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Representative Publications
- Junchao Huang, Jianhua
Zhang, Ding Xu, Shiyun Zhang, Hua Tong*, and Ning Xu*"
Revealing bond level origin of stability in disordered solids from
marginal stability to ultrastability"Nature
Communications, 2026, 17: 7027.
- Zhehua Jiang, Jianhua
Zhang, Mengyuan Zhan, Jiaqi Si, Junchao Huang, Hua Tong*, and Ning
Xu*"Rapid and high-quality formation of dodecagonal
quasicrystals and their approximants using a purely mechanical approach
"National
Science Review, 2026, 13(11): nwag244.
- Yunhuan Nie, Lijin Wang,
Huiming Cao, Pengfei Guan*, and Ning Xu*"
Unifying dynamics of glass-forming liquids by crystallization
temperature"National
Science Review, 2025, 12(12): nwaf423.
- Ruoyang Mo, Ding Xu, and
Ning Xu*"Thinning by cluster breaking: active matter
and shear flows share thinning mechanisms"Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences, 2024, 121(24):
e2318917121.
- Ding Xu#, Shiyun Zhang#,
Hua Tong, Lijin Wang*, and Ning Xu*"Low-frequency vibrational
density of states of ordinary and ultra-stable glasses
"Nature
Communications, 2024, 15: 1424. Editors' Highlights.
- Ding Xu, Shiyun Zhang,
Andrea J. Liu, Sidney R. Nagel, and Ning Xu*"
Discontinuous instabilities in disordered solids
"Proceedings of
the National Academy of Sciences, 2023, 120(34): e2304974120.
- Mengyuan Zhan, Yanshuang
Chen, Zhehua Jiang, Ning Xu*, and Peng Tan*"
Multiple scenarios of low-temperature nucleation in simple liquids
"Physical
Review Letters, 2023, 130(17): 178201.
- Jianhua Zhang, Wen Zheng,
Shiyun Zhang, Ding Xu, Yunhuan Nie, Zhehua Jiang, and Ning Xu*"
Unifying fluctuation-dissipation temperatures of slow-evolving
nonequilibrium systems from the perspective of inherent structures
"Science
Advances, 2021, 7(31): eabg6766.
- Yunhuan Nie, Jun Liu,
Jialing Guo, and Ning Xu*"
Connecting glass-forming ability of binary mixtures of soft particles to
equilibrium melting temperatures"Nature
Communications, 2020, 11(1): 1-10.
- Yuchuan Wang, Sheng Fang,
Ning Xu*, and Youjin Deng*"
Two-scale scenario of rigidity percolation of sticky particles
"Physical
Review Letters, 2020, 124(25): 255501.
- Jun Liu, Yunhuan Nie, Hua
Tong, and Ning Xu*"
Realizing negative Poisson's ratio in
spring networks with close-packed lattice geometries
"Physical
Review Materials, 2019, 3(5): 055607.
- Lijin Wang, Ning Xu*, W.
H. Wang, and Pengfei Guan*"Revealing the link between
structural relaxation and dynamic heterogeneity in glass-forming liquids
"Physical
Review Letters, 2018, 120(12): 125502.
- Ning Xu, Andrea J. Liu,
and Sidney R. Nagel"
Instabilities of jammed
packings of frictionless spheres under load"Physical
Review Letters, 2017, 119(21): 215502.
- Mengjie Zu, Peng Tan, and
Ning Xu*"Forming quasicrystals by
monodisperse soft core particles"Nature
Communications, 2017, 8(1): 1-9.
- 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"Physical
Review Letters, 2016, 117(8): 085702.
- Xipeng Wang, Wen Zheng,
Lijin Wang, and Ning Xu*"Disordered solids without
well-defined transverse phonons: the nature of hard-sphere glasses
"Physical
Review Letters, 2015, 114(3): 035502.
- 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"Physical
Review Letters, 2014, 112(14): 145502.
- Lijin Wang and Ning
Xu*"Probing the glass transition
from structural and vibrational properties of zero-temperature glasses
"Physical
Review Letters, 2014, 112(5): 055701.
- Ning Xu, Matthieu Wyart,
Andrea J. Liu, and Sidney R. Nagel"
Excess vibrational modes and the boson peak in model glasses
"Physical
Review Letters, 2007, 98(17): 175502.
- Ning Xu, Daan Frenkel,
and Andrea J. Liu"
Direct determination of the
size of basins of attraction of jammed solids"Physical
Review Letters, 2011, 106(24): 245502.
- Cang Zhao, Kaiwen Tian,
and Ning Xu*"New jamming scenario: from
marginal jamming to deep jamming"Physical
Review Letters, 2011, 106(12): 125503.
- 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
"Physical
Review Letters, 2009, 103(24): 245701.
- 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,
2009, 459(7244): 230-233.
- Ning Xu and Corey S.
O'Hern"Effective temperature in athermal systems sheared
at fixed normal load"Physical
Review Letters, 2005, 94(5): 055701.
- Ning Xu, Corey S.
O'Hern, and Lou Kondic"
Velocity profiles in repulsive athermal systems under shear
"Physical
Review Letters, 2005, 94(1): 016001.
- Ning Xu, Long Wang, and
Xiwei Hu"Extreme electrostatic phenomena in a single
sonoluminescing bubble"Physical
Review Letters, 1999, 83(12): 2441.