PUBLICATION LIST
- Rare Events in Statistical Physics
- 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).
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(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)
- 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).
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- 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).
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(selected for the January 15, 2007 issue of
Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology)
- 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).
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- Moving Contact Line and Slip Flow
- Tiezheng Qian, Xiao-Ping Wang, and Ping Sheng,
Generalized Navier boundary condition for the moving contact line,
Comm. Math. Sci. 1, 333 (2003).
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- Tiezheng Qian, Xiao-Ping Wang, and Ping Sheng,
Molecular scale contact line hydrodynamics of immiscible flows,
Phys. Rev. E 68, 016306 (2003).
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- 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).
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(selected for the September 13, 2004 issue of
Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology)
- Tiezheng Qian and Xiao-Ping Wang,
Driven cavity flow: from molecular dynamics to continuum hydrodynamics,
Multiscale Modeling and Simulation 3, 749 (2005).
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- 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).
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(selected for the August 29, 2005 issue of
Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology)
- 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).
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- Xiongping Luo, Xiao-Ping Wang, Tiezheng Qian, and Ping Sheng,
Moving contact line over undulating surfaces,
Solid State Communications 139, 623 (2006).
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- Tiezheng Qian, Xiao-Ping Wang, and Ping Sheng,
A variational approach to the moving contact line hydrodynamics,
J. Fluid Mech. 564, 333 - 360 (2006).
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- Liquid Crystals and Polymers
- Tie-Zheng Qian and Ping Sheng,
Liquid Crystal Phase Transitions Induced by Microtextured Substrates,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4564 (1996).
- Tie-Zheng Qian and Ping Sheng,
Orientational states and phase transitions induced by
microtextured substrates,
Phys. Rev. E 55, 7111 (1997).
- 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).
- Tiezheng Qian and Ping Sheng,
Generalized hydrodynamic equations for nematic liquid crystals,
Phys. Rev. E 58, 7475 (1998).
- 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).
- Tiezheng Qian and P. L. Taylor,
Field-induced phase transitions in antiferroelectric liquid crystals,
Phys. Rev. E 60, 2978 (1999).
- Tiezheng Qian, Jae-Hoon Kim, Satyendra Kumar, and P. L. Taylor,
Phase-separated composite films: Experiment and Theory,
Phys. Rev. E 61, 4007 (2000).
- 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).
- Tiezheng Qian and P. L. Taylor,
Phase Diagram of Confined Antiferroelectric liquid crystals in an
Electric Field,
Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 351, 229 (2000).
- 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).
- 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.
- Mesoscopic and Low-Dimensional Systems
- Xiao-Chun Gao and Tie-Zheng Qian,
Aharonov-Anandan phase and persistent currents in a mesoscopic ring,
Phys. Rev. B 47, 7128 (1993).
- Tie-Zheng Qian and Zhao-Bin Su,
Spin-Orbit Interaction and Aharonov-Anandan Phase in Mesoscopic Rings,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 72, 2311 (1994).
- 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).
- 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).
- 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).
- Quantum Geometric Phases
- 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).
- 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).
- 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).
- Jing-Bo Xu, Tie-Zheng Qian, and Xiao-Chun Gao,
The basic invariants and stable squeezed states,
Phys. Lett. A 159, 113 (1991).
- Xiao-Chun Gao, Jing-Bo Xu, and Tie-Zheng Qian,
Geometric phase and the generalized invariant formulation,
Phys. Rev. A 44, 7016 (1991).
- 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).
- 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).
- 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).
- Xiao-Chun Gao, Jing-Bo Xu, Tie-Zheng Qian, and Jun Gao,
Quantum Basic Invariants and Classical Noether Theorem,
Phys. Scr. 47, 488 (1993).
- 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).
- 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).