Heat engines convert thermal energy into mechanical work in a cyclic process. Similarly, information engines convert information into usable energy. The concept dates back to Maxwell’s demon and was later formalized in the Szilard engine. Classical implementations have used colloidal particles, b…
Title: Recent developments on Ultralong-Range Rydberg MoleculesSpeaker:PETER SCHMELCHERTime: 2025-10-17 15:00Venue: Room E100, Physics BuildingAbstract: A review on the most recent activities in Rydberg molecular physi…
Recently, the Association of Asia-Pacific Physical Societies (AAPPS) and the Asia-Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics (APCTP) have awarded tenured associate professor Yong-Chun Liu from the Depar…
The 2023 State Preeminent Science and Technology Award, China’s top scientific honor, was granted to academician Xue Qikun for his outstanding contribution to scientific and technological innovatio…
On April 19, 2024, the opening ceremony of the National Conference on Low Temperature Physics was held in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, at which the winners of the 7th Sir Martin Wood Science Prize for…
Recently, a research team led by Prof. Yong-Chun Liu at Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, discovers that the collision of thermal atoms can induce high-performance optical nonreciprocity. …
