Condensed matter physics at ZhejiangUniversity is a discipline authorized by the Academic Degree Commission of the State Council to confer doctorates and master's degrees. It also provides postdoctoral positions for qualified young scientists. In 2007, it was approved by the Ministry of Education as a national key discipline.
At present, there are 29 faculty members in this discipline, including 18 professors, 1 member of the ChineseAcademy of Sciences, and 3 distinguished professors of Chang Jiang Scholar Program. The discipline's main research fields include: unconventional superconductivity and strongly correlated electron systems, surface and interface physics, thin film physics, nano materials and nano science, soft matters and granular materials, condensed matter theory, as well as other related interdisciplinary fields. The Institute of Condensed Matter Physics has set up (1) material growth equipments under multiple conditions, such as impulse laser deposition device, magnetron sputter deposition device, chemical vapor deposition, optical floating zone single crystal melting furnace, high-temperature and high-pressure sintering furnace and vacuum electric arc furnace; (2) sample characterization instruments, including X-ray powder diffraction and angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ADES-400, VG, UK), scanning tunneling electron microscope (OMICRON company, Germany); (3) ultra low temperature measurement systems, including MPMS-5 (SQUID) and PPMS measurement systems, He-3 refrigerator and Janis 4K refrigerator produced by Quantum Design. Every year, more than 30 graduates are trained. In recent years, this discipline has won 1 Award of National Excellent Doctoral Dissertations. Currently, over 30 research programs have been undertaken, including the ones from the National Natural Science Foundation, 973 Program and 863 Program, Key Science Programs of Quantum Manipulation, and innovation team of the Ministry of Education. In recent years, great research progress has been made in the fields such as unconventional superconductivity; more than 300 academic papers have been published on internationally authoritative publications such as Nature and Phys. Rev. Lett.; several research findings have been reported by domestic and international media and introduced by News & Views of the journal of Nature and C&EN of the website of the American Chemical Society.
