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Haiyao Deng

Dr Haiyao Deng

Lecturer
Condensed Matter and Photonics

School of Physics and Astronomy

Email
DengH4@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone
+44 29225 10180
Campuses
Queen's Buildings - North Building, Room WX/1.09, 5 The Parade, Newport Road, Cardiff, CF24 3AA
Users
Available for postgraduate supervision

Overview

I received a PhD from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2012 with a thesis in ferroelectrics. Beside thesis, I also worked on subjects such as high temperature superconductors and polymer dynamics as well as open quantum systems. Shortly after obtaining PhD, I joined National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) in Tsukuba, Japan as a post doc doing research on graphene systems, where I was awarded a two-year fellowship by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). After spending some time in Exeter (~ 3 years, Josephson resonators) and Manchester (~ 1 year, van der Waals materials), I came to Cardiff University as a Lecturer in 2019. As a physicist, I have great fun in finding out the workings of Nature. My research interests are broad (check my publications), currently focused on physical boundary effects, topological insulators and complex systems (e.g. glasses and networks), and they all contribute in one way or another in painting a coherent picture of Nature for me.

Publication

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Articles

Conferences

Teaching

PX3248/PXT114: Theoretical Physics

PX4140/PXT140: Advanced Particle Physics

Lecture notes (in pdf) for both courses are available upon request.

Year-3 and Year-4 student projects supervision:

  • D. Brown and H.-Y. Deng, 'Hydrodynamic effects on the energy transfer from dipoles to metal slab', J. Chem. Phys. 115, 114109 (2021).
  • Sam Praill, Charlotte Lawton, Hasan Balable and H.-Y. Deng, 'A theory of dynamical responses for metal films: Surface roughness effects', Solids 2023, 4(3), 268-286 (2023).
  • S. M. Wink, E. Muljarov, W. Langbein and H.-Y. Deng, 'Surface scattering amplitude for a spatially dispersive model dielectric', Phys. Rev. B. 108, 245302 (2023).
  • Alexander Clarkson, Chi-Hang Lam and H.-Y. Deng, 'Analytical expressions for the first passage time distribution and hit distribution in two and three dimensions', Am. J. Phys. 92, 299 (2024). 

Biography

2019 - present, Cardiff University, Lecturer.

2019 - 2019, The University of Manchester, Research Associate.

2016 - 2018, University of Exeter, Associate Research Fellow.

2013 - 2015, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan, Postdoctoral Researcher.

2008 - 2012, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, PhD.

Supervisions

I'm strongly inclined to have undergrads and postgraduates working with me in the following areas:

  • Macroscopic theory of boundary effects (e.g. light and particle scattering with metals and semiconductors)
  • Physics of glass transitions and complex systems
  • Metal whiskering
  • Superconductivity & magnetism in 2D systems (CuO2 planes, atomic layers...)
  • Topological aspects of physical systems

Please contact me directly if you are interested.