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• Education
• Position
• Research Interests
• Selected Publications
• Address/Telephone no./E-mail

Education

1. PhD, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Yale University, 2005
2. PhD, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2000
3. BS, Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, 1995

Position

1. 2009-now, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
2. 2006-2009, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, the United States
3. 2006-2009, Postdoctoral Fellow, James-Franck Institute, University of Chicago, the United States

Research Interests

1. Jamming
2. Granular materials and granular flow
3. Glasses and glass transition
4. Foams
5. Colloids
6. Non-equilibrium statistical mechanics

Selected Publications

1. Z. Zeravcic, N. Xu, A. J. Liu, S. R. Nagel, and W. van Saarloos
   "Excitation of ellipsoid packings near jamming", Europhysics Letters, in press (2009).
   
   
2. Z. Zhang, N. Xu, D. T. N. Chen, P. Yunker, A. M. Alsayed, K. B. Aptowicz, P. Habdas, A. J. Liu, S. R. Nagel, and A. G. Yodh
   "Thermal vestige of the zero-temperature jamming transition", Nature 459, 230 (2009).
   
   
3. M. Lundberg, K. Krishan, N. Xu, C. S. O・Hern, and M. Dennin
   "Comparison of low amplitude oscillatory shear in experimental and computational studies of model foams", Physical Review 79, 041405 (2009).
   
   
4. N. Xu, V. Vitelli, M. Wyart, A. J. Liu, and S. R. Nagel
   "Energy transport in jammed sphere packings", Physical Review Letters 102, 038001 (2009).
   
   
5. M. Lundberg, K. Krishan, N. Xu, C. S. O・Hern, and M. Dennin
   "Reversible plastic events in amorphous materials", Physical Review E 77, 041505 (2008).
   
   
6. N. Xu, M. Wyart, A. J. Liu, and S. R. Nagel
   "Excess vibrational modes and the boson peak in model glasses", Physical Review Letters 98, 175502 (2007).
   
   
7. N. Xu and C. S. O・Hern
   "Measurements of the yield stress in frictionless granular systems", Physical Review E 73, 061303 (2006).
   
   
8. N. Xu, C. S. O・Hern, and L. Kondic
   "Stabilization of nonlinear velocity profiles in athermal systems undergoing planar shear flow", Physical Review E 72, 041504 (2005).
   
   
9. N. Xu, J. Blawzdziewicz, and C. S. O・Hern
   "Random close packing revisited: Ways to pack frictionless disks", Physical Review E 71, 061306 (2005).
   
   
10. N. Xu and C. S. O・Hern
    "Effective temperature in athermal systems sheared at fixed normal load", Physical Review Letters 94, 055701 (2005).
    
    
11. N. Xu, C. S. O・Hern, and L. Kondic
    "Velocity profiles in repulsive athermal systems under shear", Physical Review Letters 94, 016001 (2005).
    
    
12. N. Xu, R. E. Apfel, A. Khong, X. Hu, and L. Wang
    "Water vapor diffusion effects on gas dynamics in a sonoluminescing bubble", Physical Review E 68, 016309 (2003).
    
    
13. N. Xu, L. Wang, and X. Hu
    "Bremsstrahlung of nitrogen and noble gases in single-bubble sonoluminescence", Physical Review E 61, 2611 (2000).
    
    
14. N. Xu, L. Wang, and X. Hu
    "Extreme electrostatic phenomena in a single sonoluminescing bubble", Physical Review Letters 83, 2441 (1999).
    
    
15. N. Xu, L. Wang, and X. Hu
    "Numerical study of electronic impact and radiation in sonoluminescence", Physical Review E 57, 1615 (1998).
    
    

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	Phone: (852) 2696 1122 Fax: (852) 2603 5204
E-mail: nxu@phy.cuhk.edu.hk