PUBLICATION LIST


  1. Rare Events in Statistical Physics
    1. Tiezheng Qian, Weiqing Ren, and Ping Sheng, Current Dissipation in Thin Superconducting Wires: A Numerical Evaluation Using the String Method, Phys. Rev. B 72, 014512 (2005). PDF (selected for the July 18, 2005 issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology and the July 15, 2005 issue of Virtual Journal of Applications of Superconductivity)
    2. Zuli Xu, Tiezheng Qian, and Ping Sheng, Phase slips in a one-dimensional superconducting wire: Crossover from quantum tunneling to thermal hopping, Physica C 450, 118 (2006). PDF
    3. Chunyin Qiu, Tiezheng Qian, and Ping Sheng, Meissner effect in a system of coupled one-dimensional superconducting wires: Monte Carlo simulations, Phys. Rev. B 75, 024504 (2007). PDF (selected for the January 15, 2007 issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology)
    4. Tiezheng Qian, Weiqing Ren, Jing Shi, Weinan E, and Ping Sheng, Numerical study of metastability due to tunneling: The quantum string method, Physica A 379, 491-502 (2007). PDF

  2. Moving Contact Line and Slip Flow
    1. Tiezheng Qian, Xiao-Ping Wang, and Ping Sheng, Generalized Navier boundary condition for the moving contact line, Comm. Math. Sci. 1, 333 (2003). PDF
    2. Tiezheng Qian, Xiao-Ping Wang, and Ping Sheng, Molecular scale contact line hydrodynamics of immiscible flows, Phys. Rev. E 68, 016306 (2003). PDF
    3. Tiezheng Qian, Xiao-Ping Wang, and Ping Sheng, Power-Law Slip Profile of the Moving Contact Line in Two-Phase Immiscible Flows, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 094501 (2004). PDF (selected for the September 13, 2004 issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology)
    4. Tiezheng Qian and Xiao-Ping Wang, Driven cavity flow: from molecular dynamics to continuum hydrodynamics, Multiscale Modeling and Simulation 3, 749 (2005). PDF
    5. Tiezheng Qian, Xiao-Ping Wang, and Ping Sheng, Hydrodynamic slip boundary condition at chemically patterned surfaces: A continuum deduction from molecular dynamics, Phys. Rev. E 72, 022501 (2005). PDF (selected for the August 29, 2005 issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology)
    6. Tiezheng Qian, Xiao-Ping Wang, and Ping Sheng, Molecular hydrodynamics of the moving contact line in two-phase immiscible flows, Communications in Computational Physics 1, 1 (2006). PDF
    7. Xiongping Luo, Xiao-Ping Wang, Tiezheng Qian, and Ping Sheng, Moving contact line over undulating surfaces, Solid State Communications 139, 623 (2006). PDF
    8. Tiezheng Qian, Xiao-Ping Wang, and Ping Sheng, A variational approach to the moving contact line hydrodynamics, J. Fluid Mech. 564, 333 - 360 (2006). PDF

  3. Liquid Crystals and Polymers
    1. Tie-Zheng Qian and Ping Sheng, Liquid Crystal Phase Transitions Induced by Microtextured Substrates, Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4564 (1996).
    2. Tie-Zheng Qian and Ping Sheng, Orientational states and phase transitions induced by microtextured substrates, Phys. Rev. E 55, 7111 (1997).
    3. Tie-Zheng Qian, Zhi-Liang Xie, Hoi-Sing Kwok, and Ping Sheng, Dynamic flow and switching bistability in twisted nematic liquid crystal cells, Appl. Phys. Lett. 71, 596 (1997).
    4. Tiezheng Qian and Ping Sheng, Generalized hydrodynamic equations for nematic liquid crystals, Phys. Rev. E 58, 7475 (1998).
    5. Tiezheng Qian, Xiaowei Zhuang, and Y.R. Shen, Surface-monolayer-induced bulk alignment of liquid crystals: from nematic to smectic A phase, Phys. Rev. E 59, 1873 (1999).
    6. Tiezheng Qian and P. L. Taylor, Field-induced phase transitions in antiferroelectric liquid crystals, Phys. Rev. E 60, 2978 (1999).
    7. Tiezheng Qian, Jae-Hoon Kim, Satyendra Kumar, and P. L. Taylor, Phase-separated composite films: Experiment and Theory, Phys. Rev. E 61, 4007 (2000).
    8. Tiezheng Qian and P. L. Taylor, From the Thomas-Windle model to a phenomenological description of case-II diffusion in polymers, Polymer 41, 7159 (2000).
    9. Tiezheng Qian and P. L. Taylor, Phase Diagram of Confined Antiferroelectric liquid crystals in an Electric Field, Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 351, 229 (2000).
    10. Tiezheng Qian, Zhiliang Xie, Hoi-Sing Kwok, and Ping Sheng, Dynamic flow, broken surface anchoring, and switching bistability in three-terminal twisted nematic liquid-crystal displays, J. Appl. Phys. 90, 3121 (2001).
    11. Congmin Wu, Tiezheng Qian, and Pingwen Zhang, Nonequilibrium-molecular-dynamics measurement of the Leslie coefficients of a Gay-Berne nematic liquid crystal, Liquid Crystals, in press.

  4. Mesoscopic and Low-Dimensional Systems
    1. Xiao-Chun Gao and Tie-Zheng Qian, Aharonov-Anandan phase and persistent currents in a mesoscopic ring, Phys. Rev. B 47, 7128 (1993).
    2. Tie-Zheng Qian and Zhao-Bin Su, Spin-Orbit Interaction and Aharonov-Anandan Phase in Mesoscopic Rings, Phys. Rev. Lett. 72, 2311 (1994).
    3. Shao-Jin Qin, Tie-Zheng Qian, Lu Yu, and Zhao-Bin Su, Breakdown of the quasiparticle picture in the low-density limit of the one-dimensional Hubbard model, Phys. Rev. B 51, 16594 (1995).
    4. Tie-Zheng Qian, Ya-Sha Yi, and Zhao-Bin Su, Persistent currents from the competition between Zeeman coupling and spin-orbit interaction, Phys. Rev. B 55, 4065 (1997).
    5. Ya-Sha Yi, Tie-Zheng Qian, and Zhao-Bin Su, Spin precession and time-reversal symmetry breaking in quantum transport of electrons through mesoscopic rings, Phys. Rev. B 55, 10631 (1997).

  5. Quantum Geometric Phases
    1. Xiao-Chun Gao, Jing-Bo Xu, and Tie-Zheng Qian, The Exact Solution for the Generalized Time-Dependent Harmonic Oscillator and its Adiabatic Limit, Ann. Phys. (N.Y.) 204, 235 (1990).
    2. Xiao-Chun Gao, Jing-Bo Xu, and Tie-Zheng Qian, Formally exact solution and geometric phase for the spin-j system, Phys. Lett. A 152, 449 (1991).
    3. Jing-Bo Xu, Tie-Zheng Qian, and Xiao-Chun Gao, Time-evolution operator and geometric phase for a system with a SU(1,1)+h(4) Hamiltonian, Phys. Rev. A 44, 1485 (1991).
    4. Jing-Bo Xu, Tie-Zheng Qian, and Xiao-Chun Gao, The basic invariants and stable squeezed states, Phys. Lett. A 159, 113 (1991).
    5. Xiao-Chun Gao, Jing-Bo Xu, and Tie-Zheng Qian, Geometric phase and the generalized invariant formulation, Phys. Rev. A 44, 7016 (1991).
    6. Tie-Zheng Qian, Jing-Bo Xu, and Xiao-Chun Gao, The basic invariants and high-n squeezed states of the time-dependent harmonic oscillator, J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 24, L1007 (1991).
    7. Xiao-Chun Gao, Jing-Bo Xu, and Tie-Zheng Qian, Invariants and Solution-Generating Technique for the Quantum Singular Time-Dependent Harmonic Oscillator, Europhys. Lett. 17, 485 (1992).
    8. Xiao-Chun Gao, Jing-Bo Xu, and Tie-Zheng Qian, Invariants and geometric phase for systems with non-Hermitian time-dependent Hamiltonians, Phys. Rev. A 46, 3626 (1992).
    9. Xiao-Chun Gao, Jing-Bo Xu, Tie-Zheng Qian, and Jun Gao, Quantum Basic Invariants and Classical Noether Theorem, Phys. Scr. 47, 488 (1993).
    10. Jing-Bo Xu, Xiao-Chun Gao, and Tie-Zheng Qian, Geometric Phase and Exact Energy Spectrum for a Quantum System with Two Interacting Parts, Europhys. Lett. 25, 165 (1994).
    11. Xiao-Chun Gao, Jun Gao, Tie-Zheng Qian, and Jing-Bo Xu, Quantum-invariant theory and the evolution of a quantum scalar field in Robertson-Walker flat spacetimes, Phys. Rev. D 53, 4374 (1996).