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.

On August 21, the list of winners of the 2022 Future Science Prize was officially announced.

From the physics point of view, measurement is a physical process that estimates the quantity of a particular observable or a physical parameter. The science of measurement is called metrology. How to improve the precision in metrology is a central issue in this field, for which many classical approaches have been proposed.