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Wenbo Sun

Wenbo Sun

Welcome to my homepage! My name is Wenbo Sun. I recently completed my Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University (advisor: Prof. Zubin Jacob), and will soon start a postdoctoral position in the same group. Previously, I earned my B.S. in Physics from Nanjing University.

My research is theoretical and computational, at the intersection of quantum optics, material physics, and nanophotonics. My Ph.D. research focuses on leveraging the microscopic response of materials for exploring new quantum, topological, and thermal photonic phenomena, and their applications in quantum sensing and information processing.

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Education

Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
2019 – 2025
Purdue University (Advisor: Prof. Zubin Jacob) West Lafayette, USA
BSc. in Physics
2015 – 2019
Nanjing University Nanjing, China

Awards & Honors

  • Finalist, Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation Award, 2025
  • Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award, Purdue University, 2024
  • Purdue Engineering Conference Travel Grant, Purdue University, 2024
  • Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship, Purdue University, 2024

Publications

Quantum Photonics
  • Wenbo Sun, Adrian E. Rubio Lopez, and Zubin Jacob. “Nanophotonic Super-dephasing in Collective Atom-Atom Interactions.” Phys. Rev. Applied 23, 034069 (2025).
  • Wenbo Sun, Sathwik Bharadwaj, Li-Ping Yang, Yu-Ling Hsueh, Yifan Wang, Dan Jiao, Rajib Rahman, and Zubin Jacob. “Limits to two-spin-qubit gate fidelity from thermal and vacuum fluctuations.” Phys. Rev. Applied 19, 064038 (2023).
  • Wenbo Sun, Sathwik Bharadwaj, Runwei Zhou, Dan Jiao, and Zubin Jacob. “Computational Electromagnetics Meets Spin Qubits: Controlling Noise Effects in Quantum Sensing and Computing.” IEEE J. Multiscale and Multiphysics Computational Techniques 9, 290–302 (2024).
  • Cristian L. Cortes, Wenbo Sun, and Zubin Jacob. “Quantum analog of the maximum power transfer theorem.” Optics Express 30, 35840 (2022).
  • Cristian L. Cortes, Wenbo Sun, and Zubin Jacob. “Fundamental efficiency bound for quantum coherent energy transfer in nanophotonics.” Optics Express 30, 34725 (2022).
Topological Photonics and Plasmonics
  • Wenbo Sun*, Todd Van Mechelen*, Sathwik Bharadwaj, Ashwin K Boddeti, Zubin Jacob. “Optical N-plasmon: Topological hydrodynamic excitations in Graphene from repulsive Hall viscosity.” New J. Phys. 25, 113009 (2023).
  • Todd Van Mechelen, Wenbo Sun, and Zubin Jacob. “Optical N-invariant of graphene's topological viscous Hall fluid.” Nature Communications 12, 4729 (2021).
  • Zohreh Poursoti*, Wenbo Sun*, Sathwik Bharadwaj*, Marek Malac, Suraj Iyer, Farhad Khosravi, Kai Cui, et al. “Deep ultra-violet plasmonics: exploiting momentum-resolved electron energy loss spectroscopy to probe germanium.” Optics Express 30, 12630 (2022).
Thermal Photonics
  • Wenbo Sun, Zhuomin M. Zhang, and Zubin Jacob. “Superconducting coherence peak in near-field radiative heat transfer.” Phys. Rev. B 112, 125423 (2025).
  • Ali Jishi, Avra S. Bandyopadhyay, Xueji Wang, Tyler J. Sentz, Aashish Poudel, Daien He, Wenbo Sun, et al. “Next Generation of Thermal Barrier Coatings with Metal-Silicide Based Metamaterials Stable at 1200C.” Advanced Optical Materials, e01827 (2025).
  • Farhad Khosravi, Wenbo Sun, Chinmay Khandekar, Tongcang Li, and Zubin Jacob. “Giant Enhancement of Quantum Friction in Spinning YIG Nanospheres.” New J. Phys. 26, 053006 (2024).

Talks

Invited Talks
  • Deep Microscopic Quantum Solvers for Spin Qubits Coupled to Complex Electromagnetic Environments, Wenbo Sun, Sathwik Bharadwaj, Dan Jiao, Zubin Jacob - IEEE MTT-S IMS 2025 (WMI workshop), San Francisco.
  • Super-dephasing in Collective Atom-Atom Interactions Mediated by Near-Field Electromagnetic Fluctuations, Wenbo Sun - Midwest Cold Atom Workshop 2024, University of Michigan.
  • Deep microscopic quantum optics: Exploiting quantum optical materials for collective quantum phenomena and topology, Wenbo Sun - AMO seminar 2024, Purdue University.
Conference Presentations & Proceedings
  • CLEO 2025 (Postdeadline): “Transduction of optical skyrmionic polarity onto the quantum polarization cloud of impurities in diamond”, Shoaib Mahmud, Wei Zhang, Wenbo Sun, Zubin Jacob - San Jose, CA, USA.
  • APS Global Physics Summit 2025: “Super-dephasing in collective atom-atom interactions and its applications in quantum sensing”, Wenbo Sun, Adrian Rubio Lopez, Zubin Jacob - Anaheim, CA, USA.
  • APS March Meeting 2024: “Universal Collective Quantum Dephasing Due to Electromagnetic Fluctuations near Material Interfaces”, Wenbo Sun, Adrian Rubio Lopez, Zubin Jacob - Minneapolis, MN, USA.
  • APS March Meeting 2023: “Topological hydrodynamic circulator in graphene's viscous Hall fluid”, Wenbo Sun, Todd Van Mechelen, Ashwin Boddeti, Sathwik Bharadwaj, Zubin Jacob - Las Vegas, NV, USA.
  • MQC Entanglement 2023: “Limits to quantum gate fidelity from vacuum and thermal fluctuations”, Wenbo Sun, Yifan Wang, Sathwik Bharadwaj, Li-Ping Yang, Yu-Ling Hsueh, Rajib Rahman, Zubin Jacob - West Lafayette, IN, USA.
  • IEEE AP-S/URSI 2023: “Fast Volume Integral Equation Based Modeling of Quantum Gate Circuitry: Capturing Local vs. Nonlocal Effects on Spin Qubits” - Runwei Zhou, Wenbo Sun, Sathwik Bharadwaj, Zubin Jacob, Dan Jiao - Portland, OR, USA.
  • IEEE ACES 2023: “Simulation of Metallic Quantum Gate Structures with Advanced Volume Integral Equation Solver”, Yifan Wang, Wenbo Sun, Zubin Jacob, Dan Jiao - Monterey, CA, USA.
  • MRS Fall Meeting 2022: “Topological Hydrodynamic Circulator in Graphene's Viscous Hall Fluid”, Wenbo Sun, Todd Van Mechelen, Ashwin Boddeti, Sathwik Bharadwaj, Zubin Jacob - Boston, MA, USA.
  • APS March Meeting 2022: “Limits to two-spin-qubit gate fidelity from vacuum and thermal fluctuations”, Wenbo Sun, Yifan Wang, Sathwik Bharadwaj, Li-Ping Yang, Yu-Ling Hsueh, Ashwin Boddeti, Rajib Rahman, Zubin Jacob - Chicago, IL, USA.
  • CLEO: QELS 2021: “Topological Viscous Hall Plasmons in Graphene”, Wenbo Sun, Todd Van Mechelen, Ashwin K. Boddeti, Adrian Buganza Tepole, Hadiseh Alaeian, Zubin Jacob.
  • APS March Meeting 2021: “Topological edge plasmons in graphene's viscous Hall fluid”, Wenbo Sun, Todd Van Mechelen, Ashwin Boddeti, Adrian Tepole, Hadiseh Alaeian, Zubin Jacob.

Contact

Email: sun893[at]purdue[dot]edu
Address: West Lafayette, IN, USA