Zhifeng Zhu (祝智峰)

To New Members

1. Study Spintronics by watching videos, which can be obtained by ask seniors
2. Familiar with lab rules
3. Apply for door access
4.Apply for HPC account
5. Learn HPC basics by watching the video
6. Learn how to run jobs on HPC
7. Learn how to write manuscript by watching the video
8. Familiar with reimbursement document (see Finance document)

Working time

Being in lab is a good way of learning from others, helping others, building camaraderie, having fast and easy access to resources (and people) you need, and being relatively free from distractions at home (e.g., your bed). That said, hours in academia are more flexible than other jobs -- but you should still treat it as a real job and show up to the lab. My primary concern is that you get your work done.

If you think there is anything disturbing your research, or you want to make some suggestions for the laboratory, please contact Jingwei or PI. To encourage lab interaction, try to be in most weekdays during ‘peak’ hours (assuming no other obligations) – e.g., between 10am and 5pm.

p.s. Playing games in the lab is NOT allowed and pls report to me if you have vacation plan. .

Lab Rules

No games in lab

Authorship

Like other labs, we will follow the APA guidelines with respect to authorship:

"Authorship credit should reflect the individual's contribution to the study. An author is considered anyone involved with initial research design, data collection and analysis, manuscript drafting, and final approval. However, the following do not necessarily qualify for authorship: providing funding or resources, mentorship, or contributing research but not helping with the publication itself. The primary author assumes responsibility for the publication, making sure that the data are accurate, that all deserving authors have been credited, that all authors have given their approval to the final draft; and handles responses to inquiries after the manuscript is published."

At the start of a new project, the student or post-doc taking on the lead role can expect to be first author (talk to Zhifeng about it if you aren’t sure). Zhifeng will typically be the last author, unless the project is primarily under the guidance of another PI and Zhifeng is involved as a secondary PI – then Zhifeng will be second to last and the main PI will be last. Students and post-docs who help over the course of the project may be added to the author list depending on their contribution, and their placement will be discussed with all parties involved in the paper. If a student or post-doc takes on a project but subsequently hands it off to another student or post-doc, they will most likely lose first-authorship to that student or post-doc, unless co-first-authorship is appropriate. All of these issues will be discussed openly, and you should feel free to bring them up if you are not sure of your authorship status or want to challenge it.

Authorship

Lab members should conduct themselves with honesty and propriety, and perform their duties in a professional and conscientious manner. Examples of dishonest and unacceptable conduct include, but are not limited to, the following: stealing, cheating, lying about work-related matters; plagiarism; falsifying records; unauthorized personal use of Lab property; unauthorized use of Lab confidential information; doing unauthorized private work on University time; and giving or receiving a bribe in any form.

Hardwares

Person in charge: Xin Yue
If you have any financial problems, please contact Xin Yue or Zhifeng

To New Members

Person in charge: Jingwei
1.Please complete the online security exam and download the certificate (etest.shanghaitech.edu.cn)
2. Sign the security commitment letter with the professor (Prof.Zhu)
3.Please send these two documents as attachments to Xu Qun via email for authorization (cc lab leader or supervisor).
Tips: The security commitment letter can be downloaded from the COSMAL account.

Books to read

Solid State Physics & Magnetism
Solid State Physics, Neil W. Ashcroft, N. David Mermin, Saunders College Publishing, 1976
Introduction to Solid State Physics, Charles Kittel, 8th ed., Wiley, 2004
Magnetism And Magnetic Materials, J. M. D. Coey, Cambridge University Press, 2010

Quantum Mechanics
Introduction to quantum mechanics, David J. Griffiths, 2nd ed. Cambridge University Press, 2005

Density Functional Theory
Density Functional Theory: A Practical Introduction, DAVID S. SHOLL, JANICE A. STECKEL, Wiley, 2009

Group Theory
Group Theory and Its Applications in Physics, T. Inui Y. Tanabe Y. Onodera, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 1990

Neuronal Dynamics
Neuronal Dynamics-From single neurons to networks and models of cognition, Wulfram Gerstner, Werner M. Kistler, Richard Naud and Liam Paninski

Machine learning
(Online course) Machine Learning-Andrew Ng @ www.coursera.org

Tips

http://www.magpar.net/static/magpar/doc/html/demagcalc.html

Extract Parameters
Use this website in the following website to extract parameters from the graphs in the paper. The specific steps are roughly to set a suitable and sufficient number of reference points, and then click on the point where you want to extract the parameters.
https://automeris.io/WebPlotDigitizer/

check
Go through arxiv publications everyday.
https://arxiv.org/list/cond-mat/new

check
Go through publications from Nature, Science, PRL, IEEE EDL, etc.