Department of Physics, HKU

Department of Physics - The University of Hong Kong

Department of Physics Newsletter (Apr 2023): Department of Physics Newsletter

Research Groups / Institutes / Themes: Astronomy and Astrophysics Group; Atomic, Optical and Quantum Physics Group; Experimental Condensed Matter and Material Science Group; Theoretical and Computational Condensed Matter Group; Experimental Nuclear and Particle Physics Group; Area of Excellence Project - Theory, Modeling, and Simulation of Emerging Electronics; Area of Excellence Project - 2D Materials Research: Fundamentals Towards Emerging Technologies; HKU-UCAS Joint Institute of Theoretical and Computational Physics; HK Institute of Quantum Science & Technology

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6 June 2023 (Tue) 9:30 a.m.: Mysteries of fast radio burstsDr. Dongzi LI

7 June 2023 (Wed) 2:30 p.m.: Public Seminar of PhD Candidate:
Scanning Tunneling Microscopic Study Of Defects And Heterointerfaces Of Transition Metal DichalcogenidesMs. Mengfei YUAN

8 June 2023 (Thu) 9:30 a.m.: Public Seminar of RPg Student:
Exploring High Redshift Galaxies with the James Webb Space TelescopeMr. Kin Chun WONG

8 June 2023 (Thu) 10:00 a.m.: Public Seminar of RPg Student:
The HKU-NJU Lobster Eye 01--X Ray Telescope. Satellite Observations, Performance, and Source DetectionMs. Haoyang YUAN

8 June 2023 (Thu) 10:30 a.m.: Public Seminar of RPg Student:
Real triple degneracies and Euler numberMs. Wenwen LIU

8 June 2023 (Thu) 11:00 a.m.: Public Seminar of RPg Student:
Photonic surface flatband and surface BIC in van der Waals materialsMr. Zhu YUAN

8 June 2023 (Thu) 11:30 a.m.: Public Seminar of RPg Student:
Synthetic non-Abelian gauge fields for non-Hermitian systemsMr. Zehai PANG

8 June 2023 (Thu) 12:00 noon: Public Seminar of RPg Student:
Measuring quantum optical surface response from ellipsometryMr. Zeling CHEN

8 June 2023 (Thu) 2:30 p.m.: Public Seminar of RPg Student:
Post-compression toward few-cycle pulses for extreme ultraviolet high harmonic generationMr. Tien Dat TRAN

8 June 2023 (Thu) 3:00 p.m.: Public Seminar of RPg Student:
Novel Topological Phases in Condensed MatterMr. Kaizhi BAI

8 June 2023 (Thu) 3:30 p.m.: Public Seminar of RPg Student:
Disorder Effect on Half-Integer Quantum Hall MetalMr. Shihao BI

8 June 2023 (Thu) 4:00 p.m.: Public Seminar of RPg Student:
Probe Entanglement Information via Quantum Monte Carlo and Dynamic Properties of Long-range Interacting SystemsMr. Menghan SONG

8 June 2023 (Thu) 4:30 p.m.: Public Seminar of RPg Student:
Emus Live on the Gross-Neveu-Yukawa Archipelago -DQMC Calculation of the GNY Chiral Ising Critical ExponentsMr. Ting Tung WANG

9 June 2023 (Fri) 10:00 a.m.: Public Seminar of RPg Student:
Dielectric Properties of Metal OxidesMr. Ruey Jinq ONG

9 June 2023 (Fri) 10:30 a.m.: Public Seminar of RPg Student:
High k Gate Oxide Applied on SiC MOSFETMr. Xueqi WANG

9 June 2023 (Fri) 11:00 a.m.: Public Seminar of RPg Student:
A New Type of Anomalous Nernst Effect in Twisted Transition Metal DichalcogenidesMr. Juncheng LI

9 June 2023 (Fri) 11:30 a.m.: Public Seminar of RPg Student:
Magnetochiral anisotropy induced from the layer pseudospin structures in twisted TMDs homobilayersMr. Tianyu WU

9 June 2023 (Fri) 12:00 noon: Public Seminar of RPg Student:
Manipulating Matter by Strong Coupling to Vacuum Cavity FieldMs. Wenqi YANG

9 June 2023 (Fri) 4:00 p.m.: Public Seminar of RPg Student:
Passive Measurement-Device-Independent Quantum Key DistributionMr. Jinjie LI

9 June 2023 (Fri) 4:30 p.m.: Public Seminar of RPg Student:
Study of 3D topological orders and their boundariesMr. Wenjie XI

9 June 2023 (Fri) 5:00 p.m.: Public Seminar of RPg Student:
Quantum spin supersolid as a precursory Dirac Spin Liquid in a triangular lattice antiferromagnetMr. Haichen JIA

Our Recent Achievements

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

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: 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: see more

: 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 K.S. Chan, H.F. Chau AIP Advances, Vol.13(5), 055201:1-14, 2023 Download

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