Recently, Prof Hua-Bi Zeng from our school brought us an exciting news that Yang Wei-Can, one of his student, had made it to have his scientific research paper titled Fractional and integer vortex dynamics in strongly coupled two-component Bose-Einstein condensates from AdS/CFT correspondence published in Physical Review D, one of the top-notch journals by APS. Yang lead-authored this paper with Prof Zeng as the only corresponding author.

       What surprised most of us is more than this paper. It is the work done by an undergraduate student in our school. From the beginning of his second year in our school, Yang had been entranced by Prof Zeng’s fruitful achievements in theoretic physics and he was determined to join Prof Zeng’s group despite the boring formula and puzzling principles he had to wade through. From then on, Yang first spent about one year doing preparation work of his future research such as reading papers and trying to learn how to use some computing skills. Over this tough process, Prof Zeng kept helping him by discussing problems with him and showing the way out when he got lost. One year painstaking efforts had laid solid foundation in Yang’s research and he eventually found his way in the research. In his third year of his undergraduate program in our school, Yang had narrowed his research scope and focused on the fractional and integer vortex dynamics in strongly coupled BEC and just before his graduation he successfully submitted a paper of this point to Physical Review D, one journal that is regarded as the authoritative one in theoretical physics. And in August, it was formally published online. Yang also got the scholarship from Osaka City University under the supervision by Makoto Tsubota, a leading scientist in the quantum fluid mechanics field in Japan.

        Recently, our school has been stepping up efforts in boosting the innovative capability of undergraduates from various aspects. At the very beginning of the students’ four-year undergraduate career, they are guided to orient their individual academic interest and in line with their interest, a faculty member in our school is arranged to be in charge of their academic development in an attempt to tap into their research potential. On the other hand, our school invites scholars from home and abroad to make presentations for our students to help broaden their horizons on cutting edge technology and the state-of-art of physical research. With such efforts building up, our undergraduate students have been more and more eye-catching by their outstanding research outcome. One impressing progress is that in the consecutive two years, our undergraduate students can publish first-class papers each year.

    The paper can be retrieved by:

Wei-Can Yang, Chuan-Yin Xia, Muneto Nitta, and Hua-Bi Zeng, Fractional and integer vortex dynamics in strongly coupled two-component Bose-Einstein condensates from AdS/CFT correspondence, PHYSICAL REVIEW D 102, 046012 (2020)