Hai-jun Zhou

Adanced Graduate Lectures on Renormalization Group by Prof. Jean Zinn-Justin (31.10--08.11, 2017). lecture-1, lecture-2, 3, lecture-4, lecture-5, lecture-6, lecture-7.

School and International Workshop on "Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics and Active Matter Systems" (2016)!

We work on statistical physics and its interdisciplinary applications. Currently we are interested in the following topics: (1) spin glasses, optimization and satisfiability; message-passing procedures, computational complexity; (2) game processes, strategies interaction and evolution; (3) neural network dynamics, learning and decision-making.

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Some draft chapters (in Chinese) for a small book entitled "Spin Glass and Message Passing" can be downloaded from here. The book has been published and can be bought online (e.g., DangDang).

• Feng Pan, Hai-Jun Zhou, Pan Zhang, Neural-network based general method for statistical mechanics on sparse systems (2019) [arXiv:1906.10935]

• Hai-Jun Zhou, Kinked entropy and discontinuous microcanonical spontaneous symmetry breaking, PRL 122, 160601 (2019).
• Zhijian Wang, Bin Xu, Hai-Jun Zhou, Social cycling and conditional responses in the Rock-Paper-Scissors game, Scientific Reports 4, 5830 (2014).
  [For related media news about this research, see: MIT Technology Review;  BBC News; Psychology Today; Phys.Org; International Science Times; Guo-Ke Web; China News; AMS news]
• Hai-Jun Zhou, Spin glass approach to the feedback vertex set problem, European Phyical Journal B 86, 455 (2013).
• Jing-Qing Xiao and Hai-Jun Zhou, Partition function loop series for a general graphical model: free energy corrections and message-passing equations, J. Phys. A 44, 425001 (2011).
• Hai-Jun Zhou, Long range frustration in a spin-glass model of the vertex cover problem, PRL 94, 217203 (2005); Erratum, PRL 109,199901 (2012).
• Hai-Jun Zhou, Distance, dissimilarity index, and network community structure, PRE 67, 061901 (2003). [fortran code for computing dissimilarity index RWdistanceV2.f and c++ code for generating the community structure dendrogram NetWalkV2.cpp]
• Hai-Jun Zhou, Zhong-Can Ou-Yang, Can pulling cause right- to left-handed structural transitions in negatively supercoiled DNA double-helix?, Modern Physics Letters B 13, 999-1003 (1999). [We predicted that a negative torque beyond certain force-dependent critical value will make the DNA double-helix transit from right-handed into left-handed. Some years later this transition phenomenon later observed in several experimental groups.]
• Hai-Jun Zhou, Yang Zhang, Zhong-Can Ou-Yang, Bending and base-stacking interactions in double-stranded DNA, PRL 82, 4560-4563 (1999).

Currently I serve as an Editor for three more traditional journals: JSTAT (Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment), EPJB (European Physical Journal B), and CTP (Communications in Theoretical Physics). I also serve as an Editorial Board member for Elsevier's open-acess journal Heliyon and Nature Publishing Group's open-access journal Scientific Reports.

Currently I serve as an invited external member of the China Computer Federation Big Data Expert Committee.

Summer School and Workshop on "Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics and Active Matter Systems" (August 08--20, 2016)