News
Updates on publications, awards, talks, and group activities.
2025
- Our work titled "Antiferroelectric altermagnets: Antiferroelectricity alters magnets" has been selected as to Physical Review Letters collection of the year 2025. Congrats!
- Our collaborative work with Prof. Cheng Zhang’s group and Prof. Lin Miao’s group, titled “Defect Engineering for Stabilizing Magnetic and Topological Properties in Mn(Bi₁₋ₓSbₓ)₂Te₄,” was published in Nature Communications. Congrats!
- Our collaborative work with Prof. Yee Sin Ang’s group and Prof. Junwei Liu’s group, titled “Ferroelastic altermagnetism”, was published in npj Quantum Materials. Congrats!
- Our work titled “One-Dimensional Hydrogen Chains in Li-Hf-H System: A Pathway to High Superconductivity Under High Pressure” was published in Advanced Science. Congrats!
- Dr. Ziye Zhu and Dr. Chenghao Shen were awarded the NSFC Young Scholar Project Fund. Congrats!
- Our work titled “Emergent Multiferroic Altermagnets and Spin Control via Noncollinear Molecular Polarization” has been published in SCIENCE CHINA Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy. It was featured on the cover, selected for the Editor’s Focus, and received Two Research Highlight News respectively by Prof. Xincheng Xie and Prof. E. Tsymbal.
- Mr. Xiyu Chen, Mr. Xiang Ji, and Mr. Linxuan Ji joined our group for the EIT PhD program in the fall of 2025! Welcome aboard!
- Dr. Ziye Zhu was awarded the Postdoctoral General Project. Congrats!
- Our work about Two-dimensional Ferroelectric Altermagnets has been published in Nano Letters. Congrats!
- Our work about Electrically switchable quantum anomalous and spin Hall states has been published in Phys. Rev. B. Congrats!
- Our work about Ferroelectric control of valleytronic has been published in Applied Physics Letters. Congrats!
- Mr. Bowen Hao joined our group as a Research Assistant! Welcome aboard!
- Our work about Antiferroelectric Altermagnets has been published in Phys. Rev. Lett. and selected as “Editors’ Suggestion” and “Featured in Physics”. Congrats!
2024
- Prof. Tong Zhou was awarded the prestigious Zhejiang Distinguished Young Scholars Fund. Congrats!
- Dr. Ziye Zhu was awarded the NSFC special fund for theoretical physics. Congrats!
- Our work about the non-Dirac quantum anomalous Hall effect has been published in Phys. Rev. B. Congrats!
- Prof. Tong Zhou was awarded the NSFC General Project Fund. Congrats!
- Our work about the existence of Xe3CO2 compound under high pressure has been published in Phys. Rev. B. Congrats!
- Dr. Ziye Zhu from Westlake Univ. joined our group as a postdoc! Welcome aboard!
- Mr. Shuang Li from Hebei Univ. joined our group for the EIT-USTC PhD program in the fall of 2024! Welcome aboard!
- Mr. Zhou Cui from Fuzhou Univ. joined our group for a postdoc internship (to be a Postdoc in 2025)! Welcome aboard!
- Mr. Wei Tu from Xi’an Tech. Univ. joined our group as a Research Assistant! Welcome aboard!
- Prof. Tong Zhou delivered an invited talk “Towards Majorana Non-Abelian Statistics in Planar Josephson Junctions” at USTC, Hefei, China.
- Ms. Sihui Wu from SUST visited our group for PhD internship! Welcome!
- Ms. Jiahui Qian from Fudan Univ. joined our group for the EIT-SJTU PhD program in the fall of 2024! Welcome aboard!
- Dr. Richang Huang from HKU joined our group as a postdoc! Welcome aboard!
2023
- Dr. Jiayong Zhang and Dr. Xianzhang Chen passed their Postdoctoral thesis proposal defense! Congrats!
- Prof. Tong Zhou delivered an invited talk at Quantum Salon, Institute for Quantum Science and Engineering, Shenzhen, China.
- Prof. Tong Zhou delivered an invited talk at the Conference of Quantum Transport Theory in Nanjing Univ., China.
- Dr. Xianzhang Chen from Lanzhou Univ. joined our group as a postdoc! Welcome aboard!
- 2023.09, Prof. Tong Zhou delivered an invited talk about Topological superconductivity in Planar Josephson Junctions at the International Forum on Micro-Nano Technology & Composites Innovation Development, Zhengzhou, China
- Dr. Jiayong Zhang (Associate Professor in SUST) joined our group as a postdoc! Welcome aboard!
- 2023.07, Prof. Tong Zhou delivered an invited talk about Non-Abelian statistics at the Conference of Condensed Matter Physics 2023, Liyang, China
- A big welcome to Mr. Xunkai Duan, Mr. Yongliang Hu, and Mr. Kang Yang, who joined our group in fall 2023.
- Prof. Tong Zhou established his research group at EIT! Congrats!