Research on Spin Dynamics Published in Nature Physics and Featured in News & Views

In recent years, Tiangang Zhou, Pengfei Zhang, Hui Zhai, and collaborators have carried out a series of theoretical studies on universal effects in the far-from-equilibrium dynamics of random spin models. Recently, in collaboration with the experimental team led by Prof. Xinhua Peng and Academician Jiangfeng Du at the University of Science and Technology of China, they combined theory and experiment in a solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance system to reveal universal dynamical phenomena and the underlying mechanisms in the quench dynamics of random spin models. The paper was recently published online in Nature Physics.
Nature Physics also published an accompanying News & Views article by Prof. Chandrasekhar Ramanathan of Dartmouth College. The commentary noted that several different theoretical approaches give consistent analyses, indicating that the observed dynamics are governed by the same simple physical process—closely analogous to the emergence of universal phenomena in low-energy physics near quantum critical points.