• Quantum Diversity Initiative a Grand Success

    Kasra Sardashti Brings Summer Program to UMD to Promote Diversity in Quantum Research. The facilities and researchers at the LPS Qubit Collaboratory and Quantum Materials Center (QMC) created a new
  • The Green Future of Telecom

    Researchers in QMC, in collaboration with researchers from Brookhaven National Lab, Max Plank Institute, and JQI, demonstrated a strong nonlinear optical response in atomically thin semiconducting WSe₂. They showed that a
  • Gold in the water

    Congratulations to Yash Anand for winning a 2024 Goldwater Scholarship! Yash is an undergraduate student in the Gemstone program in the Honors College and is actively involved in quantum materials research at QMC. Yash joins a
  • 2024 Carr Lecture by Jochen Mannart

    This year's W. J. Carr Lecture Series on Superconductivity and Advanced Materials will be presented by Prof. Jochen Mannhart from the Max Planck Institute of Solid State Research in Stuttgart,
  • 1

Upcoming Events

7 Nov
QMC Colloquium: Aaron Sternbach, UMD
Date 11.07.2024 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
11 Nov
PHYS838C Seminar: Hyunheung Cho
11.11.2024 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
21 Nov
QMC Colloquium: Greg Boebinger, NHMFL
11.21.2024 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Contact Info

QMC is an interdisciplinary research center located in the Department of Physics
at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Director: Johnpierre Paglione

Phone: 301.405.8285
Fax: 301.405.3779
Email: qmc@umd.edu

A Message from the Director

JP coverThe Maryland Quantum Materials Center supports cutting-edge experimental research in Physics, Chemistry, Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Maryland. Including a diverse range of faculty, research scientists, graduate and undergraduate students, QMC researchers are working on topics ranging from the search for new quantum materials to the design of new electronic devices that work on new physical principles.

The research done today in QMC will have an impact on the technological challenges of tomorrow, from high-speed computing to energy generation, storage, and transfer. QMC provides an exciting, collaborative environment for undergraduate and graduate students and postdoctoral researchers to receive excellent training for careers in science and technology. Please take a look at the rest of this website to find out more about our exciting center!

--Johnpierre Paglione, Director