Name:
Ning Xu (徐宁)
Address:
Department of Physics


University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)


Anhui, Hefei 230026, P. R. China
Tel:
86-(O)
Fax:
86-
E-mail:
ningxu@ustc.edu.cn
Office:
Physics Building, Room 518

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　EDUCATION AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2010.01 - present
Professor, Department of Physics, USTC
2011.07 - present
Professor, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale
2009.07 - 2010.01
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Chinese University of Hong Kong
2006.01 - 2009.07
Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania
2006.01 - 2009.07
Postdoctoral fellow, James-Franck Institute, University of Chicago
2005
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Yale University
2000
Ph.D. in Physics, Institute of Physics, CAS
1995
B.S. in Physics, University of Science and Technology of China


　RESEARCH INTERESTS
Computational and theoretical soft condensed matter physics

1.
Jamming
2.
Glass transition and nature of glasses
3.
Self-assembly of colloidal suspensions
4.
Metamaterials
5.
Rheology and non-equilibrium statistical physics


　CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
1.
Crystallization, glass transition, and the connections between order and disorder (NSFC Key Program)


　REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
1.
Hua Tong*, Hao Hu, Peng Tan, Ning Xu*, and Hajime Tanaka*, “Revealing inherent structural characteristics of jammed particulate packings”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 215502 (2019).

2.
Jun Liu, Yunhuan Nie, Hua Tong, and Ning Xu*, “Realizing negative Poisson’s ratio in spring networks with close-packed lattice geometries”, Phys. Rev. Mater. 3, 055607 (2019).

3.
Lijin Wang,Ning Xu*, W. H. Wang, and Pengfei Guan?, “Revealing the link betweenstructural relaxation and dynamic heterogeneity in glass-forming liquids”,Phys. Rev. Lett.120, 125502 (2018).

4.
Mengjie Zu, Peng Tan, andNing Xu*, “Forming quasicrystals by monodisperse soft-core particles”,Nat. Commun.8, 2089 (2017).

5.
Ning Xu*, Andrea J. Liu, and Sidney R. Nagel, “Instabilities of jammed packings of frictionless spheres under load”,Phys. Rev. Lett.119, 215502 (2017).

6.
Mengjie Zu, Jun Liu, Hua Tong, andNing Xu*, “Density affects the nature of the hexatic-liquid transition in two-dimensional melting of soft-core systems”,Phys. Rev. Lett.117, 085702 (2016).

7.
Xipeng Wang, Wen Zheng, Lijin Wang, andNing Xu*, “Disordered solids without well-defined transverse phonons: The nature of hard-sphere glasses”,Phys. Rev. Lett.114, 035502 (2015).

8.
Hao Liu, Xiaoyi Xie, andNing Xu*, “Finite size analysis of zero-temperature jamming transition under applied shear stress by minimizing a thermodynamic-like potential”,Phys. Rev. Lett.112, 145502 (2014).

9.
Lijin Wang andNing Xu*, “Probing the glass transition from structural and vibrational properties of zero-temperature glasses”,Phys. Rev. Lett.112, 055701 (2014).

10.
Peng Tan,Ning Xu, and Lei Xu*, “Visualizing kinetic pathways of homogeneousnucleation in colloidal crystallization”,Nature Phys.10, 73 (2014).

11.
Lijin Wang andNing Xu*, “Critical scaling in thermal systems near thezero-temperature jamming transition”,Soft Matter 9, 2475 (2013).

12.
Lijin Wang, Yiheng Duan, andNing Xu*, “Non-monotonic pressure dependence of the dynamics of soft glass-formers athigh compressions”,Soft Matter8, 11831 (2012).

13.
Peng Tan,Ning Xu, Andrew B. Schofield, and Lei Xu*, “Understanding the low-frequency quasilocalized modes in disordered colloidal systems”,Phys. Rev. Lett.108, 095501 (2012).

14.
Ning Xu*, Daan Frenkel, and Andrea J. Liu, “Direct determination of the size of basins of attraction of jammed solids”,Phys. Rev. Lett.106, 245502 (2011).

15.
Cang Zhao, Kaiwen Tian, andNing Xu*, “New jamming scenario: From marginal jamming to deep jamming”,Phys. Rev. Lett.106, 125503 (2011).

16.
N. Xu, V. Vitelli, A. J. Liu, and S. R. Nagel, “Anharmonic and quasi-localized vibrations in jammed solids—Modes for mechanical failure”, Europhys. Lett. 90, 56001 (2010).

17.
Ning Xu*, Thomas K. Haxton, Andrea J. Liu, and Sidney R. Nagel,“Equivalence of glass transition and colloidal glass transition in the hard-sphere limit”,Phys. Rev. Lett.103, 245701 (2009).

18.
Zexin Zhang#*,Ning Xu#*, Daniel T. N. Chen, Peter Yunker, Ahmed M. Alsayed, Kevin B. Aptowicz, Piotr Habdas, Andrea J. Liu, Sidney R. Nagel, and Arjun G. Yodh, “Thermal vestige of the zero-temperature jamming transition”,Nature459, 230 (2009).

19.
Ning Xu*, Vincenzo Vitelli, Matthieu Wyart, Andrea J. Liu, and Sidney R. Nagel, “Energy transport in jammed sphere packings”,Phys. Rev. Lett.102, 038001 (2009).

20.
Ning Xu*, Matthieu Wyart, Andrea J. Liu, and Sidney R. Nagel, “Excess vibrational modes and the boson peak in model glasses”,Phys. Rev. Lett.98, 175502 (2007).