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EDUCATION AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
| 2010.01-present |
Professor, Department of Physics, USTC |
| 2011.07-present |
Professor, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale |
| 2009.07-2010.01 |
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| 2006.01-2009.07 |
Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania |
| 2006.01-2009.07 |
Postdoctoral fellow, James-Franck Institute, University of Chicago |
| 2005 |
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Yale University |
| 2000 |
Ph.D. in Physics, Institute of Physics, CAS |
| 1995 |
B.S. in Physics, University of Science and Technology of China |
RESEARCH INTERESTS
| Computational and theoretical soft condensed matter physics |
| 1) |
Jamming |
| 2) |
Glass transition and nature of glasses |
| 3) |
Self-assembly of colloidal suspensions |
| 4) |
Metamaterials |
| 5) |
Rheology and non-equilibrium statistical physics |
CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
| 1) |
Non-crystalline liquid-solid transition and nature of non-crystalline solids (NSFC Distinguished Young Scholars) |
| 2) |
Understanding, application, and manipulation of the normal modes of vibration of non-crystalline solids (NSFC regular project) |
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
| 1) |
Mengjie Zu, Jun Liu, Hua Tong, and Ning Xu*, “Density affects the nature of the hexatic-liquid transition in two-dimensional melting of soft-core systems”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 085702 (2016). |
| 2) |
Xipeng Wang, Wen Zheng, Lijin Wang, and Ning Xu*, “Disordered solids without well-defined transverse phonons: The nature of hard-sphere glasses”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 035502 (2015). |
| 3) |
Hao Liu, Xiaoyi Xie, and Ning Xu*, “Finite size analysis of zero-temperature jamming transition under applied shear stress by minimizing a thermodynamic-like potential”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 145502 (2014). |
| 4) |
Lijin Wang and Ning Xu*, “Probing the glass transition from structural and vibrational properties of zero-temperature glasses”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 055701 (2014). |
| 5) |
Peng Tan, Ning Xu, and Lei Xu*, “Visualizing kinetic pathways of homogeneousnucleation in colloidal crystallization”, Nature Phys. 10, 73 (2014). |
| 6) |
Lijin Wang and Ning Xu*, “Critical scaling in thermal systems near thezero-temperature jamming transition”, Soft Matter 9, 2475 (2013). |
| 7) |
Lijin Wang, Yiheng Duan, and Ning Xu*, “Non-monotonic pressure dependence of the dynamics of soft glass-formers athigh compressions”, Soft Matter 8, 11831 (2012). |
| 8) |
Peng Tan, Ning Xu, Andrew B. Schofield, and Lei Xu*, “Understanding the low-frequency quasilocalized modes in disordered colloidal systems”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 095501 (2012). |
| 9) |
Ning Xu*, Daan Frenkel, and Andrea J. Liu, “Direct determination of the size of basins of attraction of jammed solids”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 245502 (2011). |
| 10) |
Cang Zhao, Kaiwen Tian, and Ning Xu*, “New jamming scenario: From marginal jamming to deep jamming”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 125503 (2011) |
| 11) |
Ning Xu*, Thomas K. Haxton, Andrea J. Liu, and Sidney R. Nagel,“Equivalence of glass transition and colloidal glass transition in the hard-sphere limit”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 245701 (2009) . |
| 12） |
Zexin Zhang*, Ning Xu*, Daniel T. N. Chen, Peter Yunker, Ahmed M. Alsayed, Kevin B. Aptowicz, Piotr Habdas, Andrea J. Liu, Sidney R. Nagel, and Arjun G. Yodh, “Thermal vestige of the zero-temperature jamming transition”, Nature 459, 230 (2009). |
| 13） |
Ning Xu*, Vincenzo Vitelli, Matthieu Wyart, Andrea J. Liu, and Sidney R. Nagel, “Energy transport in jammed sphere packings”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 038001 (2009). |
| 14) |
Ning Xu*, Matthieu Wyart, Andrea J. Liu, and Sidney R. Nagel, “Excess vibrational modes and the boson peak in model glasses”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 175502 (2007). |
| 15) |
Ning Xu and Corey S. O’Hern*, “Effective temperature in athermal systems sheared at fixed normal load”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 055701 (2005). |
| 16) |
Ning Xu, Corey S. O’Hern*, and Lou Kondic, “Velocity profiles in repulsive athermal systems under shear”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 016001 (2005). |
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