Soft Matter Theory and Computation Laboratory group photo

Welcome

Our group studies soft condensed matter and nonequilibrium statistical physics, focusing on liquid-solid transitions and the microscopic origins of amorphous structure and dynamics.

Research topics include glass and jamming transitions, amorphous solids, crystallization and melting, rheology, mechanical metamaterials, and related nonequilibrium phenomena.

See Group Research for more details.

What's New

2026-06-01 Our Work "Revealing bond level origin of stability in disordered solids from marginal stability to ultrastability" was published in Nature Communications, May, 2026. Congratulations to Junchao Huang!
2026-05-19 Congratulations to Junchao Huang on completing his Ph.D. thesis defense!
2026-04-25 Our Work "Rapid and high-quality formation of dodecagonal quasicrystals and their approximants using a purely mechanical approach" was published in National Science Review, April, 2026. Congratulations to Zhehua Jiang!
2025-05-28 Group photo of the Soft Matter Theory and Computation Laboratory, May 2025.
2025-05-21 Congratulations to Zhehua Jiang on completing his Ph.D. thesis defense!
2024-06-15 Ding Xu's Ph.D. thesis was awarded the 2024 Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis of the School of Physical Sciences.
2024-06-07 Prof. Ning Xu's group reports new progress on the rheology of active matter.
2024-05-17 Congratulations to Ding Xu and Ruoyang Mo on completing their Ph.D. thesis defenses!
2024-03-01 Congratulations to Shiyun Zhang and Mengyuan Zhan on completing their Ph.D. thesis defenses!
2024-02-26 Prof. Ning Xu's group reports new progress on vibrational properties of amorphous solids.