Physics
SUN Zhigang
Title: Professor
Subject: Physical Chemistry
Phone: 0411-84379651
Email: zsun@dicp.ac.cn
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Research Interests
Quamtum Wavepacket Method, Molecular Reactive Scattering Theory, Spectral Method, Chemical Lasers, Quantum Chemistry Method
 
1. Development of new computational methods for solving molecular Schrodinger equation;
2. Development of new theoretical method for calculating product quantum state-resolved information of a chemical reactive scattering process;
3. New quantum phenomena in a chemical reaction;
4. Designation of new high-power chemical lasers. 
Biography

Professor, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS, 2011/07 - present

Associate Professor, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS, 2010/06 - 2011/06

Postdoc, Duke University, USA, 2009/03 - 2010/06

Postdoc, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 2006/08 - 2009/03

Postdoc, National University of Singapore, 2005/06 - 2006/07

PhD, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, 2000/09 - 2005/06

Bachelor, Dalian University of Technology, 1996/09 - 2000/07

Honors and Awards
Youth Science and technology innovation leader leader, 2019
The National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, 2018
“Zhang Cunhao” Award for the DistinguishedYoung Scientist in Chemical Dynamics Field, 2015
The National Youth Talent Support Program, 2015
Second prize of National Natural Science Award, 2015
First prize of Liaoning Natural Science Award, 2014
“Tang Aoqing” Award for the Distinguished Young Scientist in Theoretical Chemistry Field, 2013
The National Science Fund for the outstanding Young Scholars, 2012
The Excellent PhD Thesis of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2006
(Dean's Excellence Award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2004
Publications
1. Minghui Qiu; Zefeng Ren; Li Che; Dongxu Dai; S. A. Harich; Xiuyan Wang; Xueming Yang*; Chuanxiu Xu; Daiqian Xie*; M. Gustafsson; R. T. Skodje*; Zhigang Sun; Donghui Zhang*; Observation of Feshbach resonances in the F + H2 → HF + H reaction, Science, 311(5766): 1440-1443 (2006)
2. Xingan Wang; Wenrui Dong; Chunlei Xiao; Li Che; Zefeng Ren; Dongxu Dai; Xiuyan Wang; P. Casavecchia; Xueming Yang *; Bin Jiang; Daiqian Xie*; Zhigang Sun; Soo-Y. Lee; Dong H. Zhang*; H.-J. Werner; M. H. Alexander*, The extent of non-Born-Oppenheimer coupling in the reaction of Cl with para-H2Science, 2008, 322(5901): 573-576
3. Chunlei Xiao; Xin Xu; Shu Liu; Tao Wang; Wenrui Dong; Tiangang Yang; Zhigang Sun; Dongxu Dai; Xin Xu; Dong H. Zhang*; Xueming Yang*, Experimental and Theoretical Differential Cross Sections for a Four-Atom Reaction: HD + OH → H2O + D, Science, 333(6041): 440-442 (2011)
4. Tao Wang; Jun Chen; Tiangang Yang; Chunlei Xiao*; Zhigang Sun*; Long Huang; Dongxu Dai; Xueming Yang; Donghui Zhang*, Dynamical Resonances Accessible Only by Reagent Vibrational Excitation in the F + HD → HF + D Reaction, Science, 342(6165): 1499-1502 (2013)
5. Tiangang Yang; Jun Chen; Long Huang; Tao Wang; Chunlei Xiao*; Zhigang Sun*; Dongxu Dai; Xueming Yang*; Donghui Zhang*, Extremely short-lived reaction resonances in Cl + HD (v=1) → DCl + H due to chemical bond softening, Science, 347(6217): 60-63 (2015)
6. Daofu Yuan; Shengrui Yu ; Wentao Chen; Jiwei Sang; Chang Luo; Tao; Wang; Xin Xu; Piergiorgio Casavecchia; Xingan Wang*; Zhigang Sun*; Donghui Zhang*; Xueming Yang* , Direct observation of forward-scattering oscillations in the H + HD → H2+D reaction, Nature Chemistry 10, 653 (2018)
7. Daofu Yuan; Yafu Guan; Wentao Chen; Hailin Zhao; Shengrui Yu; Chang Luo; Yuxin Tan; Ting Xie; Xingan Wang*; Zhigang Sun*; Dong H. Zhang*; Xueming Yang*, Observation of the geometric phase effect in the H + HD → H2 + D reaction, Science 362, 1289 (2018)
8. Hailin Zhao; Umair Umer; Xixi Hu*; Daiqian Xie; Zhigang Sun*, An interaction-asymptotic region decomposition method for general state–to-state reactive scatterings, Journal of Chemical Physics, 150, 134105 (2019)
9. Tiangang Yang, Long Huang, Chunlei Xiao, Jun Chen, Tao Wang, Dongxu Dai, Francois Lique, Millard H. Alexander*, Zhigang Sun*, Dong H. Zhang; Xueming Yang*; Daniel M. Neumark*; Enhanced reactivity of flourine with para-hydrogen in cold interstellar clouds by resonance-induced quantum tunneling, Nature Chemistry 11744-749 (2019)
10. Yurun Xie; Hailin Zhao; Yufeng Wang; Yin Huang; Tao Wang; Xin Xu; Chunlei Xiao*; Zhigang Sun*; Dong H. Zhang*; Xueming Yang*, Science, 368, 767-771 (2020)
11. Daofu Yuan; Yin Huang; Wentao Chen; Hailin Zhao; Shengrui Yu; Chang Luo; Yuxin Tan; Siwen Wang; Xingan Wang*, Zhigang Sun*, Xueming Yang, Observation of the geometric phase effect in the H+HD  H2+D reaction below the conical intersection, Naure Communications, 11, 3640-3647 (2020)
12. Wentao Chen; Ransheng Wang; Daofu Yuan; Hailin Zhao; Chang Luo; Yuxin Tan; Shihao Li; Donghui Zhang; Xingan Wang*; Zhigang Sun*; Xueming Yang*, Quantum interference between spin-orbit split partial waves in the F plus HD  HF plus D reaction, Science, 371, 936-941 (2021)