On February 9, Prof. Zeng Huabi from YZU Center of Gravitation and Cosmology published a paper “Universal breakdown of Kibble-Zurek scaling in fast quenches across a phase transition” in the prestigious international physics journal Physical Review Letters. As a significant innovation achievement, this paper discovered the universal laws in the critical phenomena of phase transition dynamics away from equilibrium state in fast quenches. These universal laws are verified in numerical simulations of structural phase transitions of the one-dimensional ion chains, phase transition processes of the Ising model, and two-dimensional superfluid phase transitions, and can also be observed in future experiments.

In 2021, the Center comprehensively introduced China’s gravitational wave detection program in space in the renowned journal Nature Astronomy. Then in 2022, the Center published its latest achievements in black hole physics though the paper “Critical Phenomena in Dynamical Scalarization of Charged Black Holes” in Physical Review Letters. Following these above, the paper published on February 9, 2023 was another high-level work of the Center.

In the past five years since the establishment of YZU Center of Gravitation and Cosmology, high-level research results have been emerging. The Center has contributed to the leapfrog development of the physics discipline of Yangzhou University, driving our physics discipline from a national ranking of 89 in 2017 to 61 in 2020.