Welcome to Ming Li’s Group!

Our group explores the fascinating world of Statistical Physics and Complex Systems, with a focus on phase transitions, critical phenomena, and complex networks. Leveraging tools from statistical physics, and computer simulations, we investigate the organizational mechanisms and critical phenomena that govern a wide range of systems. Through this work, we aim to uncover the universal principles underlying natural and social complex systems, bridging theoretical insights with real-world applications.

For more details about our research, visit the Research section.

News

• 2025-04-05 Our new paper on epidemic dynamics just hit the presses at Physical Review E.

• 2025-03-28 Our first paper of 2025 is out! We studied the universality at the pseudocritical point, see Chinese Physics B 34, 040501 (2025).

• 2024-10-01 Congratulations to Liwenying Yang on winning the National Scholarship for Graduate Students!

• 2024-09-20 We systematically studied explosive percolation in finite dimensions, and the paper has been pulished in Physical Review Research.

• 2024-09-20 We proposed a new percolation model, called iterative percolation, which has rich and interesting critical behaviors. The main findings can be found in Physical Review Research.

• 2024-07-17 Congratulation! Liwenying Yang’s first paper on explosive percolation has just been published in Physical Review E.

• 2024-05-29 We propose an algorithm for identifying important nodes of complex networks based on percolation process, see Advances in Complex Systems for details.

• 2023-09-07 Welcome Xuewei Zhao to join our Lab as a master student.

• 2023-07-01 We proposed a model of cascading failures on random hypergraphs, see Chaos, Solitons & Fractals for details.

• 2023-04-05 Our lastest work on Explosive Percolation was published in Physical Review Letters. News

• 2022-11-04 “SRRS: A blockchain fast propagation protocol based on non-Markovian process” was published online, see Computer Networks for details.

• 2022-10-08 The paper “Effect of coupling structure on traffic-driven epidemic spreading in interconnected networks” was published online, see Physica A for details.

• 2022-08-26 Welcome Liwenying Yang to join our Lab as a master student.

• 2022-08-26 The paper “Optimizing protection resource allocation for traffic-driven epidemic spreading” was published online, see Publications for details.

• 2022-08-11 A new paper on Blockchain has been published (SRRS: A Blockchain Fast Propagation Protocol Based on non-Markovian Process), see Publications for details.

• 2022-01-15 A review paper on the percolation of multilayer networks has been published on Journal of University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (in Chinese), see Publications for details.

• 2022-01-01 Ming Li’s Lab has been launched in Hefei University of Technology!