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. Triplett, L; Lu, J, Diffusion methods for generating transition paths, Journal of Computational Physics, vol. 522 (February, 2025) [doi] [abs]
2. Cao, Y; Lu, J, Structure-Preserving Numerical Schemes for Lindblad Equations, Journal of Scientific Computing, vol. 102 no. 1 (January, 2025) [doi] [abs]
3. Lu, J; Stubbs, KD, Algebraic Localization of Wannier Functions Implies Chern Triviality in Non-periodic Insulators, Annales Henri Poincare, vol. 25 no. 8 (August, 2024), pp. 3911-3926 [doi] [abs]
4. Fang, D; Lu, J; Tong, Y, Mixing Time of Open Quantum Systems via Hypocoercivity, vol. 134 no. 14 (April, 2024), pp. 140405, American Physical Society (APS) [doi] [abs]
5. Bierman, J; Li, Y; Lu, J, Qubit Count Reduction by Orthogonally Constrained Orbital Optimization for Variational Quantum Excited-State Solvers., Journal of chemical theory and computation, vol. 20 no. 8 (April, 2024), pp. 3131-3143 [doi] [abs]