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Research interests

Research Interests

  • Large scale nuclear shell-model diagonalization and computational techniques
  • Nuclear force and the construction of effective force from the underlying nucleon-nucleon interaction
  • Structure of atomic nuclei
  • Alpha and cluster decay properties of heavy nuclei
  • Continuum effects in nuclei

Research projects supported by the Swedish research council (VR)

  • A novel many body approach for unstable nuclei (2013-2016)
  • Highly unstable systems and exotic decays (2010-2011)
  • Theory of loosely bound nuclei (led by Ramon Wyss, 2011-2013, 2014-2017)

Close collaborators

I have the great opportunity to work with many senior theoretians and experimentalists. What maybe even more exciting and challenging is the collaboration with younger researchers including undergraduate students as well as Master and PhD students. The list of my collaborators can be seen from my publications. It would be my great pleasure to mention all of them here but please forgive me for not being able to finish it.

Roberto J. Liotta (Professor, KTH, Stockholm), 2008-present
Ramon A. Wyss (Professor, KTH, Stockholm), 2008-present
Furong Xu (Professor, PKU, Beijing), 2004-present
Cenxi Yuan (Ph.D. Student, PKU&University of Toyko and now Lecturer at

Sun Yat-Sen Univ), 2007-present

Zhenxiang Xu (Ph.D. Student at KTH and now Postdoc at PKU), 2009-present
Sara Changizi (Ph.D. student, KTH), 2012-present
Hui Jiang (Postdoc at KTH and Ass. Prof. at ShangHai), 2013-

Former collaborators

Only those with whom I have papers published are listed

Ren-Zhong Du & Yang Gao (Undergraduate Students, PKU), 2007-2009
Ming-Yi Zhang, C. Asawatangtrakuldee & Di Hu (Undergraduate Students, PKU), 2008-2009
Chen Xu (Undergraduate Student, PKU), 2009-2010
Xiaobao Wang (Ph.D. Student, PKU) 2009-2012
Si-min Wang (Ph.D. Student, PKU) , 2009

Positions

  • Jan., 2012-present, Researcher, KTH, Stockholm
  • Aug., 2011 - Dec., 2011, Postdoctoral researcher, KTH, Stockholm
  • Jan., 2010 - July, 2011, Swedish Research Council postdoctoral position, KTH, Stockholm
  • July, 2009 - Dec., 2009, Postdoctoral Fellow, KTH, Stockholm

Visiting experiences

  • July 2010 – Aug. 2010, Departments of physics at Peking University and Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
  • January, 2009 - February, 2009, KTH, Stockholm
  • March, 2008 - June, 2008, KTH, Stockholm

Scientific computing

  • In 2006, Chong finished a shell-model code that can carry out very large-scale diagonalizations of effective shell-model Hamiltonians. The code is written in the modern Fortran 90 format. It works in the proton/neutron space and embeds an angular momentum projection procedure similar to that of the famous OXBASH code. Parallel computing is realized with the help of the MPI paradigm. The code works efficiently on the HP Beowulf cluster of the PKU computer center.
  • In 2008, Chong wrote a coupled-channel code with the help of Professor Liotta during my visit to KTH.

Ph.D. Dissertation

Major: Particle Physics and Nuclear Physics
Title: Shell-model studies with the CD-Bonn nucleon-nucleon potential (written in Chinese)
Advisor: Professor Furong Xu (PKU, Beijing)
Ph.D. Defense: June 9, 2009
Ph.D. Hooding Ceremony: July 8, 2009

Large-scale shell-model diagonalization codes

Shell model code OXBASH
Shell model code ANTOINE
Drexel University Shell-Model Code 
The nuclear shell model code CRUNCHER 
Shell-model code EICODE 
Shell-model code NuShell