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

• 2026-04-04 We revealed a form of temporal self-similarity in percolation process, and further established quantitative relations between the dynamic scaling exponents and the conventional static critical exponents, which enable the determination of critical behavior without prior knowledge of the critical point. For details, refer to Frontiers of Physics.

• 2026-03-24 By employing the Conformal Loop Ensemble (CLE), we solve the iterative bicolored percolation model proposed in our prior work [Phys.Rev.Res.] for both the O(n) loop and the Fuzzy Potts models. For details, refer to Physical Review E.

• 2026-03-14 Our new paper on the Backbone three-point correlation function in the two-dimensional Potts model has been selected as Editors’ Suggestion in Physical Review E.

• 2025-11-21 We have found that the paths of depth-first search exhibit nontrivial fractal scaling across statistical physics models and all studied dimensions. Even for full lattices, the path is still fractal in two dimensions. Please see Physical Review E for details.

• 2025-10-20 Congratulations to Xuewei Zhao on winning the 2025 National Scholarship for Graduate Students!

• 2025-09-15 Welcome Qi Wang to join our Lab as a master student.

• 2025-08-26 ​​Congratulations to Xuewei Zhao on the online publication of her first paper regarding percolation on scale-free networks!​​ Please see Chaos Soliton & Fractals for details.

• 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 2024 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!