Educational Background

2011.09-2017.06, Ph. D. in Physics, Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Lanzhou University, China.

2007.09-2011.06, B. Sc. in Physics, School of Physical Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, China.


Working Experience

2017.09-present, Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute for Quantum Science and Engineering & Department of Physics, Southern University of Science and Technology


Honors and Awards

2012, National Scholarship for Graduate students, Lanzhou University.


Papers and Patents


  1. Zhan Cao, Tie-Feng Fang, Qing-Feng Sun, and Hong-Gang Luo, Inelastic Kondo-Andreev tunneling in a vibrating quantum dot, Phys. Rev. B 95, 121110(R) (2017).
  2. Zhan Cao, Tie-Feng Fang, Wan-Xiu He, and Hong-Gang Luo, Thermoelectric unipolar spin battery in a suspended carbon nanotube, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 29, 165302 (2017).
  3. Lin Li, Zhan Cao, Tie-Feng Fang, Hong-Gang Luo, and Wei-Qiang Chen, Kondo screening of Andreev bound states in a normal metal-quantum dot-superconductor system, Phys. Rev. B 94, 165144 (2016), Li and Cao contributed equally.
  4. Zhan Cao, Tie-Feng Fang, Lin Li, and Hong-Gang Luo, Thermoelectric-induced unitary Cooper pair splitting efficiency, Appl. Phys. Lett. 107, 212601 (2015).
  5. Zhan Cao, Tie-Feng Fang, Qiao Chen, and Hong-Gang Luo, Currents and current correlations in a topological superconducting nanowire beam splitter, Europhys. Lett. 111, 57002 (2015).
  6. Lin Li, Zhan Cao, Hong-Gang Luo, Fu-Chun Zhang, and Wei-Qiang Chen, Fano resonance in a normal metal/ferromagnet-quantum dot-superconductor device, Phys. Rev. B 92, 195155 (2015).
  7. Tie-Feng Fang, Ning-Hua Tong, Zhan Cao, Qing-Feng Sun, and Hong-Gang Luo, Spin susceptibility of Anderson impurities in arbitrary conduction bands, Phys. Rev. B 92, 155129 (2015).
  8. Zhan Cao, Yu-Feng Wang, and Hong-Gang Luo, Inhomogeneity of the phase space of the damped harmonic oscillator under Lévy noise, Phys. Rev. E 85, 042101 (2012).