I am a Nevile Junior Research Fellow at Magdalene College Cambridge, a position that will allow me to start my independent academic career.
I obtained my MSc and BSc in Fudan University, China. In Fudan, I explored different research topics in computational condensed matter physics such as heat transport, thermoelectricity and light-induced dynamics. During my master's study, I visited the Institute of Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences for one year, working on searching for material candidates with topological features in their band structures.
In my PhD, I worked on the topological aspects of vibrational properties of solids, especially non-Abelian braiding of phonons, which has the potential to form the basis for quantum computation. Having established phonons as a viable platform for non-Abelian braiding during my PhD work, I want to take the next steps during a Fellowship and identify the key material(s) that will provide a viable technology solution to topological quantum computation.
My research focuses on computational condensed matter physics, especially the topological aspects of vibrational properties of solids. My longer-term vision is to seamlessly apply the fundamental laws of quantum physics to study nature at large, from astrophysics to quantum biology.
2021 - Cavendish Prize in Computational Physics (Awarded to 1 PhD student by the Head of Department), Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK.
2020 - Best Poster Award, Topological Superconductivity in Quantum Materials Workshop, Johannes Gutenberg Universitat Mainz, Germany.
2020 - Best Poster Award, Computational School on Electronic Excitations in Novel Materials Using the Yambo Code, The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Italy.
2019 - 15th Daheng Wang Award in Optics (Highest honor for Chinese students in optics), Chinese Optical Society.
2019 - Young Scientist, 69th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, Germany.
2018 - National Scholarship, Ministry of Education, China.
2017 - National Scholarship, Ministry of Education, China.
2017 - Committee of 100 Leadership Scholarship, Committee of 100, US.
2017 - Top 10 Graduate Student (Awarded to 10 out of 19,000 Fudan graduate students).
2016 - Outstanding Dissertation (Awarded to Top 1 paper in each department at Fudan).
2016 - Top 10 Graduating Student (Awarded to 10 out of 3,000 Fudan graduating students).
[25] Bo Peng#, Adrien Bouhon#, Bartomeu Monserrat# & Robert-Jan Slager#. Multigap topology and non-Abelian braiding of phonons from first principles. Physical Review B 105, 085115 (2022).
[24] Bo Peng# (co-corresponding author), Adrien Bouhon#, Bartomeu Monserrat# & Robert-Jan Slager#. Phonons as a platform for non-Abelian braiding and its manifestation in layered silicates. Nature Communications 13, 423 (2022).
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[23] Bo Peng, Shuichi Murakami, Bartomeu Monserrat & Tiantian Zhang. Degenerate topological line surface phonons in quasi-1D double helix crystal SnIP. npj Computational Materials 7, 195 (2021).
[22] Ziqi Li*, Bo Peng* (contributed equally), Miao-Ling Lin, Yu-Chen Leng, Bin Zhang, Chi Pang, Ping-Heng Tan, Bartomeu Monserrat & Feng Chen. Phonon-assisted electronic states modulation of few-layer PdSe2 at terahertz frequencies. npj 2D Materials and Applications 5, 87 (2021).
[21] Bo Peng, Yuchen Hu, Shuichi Murakami, Tiantian Zhang & Bartomeu Monserrat. Topological phonons in oxide perovskites controlled by light. Science Advances 6, eabd1618 (2020).
[20] Yujun Xie*, Bo Peng* (contributed equally), Ivona Bravic, Yan Yu, Yurong Dong, Rongqing Liang, Qiongrong Ou, Bartomeu Monserrat & Shuyu Zhang. Highly efficient blue-emitting CsPbBr3 perovskite nanocrystals through neodymium doping. Advanced Science 7, 2001698 (2020).
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[19] Bo Peng, Hao Zhang, Weiwen Chen, Bowen Hou, Zhi-Jun Qiu, Hezhu Shao, Heyuan Zhu, Bartomeu Monserrat, Desheng Fu, Hongming Weng & Costas M. Soukoulis. Sub-picosecond photo-induced displacive phase transition in two-dimensional MoTe2. npj 2D Materials and Applications 4, 14 (2020).
[18] Bo Peng, Ivona Bravic, Judith L. MacManus-Driscoll & Bartomeu Monserrat. Topological semimetallic phase in PbO2 promoted by temperature. Physical Review B 100, 161101(R) (2019).
[17] Bo Peng, Haodong Mei, Hao Zhang, Hezhu Shao, Ke Xu, Gang Ni, Qingyuan Jin, Costas M. Soukoulis & Heyuan Zhu. High thermoelectric efficiency in monolayer PbI2 from 300 K to 900 K. Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers 6, 920 (2019).
[16] Yu Chen*, Bo Peng * (contributed equally), Chunxiao Cong, Jingzhi Shang, Lishu Wu, Weihuang Yang, Jiadong Zhou, Peng Yu, Hongbo Zhang, Yanlong Wang, Chenji Zou, Jing Zhang, Sheng Liu, Qihua Xiong, Hezhu Shao, Zheng Liu, Hao Zhang, Wei Huang & Ting Yu. In-plane anisotropic thermal conductivity of few-layered transition metal dichalcogenide Td-WTe2. Advanced Materials 31, 1804979 (2019).
[15] Bo Peng*, Changming Yue* (contributed equally), Hao Zhang, Zhong Fang & Hongming Weng. Predicting Dirac semimetals based on sodium ternary compounds. npj Computational Materials 4, 68 (2018).
[14] Bo Peng, Hao Zhang, Hezhu Shao, Ke Xu, Gang Ni, Liangcai Wu, Jing Li, Hongliang Lu, Qingyuan Jin & Heyuan Zhu. Room temperature bound exciton with long lifetime in monolayer GaN. ACS Photonics 5, 4081 (2018).
[13] Bo Peng, Bohayra Mortazavi, Hao Zhang, Hezhu Shao, Ke Xu, Jing Li, Gang Ni, Timon Rabczuk & Heyuan Zhu. Tuning thermal transport in monolayer C3N by adding and removing carbon atoms. Physical Review Applied 10, 034046 (2018).
[12] Bo Peng, Hao Zhang, Hezhu Shao, Ke Xu, Gang Ni, Jing Li, Heyuan Zhu & Costas M. Soukoulis. Chemical intuition for high thermoelectric performance in monolayer black phosphorus, α-arsenene and aW-antimonene. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 6, 2018 (2018).
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[11] Bo Peng, Ke Xu, Hao Zhang, Zeyu Ning, Hezhu Shao, Gang Ni, Jing Li, Yongyuan Zhu, Heyuan Zhu & Costas M. Soukoulis. 1D SbSeI, SbSI and SbSBr with high stability and novel properties for microelectronic, optoelectronic, and thermoelectric applications. Advanced Theory and Simulations 1, 1700005 (2018). Cover
[10] Bo Peng, Hao Zhang, Hezhu Shao, Zeyu Ning, Yuanfeng Xu, Gang Ni, Hongliang Lu, David Wei Zhang & Heyuan Zhu. Stability and strength of atomically thin borophene from first principles calculations. Materials Research Letters 5, 399 (2017).
[9] Bo Peng, Dequan Zhang, Hao Zhang, Hezhu Shao, Gang Ni, Yongyuan Zhu & Heyuan Zhu. The conflicting role of buckled structure in phonon transport of 2D group-IV and group-V materials. Nanoscale 9, 7397 (2017).
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[8] Bo Peng, Hao Zhang, Hezhu Shao, Yuanfeng Xu, Gang Ni, Rongjun Zhang & Heyuan Zhu. Phonon transport properties of two-dimensional group-IV materials from ab-initio calculations. Physical Review B 94, 245420 (2016).
[7] Bo Peng, Zeyu Ning, Hao Zhang, Hezhu Shao, Yuanfeng Xu, Gang Ni & Heyuan Zhu. Beyond perturbation: Role of vacancy-induced localized phonon states in thermal transport of monolayer MoS2. Journal of Physical Chemistry C 120, 29324 (2016).
[6] Bo Peng, Hao Zhang, Hezhu Shao, Hongliang Lu, David Wei Zhang & Heyuan Zhu. High thermoelectric performance of Weyl semimetal TaAs. Nano Energy 30, 225 (2016).
[5] Bo Peng, Hao Zhang, Hezhu Shao, Yuanfeng Xu, Rongjun Zhang, Hongliang Lu, David Wei Zhang & Heyuan Zhu. First-principles prediction of ultralow lattice thermal conductivity of dumbbell silicene: A comparison with low-buckled silicene. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 8, 20977 (2016).
[4] Bo Peng, Hao Zhang, Hezhu Shao, Yuanfeng Xu, Rongjun Zhang & Heyuan Zhu. First-principles calculations of electronic, optical, and thermodynamic properties of borophene. Journal of Materials Chemistry C 4, 3592 (2016).
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[3] Bo Peng, Hao Zhang, Hezhu Shao, Yuanfeng Xu, Xiangchao Zhang & Heyuan Zhu. Towards intrinsic phonon transport in single-layer MoS2. Annalen der Physik 528, 504 (2016).
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[2] Bo Peng, Hao Zhang, Hezhu Shao, Yuchen Xu, Xiangchao Zhang & Heyuan Zhu. Low lattice thermal conductivity of stanene. Scientific Reports 6, 20225 (2016).
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[1] Bo Peng, Hao Zhang, Hezhu Shao, Yuchen Xu, Xiangchao Zhang & Heyuan Zhu. Thermal conductivity of monolayer MoS2, MoSe2, and WS2: Interplay of mass effect, interatomic bonding and anharmonicity. RSC Advances 6, 5767 (2016).
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