Hong Guo (physicist)

Hong Guo (* in Shenyang , Liaoning Province ) is a Chinese-Canadian theoretical solid-state physicist.

Guo grew up in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. After working in rice fields for a few years, he began studying at Sichuan Normal University in 1977 to become a teacher. In 1980 he successfully passed a national exam in China (CUSPEA) and was able to study in the USA. He studied at the University of Pittsburgh and received his doctorate in 1987 from David Jasnow (Scaling in condensed matter physics). As a post-graduate student , he was with James Gunton at Temple University . In 1990 he became a faculty member at McGill University (initially as a member of Martin Grant), where he is a professor.

Hong Guo deals with computations in nanoelectronics and quantum mechanical transport of electrons at the nano level and computation of the properties of materials for nanotechnology. He succeeded in developing a formalism for quantum mechanical non-equilibrium transport (with density functional theory (DFT) and Green's function formalism according to Keldysh (NEGF)). In the calculation of electronic structures, he developed a method called RESCU based on density functional theory. This enabled his group to calculate structures with over 10,000 atoms using relatively small computer clusters.

From 2004 to 2006 he was a Killam Fellow. In 2009 he received the CAP-CRM Prize . In 2007 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and in 2004 of the American Physical Society . In 2006 he received the Brockhouse Medal.

Web links

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Individual evidence

1. ^ Academic Tree
2. ↑ Vincent Michaud-Rioux, Lei Zhang, Hong Guo, RESCU: a Real Space Electronic Structure Method , J. Computational Physics, Volume 307, 2015, p. 593