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Hua Tong

 

Title: Distinguished Researcher

Email: huatong@sjtu.edu.cn

Address: Room 716, Building 5, Science Laboratory Buildings

Related Links: https://order.sjtu.edu.cn

Area of Physics: Soft condensed matter physics

 

Research Interests:

  1. Soft condensed matter physics: jamming transition, glass transition and crystallization, in particular, the hidden structural ordering behind the complex properties of soft matter
  2. Biophysics: emergent complexity of biological matter 
 

Biographical Sketch:

Appointments 
  • 05/2020-present, Tenure-track associate professor, School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  • 11/2017-04/2020, Postdoctoral research fellow, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo
  • 11/2015-11/2017, JSPS postdoctoral fellow, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo

Education 
  • 09/2010-11/2015, Ph.D., Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology of China
  • 09/2005-07/2010, B.S., Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology of China
 

Selected Publications: 

  1. Hua Tong and Hajime Tanaka, “Role of attractive interactions in structure ordering and dynamics of glass-forming liquids”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 225501 (2020).
  2. Xiunan Yang, Hua Tong, Wei-hua Wang, and Ke Chen, “Decoupling between thermodynamics and dynamics during rejuvenation in colloidal glasses”, J. Stat. Mech.: Theory Exp 024007 (2020).
  3. Hua Tong and Hajime Tanaka, “Structural order as a genuine control parameter of dynamics in simple glass formers”, Nature Commun. 10, 5596 (2019).
  4. Hua Tong, Hao Hu, Peng Tan, Ning Xu, and Hajime Tanaka, “Revealing inherent structural characteristics of jammed particulate packings”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 215502 (2019).
  5. Xiunan Yang, Hua Tong (co-first author), Wei-Hua Wang, and Ke Chen, “Emergence and percolation of rigid domains during colloidal glass transition”, Phys. Rev. E 99, 062610 (2019).
  6. Jun Liu, Yunhuan Nie, Hua Tong, and Ning Xu, “Realizing negative Poisson’s ratio in spring networks with close-packed lattice geometries”, Phys. Rev. Materials 3, 055607 (2019).
  7. Hajime Tanaka, Hua Tong (co-first and corresponding author), Rui Shi, and John Russo, “Revealing key structural features hidden in liquids and glasses”, Nature Rev. Phys. 1, 333 (2019).
  8. Hongchuan Shen, Hua Tong, Peng Tan, and Lei Xu, “A universal state and its relaxation mechanisms of long-range interacting polygons”, Nature Commun. 10, 1737 (2019).
  9. Hua Tong and Hajime Tanaka, “Revealing hidden structural order controlling both fast and slow glassy dynamics in supercooled liquids”, Phys. Rev. X. 8, 011041 (2018).
  10. 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 12, 126301 (2017).
  11. 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”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 085702 (2016).
  12. Hua Tong, Peng Tan, and Ning Xu, “From crystals to disordered crystals: a hidden order-disorder transition”, Scientific Reports 5, 15378 (2015).
  13. Hua Tong and Ning Xu, “Order parameter for structural heterogeneity in disordered solids”, Phys. Rev. E 90, 010401(Rapid Communication) (2014).
  14. Hao Liu, Hua Tong, and Ning Xu, “Mechanical properties of jammed packings of frictionless spheres under an applied shear stress”, Chin. Phys. B 23, 116105 (2014).
  15. H. Tong, X. Marie, and M. W. Wu, “Electron spin relaxation in Ga1-xBix: Effects of spin-orbit tuning by Bi incorporation”, J. Appl. Phys. 112, 063701 (2012).
  16. H. Tong and M. W. Wu, “Strongly modulated transmissions in gapped armchair graphene nanoribbons with side-arm or on-site gate voltage”, Phys. Rev. B 85, 205433 (2012).
  17. H. Tong and M. W. Wu, “Multivalley spin relaxation in n-type bulk GaAs in the presence of high electric fields”, Phys. Rev. B 85, 075203 (2012).
  18. H. Tong and M. W. Wu, “Theory of excitons in cubic III-V semiconductor GaAs, InAs and GaN quantum dots: Fine structure and spin relaxation”, Phys. Rev. B 83, 235323 (2011).