Department of Physics - The University of Hong Kong
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20 Mar 2024 (Wed)
1:30 p.m.seminars
Impact of COVID-19 on publishing in astronomy in the initial two yearsProf. Jia LIU
Next Talk: 20 Mar 2024 (Wed), 5:00 p.m.colloquium
Spring 2024 Physics Colloquium
22 Mar 2024 (Wed)
4:30 p.m.seminars
Phenomenology and applications of strongly confined optical modes: from 2D material polaritonics to their interaction with free electronsProf. Javier GARCÍA DE ABAJO
Summer Camp for Prospective PhD studentsseminars

Summer Camp for Early PhD Admission (Fall 2025). Apply before 15 May, 2024.

Our Recent Achievementsseminars
  • A. Djurisic received the 2023 Research Output Prize
  • W. Yao received the 2022-23 Huang Kun Prize
  • H.K. Lo received the 2023 IEEE Photonics Society Quantum Electronics Award
  • Y. Yang was selected as the Inventor of the 2022 Innovators Under 35 (China) by the MIT Technology Review
  • W. Yao was elected as the Fellow of Optica 2023
  • S. Zhang was elected as Fellow of American Physical Society 2022
  • H.K. Lo awarded the 2022 CAP-INO Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Applied Photonics
  • W. Yao received the 2021 (the Ninth) Nishina Asia Award
  • W.Y. Wang received the 2021 OCPA Outstanding Dissertation Award
  • Three undergraduate students, Tan Tixuan, Liu Suying and Jian Tianyi were awarded the winner in PLANCKS Hong Kong Preliminary 2022
  • W. Yao received the 2021 Xplorer Prize
  • W. Yao received the RGC Senior Research Fellow Scheme (SRFS) Award 2021-22
  • J. Wang's paper has been selected as one of the 50 Milestone papers in the last 50 years of Physical Review B
  • W. Yao elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society 2020
  • W. Yao received the Croucher Senior Research Fellowship Award 2020
  • S.J. Xu, M.H. Xie and collaborators received the Ministry of Education Natural Science award (2nd class)
  • Three undergraduate students, Deng Jian Qiao, Wong Hong Tsun and Yeung Ryan Wai-Yen, teamed with two other students from the University of Oxford and Peking University, joined the online International Theoretical Physics Olympiad 2019 and ranked the top 10 out of 88 teams worldwide
  • A team of three undergraduate students, Gong Zhengyangguang, Ng Ka Wai and Wong Hong Tsun won a silver medal for the solar sailing problem in The University Physics Competition 2017
  • J.C.S. Pun & C.W. So received the 2018 International Dark-Sky Association Dark Sky Defender Award
  • J.H.C. Lee received the HKU Outstanding Departmental Safety Representative (DSR) Award
  • X.D. Cui received the Outstanding Researcher Award 2016-17
  • S.Z. Zhang received the Outstanding Young Researcher Award 2016-17
  • X.D. Cui received the Croucher Senior Research Fellowship 2017
  • W. Yao received the Outstanding Researcher Award
  • Prof. K.B. Luk and the Daya Bay Collaboration (HKU Members: T. Kwok, M.K.P. Lee, J.K.C. Leung, K.Y. Leung, H. Liu, H.Y. Ngai, C.S.J. Pun, H.C. Wong) received the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
Research Stories -
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Breakthrough in Understanding Quantum Metals
Discovery of Largest Sun-like Star in Death Throes

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Physics at HKU
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Physics at HKU

Why Study Physics at HKU?
The University of Hong Kong (HKU) is the oldest and well established university in Hong Kong. HKU students are allowed to major or minor in Physics, option of minor in Astronomy is also available. The available options are very flexible in order to provide the opportunity to students to make the best possible choices ...

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Publication Highlights
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Quantum criticality and entanglement for the two-dimensional long-range Heisenberg bilayer
Quantum criticality and entanglement for the two-dimensional long-range Heisenberg bilayer M.H. Song, J.R. Zhao, Y. Qi, J.C. Rong, Z.Y. Meng Physical Review B, Vol.109(8), L081114:1-8, 2024 Download
Synthetic Non-Abelian Gauge Fields for Non-Hermitian Systems
Synthetic Non-Abelian Gauge Fields for Non-Hermitian Systems Z.H. Pang, B.T.T. Wong, J.B. Hu, Y. Yang Physical Review Letters, Vol.132(4), 043804:1-7, 2024 Download