Research Interests for Jianfeng Lu

Mathematical analysis and algorithm development for problems from
computational physics, theoretical chemistry, materials science and others.

More specifically:
Electronic structure and many body problems;
Multiscale modeling and analysis; and
Rare events and sampling techniques.

Areas of Interest:

Applied Mathematics
Partial Differential Equations
Probability
Numerical Analysis
Scientific Computing

Recent Publications

1. Lu, J; Yang, H, A cubic scaling algorithm for excited states calculations in particle–particle random phase approximation, Journal of Computational Physics, vol. 340 (July, 2017), pp. 297-308 [doi]
2. Gao, Y; Liu, J-G; Lu, J, Continuum Limit of a Mesoscopic Model with Elasticity of Step Motion on Vicinal Surfaces, Journal of Nonlinear Science, vol. 27 no. 3 (June, 2017), pp. 873-926 [doi]
3. Li, C; Lu, J; Yang, W, On extending Kohn-Sham density functionals to systems with fractional number of electrons., Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 146 no. 21 (June, 2017), pp. 214109 [doi] [abs]
4. Lu, J; Thicke, K, Orbital minimization method with ℓ 1 regularization, Journal of Computational Physics, vol. 336 (May, 2017), pp. 87-103 [doi]
5. Lu, J; Zhou, Z, Path integral molecular dynamics with surface hopping for thermal equilibrium sampling of nonadiabatic systems., Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 146 no. 15 (April, 2017), pp. 154110 [doi] [abs]