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Yuhong Zhang

Staff Scientist


Contact:

  • Center for Advanced Studies of Accelerators
    Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
    12000 Jefferson Avenue, Newport News, VA 23606
  • 757-269-7509 (phone)
    757-269-5024 (fax)
  • yzhang@jlab.org

Education:
  • B.S. Physics, Fudan Uiversity, 1983
  • M.S. Physics, University of Houston, 1985
  • Ph. D. Physics, University of Maryland, 1990

Career:
  • Forgety Research Fellow, Biophysics Laboratory, Center for Biologic Evaluation and Research, Food & Drug Administration, 1990 - 1994
  • Oak Ridge Research Fellow, Molecular Graphics & Simulation Laboratory, National Institute of Health, 1995 - 1996
  • Senior Technical Staff, Mission Support, EOS Distributed Active Archive Center, NASA Langley Research Center, 1996
  • Senior Research Associate, IT/Publication, American Chemical Society, 1997 - 2001
  • Staff Scienitist, Center for Advanced Studies of Accelators, Jefferson Lab, 2001

Research Interests:
Theoretical Studies of Classical and Quantum Beam Physics

Selected Publications
  • Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Lipid Bilayer and Hexadecane: an Investigation into the Fluidity of Membranes
    R. M. Venable, Y. Zhang, B. J. Hardy and R. W. Pastor, Science 262 (1993) 223

  • Computer Simulation of Liquid/Liquid Interfaces. I. Theory and Application to Octane/Water
    Y. Zhang, S. E. Feller, B. R. Brooks, and R. W. Pastor, J. Chem. Phys. 103 (1995) 10252-10266

  • Path Integral Formalism for Classical Brownian Motion in a General Environment
    Y. Zhang, Phys. Rev. E 47 (1993) 3745

  • Quantum Origin of Noise and Fluctuation in Cosmology
    B. L. Hu, J. P. Paz and Y. Zhang, in The Origin of Structure in the Universe, edited by E. Gunzig, etc., Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993.

  • Quantum Brownian Motion in a General Environment: I. Exact Master Equation with Nonlocal Dissipation and Colored Noise
    B. L. Hu, J. P. Paz and Y. Zhang, Phys. Rev. D 45 (1992) 2843
complete list of papers

Professional Activities
  • Member of American Physical Society



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