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UTe2 Swims and Quacks Like the Right Kind of Topological Duck
Two QMC teams on the hunt for an unconventional kind of superconductor have produced the most compelling evidence to date that they’ve found one. In a pair of papers published… -
Boosting Superconductivity with Field and Pressure
Magnetic field induced superconductivity is a fascinating quantum phenomenon, whose origin is yet to be fully understood. The recently discovered spin triplet superconductor, UTe2, exhibits two such superconducting phases, with… -
New Quantum Materials Facilities from UMD Instrumentation Fund
Three QMC-affiliated research teams have been awarded funds to enhance quantum materials research from the $10 million UMD Research Instrumentation Fund, created to support faculty and core facilities through significant… -
Kollár wins NSF CAREER competition
Congratulations to QMC faculty member Alicia Kollár on her NSF CAREER Award for a proposal aimed at developing a new window into the physics of particles interacting inside of materials.…
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Local Control of Supercurrent Density in Epitaxial Planar Josephson Junctions
BH Elfeky, N Lotfizadeh, WF Schiela… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
14 days ago - … Natalia Pankratova2, Hanho Lee2, Vladimir E. Manucharyan2, and Javad Shabani1† 1Department of Physics, New York University, New York, NY 10003 USA 2Department of Physics, Joint Quantum Institute, and Quantum Materials Center, University of Maryland, College … -
Probing hundreds of individual quantum defects in polycrystalline and amorphous alumina
CC Hung, L Yu, N Foroozani, S Fritz… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
22 days ago - Page 1. Probing hundreds of individual quantum defects in polycrystalline and amorphous alumina Chih-Chiao Hung,1, 2, 3 Liuqi Yu,1, 2 Neda Foroozani,1, 2 Stefan Fritz,4 Dagmar Gerthsen,4 and Kevin D. Osborn1, 2, 5 1Laboratory …
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
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