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Jun Liu, Yunhuan Nie, Hua Tong, and Ning Xu*, “Realizing negative Poisson’s ratio in spring networks with close-packed lattice geometries”, Phys. Rev. Mater. 3, 055607 (2019).

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Lijin Wang, Ning Xu*, W. H. Wang, and Pengfei Guan∗, “Revealing the link betweenstructural relaxation and dynamic heterogeneity in glass-forming liquids”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 125502 (2018).

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Mengjie Zu, Peng Tan, and Ning Xu*, “Forming quasicrystals by monodisperse soft-core particles”, Nat. Commun. 8, 2089 (2017).

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Ning Xu*, Andrea J. Liu, and Sidney R. Nagel, “Instabilities of jammed packings of frictionless spheres under load”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 215502 (2017).

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Mengjie Zu, Jun Liu, Hua Tong, and Ning Xu*, “Density affects the nature of the hexatic-liquid transition in two-dimensional melting of soft-core systems”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 085702 (2016).

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Xipeng Wang, Wen Zheng, Lijin Wang, and Ning Xu*, “Disordered solids without well-defined transverse phonons: The nature of hard-sphere glasses”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 035502 (2015).

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Hao Liu, Xiaoyi Xie, and Ning Xu*, “Finite size analysis of zero-temperature jamming transition under applied shear stress by minimizing a thermodynamic-like potential”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 145502 (2014).

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Lijin Wang and Ning Xu*, “Probing the glass transition from structural and vibrational properties of zero-temperature glasses”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 055701 (2014).

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Peng Tan, Ning Xu, and Lei Xu*, “Visualizing kinetic pathways of homogeneousnucleation in colloidal crystallization”, Nature Phys. 10, 73 (2014).

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Lijin Wang and Ning Xu*, “Critical scaling in thermal systems near thezero-temperature jamming transition”, Soft Matter  9, 2475 (2013).

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Lijin Wang, Yiheng Duan, and Ning Xu*, “Non-monotonic pressure dependence of the dynamics of soft glass-formers athigh compressions”, Soft Matter 8, 11831 (2012).

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Peng Tan, Ning Xu, Andrew B. Schofield, and Lei Xu*, “Understanding the low-frequency quasilocalized modes in disordered colloidal systems”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 095501 (2012).

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Ning Xu*, Daan Frenkel, and Andrea J. Liu, “Direct determination of the size of basins of attraction of jammed solids”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 245502 (2011).

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Cang Zhao, Kaiwen Tian, and Ning Xu*, “New jamming scenario: From marginal jamming to deep jamming”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 125503 (2011).

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N. Xu, V. Vitelli, A. J. Liu, and S. R. Nagel, “Anharmonic and quasi-localized vibrations in jammed solids—Modes for mechanical failure”, Europhys. Lett. 90, 56001 (2010).

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Ning Xu*, Thomas K. Haxton, Andrea J. Liu, and Sidney R. Nagel,“Equivalence of glass transition and colloidal glass transition in the hard-sphere limit”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 245701 (2009).

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Zexin Zhang#*, Ning Xu#*, Daniel T. N. Chen, Peter Yunker, Ahmed M. Alsayed, Kevin B. Aptowicz, Piotr Habdas, Andrea J. Liu, Sidney R. Nagel, and Arjun G. Yodh, “Thermal vestige of the zero-temperature jamming transition”, Nature 459, 230 (2009).

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Ning Xu*, Vincenzo Vitelli, Matthieu Wyart, Andrea J. Liu, and Sidney R. Nagel, “Energy transport in jammed sphere packings”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 038001 (2009).

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Ning Xu*, Matthieu Wyart, Andrea J. Liu, and Sidney R. Nagel, “Excess vibrational modes and the boson peak in model glasses”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 175502 (2007).