Associate Professor Yanqing Hu’s research group from the Department of Statistics and Data Science at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) recently published a research article that proposes a new percolation model with an indirect influence mechanism. Through the statistical analysis of empirical data on collaboration behaviors of scientists, it is found that indirect collaborators have a more important influence on the changes of their research fields. And based on this empirical phenomenon, an induced percolation model for behavioral propagation is proposed.

Recently, Professor Jingyun Fan’s research group from the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), in collaboration with scholars from Austria, Spain, Switzerland, and the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), have made important progress in the study of the fundamental position of complex numbers, one of the fundamental problems of Quantum mechanics.

A research team led by Assistant Professor Shanmin Wang from the Department of Physics & Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) has recently reported their latest progress on the study of Mott transition in PbCrO3 by measuring the lattice parameter at pressure. This led to the discovery of a Mott transition mechanism, a long-standing issue that has eluded physicists for more than half a century.

Associate Professor Jiefei Chen’s research group of the Shenzhen Institute for Quantum Science and Engineering (SIQSE) at SUSTech has made a breakthrough in exploring a new type of non-Hermitian atom-photon interface at the single-quantum level. Their work, entitled “Quantum Interference between Photons and Single Quanta of Stored Atomic Coherence,” was published in Physical Review Letters, a top international journal in physics.

Associate Professor Qihang Liu’s research group of the Shenzhen Institute for Quantum Science and Engineering (SIQSE) and the Department of Physics at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), in collaboration with Professor Xiangang Wan at Nanjing University, has made substantial progress in the field of designing light-element materials with correlation-enhanced spin-orbit coupling effect. Their research results were recently published in the top journal Nature Communications, entitled “Designing light-element materials with large effective spin-orbit coupling”.

Associate Professor Zongxiang Xu’s team from the Department of Chemistry at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) has made a series of research developments in the field of photoelectric conversion and electrocatalysis. They published four academic papers in renowned journals such as the Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie, Journal of Energy Chemistry, and Chemical Engineering Journal.