Research

Publications

*The list contains only the publications affiliating HKU (Physics) or publications by members of our departments (sorted by publication year and the name of the Journal).

Terahertz-driven nonlinear phononics induces transient ferromagnetism in antiferromagnetic MnF2

Y.H. Cheng, S. Gadipelli, H. Zhang, R. Tang

Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 128(26), 261103:1-8, 2026

Polarity-tunable persistent photoconductive behaviors in BiFeCrO3/TiO2 heterojunctions optoelectronic memristor for neuromorphic computing

Y.X. Wu, X.C. Lai, B. Sun, Z.H. Tang, Y.X. Yang, F. Qiu, Y.P. Jiang, X.G. Tang, Y.C. Zhou, J. Gao

Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 129(1), 013304:1-8, 2026

Achromatic interfacial Cherenkov radiation from photonic crystals

X.F. Xi, Z. Gong, R.X. Chen, Z. Wang, O.D. Miller, Y. Yang, H.S. Chen, I. Kaminer, X. Lin

Applied Physics Reviews, Vol. 13(2), 021407:1-10, 2026

Exploring the connection between compact object mergers and fast X-ray transients: The cases of LXT 240402A and EP250207b

R. L. Becerra, Y.-H. Yang, E. Troja, M. El Kabir, S. Dichiara, N. Passaleva, B. O’Connor, R. Ricci, C. Fryer, L. Hu, Q. Wu, M. Yadav, A. M. Watson, A. Tsvetkova, C. Angulo-Valdez, M. D. Caballero-García, A. J. Castro-Tirado, C. C. Cheung, D. Frederiks, M. Gritsevich, J. E. Grove, M. Kerr, W. H. Lee, A. L. Lysenko, M. Pereyra, A. Ridnaia, R. Sánchez-Ramírez, H. Sun, D. Svinkin, M. Ulanov, R. Woolf, B. Zhang

Astronomy & Astrophysics, Vol. 705, A233:1-14, 2026

Revisiting the unification of tidal disruption events with polarimetry

H.C.I. Wichern, G. Leloudas, M. Pursiainen, A. Cikota, G.K. Jaisawal, P. Charalampopoulos, M. Bulla, L. Dai, J.P. Anderson, M. Gromadzki, C.P. Gutiérrez, T.E. Müller-Bravo, M. Nicholl

Astronomy & Astrophysics, Vol. 705, A250:1-26, 2026

Mini-supernovae from white dwarf–neutron star mergers: Viewing-angle-dependent spectra and light curves

Y.C. Kang, J.P. Zhu, L.J. Shao, J.H. Zhong, J.H. Zhang, B. Zhang

Astronomy & Astrophysics, Vol. 706, A106:1-12, 2026