Month: July 2025

A new course in 2025/9-2025/12: Quantum Many-Body Computation

Computational approaches are playing increasingly important roles in the advances of condensed matter physics and quantum material research, particularly in quantum many-body systems. Considering these rapid developments and their lack of systematic education to senior undergraduate students, graduate students and researchers in Hong Kong and the GBA area, I have designed this course to cover from basic to advanced topics in quantum many-body computation and theoretical understanding in strongly correlation aspects of quantum materials. I plan to teach the participants basic and live knowledge of modern quantum many-body computation, such that they can apply them into their research works in the corresponding areas. Find the course poster

Time and Place:
Wednesday 1500 -- 1550, 1600 -- 1650, 1700 -- 1750
Room 103, 1/F, Meng Wah Complex, HKU

The different ways of ordering electrons in two dimensional materials

Researchers from the University of Hong Kong, including Drs. Hongyu Lu, Bin-bin Chen and Prof. Zi Yang Meng, teamed up with Profs. Kai Sun from the University of Michigan and Han-Qing Wu from Sun Yat-sen University, discovered different ways of ordering electrons in 2D quantum materials. In particular, the research team focused on the interplay between smectic order and topological order. The exotic states and thermal phase transitions exhibiting such features are expected to be accessed in future experiments. Continue reading