A/Prof. Hui Hu   ARC QEII Research Fellow

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 2001 Ph.D., Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
• 1996 B. Sc., Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

• Associate Professor, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne (2011–present)
• ARC QEII Fellow, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne (2009–2013)
• Professor (Chair) of AMO Physics, Renmin University of China, Beijing (2006–08)
• Visiting Research Fellow, ACQAO, University of Queensland, Brisbane (2005)
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Scuola Normale Superiore (SNS), Pisa (2003–04)
• Postdoctoral Fellow, The Abdus Salam ICTP, Trieste (2001–03)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Theory of ultracold quantum gases: dilute Fermi gases, Bose–Einstein condensation
• Strongly correlated many–body systems and phase transitions

RESEARCH PROFILE

• 69 peer–refereed papers, including 1 Nature Physics and 15 Physical Review Letters
• 1013 citations from the ISI Web of Science
• Hirsch h–index: 19

HONORS AND AWARDS

• 2009 ARC Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship (100% salary option)
• 2009 ARC Linkage International Fellowship (declined)
• 2007 New Century Excellent Talents in Chinese Universities (ranked No. 1)
• 2004 National distinguished PhD dissertation of China

RESEARCH GRANTS

• Quantum Magnetism and Disorder in Degenerate Atomic Gases, NFRP–China 2011CB921502 (2011–15), RMB Yuan 15 Millions. Wu–Ming Liu (first CI), …, H. Hu (overseas PI) et al. (50 participants).
• Swinburne University of Technology Vice Chancellor grant (2010–14), A$40,000. H. Hu.
• Ultracold atomic Fermi gases in the strongly interacting regime: A new frontier of quantum many–body physics, ARC Discovery Project DP0984522 (2009–13), A$631,000. H. Hu, A. Griffin, E. Taylor, and J. E. Thomas. This QEII Fellowship supports 100% salary of the recipient.
• Superfluidity in strongly correlated ultra–cold atomic Fermi gases, ARC Linkage International Project LX0989623 (2009–10), A$98,000. P. D. Drummond and H. Hu (declined).
• Quantum correlations in ultracold Fermi gases, ARC Linkage International Project LX0774806 (2007–09), A$68,400. P. D. Drummond, X.–J. Liu, J. Corney, K. Kheruntsyan, H. Hu, and M. Troyer.
• Theoretical study of novel quantum phenomena and their manipulation in strongly correlated systems, NFRP–China 2006CB921306 (2006–10), RMB Yuan 5 Millions. Tao Xiang (first CI), …, H. Hu et al. (12 participants).
• Strongly interacting ultra–cold atomic gases, the National Distinguished PhD Dissertation Grant (2007–09), RMB Yuan 220,000. H. Hu.
• Theoretical studies on the properties BEC–BCS crossover for ultracold Fermi atom and molecular systems with two components, NSFC–China 10774190 (2008–10), RMB Yuan 350,000. H. Hu and P. D. Drummond.
• New Staff Research Start–up Grant (Renmin University of China), RMB Yuan 1,050,000 (as promised by Renmin University). H. Hu. This grant covers many aspects of expense, including a significant part of new staff’s salary.

Supervision of higher degree by research (HDR) (Current students)

Name	Degree	Research Centre	Start year	Role	Institution
Alexey Orel	PhD	CAOUS	2010	Primary Supervisor	Swinburne
Rodney Polkinghorne	PhD	CAOUS	2011	Co-Supervisor	Swinburne

GRADUATE STUDENT SUPERVISION EXPERIENCE

• Supervised 1 Master student (Mr. Peng Zou) to completion (Renmin University of China)
• Supervised 2 visiting PhD students (Mr. Hui Dong, 8 months, and Mr. Shi–Guo Peng, 1 year)
• winburne University of Technology)
• Principle coordinate supervisor of a PhD student (Mr. Alexey Orel, Swinburne University of
• chnology)
• Coordinate supervisor of a PhD student (Mr. Rodney Polkinghorne, Swinburne University of
• chnology)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• Thermodynamics and statistical physics for 3rd–year undergraduate students (2007–08,Renmin University of China, Beijing)
• Lecturer of the Victorian Summer School in Ultracold Physics (24th January – 4th February, 2011, Melbourne)

DEPARTMENTAL AND UNIVERSITY SERVICES

• Chair of AMO Physics (Department of Physics, Renmin University of China, 2006–08).
• Chair of the Academic Exchange Committee (Department of Physics, Renmin University of
• ina, 2006–08).
• Co–organizer of SOLL seminars (CAOUS, Swinburne University of Technology, 2011–
• esent)

NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

• Chief Organizer of the bilateral Chinese and Japanese “Joint Mini–Workshop on Novel
• antum Phenomena in Strongly Correlated Electronic Systems”, held in June 2007, Beijing.
• Co–chair of “Ultracold Fermi Gas” section of the prestigious conference ICAP2010 (Cairns,
• –30 July 2010).
• Regular referee for the NSF–China Grants (Chinese equivalent of ARC Discovery Projects).
• Regular referee for the American Physical Society journals, Physical Review Letters and
• ysical Review.

INVITED INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

• Virial expansion for a strongly correlated Fermi gas, invited talk given at the 7th joint meeting of Chinese physicists worldwide (OCPA7), 1–5 August 2011, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
• Theory of strongly correlated Fermi gases: from strong–coupling theory to non–perturbative virial expansion, invited talk given at the special event of celebrating Professor Allan Griffin’s contributions to physics, 13–14 May 2011, Toronto, Canada.
• Virial expansion for a strongly correlated Fermi gas, invited talk given at the American Physical Society Annual March Meeting, 21–25 March 2011, Dallas, the USA.
• First principle many–body theory for strongly interacting ultracold Fermi atoms, invited talk given at the international workshop “Ultracold Fermi Gas: Superfluidity and Strong Correlation”, 13–15 May 2010, Tokyo, Japan.
• Universal thermodynamic behaviour of strongly interacting Fermi gases, invited talk given at the international conference “Quantum–Atom Optics beyond Bells”, 26–28 November 2008, Lorne, Australia.
• Universal thermodynamic behaviour of strongly interacting Fermi gases, Invited talk given at the international conference “Frontiers of Degenerate Quantum Gases”, 24–28 October 2008, Beijing, China. This very prestigious conference had 30 invited speakers including 5 Nobel Prize winners and the leaders of internationally leading cold–atom groups.

TEN CAREER–BEST PUBLICATIONS

JIF = Journal Impact Factor for 2009 from the ISI Science Citation Index

1. Hui Hu, Xia–Ji Liu, Peter D. Drummond, and Hui Dong, “Pseudo–gap pairing in ultracold Fermi atoms”, Physical Review Letters 104, 240407 (2010). JIF 7.3 – 14 citations
   This Letter showed for the first time how to apply a high–temperature cluster expansion to dynamical problems in the exciting research area of ultra–cold Fermi gases.
2. Hui Hu, Peter D. Drummond, and Xia–Ji Liu, “Universal thermodynamics of strongly interacting Fermi gases”,Nature Physics 3, 469 (2007). JIF 15.5 – 51 citations
   This Letter reported the first convincing evidence of universal thermodynamics in strongly interacting Fermi gases. The work was highlighted by AIP Physics News Update on 6th, June 2007.
3. Hui Hu, Xia–Ji Liu, and Peter D. Drummond, “Phase diagram of a strongly interacting polarized Fermi gas in one dimension”, Physical Review Letters 98, 070403 (2007). JIF 7.3 – 79 citations
   This Letter gave the first proposal for realizing exotic FFLO phases in one–dimensional imbalanced Fermi gases, confirmed experimentally at Rice University, Housten, the USA, with results published in Nature 467, 567 (2010).
4. Hui Hu and Xia–Ji Liu, “Mean field phase diagrams of imbalanced Fermi gases near a Feshbach resonance”, Physical Review A (Rapid Communications) 73, 051603(R) (2006). JIF 2.9 – 44 citations
   This Rapid Communication clarified a qualitative phase diagram of spin imbalanced Fermi gases near a broad Feshbach resonance.
5. Hui Hu, Xia–Ji Liu, and Peter D. Drummond, “Temperature of a trapped unitary Fermi gas at finite entropy”, Physical Review A 73, 023617 (2006). JIF 2.9 – 33 citations
   This paper gives a theoretical thermometry for the strongly interacting Fermi gas, which is adopted extensively in later studies.
6. Hui Hu, Xia–Ji Liu, and Peter D. Drummond, “Equation of state of a superfluid Fermi gas in the BCS–BEC crossover”, Europhysics Letters 74, 574 (2006). JIF 2.8 – 57 citations
   This Letter provides so far the most accurate theoretical description of strongly interacting fermions, as verified experimentally at Duke University and at ENS Paris [reported in Science 328, 729 (2010) and Nature 463, 1057 (2010)]. [Hui Hu’s CV, as of 30/09/2011]
7. Hui Hu, Anna Minguzzi, Xia–Ji Liu, and Mario P. Tosi, “Collective modes and ballistic expansion of a Fermi gas in the BCS–BEC crossover”, Physical Review Letters 93, 190403 (2004).JIF 7.3 – 77 citations
   This Letter outlined the first microscopic calculation of density oscillations in strongly interacting Fermi gases. The results gave reasons for the discrepancy between two measurements at Duke University and University of Innsbruck.
8. Hui Hu, Guang–Ming Zhang, and Lu Yu, “Mesoscopic Kondo screening effect in a single–electron transistor embedded in a metallic ring”, Physical Review Letters 86, 5558 (2001). JIF 7.3 – 49 citations
   This Letter was the first to discuss the quantum magnetic impurity effect in nanoscopic ringlike structures. The slave–boson approach developed in this work is extensively used.
9. Hui Hu, Jia–Lin Zhu, Dai–Jun Li, and Jia–Jiong Xiong, “Aharonov–Bohm effect of excitons in nano–rings”, Physical Review B 63, 195307 (2001). JIF 3.4 – 58 citations
   This work gave the first prediction of Aharonov–Bohm effect of electron–hole pairs in nanostructures, subsequently verified experimentally at University of Dortmund and at Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory.
10. Hui Hu, Jia–Lin Zhu, and Xia–Jiong Xiong, “Energy levels and far–infrared spectroscopy for two electrons in a nanoscopic semiconductor ring”, Physical Review B 62, 16777 (2000). JIF 3.4 – 32 citations
    This work provided the first theoretical explanation of two–electron spectrum in a nanoscopic quantum ring.