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Physics Undergraduate Research Showcase 2025
Congratulations to Nicholas Crombie, one of the Poster Winners. Nick is an enterprising researcher in QMC and an undergraduate student pursuing a dual degree in physics and mathematics. (read more) -
FQM Students VISIT NCNR
Students attending the 8th annual Fundamentals of Quantum Materials Winter School held the week of January 13-17, 2025 took part in a tour of the NIST Center for Neutron Research,… -
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…
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Tuning Incommensurate Charge Order in BaSrAl and BaEuAl
P Saraf, EM Clements, D Sokratov, S Saha… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2025 - arxiv.org
4 days ago - The BaAl$_4$-type structure family is home to a vast landscape of interesting and exotic properties, with descendant crystal structures hosting a variety of electronic … -
Realization of pure gyration in an on-chip superconducting microwave device
Z Tu, V Workman, G Bahl, AJ Kollár - arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.19912, 2025 - arxiv.org
12 days ago - Synthetic materials that emulate tight-binding Hamiltonians have enabled a wide range of advances in topological and non-Hermitian physics. A crucial requirement in …
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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
The 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