Academies select three-dimensional quantum Hall result among China’s top science news of 2019
Members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering voted the collaborators’ experiment into their annual selection of ten domestic science and technology stories.
On 11 January, the two academies announced their selection of China’s top ten science and technology news stories of 2019 in Beijing. One selection came from condensed matter physics. Liyuan Zhang’s group at SUSTech, Zhenhua Qiao’s group at USTC and their collaborators had found evidence of the three-dimensional quantum Hall effect in millimetre-scale ZrTe₅ crystals.
Members of both academies voted on the year’s news and issued separate Chinese and international lists. The experiment appeared on the Chinese list. The Top 10 Scientific Advances announced the following month by the High Technology Research and Development Center of the Ministry of Science and Technology was a separate selection.