(Updated in Jan. 2019)

Publications:

• Z. Lu*^†, C. Jarzynski*^†, A Programmable Mechanical Maxwell’s Demon, Entropy, invited, under review. *equal authors ^†co-corresponding authors (PDF)
• W. Zhong, Z Lu, D. Schwab, A. Murugan, Non-equilibrium statistical mechanics of continuous attractors. arXiv:1809.11167 . (PDF)
• O. Leddy*, Z. Lu*, A. R. Dinner, A tracer method toward a relation between the entropy production and the relative fitness of competing self-replicators, accepted, The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2018. *equal authors
• W. Pittayakanchit*, Z. Lu*, J. Chew, M. J. Rust, A. Murugan, Biophysical clocks face a trade-off between internal and external noise resistance. eLife, 7, e37624. *equal authors. (PDF)
• Z. Lu*^†, O. Raz*^†, Nonequilibrium thermodynamics of the Markovian Mpemba effect and its inverse. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114, 5083, 2017. *equal authors ^†co-corresponding authors. (PDF)
• C. Xu, N. Zheng^†, L P. Wang, L. Li^†, Q. Shi, Z. Lu^†, Self-propulsion of a grain-filled dimer in a vertically vibrated channel. Scientific Reports 7, 14193, 2017. ^†co-corresponding authors. (PDF)
• Z. Lu, D. Mandal, C. Jarzynski, Engineering Maxwell’s demon. Physics Today 67, 60, 2014.
• F. Liu, H. Xie, Z. Lu, Generalized integral fluctuation relation with feedback control for diffusion processes. Communications in Theoretical Physics 62, 571, 2014

Invited Talks and Award-winning Posters:

2017: Press Conference, APS March Meeting, New Orleans, LA

Invited Talk: “Anomalous Cooling and Heating – Mpemba effect and its inverse”

2016: Nonequilibrium Processes at the Nanoscale, KITPC, Beijing, China

Invited Talk: “Engineering Programmable Mechanical Maxwell’s Demons”

2016: 115th Rutgers Statistical Mechanics Conference, Rutgers University, NJ

Short Talk: “A Shortcut to Cooling and Heating”

2015: APS March Meeting, San Antonio, TX

Talk: “Engineering Maxwell’s demon”

2015: Berkeley Mini Stat Mech Seminar, University of California Berkeley, CA

1^st Prize Winner Poster: “Engineering Maxwell’s demon”

2014: Informal Statistical Physics Seminar, IPST, University of Maryland, College Park, MD

Invited Talk: “An integral method to compute Helmholtz free energies of crystalline solids”

2013: Berkeley Mini Stat Mech Seminar, University of California Berkeley, CA

1^st Prize Winner Poster: “Computing partition functions of crystalline solids using a natural order parameter”

Quotes: Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 3:13-14)