Wenbin Zhang

2011/09-2015/06        Bachelor of Science (B. Sc)

                                   Department of Physics, Ocean University of China, China

2015/09-2020/07        Doctor of Philosophy in Physics (Ph. D.)

                                    State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy

                                    East China Normal University, Shanghai, China.

2020/10-2023/01            Postdoctoral researcher (AvH Fellow，MSCA-MULTIPLY Fellow)

                                       Department of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich                  

2020/10-2023/01            Guest Postdoctoral researcher

                                        Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Optics, Germany

2023/01-present              Research Professor

                                        State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy 

                                        East China Normal University, Shanghai, China.

Ultrafsat AMO Physics, Ultrafast Nanophotonics

Referee service for Physical Review Letters, Science Advances, Physical Review A, New Journal of Physics, Journal of Physics B, The European Physical Journal D, Chinese Physics Letters, Canadian Journal of Chemistry, International Journal of Modern Physics B and so on.

1. Strong-field ultrafast dynamics of atoms or molecules in gas phase;

2. Ultrafast dynamics of cold molecules inside helium nanodroplets;

3. Ultrafast molecular dynamics on nanoparticle surfaces.

'Ultrafast Photonics' Course for Bachelor student at 5th semester

Publications-2024 (current year)

53. Tracking Surface Charge Dynamics on Single Nanoparticles

Ritika Dagar'*, Wenbin Zhang'*, Philipp Rosenberger, Thomas M. Linker , Ana Sousa-Castillo, Marcel Neuhaus, Sambit Mitra, Shubhadeep Biswas, Alexandra Feinberg, Adam M. Summers, Aiichiro Nakano, Priya Vashishta, Fuyuki Shimojo, Jian Wu, Cesar Costa Vera, Stefan A. Maier, Emiliano Cortes, Boris Bergues, Matthias F. Kling*, Science Advances (accepted).

52. Ultrafast photoinduced C-H bond formation from two small inorganic molecules.

Zhejun Jiang, Hao Huang, Chenxu Lu, Lianrong Zhou, Shengzhe Pan, Junjie Qiang, Menghang Shi, Zhengjun Ye, Peifen Lu, Hongcheng Ni^*, Wenbin Zhang^*, and Jian Wu^*, Nature Communications 15, 2854 (2024).

51. Femtosecond collisional dissipation of vibrating D₂⁺ in helium nanodroplets.

Junjie Qiang’, Lianrong Zhou’, Yigeng Peng, Chao Yu, Peifen Lu, Shengzhe Pan, Chenxu Lu, Gang Chen, Ruifeng Lu, Wenbin Zhang^*, and Jian Wu^*, Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 103201 (2024). 

50. Wave-Packet Surface Propagation for Light-Induced Molecular Dynamics.

Shengzhe Pan, Zhaohan Zhang, Chenxi Hu, Peifen Lu, Xiaochun Gong, Ruolin Gong, Wenbin Zhang, Lianrong Zhou, Chenxu Lu, Menghang Shi, Zhejun Jiang, Hongcheng Ni, Feng He, and Jian Wu^*, Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 033201 (2024).

49. Probing and Steering Attosecond Electron Motion Using Tailored Ultrafast Laser Fields.

Xiaochun Gong*, Wenbin Zhang, Peifen Lu, Hongcheng Ni, and Jian Wu*, The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 128 (2), 401-412(2024).

Publications-2023  

48. Rydberg state excitation in molecules manipulated by bicircular two-color laser pulses.

Wenbin Zhang^*, Yongzhe Ma, Chenxu Lu, Fei Chen, Shengzhe Pan, Peifen Lu, Hongcheng Ni^*, Jian Wu^*. Advanced Photonics 5, 016002(2023). 

47. Tracking the nuclear-wave-packet dynamics on excited bound states of Ar₂⁺ in strong laser fields.

Menghang Shi’, Chenxu Lu’, Shengzhe Pan, Lianrong Zhou, Hongcheng Ni, Peifen Lu, Wenbin Zhang^*, Jian Wu^*. Phys. Rev. A 108, 043108(2023).

46. Electron transfer in strong-field three-body fragmentation of ArKr₂ trimers.

Chenxu Lu’, Menghang Shi’, Shengzhe Pan, Lianrong Zhou, Junjie Qiang, Peifen Lu,Wenbin Zhang^*, Jian Wu^*. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 158, 094302 (2023).

45. Reaction Nanoscopy of Ion Emission from Sub-Wavelength Propanediol Droplets.

Philipp  Rosenberger, Ritika Dagar, Wenbin Zhang, Arijit Majumdar, Marcel Neuhaus, Matthias Ihme, Boris Bergues, and Matthias F. Kling^*, Nanophotonics 12, 1823 (2023).

44. Stereodynamical Control of D₃⁺ Formation from the Bimolecular Photoreaction in the D₂-D₂ Dimer.

Lianrong Zhou’, Junjie Qiang’, Hao Huang, Zhejun Jiang, Shengzhe Pan, Chenxu Lu, Menghang Shi, Zhengjun Ye, Wenyu Jiang, Wenbin Zhang, Hongcheng Ni, Gang Chen, Peifen Lu^*, and Jian Wu^*. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters,14, 10348(2023).

43. Ultrafast formation dynamics of D₃⁺ from the light-driven bimolecular reaction of the D₂–D₂ dimer.

Lianrong zhou, Hongcheng Ni, Zhejun Jiang, Junjie Qiang, Wenyu Jiang, Wenbin Zhang, Peifen Lu, Jin Wen^*, Kang Lin^*, Meifang Zhu, Reinhard Dörner Jian Wu^*. Nature Chemistry 15, 1229 (2023).

42. Manipulating Parallel and Perpendicular Multiphoton Transitions in H₂ Molecules.

Shengzhe Pan, Zhaohan Zhang, Liang Xu, Wenbin Zhang, Peifen Lu, Qinying Ji, Kang Lin, Lianrong Zhou, Chenxu Lu, Hongcheng Ni, Camilo Ruiz, Kiyoshi Ueda, Feng He^*, and Jian Wu^*. Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 143203(2023).

41. Rabi oscillations in a stretching molecule.

Shengzhe Pan, Chenxi Hu,Wenbin Zhang, Zhaohan Zhang, Lianrong Zhou, Chenxu Lu, Peifen Lu, Hongcheng Ni, Jian Wu^*, Feng He^*. Light: Science & Applications 12, 35(2023).

Publications-2022

40. All-optical nanoscopic spatial control of molecular reaction yields on nanoparticles.

Wenbin Zhang^*, Ritika Dagar, Philipp Rosenberger, Ana Sousa-Castillo, Marcel Neuhaus, Weiwei Li, Sharjeel A. Khan, Ali S. Alnaser, Emiliano Cortes, Stefan A. Maier, Cesar Costa-Vera, Matthias F. Kling^*, and Boris Bergues^*. Optica 9 ,551 (2022). featured on the cover

39. Imaging elliptically polarized infrared near-fields on nanoparticles by strong-field dissociation of functional surface groups.

Philipp Rosenberger, Ritika Dagar, Wenbin Zhang, Ana Sousa-Castillo, Marcel Neuhaus, Emiliano Cortes, Stefan A. Maier, Cesar Costa-Vera, Matthias F. Kling^*, Boris Bergues^*. The European Physical Journal D 76, 109 (2022).

38. Femtosecond Rotational Dynamics of D₂ Molecules in Superfluid Helium Nanodroplets

Junjie Qiang’, Lianrong Zhou’, Peifen Lu^*, Kang Lin, Yongzhe Ma, Shengzhe Pan, Chenxu Lu, Wenyu Jiang, Fenghao Sun, Wenbin Zhang, Hui Li, Xiaochun Gong, Ilya Sh. Averbukh, Yehiam Prior, Constant A. Schouder, Henrik Stapelfeldt^*, Igor N. Cherepanov, Mikhail Lemeshko, Wolfgang Jäger, and Jian Wu^*. Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 243201(2022).

Publications-2021

37. Transient Valence Charge Localization in Strong-Field Dissociative Ionization of HCl Molecules.

Junyang Ma, Liang Xu, Hongcheng Ni^*, Chenxu Lu, Wenbin Zhang, Peifen Lu, Jin Wen, Feng He, Olivier Faucher, Jian Wu^*. Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 183201(2021).

36. Orbital effects in strong-field Rydberg state excitation of N₂, Ar, O₂ and Xe.

Fenghao Sun’, Chenxu Lu’, Yongzhe Ma, Shengzhe Pan, Jiawei Wang, Wenbin Zhang, Junjie Qiang, Fei Chen, Hongcheng Ni, Hui Li^*, and Jian Wu^*. Optics Express 29, 31240(2021).

35. Angle-resolved Rabi flopping in strong-field dissociation of molecules.

Chen-Xi Hu, Wei-Zhe Li, Wenbin Zhang, Xiao-Chun Gong, Jian Wu, Feng He^*. Phys. Rev. A 103, 043122(2021).

34. Clocking Dissociative Above-Threshold Double Ionization of H₂ in a Multicycle Laser Pulse.

Shengzhe Pan, Wenbin Zhang, Hui Li, Chenxu Lu, Weihua Zhang, Qinying Ji, Hanxiao Li, Fenghao Sun, Junjie Qiang, Fei Chen, Jihong Tong, Lianrong Zhou, Wenyu Jiang, Xiaochun Gong, Peifen Lu, and Jian Wu^*. Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 063201(2021).

Publications-2020

33. Correlated electron–nuclear dynamics of molecules in strong laser fields.

Wenbin Zhang, Peifen Lu, Junyang Ma, Hui Li, Xiaochun Gong, Jian Wu^*. J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 53 162001(2020).

32. Electron trapping in strong-field dissociative frustrated ionization of CO molecules.

Wenbin Zhang, Peifen Lu, Xiaochun Gong, Hui Li, Qinying Ji, Kang Lin, Junyang Ma, Hanxiao Li, Fenghao Sun, Junjie Qiang, Fei Chen, Jihong Tong, and Jian Wu^*. Phys. Rev. A 101, 033401(2020).

31. Femtosecond Resolving Photodissociation Dynamics of the SO₂ Molecule.

Kang Lin’, Xiaoqing Hu’, Shengzhe Pan, Fei Chen, Qinying Ji, Wenbin Zhang, Hanxiao Li, Junjie Qiang, Fenghao Sun, Xiaochun Gong , Hui Li, Peifen Lu, Jianguo Wang, Yong Wu^*, and Jian Wu^*. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 11, 3129(2020).

30. Longitudinal photon-momentum transfer in strong-field double ionization of argon atoms.

Fenghao Sun, Xiang Chen, Wenbin Zhang, Junjie Qiang, Hui Li, Peifen Lu, Xiaochun Gong, Qinying Ji, Kang Lin, Hanxiao Li, Jihong Tong, Fei Chen, Camilo Ruiz, Jian Wu^*, and Feng He^*. Phys. Rev. A 101, 021402(R)(2020).

29. Dissociative frustrated double ionization of N₂Ar dimers in strong laser fields.

Fenghao Sun, Wenbin Zhang, Peifen Lu, Qiying Song, Kang Lin, Qinying Ji, Junyang Ma, Hanxiao Li, Junjie Qiang, Xiaochun Gong, Hui Li, Jian Wu^*. J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys., 53, 035601(2020).

28. Echo in a single vibrationally excited molecule

Junjie Qiang^’, Ilia Tutunnikov’, Peifen Lu, Kang Lin, Wenbin Zhang, Fenghao Sun, Yaron Silberberg, Yehiam Prior^*, Ilya Sh. Averbukh^*, Jian Wu^*. Nature Physics 16, 328(2020).

Publications-2019

27. Electron-nuclear correlated multiphoton-route to Rydberg fragments of molecules.

Wenbin Zhang, Xiaochun Gong, Hui Li, Peifen Lu, Fenghao Sun, Qinying Ji, Kang Lin, Junyang Ma, Hanxiao Li, Junjie Qiang, Feng He^*, Jian Wu^*. Nature Communications 10,757(2019).

26. Strong-field dissociative Rydberg excitation of oxygen molecules: Electron-nuclear correlation.

Junyang Ma, Wenbin Zhang, Kang Lin, Qinying Ji, Hanxiao Li, Fenghao Sun, Junjie Qiang, Fei Chen, Jihong Tong, Peifen Lu, Hui Li, Xiaochun Gong, and Jian Wu^*. Phys. Rev. A 100, 063413(2019).

25. Timing Dissociative Ionization of H₂ Using a Polarization-Skewed Femtosecond Laser Pulse.

Qinying Ji, Shengzhe Pan, Peilun He, Junping Wang, Peifen Lu, Hui Li, Xiaochun Gong, Kang Lin, Wenbin Zhang, Junyang Ma, Hanxiao Li, Chungang Duan, Peng Liu, Ya Bai, Ruxin Li, Feng He^*, and Jian Wu^*. Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 233202(2019).

24. Coulomb exploded directional double ionization of N₂O molecules in multicycle femtosecond laser pulses.

Junyang Ma, Kang Lin, Qinying Ji, Wenbin Zhang, Hanxiao Li, Fenghao Sun, Junjie Qiang, Peifen Lu, Hui Li, Xiaochun Gong, Jian Wu^*. Chinese Phys. B 28 093301(2019).

23. Observation of photon-nucleus angular-momentum transfer in the strong-field breaking of molecules.

Xiaochun Gong, Peilun He, Junyang Ma, Wenbin Zhang, Fenghao Sun, Qinying Ji, Kang Lin, Hanxiao Li, Junjie Qiang, Peifen Lu, Hui Li, Heping Zeng, Jian Wu^*, and Feng He^*. Phys. Rev. A 99, 063407(2019).

22. Dissociative frustrated multiple ionization of hydrogen chloride in intense femtosecond laser fields.

Junyang Ma, Hui Li, Kang Lin, Qinying Ji, Wenbin Zhang, Hanxiao Li, Fenghao Sun, Junjie Qiang, Peifen Lu, Xiaochun Gong, and Jian Wu^*. Phys. Rev. A 99, 023414(2019).

Publications-2018  

21. Tracking the electron recapture in dissociative frustrated double ionization of D₂.

Wenbin Zhang, Hui Li, Xiaochun Gong, Peifen Lu, Qiying Song, Qinying Ji, Kang Lin, Junyang Ma, Hanxiao Li, Fenghao Sun, Junjie Qiang,, Heping Zeng, Jian Wu^*, Phys. Rev. A 98, 013419(2018).

20. All-optical field-free three-dimensional orientation of asymmetric-top molecules.

Kang Lin’, Ilia Tutunnikov’, Junjie Qiang, Junyang Ma, Qiying Song, Qinying Ji, Wenbin Zhang, Hanxiao Li, Fenghao Sun, Xiaochun Gong, Hui Li, Peifen Lu, Heping Zeng, Yehiam Prior^*, Ilya Sh. Averbukh^*, Jian Wu^*, Nature Communications 9, 5134 (2018).

19. Prompt and delayed Coulomb explosion of doubly ionized hydrogen chloride molecules in intense femtosecond laser fields.

Junyang Ma, Hui Li^*, Kang Lin, Qiying Song, Qinying Ji, Wenbin Zhang, Hanxiao Li, Fenghao Sun, Junjie Qiang, Peifen Lu, Xiaochun Gong, Heping Zeng, Jian Wu^*, Phys. Rev. A 97, 063407(2018).

18. Double ionization of nitrogen molecules in orthogonal two-color femtosecond laser fields.

Qiying Song, Hui Li^*, Junping Wang, Peifen Lu, Xiaochun Gong, Qinying Ji, Kang Lin, Wenbin Zhang, Junyang Ma, Hanxiao Li, Heping Zeng, Feng He, Jian Wu^*, J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 51 074002(2018).

17. High-order above-threshold dissociation of molecules.

Peifen Lu^*, Junping Wang, Hui Li, Kang Lin, Xiaochun Gong, Qiying Song, Qinying Ji, Wenbin Zhang, Junyang Ma, Hanxiao Li, Feng He^*, Jian Wu^*, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 115 (9) 2049-2053(2018)

Publications-2017

16. Visualizing and Steering Dissociative Frustrated Double Ionization of Hydrogen Molecules.

Wenbin Zhang, Zuqing Yu, Xiaochun Gong, Junping Wang, Peifen Lu, Hui Li, Qiying Song, Qinying Ji, Kang Lin, Junyang Ma, Hanxiao Li, Fenghao Sun, Junjie Qiang, Heping Zeng, Feng He^*, Jian Wu^*, Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 253202(2017).

15. Photon Energy Deposition in Strong-Field Single Ionization of Multielectron Molecules.

Wenbin Zhang, Zhichao Li, Peifen Lu, Xiaochun Gong, Qiying Song, Qinying Ji, Kang Lin, Junyang Ma, Feng He^*, Heping Zeng, Jian Wu^*, Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 103002(2016).

14. Comparison Study of Strong-Field Ionization of Molecules and Atoms by Bicircular Two-Color Femtosecond Laser Pulses.

Kang Lin, Xinyan Jia, Zuqing Yu, Feng He, Junyang Ma, Hui Li, Xiaochun Gong, Qiying Song, Qinying Ji, Wenbin Zhang, Hanxiao Li, Peifen Lu, Heping Zeng, Jing Chen^*, Jian Wu^*, Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 203202(2017).

13. Subcycle characterization of photoelectron emission with multicycle laser pulses.

Qinying Ji, Junping Wang, Peifeng Lu, Hui Li, Xiaochun Gong, Qiying Song, Kang Lin, Wenbing Zhang, Junyang Ma, Matthias Friedrich Kling, Heping Zeng, Jian Wu^*, Feng He, Phys. Rev. A 96, 053423(2017).

12. Ellipticity dependent symmetric break of doubly ionized acetylene in strong laser fields.

Xiaochun Gong, Hui Li, Peifen Lu, Qiying Song, Qinying Ji, Kang Lin, Wenbin Zhang, Junyang Ma, Hanxiao Li, Heping Zeng, Jian Wu^*. J. Opt. 19,124008(2017).

11. Rotated echoes of molecular alignment: fractional, high order and imaginary.

Kang Lin, Junyang Ma, Xiaochun Gong, Qiying Song, Qinying Ji, Wenbin Zhang, Hanxiao Li, Peifen Lu, Hui Li, Heping Zeng, Jian Wu^*, Jean-Michel Hartmann, Olivier Faucher, Erez Gershnabel, Yehiam Prior^*, Ilya Sh. Averbukh^*, Opt. Express 25, 24917-24926 (2017).

10. Energy-Resolved Ultrashort Delays of Photoelectron Emission Clocked by Orthogonal Two-Color Laser Fields.

Xiaochun Gong, Cheng Lin, Feng He, Qiying Song, Kang Lin, Qinying Ji, Wenbin Zhang, Junyang Ma, Peifen Lu, Yunquan Liu, Heping Zeng, Weifeng Yang^*, Jian Wu^*, Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 143203 (2017).

9. Electron-nuclear correlation in above-threshold double ionization of molecules.

Peifen Lu, Wenbin Zhang, Xiaochun Gong, Qiying Song, Kang Lin, Qinying Ji, Junyang Ma, Feng He, Heping Zeng, Jian Wu^*, Phys. Rev. A 95, 033404(2017).

8. Dissociative double ionization of CO in orthogonal two-color laser fields.

Qiying Song, Peifen Lu, Xiaochun Gong, Qinying Ji, Kang Lin, Wenbin Zhang, Junyang Ma, Heping Zeng, Jian Wu^*, Phys. Rev. A 95, 013406(2017).

7. Orientation-dependent strong-field dissociative single ionization of CO.

Qiying Song, Zhichao Li, Hui Li, Peifen Lu, Xiaochun Gong, Qinying Ji, Kang Lin, Wenbin Zhang, Junyang Ma, Heping Zeng, Feng He^*, Jian Wu^*, Opt. Express 25, 2221-2227 (2017).

Publications-2016

6. Photon Energy Deposition in Strong-Field Single Ionization of Multielectron Molecules.

Wenbin Zhang, Zhichao Li, Peifen Lu, Xiaochun Gong, Qiying Song, Qinying Ji, Kang Lin, Junyang Ma, Feng He^*, Heping Zeng, Jian Wu^*, Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 103002(2016).

5. Directional bond breaking of CO molecules by counter-rotating circularly polarized two-color laser fields.

Kang Lin, Xiaochun Gong, Qiying Song, Qinying Ji, Junyang Ma, Wenbin Zhang, Peifen Lu, Heping Zeng, Jian Wu^*, Acta Phys. Sin. 65(22),224209(2016).

4. Echoes in Space and Time.

Kang Lin, Peifen Lu, Junyang Ma, Xiaochun Gong, Qiying Song, Qinying Ji, Wenbin Zhang, Heping Zeng, Jian Wu^*, Gabriel Karras, Guillaume Siour, Jean-Michel Hartmann, Olivier Faucher, Erez Gershnabel, Yehiam Prior^*, Ilya Sh. Averbukh^*, Phys. Rev. X 6, 041056(2016).

3. Disentangling the role of laser coupling in directional breaking of molecules.

Qiying Song, Zhichao Li, Sen Cui, Peifen Lu, Xiaochun Gong, Qinying Ji, Kang Lin, Wenbin Zhang, Junyang Ma, Haifeng Pan, Jingxin Ding, Matthias F. Kling, Heping Zeng, Feng He^*, Jian Wu^*, Phys. Rev. A 94, 053419(2016).

2. Pathway-resolved photoelectron emission in dissociative ionization of molecules.

Xiaochun. Gong, Peilun. He, Qiying. Song, Qinying. Ji, Kang. Lin, Wenbin Zhang, Peifen. Lu, H. Pan, J. Ding, Heping. Zeng, Feng. He^*, and J. Wu^*, Optica 3, 643-646 (2016).

1. Directional bond breaking by polarization-gated two-color ultrashort laser pulses.

Kang Lin, Xiaochun Gong, Qiying Song, Qinying Ji, Wenbin Zhang, Junyang Ma, Peifen Lu, Haifeng Pan, Jingxin Ding, Heping Zeng, Jian Wu^*, J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 49 025603(2016).

2015                                 Outstanding Graduates Awards in Shandong Province

2015                                 Excellent student scholarship awarded by ECNU

2016, 2018, 2019             National Scholarship for PhD Students, (thrice awarded)

2017, 2018, 2019             Outstanding Student Award of ECNU, (thrice awarded)

2016                                 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Cultivation Plan of Action

2018                                 Future Scientist Cultivation Project of ECNU

2018                                 “The President’s scholarship” for postgraduate students of ECNU

2019                                 “Wang Daheng Prize for Optics” awarded by China Optics Society

2019                                  “The 69th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting dedicated to Physics”

2020                                 Outstanding Graduates Awards in Shanghai City

2020                                 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral MULTIPLY Fellowship  

2021                                 Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Fellowship

2022                                 “Excellent Doctoral dissertation in Optics” awarded by China Optics Society

2023                                  Zijiang Youth Scholar at ECNU