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2026
- Jianhua Zhang, Jiaqi Si, Ning Xu, and Hua Tong*"Universal jamming criticality and self-organizing principles from disorder to the limit of perfect crystalline order"Physical Review Letters, 2026, 137: 078201.
- 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.
- Xinyu
Fan, Ding Xu, Jianhua Zhang, Hao Hu, Peng Tan, Ning Xu*,
Hajime Tanaka*, and Hua Tong*"Ideal non-crystals as a
distinct form of ordered states without symmetry
breaking"Nature
Materials, 2026, 25: 1020-1027.
-
2025
- Gan Ding,
En Ma, Feng Jiang, Jun Duan, Songlin Cai, Ning Xu, Bingyu
Cui, Lanhong Dai, and Minqiang Jiang*"Unified theory of phonon in
solids with phase diagram of non-Debye anomalies
"Nature
Physics, 2025, 21: 1911-1919.
- Lijin
Wang#*, Ding Xu#, Shiyun Zhang#, Yunhuan Nie#, Hua Tong, and
Ning Xu*"Low-frequency non-phononic
vibrations of amorphous solids"Reports
on Progress in Physics, 2025, 88: 104601.
- 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.
- Ding Xu#,
Qinyi Liao#*, and Ning Xu*"Order metrics of amorphous
solids: structures, hyperuniformity, and implications
for ultra-stable glasses"Soft
Matter, 2025, 21: 8112-8121.
-
2024
- 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.
- Yunhuan
Nie, Lijin Wang*, Pengfei Guan*, and Ning Xu*"Understanding the glassy
dynamics from melting temperatures in binary
glass-forming liquids"Soft
Matter, 2024, 20: 1565-1572.
-
2023
- 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.
- Qinyi
Liao*, Ludovic Berthier*, Haijun Zhou*, and Ning
Xu*"
Dynamic Gardner cross-over
in a simple glass"Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences, 2023, 120(26):
e2218218120.
- 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.
- Junchao
Huang, Jianhua Zhang, Ding Xu, Shiyun Zhang, Hua Tong, and
Ning Xu*"From jammed solids to
mechanical metamaterials: a brief review
"Current
Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science, 2023,
27(1): 101053.
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2021
- Xiangying
Shen, Chenchao Fang, Zhipeng Jin, Hua Tong, Shixiang Tang,
Hongchuan Shen, Ning Xu, Jack Hau Yung Lo*, Xinliang Xu*,
and Lei Xu*"Achieving adjustable elasticity
with non-affine to affine transition
"Nature
Materials, 2021, 20(12): 1635-1642.
- 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.
- Jialing
Guo, Yunhuan Nie, and Ning Xu*"Signatures of continuous
hexatic–liquid transition in two-dimensional
melting"Soft
Matter, 2021, 17(12): 3397-3403.
-
2020
- Jun Liu,
Hua Tong*, Yunhuan Nie, and Ning Xu*"Jamming in confined geometry:
criticality of the jamming transition and implications
of structural relaxation in confined supercooled liquids
"Chinese
Physics B, 2020, 29(12): 126302.
- Can-can
Zhou#, Hongchuan Shen#, Hua Tong, Ning Xu, and Peng
Tan*"
Coupling between particle
shape and long-range interaction in the high-density
regime"Chinese
Physics Letters, 2020, 37(8): 086301.
- 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.
- Ruoyang
Mo, Qinyi Liao, and Ning Xu*"Rheological similarities
between dense self-propelled and sheared particulate
systems"Soft
Matter, 2020, 16(15): 3642-3648.
- Zhencheng
Jiang, Silong Quan, Ning Xu, Linghui He, and Yong
Ni*"
Growth modes of
quasicrystals involving intermediate phases and a
multistep behavior studied by phase field crystal model
"Physical
Review Materials, 2020, 4(2): 023403.
-
2019
- Ning
Xu*"
Phase behaviors of soft-core
particle systems"Chinese
Journal of Polymer Science, 2019, 37(11):
1065-1082.
- 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.
- Hua
Tong*, Hao Hu, Peng Tan, Ning Xu*, and Hajime
Tanaka*"Revealing inherent structural
characteristics of jammed particulate packings
"Physical
Review Letters, 2019, 122(21): 215502.
- Anthony
T. Chieco, Meng Zu, Andrea J. Liu, Ning Xu, and Douglas J.
Durian"Spectrum of structure for
jammed and unjammed soft disks"Physical
Review E, 2018, 98(4): 042606.
-
2018
- Wen
Zheng*, Shiyun Zhang, and Ning Xu*"Jamming of packings of
frictionless particles with and without shear
"Chinese
Physics B, 2018, 27(6): 066102.
- 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.
- Qinyi
Liao and Ning Xu*"Criticality of
the zero-temperature jamming transition probed by
self-propelled particles"Soft
Matter, 2018, 14(5): 853-860.
-
2017
- Mengjie
Zu, Peng Tan, and Ning Xu*"Forming
quasicrystals by monodisperse soft core particles
"Nature
Communications, 2017, 8(1): 1-9.
- Yunhuan
Nie, Hua Tong, Jun Liu, Mengjie Zu, and Ning Xu*"Role of disorder in
determining the vibrational properties of mass-spring
networks"Frontiers
of Physics, 2017, 12(3): 126301.
- 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.
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2015
- Hua Tong,
Peng Tan, and Ning Xu*"From crystals to disordered
crystals: a hidden order-disorder transition
"Scientific
Reports, 2015, 5(1): 1-9.
- Wen
Zheng, Yu Shi, and Ning Xu*"Signatures of shear
thinning-thickening transition in steady shear flows of
dense non-Brownian yield stress systems
"Science
China Chemistry, 2015, 58(6): 1013-1020.
- 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.
-
2014
- Hao Liu,
Hua Tong, and Ning Xu*"Mechanical properties of
jammed packings of frictionless spheres under an applied
shear stress"Chinese
Physics B, 2014, 23(11): 116105.
- Hua Tong
and Ning Xu*"Order parameter for structural
heterogeneity in disordered solids
"Physical
Review E, 2014, 90(1): 010401.
- 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.
- Peng Tan,
Ning Xu, and Lei Xu*"Visualizing kinetic pathways
of homogeneous nucleation in colloidal crystallization
"Nature
Physics, 2014, 10(1): 73-79.
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2012
- Lijin
Wang, Yiheng Duan, and Ning Xu*"Non-monotonic
pressure dependence of the dynamics of soft
glass-formers at high compressions
"Soft
Matter, 2012, 8(47): 11831-11838.
- Lynn J.
Daniels, Thomas K. Haxton, Ning Xu, Andrea J. Liu, and
Douglas J. Durian"
Temperature-pressure scaling for air-fluidized grains
near jamming"Physical
Review Letters, 2012, 108(13): 138001.
- Peng Tan,
Ning Xu, Andrew B. Schofield, and Lei Xu"Understanding
the low-frequency quasilocalized modes in disordered
colloidal systems"Physical
Review Letters, 2012, 108(9): 095501.
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2011
- 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*"
Mechanical,
vibrational, and dynamical properties of amorphous
systems near jamming"Frontiers
of Physics in China, 2011, 6(1): 109-123.
-
2010
- Carl F.
Schreck, Ning Xu, and Corey S. O'Hern"A comparison of
jamming behavior in systems composed of dimer- and
ellipse-shaped particles"Soft
Matter, 2010, 6(13): 2960-2969.
- Ning Xu*
and Emily S. C. Ching"Effects of
particle-size ratio on jamming of binary mixtures at
zero temperature"Soft
Matter, 2010, 6(13): 2944-2948.
- Vincenzo
Vitelli, Ning Xu, Matthieu Wyart, Andrea J. Liu, and Sidney
R. Nagel"Heat transport
in model jammed solids"Physical
Review E, 2010, 81(2): 021301.
- Ning Xu*,
Vincenzo Vitelli, Andrea J. Liu, and Sidney R.
Nagel"Anharmonic and
quasi-localized vibrations in jammed solids—modes
for mechanical failure"Europhysics
Letters, 2010, 90(5): 56001.
- Xiaoming
Mao, Ning Xu, and Tom C. Lubensky"Soft modes and
elasticity of nearly isostatic lattices: randomness and
dissipation"Physical
Review Letters, 2010, 104(8): 085504.
-
2009
- 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.
- Zorana
Zeravcic*, Ning Xu, Andrea J. Liu, and Sidney R. Nagel, and
Wim van Saarloos"Excitations of
ellipsoid packings near jamming"Europhysics
Letters, 2009, 87(2): 26001.
- Micah
Lundberg, Kapilanjan Krishan, Ning Xu, Corey S. O'Hern,
and Michael Dennin"Comparison of
low-amplitude oscillatory shear in experimental and
computational studies of model foams
"Physical
Review E, 2009, 79(4): 041405.
- Ning Xu,
Vincenzo Vitelli, Matthieu Wyart, Andrea J. Liu, and Sidney
R. Nagel"Energy transport
in jammed sphere packings"Physical
Review Letters, 2009, 102(3): 038001.
-
2005
- Ning Xu,
Corey S. O'Hern, and Lou Kondic"Stabilization of nonlinear
velocity profiles in athermal systems undergoing planar
shear flow"Physical
Review E, 2005, 72(4): 041504.
- Ning Xu,
Jerzy Blawzdziewicz, and Corey S. O'Hern"Random close packing revisited:
ways to pack frictionless disks"Physical
Review E, 2005, 71(6): 061306.
- 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.
-
Earlier
- Ning Xu,
Robert E. Apfel, Anthony Khong, Xiwei Hu, and Long
Wang"
Water vapor diffusion effects
on gas dynamics in a sonoluminescing bubble
"Physical
Review E, 2003, 68(1): 016309.
- Ning Xu,
Long Wang, and Xiwei Hu"Bremsstrahlung of nitrogen and
noble gases in single-bubble sonoluminescence
"Physical
Review E, 2000, 61(3): 2611.
- Ning Xu,
Long Wang, and Xiwei Hu"Extreme electrostatic phenomena
in a single sonoluminescing bubble
"Physical
Review Letters, 1999, 83(12): 2441.
- Ning Xu,
Long Wang, and Xiwei Hu"Numerical study of electronic
impact and radiation in sonoluminescence
"Physical
Review E, 1998, 57(2): 1615.