Dr. Limei Xu 徐莉梅

Professor

Contact Info

Office：W537, Physics Building of Peking University

Tel：86-10-62755043

Personal Homepage:
https://faculty.pku.edu.cn/xulm/zh_CN/index.htm (Ch)
https://faculty.pku.edu.cn/xulm/en/index.htm (En)

Research Group Website:
https://xulm.pku.edu.cn/index.htm (En)

Education

Degree	Year	Major	Institution
Ph.D.	2007	Physics	Boston University
B. S.	1996	Physics	Beijing Normal University (with honors)

Professional Appointments

Year	Position	Institution
2015-	Associate Professor (with tenure)	ICQM, School of Physics, Peking University
2011-2015	Associate Professor（tenure-track）	ICQM, School of Physics, Peking University
2008-2011	Assistant Professor	WPI-AIMR, Tohoku University
2007-2008	Post-Doctoral Fellow	Department of Chemistry, University of Utah

Research Interests

Soft Condensed Matter Physics; Computational Physics

1. Water Sciences: water structures and transitions in bulk and confinement & on 2d surfaces; adsorptions of interfacial water.

2. Theory and computational physics: supercritical phenomenon and phase transitions, dynamics and thermodynamics of supercooled liquids.

3. Non-equilibrium statistical physics: glass transition, kinetics and dynamics in nucleation.

Honors and Awards

2015	The National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars

Selected Publications

1. S. Cerveny, F. Mallamace, J. Swenson, M. Vogel, and L. Xu. 'Confined Water as Model of Supercooled Water'. Chemical Reviews (2015).

2. R. Z. Li, J. Chen, X. Z. Li, E. G. Wang, L. Xu*. “Rationalizing the liquid-liquid phase transition in high pressure hydrogen using the concept of the Widom line”. New Journal of Physics 17, 063023 (2015).

3. J. Luo, L. Xu*, E. Lascaris, H. E. Stanley, and S. V. Buldyrev, “Behavior of the Widom Line in Critical Phenomena”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 135701 (2014).

4. G. Sun, N. Giovambattista, E. G. Wang, and L. Xu*, “Effects of surface structure and solvophilicity on the crystallization of confined liquids”, Soft Matter 9, 11374 (2013).

5. L. Xu*,S. V. Buldyrev, H. E. Stanley, and G. Franzese, “Homogeneous crystal nucleation near a metastable fluid-fluid phase transition”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 095702 (2012).

6. Z. Sun, D. Pan, L. Xu*, and E. G. Wang*, “The role of proton ordering in adsorption preference of polar molecule on ice surface”, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 109, 13177-13181 (2012). Highlighted by http://www.natureasia.com/en/nchina/article/10.1038/nchina.2012.60.

7. L. Xu*, S. V. Buldyrev, F. W. Starr, F. Mallamace, and H. E. Stanley. “Appearance of a fractional Stokes-Einstein relation in water and a structural interpretation of its onset.” Nature Physics 5, 565-569 (2009).

8. L. Xu*, P. Kumar, S. V. Buldyrev, S.-H. Chen, P. H. Poole, F. Sciortino and H. E. Stanley. “Relation between the widom line and the strong-fragile dynamic crossover in systems with a liquid-liquid phase transition.”Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 102, 16558 (2005). Selected as Emerging Research Fronts in Physics in April 2007: http://www.esi-topics.com/erf/2007/april07-Xu_Stanley.html).

Open Positions

We have 1 graduate student opening each year, and currently 1-2 postdoc opening positions.