Physics Progress in U niversity of S cience and T echnology of C hina

1. Physics Progress inUniversity of Science and Technology of China

2. Report outline • Research Area • Faculty • Achievements • Research Highlights

3. Research Area Physics in USTC has four main fields of specialties:

4. Broad spectrum of research sub-areas Optics Condensed matter physics Theoretical physics Particle physics and nuclear physics Plasma physics Atomic and molecular physics Astrophysics Physical electronics Microelectronics Optical Engineering

5. Key Laboratories in Physics@USTC 4 Key Lab. CAS 2 Key Lab. Anhui Quantum information The Photo-Electro Laboratory Plasma physics The Physical Electronics Laboratory Nuclear Detector& Electronics Galaxies and Cosmology

6. Hefei national laboratory for physical sciences at the microscale • Nano-materials and Nano-chemistry • Division of Atomic and Molecular Sciences • Quantum Physics and Quantum Information • Low-dimensional Physics and Chemistry • Structure and Function of Biomacromolecule • Bio-X interdisciplinary Science • International centre for quantum design of functional materials

7. National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory

8. Faculty School of Physical Sciences have 230 members of faculty and staff, 82 professors , 65 associate professors, including 8 academicians of CAS , 2 national excellent teacher, 3 members of National Thousands Program, 5 members of Cheung Kong Scholars Programme,18 members supported by the National Foundation for Distinguished Youths, and 23 members supported by CAS Hundred Talents Programme.

9. Our APS American Physical Society (APS) of 2009 has announced the newly elected APS Fellows, and 15 from Chinese mainland, among whom 4 from USTC.  So far the total number of USTC alumni elected APS Fellow has reached 22, tied for first place with Peking University.

10. Achievements • International significant annual progress on physics • Top ten major news on basic scientific research of the National Department of Science and Technology • Top ten scientific and technological progress of Chinese Universities. • 3 second prize of The National Natural Science • 4 first prize of Anhui Natural Science • 3 second prize of Anhui Natural Science • 3 first prize of Scientific and technological progress of Higher Education Institutions in Anhui Province.

11. Top 10 progress on international physics 2004 By EPS 2004 By APS Five-photon Entanglement and Open-destination Teleportation 2006 By EPS Remote cloning based on Single-photon Quantum State 2008 By Science Iron-based superconducting materials 2008 By EPS Experimental Implementation of Quantum Repeater

12. Top 10 science progress Selected by Academicians (China)

13. Top 10 annual progress of Chinese university Selected by MOE • 2008 • Discovery and Research on the phase diagram • of Iron-based superconducting materials • 2007 • Physical implementation and Research on • Quantum Computer • 2004 • Experiment on Five-photon Entanglement and • variable-destination Teleportation • 2003 • Manipulate and Discern of Multi-photon Quantum • Entangled State • 2001 • High resolution of C60 single-molecule and novel • two dimensional domains

14. Top 10 news on basic scientific research selected by MOST&CAST • 2008 Top ten news on basic scientific research • Major progress on Iron-based • superconducting materials research • 2007 Top ten news on basic scientific research • New progress on Multi-photon Entanglement • and Quantum Computation • 2008 Top ten news on basic scientific research • Successful Implementation of stable Quantum • Key Distribution in optical fiber transmission

15. National Awards in Sci.& Tech • Second prize of The National Natural Science Award (2003) • Basic research of Quantum information technology • Second prize of The National Natural Science Award (2005) • Simultaneously characterize single-molecule Electronic States in position space and energy space • Second prize of The National Natural Science Award (2009) • Study on electrical and magnetic behavior of the transitional metal oxides (chalcogenides）

16. Research Paper Since the year 2000, USTC has published about 600 papers as first author every year, over 500 indexed by SCI/EI. Physics papers published in journals of high impact factor are in the leading position among national universities . From 2002 to 2008, 308 papers published in Phys.Rev.Lett, 79 as first author. The data for 2009 is 52/12.

17. High-level Papers

18. SCI Physics paper published by USTC(1999.1.1--- 2009.4.30； ESI)

19. 2002-2008 USTC papers contribution to PR.(Web of Sci., total , not first auther)

20. 2002-2008 USTC papers contribution to Europe Physics Magazine.(Web of Sci., total , not first auther) Rank of USTC papers in J.Phys(2002-2008) Rank of USTC papers in Phys Lett.(2002-2008)

21. Breakthrough in iron-based high temperature superconductors Research Highlights • Science Now Daily News, Nature chemistry, Search and Discovery, Asia Materials and Nature china report the results; • Top 10 Scientific Breakthroughs of the world of 2008; • Top 10 Scientific Breakthroughs of the Science Magazine of 2008 ; • Top 10 Scientific Breakthroughs of China of 2008; • Top 10 Scientific Breakthroughs of Universities of China of 2008; • Hot Papers in Physics last 2 years (Rank 2); • The Red-Hot Research papers of 2008 (Rank 5); • Physics Top 10 Papers in Science Watch (Rank 8). On 25 March, X.H. Chen reported firstly that SmO0.85F0.15FeAs goes superconducting at 43 Kelvin Nature, 2008

22. A large iron isotope effect • A large iron isotope effect observed in pnictide superconductors gives insights into the origin of high-temperature superconductivity. • The result indicates that the interplay between phonons and magnons will be the key to understanding high-temperature superconductivity. PRL 2008; Nature, PRL 2009;

23. Molecular Electronics at the level of single-molecule Controlling magnetic properties of single CoPc molecules The localized spin was recovered through single molecular chemistry, showing clear Kondo resonance near the Fermi surface. Comments: A.D. Zhao et al., Science 309, 1542 (2005) • In website of American Chemistry Society:Modulate magnetism in a single molecule by using “molecular surgery”. Manipulation of CoPc on Au (111) • Perspective in Science:Controllingspin at the single-molecule scale in these and related systems promises a new level of control in magnetic nanostructures.

24. Molecular Electronics at the level of single-molecule Functionalization of single molecules Dopping single C60 molecules Dual Functions in single modified Malemine Molecules NDR effect through orbital symmetry matching Molecular rectifier with single C59N molecule Functionalizaion of single molecules on solid surfaces by designing specific molecular structures; modification of electronic states through “doping” single molecules; and manipulation or cutting molecules at the level of single molecules. PNAS， 2009 Phys.Rev.Lett., 2005,2007

25. Nanoplasmonics and Nanophotonics How optical information is generated, switched, amplified, and detected at the nanoscale? Nanocavity plasmons are exploited as a coherent optical source with tunable energy and to actively control the radiative channels of molecules via resonant plasmon-exciton coupling. New optoelectronic effects: Hot electroluminescence Upconversion electroluminescence Dramatic spectral shaping Referees:“The findings of the authors go far beyond everything what has been published so far…” “very interesting news and important for a wide field of researchers in photonics…” Nature Photonics，2010

26. Quantum Teleportation of Composite System and Six-bit Schrödinger Cat State Realization of quantum teleportation of a two-qubit composite system for the first time. Enable future experimental investigations on novel quantum communication and computation protocols Experimental entanglement of six photons and engineering of multiqubit graph states. Could open the way to experimental tests of quantum algorithms or loss- and fault-tolerant oneway quantum computation Experimental entanglement of six photons and engineering of multiqubit graph states. Could open the way to experimental tests of quantum algorithms or loss- and fault-tolerant oneway quantum computation Experimental entanglement of six photons and engineering of multiqubit graph states. Could open the way to experimental tests of quantum algorithms or loss- and fault-tolerant oneway quantum computation • Chinese Top-ten Science and Technology Progress of 2006 • International Important Physics Progress of 2006 • Chinese Top-ten Science and Technology Progress of 2007 • Chinese Universities’ Top-ten Science and Technology Progress of 2007 Nature Physics, 2, 678 (2006) Nature Physics, 3, 91 (2007)

27. Quantum Repeater based on Quantum Storage of Cold Atoms Nature 454, 1098 (2008) • Realization of entanglement swapping with storage and retrieval of light, a building block of the quantum repeater for the first time. • Entanglement is stored in the atomic ensembles through a 300-m fiber-based communication channel and later verified by converting the atomic excitations into photons. • Intrinsically phase insensitive and establishes the essential element needed to realize quantum repeaters with stationary atomic qubits as quantum memories and flying photonic qubits as quantum messengers. • Chinese Top-ten Science and Technology Progress of 2008 • Chinese Top-ten Science and Technology News of 2008 • Best of 2008, EPS • Nature praised it for “removing a huge stumbling block in quantum communications” in the news release “Quantum Boost”

28. Quantum Telephone Network Opt. Express 17, 6540 (2009) The world’s first quantum cryptography network for telephony is able to send telephone messages between three nodes connected in a chain by two 20 km-long commercial fibre-optic cables. Editors’ Choice, Science Magazine News & Analysis, Physics World

29. Preserving electron spin coherence in solids by optimal dynamical decoupling Using a 7-pulse optimal DD sequence, we prolonged the spin coherence time to 31µs, which would otherwise be about 0.04us without control or 6.5us under one-pulse control. [J.F. Du et.al., Nature 461, 1265 (2009)]

30. Quantum Computation Experimental Study of the Validity of Quantitative Conditions in the Quantum Adiabatic Theorem[J.F. Du et.al., PRL 101, 060403 (2008)] Experimental Implementation of Quantum Adiabatic Algorithm for Factorization [X.H. Peng et.al., PRL 101, 220405 (2008)]

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