Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo

Breaking a long-standing boundary in physics: Xue-Jia Yu’s team and collaborators publish two consecutive papers in Nature, revealing that topology can survive at critical points

Topological phases of matter have been found to be robust at critical points, where the energy gap closes, despite being incompatible with traditional topology. This discovery could lead to new materials with exceptional stability and unique properties.

SourceEastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo·JournalNature·TypeExperimental study·DateOct 7, 2026

AI discovers interpretable constitutive laws in solids directly from data

Researchers developed a graph-based approach to directly extract concise and accurate constitutive equations from solid material experimental data. The method outperforms mainstream empirical models in predictive accuracy while preserving explicit, physically interpretable mathematical formulations.

SourceEastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo·JournalScience Advances·TypeComputational simulation/modeling·DateSep 11, 2026