周祥发，男，1981年12月生于安徽。2002年毕业与中国科技大学物理系，2007年获光学专业博士学位。现为中国科技大学光学与光学工程系特任副研究员。主要研究兴趣集中在量子光学、量子模拟，及冷原子物理。
近期的代表性论文：
1: X.-F. Zhou, Z.-W. Zhou, C. Wu, and G.-C. Guo, In-plane gradient-magnetic-field-induced vortex lattices in spin-orbit-coupled Bose-Einstein condensations, Phys. Rev. A 91, 033603 (2015).
2: Y-C Zhang, X-F Zhou, X Zhou, G-C Guo, H Pu, Z-W Zhou, Two-component Bose-Hubbard model in an array of cavity polaritons, Phys. Rev. A 91, 043633 (2015).
3: J.-Y. Zhang, X.-F. Zhou, G.-C. Guo, and Z.-W. Zhou, Dynamical spin squeezing via a higher-order Trotter-Suzuki approximation, Phys. Rev. A 90, 013604 (2014).
4. X.-F. Zhou, G.-C. Guo, W. Zhang, and W. Yi, Exotic pairing states in a Fermi gas with three-dimensional spin-orbit coupling, Phys. Rev. A 87, 063606 (2013).
5. X.-F. Zhou, Y. Li, Z. Cai, C.-J. Wu, Unconvential Bose-Einstein condensations from spin-orbit coupling, J. Phys. B-AMO 46(13),134001 (2013).
