Research Interests
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Solid State and Material Physics

    Vortex bound states of topological insulators
  • CH Cheng, European Physical Journal B 86, 5 (2013), "Spectrum of the vortex bound states of the Dirac and Schrodinger Hamiltonian in the presence of superconducting gaps". [doi] [arxiv]
    Magnetic domain wall structure in micromagnetics
  • YM Kao, L Horng, & CH Cheng, AIP Advances 11, 065308 (2021), "Analytical studies of the magnetic domain wall structure in the presence of non-uniform exchange bias". [doi] [arxiv] [pdf]

Soft Matter and Statistical Physics
    Polyelectrolyte adsorption
  • CH Cheng & PY Lai, AIP Conference Proceedings 708, 229 (2004), "Polyelectrolyte adsorption on charged substrate". [doi] [arxiv]
  • CH Cheng & PY Lai, Physical Review E 70, 061805 (2004), "Adsorption transition of a polyelectrolyte on a high-dielectric charged substrate". [doi] [arxiv]
  • CH Cheng & PY Lai, Physical Review E 71, 060802(R) (2005), "Conformational properties of an adsorbed charged polymer". [doi] [arxiv]
  • CH Cheng & PY Lai, Physical Review E 72, 011808 (2005), "Scaling theory of polyelectrolyte adsorption on a repulsive charged surface". [doi] [arxiv]
  • CH Cheng, Physical Review E 73, 012801 (2006), "Boundary condition of polyelectrolyte adsorption". [doi] [arxiv]
    Gibbs paradox
  • CH Cheng, Entropy 11, 326 (2009), "Thermodynamics of the system of distinguishable particles". [doi] [arxiv] [pdf]
    Interacting Ehrenfest urn model
  • CH Tseng, YM Kao, & CH Cheng, Physical Review E 96, 032125 (2017), "Ehrenfest urn model with interaction". [doi] [arxiv] [pdf]
  • CH Cheng, B Gemao, & PY Lai, Physical Review E 101, 012123 (2020), "Phase transitions in Ehrenfest urn model with interactions: Coexistence of uniform and nonuniform states". [doi] [arxiv] [pdf]
  • CH Cheng & PY Lai, Physical Review Research 3, 023134 (2021), "Nonequilibrium thermodynamics and phase transition of Ehrenfest urns with interactions". [doi] [arxiv] [pdf]
  • CH Cheng & PY Lai, Physical Review E 109, 034126 (2024), "Coexistence of distinct nonuniform nonequilibrium steady states in Ehrenfest multiurn model on a ring". [doi] [arxiv] [pdf]
    Network reconstruction
  • CH Cheng & PY Lai, Physical Review E 106, 034302 (2022), "Efficient reconstruction of directed networks from noisy dynamics using statistical force inference". [doi] [pdf]
    Non-equilibrium asymptotic states
  • CH Cheng & PY Lai, Physical Review E 108, 064114 (2023), "Theory of nonequilibrium asymptotic state thermodynamics: Interacting Ehrenfest urn ring as an example". [doi] [arxiv] [pdf]
    Non-equilibrium Ising / Potts model
  • CH Cheng & PY Lai, Chinese Journal of Physics 88, 475 (2024), "Non-equilibrium dynamics and phase transitions in Potts model and interacting Ehrenfest urn model". [doi] [arxiv] [pdf]

Atomic and Quantum Physics
    BCS-BEC crossover in p-wave Feshbach resonant system
  • CH Cheng & SK Yip, Physical Review Letters 95, 070404 (2005), "Anisotropic Fermi superfluid via p-wave Feshbach resonance". [doi] [arxiv]
  • CH Cheng & SK Yip, Physical Review B 73, 064517 (2006), "Pairing symmetry in an anisotropic Fermi superfluid under a p-wave Feshbach resonance". [doi] [arxiv]
    Trapped resonant Fermi gas
  • CH Cheng & SK Yip, Physical Review B 75, 014526 (2007), "Trapped resonant fermions above the superfluid transition temperature". [doi] [arxiv]
    Non-analytic behavior of Fermi gas
  • CH Cheng & SK Yip, Physical Review A 95, 033619 (2017), "SU(N) Fermi liquid at finite temperature". [doi] [arxiv]
    Dynamics of BEC in harmonic trap with disorder
  • CH Hsueh, CH Cheng, TL Horng, & WC Wu, Entropy 24, 1163 (2022), "H-theorem in an isolated quantum harmonic oscillator". [doi] [arxiv] [pdf]

Computational Physics
    Monte-Carlo simulation in quasi-2D classical Coulomb system

    Physics-informed neural networks


Physics Education
    Teaching methods
  • MF Cheng, JL Lin, SY Lin, & CH Cheng, Journal of Baltic Science Education 16, 207 (2017), "Scaffolding middle school and high school students' modeling processes". [doi] [pdf]
  • MF Cheng, YH Lo, & CH Cheng, International Journal of Technology and Design Education (2024), "The impact of STEM curriculum on students' engineering design abilities and attitudes toward STEM". [doi] [pdf]