Unknown parameter
|article-number=ignored (help) - ↑ Xu, Junqing; Ping, Yuan (2024). "Ab initio predictions of spin relaxation, dephasing, and diffusion in solids". Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 20 (2): 492–512. doi:10.1021/acs.jctc.3c00598. PMID 38157422 Check
|pmid=value (help). - ↑ Xu, Junqing; Li, Kejun; Huynh, Uyen N.; Huang, Jinsong; Sundararaman, Ravishankar; Vardeny, Valy; Ping, Yuan (2024). "How spin relaxes and dephases in bulk halide perovskites". Nature Communications. 15: 188. doi:10.1038/s41467-023-42835-w. PMC 10761092 Check
|pmc=value (help). PMID 38168025 Check|pmid=value (help). - ↑ Wu, Feng; Galatas, Andrew; Sundararaman, Ravishankar; Rocca, Dario; Ping, Yuan (2017). "First-principles engineering of charged defects for two-dimensional quantum technologies". Physical Review Materials. 1 (7). doi:10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.1.071001. Unknown parameter
|article-number=ignored (help) - ↑ Ping, Yuan; Smart, Tyler J. (2021). "Computational design of quantum defects in two-dimensional materials". Nature Computational Science. 1 (10): 646–654. doi:10.1038/s43588-021-00140-w.
- ↑ Li, Kejun; Dergachev, Vsevolod D.; Dergachev, Ilya D.; Zhang, Shimin; Varganov, Sergey A.; Ping, Yuan (2024). "Excited-state dynamics and optically detected magnetic resonance of solid-state spin defects from first principles". Physical Review B. 110 (18). doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.110.184302. Unknown parameter
|article-number=ignored (help) - ↑ Grieder, Andrew C.; Calegari Andrade, Marcos; Takenaka, Hiroyuki; Ogitsu, Tadashi; Tan, Liang Z.; Ping, Yuan (2025). "Carrier Localization and Spontaneous Formation of Two-Dimensional Polarization Domain in Halide Perovskites". Physical Review Letters. 135: 136301. doi:10.1103/4kyt-jj6w.
- ↑ Simoni, Jacopo; Andrade, Xavier; Fang, Wuzhang; Grieder, Andrew C.; Correa, Alfredo A.; Ogitsu, Tadashi; Ping, Yuan (2025). "Spin non-collinear real-time time-dependent density-functional theory and implementation in the modern GPU-accelerated INQ code". APL Computational Physics. 1 (2): 026108. doi:10.1063/5.0290737.
- ↑ Ping, Yuan; Rocca, Dario; Galli, Giulia (2013). "Electronic excitations in light absorbers for photoelectrochemical energy conversion: first principles calculations based on many body perturbation theory". Chemical Society Reviews. 42 (6): 2437–2469. doi:10.1039/C3CS00007A. PMID 23426559.
- ↑ "Hellman Fellows". Academic Affairs. University of California, Santa Cruz.
- ↑ "OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award in Computational Chemistry". American Chemical Society.
- ↑ "AFOSR awards grants to 36 scientists and engineers through its Young Investigator Research Program". Air Force Research Laboratory. 5 November 2020.
- ↑ Stephens, Tim (5 January 2022). "Materials theorist Yuan Ping wins NSF CAREER Award". UC Santa Cruz News.
- ↑ "Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship for Yuan Ping in Chemistry". Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
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