Department of Physics - The University of Hong Kong
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6 June 2023 (Tue)
9:30 a.m.seminars
Mysteries of fast radio burstsDr. Dongzi LI
7 June 2023 (Wed)
2:30 p.m.seminars
Public Seminar of PhD Candidate:
Scanning Tunneling Microscopic Study Of Defects And Heterointerfaces Of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides
Ms. Mengfei YUAN
8 June 2023 (Thu)
9:30 a.m.seminars
Public Seminar of RPg Student:
Exploring High Redshift Galaxies with the James Webb Space Telescope
Mr. Kin Chun WONG
8 June 2023 (Thu)
10:00 a.m.seminars
Public Seminar of RPg Student:
The HKU-NJU Lobster Eye 01--X Ray Telescope. Satellite Observations, Performance, and Source Detection
Ms. Haoyang YUAN
8 June 2023 (Thu)
10:30 a.m.seminars
Public Seminar of RPg Student:
Real triple degneracies and Euler number
Ms. Wenwen LIU
8 June 2023 (Thu)
11:00 a.m.seminars
Public Seminar of RPg Student:
Photonic surface flatband and surface BIC in van der Waals materials
Mr. Zhu YUAN
8 June 2023 (Thu)
11:30 a.m.seminars
Public Seminar of RPg Student:
Synthetic non-Abelian gauge fields for non-Hermitian systems
Mr. Zehai PANG
8 June 2023 (Thu)
12:00 noonseminars
Public Seminar of RPg Student:
Measuring quantum optical surface response from ellipsometry
Mr. Zeling CHEN
8 June 2023 (Thu)
2:30 p.m.seminars
Public Seminar of RPg Student:
Post-compression toward few-cycle pulses for extreme ultraviolet high harmonic generation
Mr. Tien Dat TRAN
8 June 2023 (Thu)
3:00 p.m.seminars
Public Seminar of RPg Student:
Novel Topological Phases in Condensed Matter
Mr. Kaizhi BAI
8 June 2023 (Thu)
3:30 p.m.seminars
Public Seminar of RPg Student:
Disorder Effect on Half-Integer Quantum Hall Metal
Mr. Shihao BI
8 June 2023 (Thu)
4:00 p.m.seminars
Public Seminar of RPg Student:
Probe Entanglement Information via Quantum Monte Carlo and Dynamic Properties of Long-range Interacting Systems
Mr. Menghan SONG
8 June 2023 (Thu)
4:30 p.m.seminars
Public Seminar of RPg Student:
Emus Live on the Gross-Neveu-Yukawa Archipelago -DQMC Calculation of the GNY Chiral Ising Critical Exponents
Mr. Ting Tung WANG
9 June 2023 (Fri)
10:00 a.m.seminars
Public Seminar of RPg Student:
Dielectric Properties of Metal Oxides
Mr. Ruey Jinq ONG
9 June 2023 (Fri)
10:30 a.m.seminars
Public Seminar of RPg Student:
High k Gate Oxide Applied on SiC MOSFET
Mr. Xueqi WANG
9 June 2023 (Fri)
11:00 a.m.seminars
Public Seminar of RPg Student:
A New Type of Anomalous Nernst Effect in Twisted Transition Metal Dichalcogenides
Mr. Juncheng LI
9 June 2023 (Fri)
11:30 a.m.seminars
Public Seminar of RPg Student:
Magnetochiral anisotropy induced from the layer pseudospin structures in twisted TMDs homobilayers
Mr. Tianyu WU
9 June 2023 (Fri)
12:00 noonseminars
Public Seminar of RPg Student:
Manipulating Matter by Strong Coupling to Vacuum Cavity Field
Ms. Wenqi YANG
9 June 2023 (Fri)
4:00 p.m.seminars
Public Seminar of RPg Student:
Passive Measurement-Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution
Mr. Jinjie LI
9 June 2023 (Fri)
4:30 p.m.seminars
Public Seminar of RPg Student:
Study of 3D topological orders and their boundaries
Mr. Wenjie XI
9 June 2023 (Fri)
5:00 p.m.seminars
Public Seminar of RPg Student:
Quantum spin supersolid as a precursory Dirac Spin Liquid in a triangular lattice antiferromagnet
Mr. Haichen JIA
Our Recent Achievementsseminars
  • 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 was awarded the 2022 CAP-INO Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Applied Photonics
  • W. Yao recevied the 2021 (the Ninth) Nishina Asia Award
  • W.Y. Wang recevied 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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Emergent Glassy Behaviorina Kagome Rydberg Atom Array
Emergent Glassy Behaviorina Kagome Rydberg Atom Array Z. Yan, Y.C. Wang, R. Samajdar, S. Sachdev, Z.Y. Meng Physical Review Letters, Vol.130(20), 206501:1-8, 2023 Download
Reducing the impact of adaptive optics lag on optical and quantum communications rates from rapidly moving sources
Reducing the impact of adaptive optics lag on optical and quantum communications rates from rapidly moving sources K.S. Chan, H.F. Chau AIP Advances, Vol.13(5), 055201:1-14, 2023 Download