个人信息
孙建，南京大学物理学院和固体微结构物理国家重点实验室教授，博士生导师，国家“海外高层次青年人才引进计划”入选者。2002年南京大学物理系本科，2007年南京大学物理系博士。2007-2013年先后在加拿大国家研究委员会、德国波鸿鲁尔大学、英国剑桥大学卡文迪许实验室等地从事博士后研究，2013年受聘于南京大学物理学院。已在国际一流学术刊物上发表SCI论文80余篇，包括Nature Physics 1篇，PRL/PRX 11篇，PNAS 3篇，JACS 2篇。曾获2007年加拿大NSERC奖学金、2008年德国洪堡奖学金、2011年中国国家自然科学二等奖（第五完成人）、2012年欧盟玛丽居里奖学金、2013年国家“海外高层次青年人才引进计划”、2014年GRC Alvin Van Valkenburg奖、2015年江苏省****等荣誉。担任中国物理学会高压物理专业委员会委员、中国材料学会计算材料学分会委员，《高压物理》杂志编委。


Jian Sun is a professor in the physics School and National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures at Nanjing University. He got his B.S. and PhD from Nanjing University at 2002 and 2007, respectively. After that, he spent 6 years and worked as a research fellow in NRC (Canada), Ruhr University Bochum (Germany) and University of Cambridge (UK). At 2013, he was granted with the “QR program - Youth” and recruited as a professor at Nanjing University. The main research interests of Professor Sun spreads in computational condensed matter physics, extreme condition physics, materials design and simulations. He has published more than 80 peer-reviewed papers in prestigious scientific journals, including 17 papers in high profile journals (Nature Phys., PRL/PRX, PNAS and JACS). Professor Sun is a committee member of the high pressure physics branch of Chinese Physics Society and the computational materials science branch of Chinese Materials Research Society.
Honors/Awards：
Distinguished Young Scholar of Jiangsu Province (2015)
GRC Alvin van Valkenburg Award (2014)
“QR Program - Youth” (2013)
Marie Curie Fellowship, EU (2012)
The second prize of China National Natural Science Award (the 5th contributor, 2011)
Humboldt Fellowship, Germany (2008)
NSERC Fellowship, Canada (2007)




担任课程
电动力学




研究领域
研究领域：高压物理、计算凝聚态物理、材料设计与模拟
研究方向：
1）计算方法发展：晶体结构搜索、机器学习力场、图论等
2）高压下的静态计算和物性调控：金属绝缘体相变、量子材料等
3）极端条件下的动力学模拟：新物态、熔化、相变机制、液体结构等
4）高压合成预言和高压材料设计：超硬、高能量密度、超导等功能材料


课题组拟招硕/博研究生，博士后/助理研究员，热忱欢迎联系。


The main research interests of Professor Sun spreads in computational condensed matter physics, extreme condition physics, materials design and simulations. Currently, his research is mainly focused on:

1) Development of computational methods: crystal structure predictions, machine-learning force fields, graph theory, etc;
2) Static calculations on the properties of materials under high pressure: insulator-metal phase transitions, quantum materials, etc;
3) Dynamical simulations of matters under extreme conditions: new states of matters (superionic, plastic, collective diffusion), melting, phase transition mechanism, structure of liquids, etc;
4) Prediction of high pressure synthesis and materials design: superhard, high-energy-density, superconductors, etc.


We are looking for talented PhD students and Postdoc/Research Associate, welcome to contact with us by email - jiansun AT nju.edu.cn.




Selected publications:
1.Cong Liu, Jiuyang Shi, Hao Gao, Junjie Wang, Yu Han, Xiancai Lu, Hui-Tian Wang, Dingyu Xing, and Jian Sun*, “Mixed coordination silica at megabar pressure”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 035701 (2021).
2. Yong Wang, Junjie Wang, Andreas Hermann, Cong Liu, Hao Gao, Erio Tosatti, Hui-Tian Wang, Dingyu Xing, and Jian Sun*, “Electronically driven 1D cooperative diffusion in a simple cubic crystal”, Phys. Rev. X 11, 011006 (2021).
3.Nilesh P. Salke*, Kang Xia, Suyu Fu, Youjun Zhang, Eran Greenberg, Vitali B. Prakapenka, Jin Liu*, Jian Sun*, Jung-Fu Lin*, “Tungsten hexanitride with single-bonded armchair-like hexazine structure at high pressure”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 065702 (2021). (confirms our previous theoretical predition - Sci. Bull.63, 817 (2018))
4. Cong Liu, Hao Gao, Andreas Hermann, Yong Wang, Maosheng Miao, Chris J. Pickard, Richard J. Needs, Hui-Tian Wang, Dingyu Xing, and Jian Sun*, “Plastic and Superionic Helium Ammonia Compounds under High Pressure and High Temperature”, Phys. Rev. X 10, 021007 (2020). (highlighted by APS Physics magazine)
5. Hao Gao, Cong Liu, Andreas Hermann, Richard J. Needs, Chris J. Pickard, Hui-Tian Wang, Dingyu Xing, and Jian Sun*, “Coexistence of plastic and partially diffusive phases in a helium-methane compound”, Natl. Sci. Rev. 7, 1540 (2020).
6.Cong Liu, Hao Gao, Yong Wang, Richard J. Needs, Chris J. Pickard, Jian Sun*, Hui-Tian Wang*, Dingyu Xing, “Multiple superionic states in helium-water compounds”, Nature Physics 15, 1065 (2019). (highlighted by Phys.org)
7.Qinyan Gu, Dingyu Xing, Jian Sun*, “Superconducting single-layer T-graphene and novel synthesis routes”, Chin. Phys. Lett. (Express letter) 36, 097401 (2019). (highlighted by Physics World magazine of IOP publishing)
8.Kang Xia, Hao Gao, Cong Liu, Jianan Yuan, Jian Sun*, Hui-Tian Wang*, Dingyu Xing, “A novel superhard tungsten nitride predicted by machine-learning accelerated crystal structure search”, Sci. Bull. 63, 817 (2018). (cover story, confirmed by experiment -Phys. Rev. Lett.126, 065702 (2021))
9.Y. H. Zhou, P. C. Lu, Y. P. Du, X. D. Zhu, G. H. Zhang, R. R. Zhang, D. X. Shao, X. L. Chen, X. F. Wang, M. L. Tian, J. Sun*, X. G. Wan*, Z. R. Yang*, W. G. Yang*, Y. H. Zhang & D. Y. Xing, “Pressure-induced new topological Weyl Semimetal phase in TaAs”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 146402 (2016).
10.Y.H. Zhou, J.F. Wu, W. Ning, N.N. Li, Y.P. Du, X.L. Chen, R.R. Zhang, Z.H. Chi, X.F. Wang, X.D. Zhu, P.C. Lu, C. Ji, X.G. Wan, Z.R. Yang*, J. Sun*, W.G. Yang*, M.L. Tian*, Y.H. Zhang, H.-K. Mao*, “Pressure-induced superconductivity in a three-dimensional topological material ZrTe₅”, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 113, 2904 (2016).
11.J. Sun, G. Niehues, H. Forbert, D. Decka, G. Schwaab, D. Marx, and M. Havenith*, "Understanding THz Spectra of Aqueous Solutions: Glycine in Light and Heavy Water", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 136, 5031 (2014).
12.J. Sun*, M. Martinez-Canales*, D. D. Klug, C. J. Pickard, R. J. Needs, "Stable all nitrogen metallic salt at terapascal pressures", Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 175502 (2013).
13.J. Sun*, M. Martinez-Canales, D. D. Klug, C. J. Pickard, R. J. Needs, “Persistence and eventual demise of oxygen molecules at terapascal pressures”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 045503 (2012).
14.J. Sun*, D. D. Klug, C. J. Pickard, R. J. Needs*, “Controlling the Bonding and Band Gaps of Solid Carbon Monoxide with Pressure”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 145502 (2011).
15.J. Sun*, D. D. Klug, R. Martonak, J. A. Montoya, M. -S. Lee, S. Scandolo, E. Tosatti, “High Pressure Polymeric Phases of Carbon Dioxide”, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 106, 6077 (2009).
16.J. Sun*, D. D. Klug, R. Martonak, “Structural transformations in carbon under extreme pressure: Beyond diamond”, J. Chem. Phys. 130, 194512 (2009). (confirmed by experiment - Nature 589, 532 (2021))
(* corresponding author)