Peng Chen
Associate Professor, Physics Program
Office: R207, North Campus
Dr. Peng Chen is an Associate Professor at the Guangdong Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (GTIIT), Shantou, China. His research focuses on ferroelectric and multiferroic materials, light-induced exotic phases of matter, and multiscale simulation techniques. To learn more about his latest activities, please visit the Computational Condensed Matter and Materials group at GTIIT: https://sites.gtiit.edu.cn/ccmm/
Peng earned his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2017. As part of his doctoral journey, he was a visiting scholar at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology. From 2017 to 2019, he pursued postdoctoral research at the Italian Institute of Technology, followed by a Research Associate position at the University of Arkansas from 2019 to 2024. In October 2024, Peng joined GTIIT.
- Light-Matter Interaction
- Topological Magnetic and Electric Defects
- Ferroelectric and Multiferroic Materials
- First-Principles (Ab Initio) Simulations
- Physics-Informed AI for Materials Modeling
- Sustainable Materials and Energy Solutions
- Peng Chen, Yousra Nahas, Sergei Prokhorenko, and Laurent Bellaiche, Deterministic generation of a single-byte electric skyrmion bubble, Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 256802 (2025).
- Peng Chen†, Mathieu N. Grisolia, Hong Jian Zhao, Otto E. Gonzalez-Vazquez, Manuel Bibes, Bang-Gui Liu, L. Bellaiche and Jorge Iniguez*, Energetics of oxygen-octahedra rotations in perovskite oxides from first principles, Editor’s Suggestion Phys. Rev. B 97, 024113 (2019).
- Peng Chen†, Louis Ponet, Keji Lai, Roberto Cingolani, and Sergey Artyukhin†, Domain wall-localized phonons in BiFeO3: spectrum and selection rules, npj Comput. Mater. 6, 48 (2020).
- Hongjian Zhao, Peng Chen†, Sergey Prosandeev, Sergey Artyukhin, and Laurent Bellaiche†, Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya-like interaction in ferroelectrics and anti-ferroelectrics, Nat. Mater. 20, 341 (2021).
- Peng Chen†, Hong Jian Zhao†, Sergey Prosandeev, Sergey Artyukhin, and Laurent Bellaiche, Microscopic origin of the electric Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction, Phys. Rev. B 106, 224101 (2022).
- Peng Chen†, Charles Paillard, Hongjian Zhao, Jorge Iniguez, and L. Bellaiche†, Deterministic control of ferroelectric polarization by ultrafast laser pulses, Nat. Commun. 13, 2566 (2022).