Ferroelectric (FE) materials, showing switchable electrical polarizations under external electric fields, have shown great potential in applications of non-volatile memories, field-effect transistors, transducers, actuators, and other devices.

On September 26, 2022, the 2022 Alibaba Global Mathematics Competition winners were announced.

Causal order is the basic concept for us to comprehend the world, which is also the basis of time. It plays a crucial role in our cognition, allowing us to determine the cause of certain events, make scientific predictions for the future, and choose reasonable action to achieve the goal.

On September 14, the University held a grand professorship conferment ceremony to welcome Professor Efim Zelmanov.

Xue Qikun, China’s first Fritz London Memorial Prize winner, highlighted the role of basic research for achieving China’s scientific and technological advancements when delivering an online report to an international conference in Japan recently.

Axion insulator is an exotic topological phase in condensed matter, which has been extensively studied for decades. When the time-reversal symmetry on the surface of the 3D topological insulator is broken, the surface energy gap will be opened to achieve the so-called axion insulating phase.