华南师范大学物理学于2017年入选国家“双一流”建设学科，粒子物理与原子核物理是学校“双一流”建设规划的重点发展方向。学校原校长王恩科教授为负责人的物理学科教师团队入选第三批“全国高校黄大年式教师团队”。
量子物质研究院成立于2018年7月，由王恩科教授担任创院院长。研究院早期建设主要布局在粒子物理与原子核物理学科的5个研究方向：重离子碰撞物理、粒子物理唯象学、核子结构、高能物理实验和格点场论。研究院还逐渐拓展新的交叉研究领域，如与量子计算和机器学习的交叉研究，现已形成多方向协同发展的良好势头。
研究院现有长聘教师13人，青年英才和博士后15人，其中包括国家杰出青年基金获得者2人、长江学者特聘教授1人，国家四青人才4人，长聘教师中国家级人才约占50%。研究院现有科研人员均具有海外工作或学习经历，40岁以下科研人员占比高达86%，是一支朝气蓬勃的国际化研究团队。
研究院基于交叉学科融合模式，着力开展有组织的科研，建设成效显著。与我校物理学院联合建设科研平台，2019年获批“广东省核物质科学与技术重点实验室”，2020年获批我校首个粤港澳联合实验室—“粤港量子物质联合实验室 ”，2023年获批“原子亚原子结构与量子调控教育部重点实验室”，同年获批“广东省高等学校物质结构与相互作用基础研究卓越中心”。华南师范大学与中国科学院近代物理研究所联合成立南方核科学计算中心，目前已完成一期建设，算力达到2.3PFlops，为国内核物理领域提供优质的计算资源。
研究院深度参与国际合作交流，已成为欧洲核子中心大型强子对撞机上的LHCb和CMS国际实验合作组、北京正负电子对撞机上的BESIII国际实验合作组、美国相对论重离子对撞机上的STAR国际实验合作组的正式成员。
量子物质研究院的发展将助推华南师大物理学一流学科建设和广东省高水平大学建设，满足广东省及粤港澳大湾区对于物理学科基础研究的需求，为广东省创新驱动战略和经济社会转型提供有力的支撑。
The physics discipline of South China Normal University was recognized as a national "Double First-Class" discipline in 2017, with particle physics and nuclear physics being the key development direction in the university's "Double First-Class" construction plan. Professor Wang Enke, the president of the university, leads the team of physics faculty, which was selected as the third batch of "Huang Danian-style teacher teams" among national universities.
The Institute of Quantum Matter was established in July 2018, with Professor Wang Enke serving as the inaugural director. The institute primarily focuses on five research directions within the fields of particle physics and nuclear physics: heavy-ion collision physics, phenomenology in particle physics, nuclear structure, high-energy physics experiments, and lattice field theory. The institute has also gradually expanded into new interdisciplinary research areas, such as cross-disciplinary studies with quantum computing and machine learning, forming a promising momentum of coordinated development in multiple directions.
Adopting a model of interdisciplinary integration, the institute has focused on organized scientific research, achieving significant results. Collaborating with the School of Physics, the institute co-built research platforms, leading to the approval of the "Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Nuclear Science" in 2019. It also gained approval for the university's first Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Joint Laboratory—the "Guangdong-Hong Kong Joint Laboratory on Quantum Matter" in 2020. Furthermore, it was granted the "Key Laboratory of Atomic and Subatomic Structure and Quantum Control (MOE)" by the Ministry of Education and the "Guangdong Basic Research Center of Excellence for Structure and Fundamental Interactions of Matter" in 2023. South China Normal University, in collaboration with the Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, established the Southern Nuclear Science Computing Center, which has completed its first phase of construction with a computing power of 2.3 PFlops, providing high-quality computing resources for the domestic nuclear physics field.
The institute is deeply involved in international cooperation and has officially become a member of the LHCb and CMS Collaborations at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, the BESIII Collaborations at the Beijing Positron Electron Collider, and the STAR Collaboration at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider in the United States.
The development of the Institute of Quantum Matter will contribute to the construction of first-class discipline in physics at South China Normal University and the development of high-level university in Guangdong Province. It aims to meet the demand for basic research in physics from Guangdong Province and Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, providing strong support for the innovation-driven strategy and economic and social transformation of Guangdong Province.
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