The research was mainly conducted by Dr. Shen Hongchuan and co-supervised by Professor Xu Lei from CUHK and Professor Tan Peng from Fudan University; it was also supported by the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, the National Natural Science Foundation of China Grants, and Shanghai Rising Star Programme Grants. The research results have also been published in Nature Communications.

Further reading:
Shen, H., Tong, H., Tan, P., & Xu, L. (2019). A universal state and its relaxation mechanisms of long-range interacting polygons. Nature communications, 10(1), 1737. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09795-6

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