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Publications (32)

physics.soc-ph2025

Defining the urban "local" with low dimensional manifolds of human mobility networks

Hezhishi Jiang, Liyan Xu, Tianshu Li +7

Urban science has largely relied on universal models, rendering the heterogeneous and locally specific nature of cities effectively invisible. Here we introduce a topological frame…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021

JAMIP: an artificial-intelligence aided data-driven infrastructure for computational materials informatics

Xin-Gang Zhao, Kun zhou, Bangyu Xing +13

Materials informatics has emerged as a promisingly new paradigm for accelerating materials discovery and design. It exploits the intelligent power of machine learning methods in ma…

cs.LG2026

LoopMoE: Unifying Iterative Computation with Mixture-of-Experts for Language Modeling

Wenkai Chen, Tianshu Li, Wenyong Huang +3

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) and looped architectures scale models along two orthogonal axes, namely parameter capacity and effective depth. However, mainstream looped architectures re…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Atomic short-range order control of GeSn as a new degree of freedom for band engineering

Shang Liu, Yunfan Liang, Nirosh M. Eldose +18

Chemical short-range order (SRO) refers to preference or avoidance between neighboring atomic species, which significantly impacts the properties of advanced alloys. However, quant…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Accurate, transferable, and verifiable machine-learned interatomic potentials for layered materials

Johnathan D. Georgaras, Akash Ramdas, Chung Hsuan Shan +4

Twisted layered van-der-Waals materials often exhibit unique electronic and optical properties absent in their non-twisted counterparts. Unfortunately, predicting such properties i…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020

Spin-Induced Linear Polarization of Excitonic Emission in Antiferromagnetic van der Waals Crystals

Xingzhi Wang, Jun Cao, Zhengguang Lu +8

Antiferromagnets display enormous potential in spintronics owing to its intrinsic nature, including terahertz resonance, multilevel states, and absence of stray fields. Combining w…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Accelerated Screening of Ternary Chalcogenides for High-Performance Optoelectronic Materials

Chen Shen, Tianshu Li, Yixuan Zhang +7

Chalcogenides, which refer to chalcogen anions, have attracted considerable attention in multiple fields of applications, such as optoelectronics, thermoelectrics, transparent cont…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Metastability and Ostwald Step Rule in the Crystallisation of Diamond and Graphite from Molten Carbon

Davide Donadio, Margaret L. Berrens, Wanyu Zhao +2

The crystallisation of carbon from the melt under extreme conditions is highly relevant to earth and planetary science, materials manufacturing, and nuclear fusion research. The th…

physics.comp-ph2024

Combining Hyperbolic Quadrature Method of Moments and Discrete-Velocity-Direction Models for Solving BGK-type Equations

Tianshu Li, Yihong Chen, Qian Huang

This paper introduces the discrete-velocity-direction model (DVDM) in conjunction with the hyperbolic quadrature method of moments (HyQMOM) to develop a multidimensional spatial-te…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022

Spin-state Directed Synthesis of >20 micrometers 2D Layered Transition Metal Hydroxides via Edge-on Condensation

Lu Ping, Gillian E. Minarik, Hongze Gao +4

Layered transition metal hydroxides (LTMHs) with transition metal centers sandwiched between layers of coordinating hydroxide anions have attracted considerable interest for their…

eess.SP2024

Two-Timescale Transmission Design for Wireless Communication Systems Aided by Active RIS

Zhangjie Peng, Tianshu Li, Cunhua Pan +2

This paper considers an active reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided communication system, where an M-antenna base station (BS) transmits data symbols to a single-antenna…

eess.SP2021

RIS-Aided D2D Communications Relying on Statistical CSI with Imperfect Hardware

Zhangjie Peng, Tianshu Li, Cunhua Pan +2

In this letter, we investigate a reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS)-aided device to device (D2D) communication system over Rician fading channels with imperfect hardware inc…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Shining light on short-range atomic ordering in semiconductors alloys

Anis Attiaoui, Shunda Chen, Joseph C. Woicik +7

The functional properties of semiconductors are typically controlled by tailoring their chemical composition and their state of strain, and by controlling their long-range structur…

physics.soc-ph2024

Geographic Space as Manifolds

Hezhishi Jiang, Liyan Xu, Tianshu Li +5

The communications and interrelations between different locations on the Earth's surface have far-reaching implications for both social and natural systems. Effective spatial analy…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017

Cu-In Halide Perovskite solar absorbers

Xin-Gang Zhao, Dongwen Yang, Yuanhui Sun +4

The long-term chemical instability and the presence of toxic Pb in otherwise stellar solar absorber APbX have hindered their large-scale commercialization. Previously explore…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018

Intrinsic defect properties in halide double perovskites for optoelectronic applications

Tianshu Li, Xingang Zhao, Dongwen Yang +2

Lead-free halide double perovskites with the formula of quaternary AB'B'X have recently attracted intense interest as alternatives to lead-halide-perovskite-base…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019

Realization of 2D Crystalline Metal Nitrides via Selective Atomic Substitution

Jun Cao, Tianshu Li, Hongze Gao +5

Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal nitrides (TMNs) are new members in the 2D materials family with a wide range of applications. Particularly, highly crystalline and large area…

cs.CL2025

Pangu Ultra MoE: How to Train Your Big MoE on Ascend NPUs

Yehui Tang, Yichun Yin, Yaoyuan Wang +71

Sparse large language models (LLMs) with Mixture of Experts (MoE) and close to a trillion parameters are dominating the realm of most capable language models. However, the massive…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Mo Atom Rearrangement Drives Layer-Dependent Reactivity in Two-Dimensional MoS2

Zifan Wang, Jiaxuan Wen, Tina Mihm +8

Two-dimensional (2D) materials offer a valuable platform for manipulating and studying chemical reactions at atomic level, owing to the ease of controlling their microscopic struct…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Semiconductor-compatible topological digital alloys

Yunfan Liang, Damien West, Shunda Chen +3

Recently, GeSn alloys have attracted much interest for direct-gap infrared photonics and as potential topological materials which are compatible with the semiconductor industry. Ho…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016

Microscopic Mechanism and Kinetics of Ice Formation at Complex Interfaces: Zooming in on Kaolinite

Gabriele C. Sosso, Tianshu Li, Davide Donadio +2

Most ice in nature forms thanks to impurities which boost the exceedingly low nucleation rate of pure supercooled water. However, the microscopic details of ice nucleation on these…

physics.med-ph2025

Phase-based stimulated emission depletion (pSTED) magnetic particle imaging

Guang Jia, Zhongwei Bian, Tianshu Li +11

Magnetic particle imaging (MPI) is an in vivo method to detect magnetic nanoparticles for cell tracking, vascular imaging, and molecular target imaging without ionizing radiation.…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Local Alloy Order in a Ge1-xSnx/Ge Epitaxial Layer

Agnieszka Anna Corley-Wiciak, Shunda Chen, Omar Concepción +6

The local ordering of atoms in alloys directly has a strong impact on their electronic and optical properties. This is particularly relevant in nonrandom alloys, especially if they…

physics.med-ph2024

Stimulated Emission Depletion (STED) Magnetic Particle Imaging

Guang Jia, Zhongwei Bian, Tianshu Li +7

Magnetic particle imaging (MPI) is an in-vivo imaging method to detect magnetic nanoparticles for blood vessel imaging and molecular target imaging. Compared with conventional mole…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022

Inorganic Crystal Structure Prototype Database based on Unsupervised Learning of Local Atomic Environments

Shulin Luo, Bangyu Xing, Muhammad Faizan +9

Recognition of structure prototypes from tremendous known inorganic crystal structures has been an important subject beneficial for material science research and new materials desi…

eess.SP2021

Analysis and Optimization for RIS-Aided Multi-Pair Communications Relying on Statistical CSI

Zhangjie Peng, Tianshu Li, Cunhua Pan +3

In this paper, we investigate a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) aided multi-pair communication system, in which multi-pair users exchange information via an RIS. We derive…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022

Coexistence of two types of short-range order in SiGeSn medium-entropy alloys

Xiaochen Jin, Shunda Chen, Tianshu Li

Short-range chemical order (SRO) has been recently demonstrated to play a decisive role in modulating a wide range of physical properties in medium-entropy alloy (MEA) and high-ent…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020

Short-range order in GeSn alloy

Boxiao Cao, Shunda Chen, Xiaochen Jin +2

Group IV alloys have been long viewed as homogeneous random solid solutions since they were first perceived as Si-compatible, direct-band-gap semiconductors 30 years ago. Such a pe…

physics.chem-ph2015

Ice Nucleation on Carbon Surface Supports the Classical Theory for Heterogeneous Nucleation

Raffaela Cabriolu, Tianshu Li

The prevalence of heterogeneous nucleation in nature was explained qualitatively by the classical theory for heterogeneous nucleation established over more than 60 years ago, but t…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020

New Polymorphs of Two-Dimensional Indium Selenide with Enhanced Electronic Properties

Yuanhui Sun, Yawen Li, Tianshu Li +3

The two-dimensional (2D) semiconductor indium selenide (InSe) has attracted significant interest due its unique electronic band structure, high electron mobility and wide tunabilit…

physics.chem-ph2015

Heterogeneous ice nucleation controlled by the coupling of surface crystallinity and surface hydrophilicity

Yuanfei Bi, Raffaela Cabriolu, Tianshu Li

The microscopic mechanisms controlling heterogeneous ice nucleation are complex and remain poorly understood. Although good ice nucleators are generally believed to match ice latti…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Anisotropic Short-Range Order Modulates Ferroelectric Switching in Wurtzite ScAlN Alloys

Shunda Chen, Xianchao Dong, Xiaochen Jin +1

Ferroelectric switching in wurtzite alloys is typically understood in terms of composition, strain, defects, and interfaces, while local chemical order is often neglected or treate…