Guo-ping Zhang

Associate Professor

B.S., 1987, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China
M.S., 1990, Shanghai Jiao-Tong University, Shanghai, China
Ph.D., 1995, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Office: S-165I
Phone: (812) 237-2044
E-mail: guoping.zhang@indstate.edu
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Research Interests

Dr. Zhang's research interests include femtosecond magnetism, nano-material engineering, nanostructures, fullerenes, spintronics, nonlinear optics in conjugated polymers, strongly correlated electron systems, ultrafast spectroscopy, pump-probe and four-wave mixing signal, laser-induced ultrafast spin dynamics in nano and low dimensional magnets, soft x-ray spectroscopy, high harmonic generations, mechanic properties of diamondoids, superconductivity in MgB2, and photoisomerization in rhodopsin.

Selected Publications

Nonlinear optical response and ultrafast dynamics in C60, G. P. Zhang, X. Sun and T. F. George, Journal of Physical Chemistry A (2009). (Invited Feature Article)

Time-resolved and energy-dispersed spin excitation in ferromagnets and clusters under influence of femtosecond laser pulses, T. Hartenstein, G. Lefkidis, W. Hübner, G. P. Zhang and Y. Bai, J. Appl. Physics (in press).

Laser-induced orbital and spin excitations in ferromagnets: Insights from a two-level system, G. P. Zhang, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 187203 (2008).

Total angular momentum conservation in laser-induced femtosecond magnetism, G. P. Zhang and T. F. George, Phys. Rev. B 78, 052407 (2008).

Understanding laser-induced ultrafast magnetization in ferromagnets: First-principles investigation, G. P. Zhang, Y. Bai, W. Hübner, G. Lefkidis and T. F. George, J. Appl. Physics 103, 07B113 (2008).

High harmonic generation in atoms, molecules and nanostructures, G. P. Zhang, Intern. J. Mod. Phys. B 21, 5167 (2007). (Invited Article)

Manifestation of electron-electron interactions in time-resolved ultrafast pump-probe spectroscopy in C60: Theory, G. P. Zhang and T. F. George, Phys. Rev. B 76, 085410 (2007).

Origin of ellipticity anomaly in harmonic generation in C60, G. P. Zhang and T. F. George, J. Optical Society of America B 24, 1150 (2007).

First-principles simulation of the interaction between adamantane and an atomic-force-microscope tip, G. P. Zhang, T. F. George, L. Assoufid and G. Ali Mansoori, Phys. Rev. B 75, 035413 (2007).

Ellipticity dependence of optical harmonic generation in C60, G. P. Zhang and T. F. George, Phys. Rev. A 74, 023811 (2006).

Normal-mode selectivity in ultrafast Raman excitations in C60, G. P. Zhang and T. F. George, Phys. Rev. B 73, 035422 (2006).

Resolving dd transitions in NaV2O5 using angle-resolved resonant inelastic x-ray scattering at the V L edge, G. P. Zhang and T. A. Callcott, Phys. Rev. B 73, 125102 (2006).

Nonlinear high harmonic generation in atoms, molecules and nanostructures: A potential ultrafast and high energy light source, G. P. Zhang, Wuli (Physics) 35, 424 (2006). (Beijing; Invited Article)

Optical high harmonic generations in C60, G. P. Zhang, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 047401 (2005).

Reply to Comment on "Accurate ground-state phase diagram of the one-dimensional extended Hubbard model at half filling," G. P. Zhang, Phys. Rev. B 71, 197102 (2005).

Controlling vibrational excitations in C60 by laser pulse durations, G. P. Zhang and T. F. George, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 147401 (2004).

Reply to Comment "Electron correlation effects in resonant inelastic X-ray scattering of NaV2O5," G. P. Zhang, T. A. Callcott, G. T. Woods, L. Lin, B. Sales, D. Mandrus and J. He, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 219702 (2004).

Extended Hellmann-Feynman theorem for degenerate eigenstates, G. P. Zhang and T. F. George, Phys. Rev. B 69, 167102 (2004).

Reply to Comment "Electron correlation effects in resonant inelastic X-ray scattering of NaV2O5," G. P. Zhang, T. A. Callcott, G. T. Woods, L. Lin, B. Sales, D. Mandrus and J. He, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 169702 (2004).

Hartree-Fock dynamical electron-correlation effects in C60 after laser excitation, G. P. Zhang, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 176801 (2003).

Laser-induced ultrafast dynamics in C60, G. P. Zhang, X. Sun and T. F. George, Phys. Rev. B 68, 165410 (2003).

Accurate ground-state phase diagram of the one-dimensional extended Hubbard model at half filling, G. P. Zhang, Phys. Rev. B 68, 153101 (2003).