• 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,
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  • Generalized geometric speed limits for quantum observables
    J Bringewatt, Z Steffen, MA Ritter, A Ehrenberg… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
    34 days ago - Leveraging quantum information geometry, we derive generalized quantum speed limits on the rate of change of the expectation values of observables. These bounds …
  • Large‐Area Photomodification of Nanotopography for Controlling Cell Behavior
    MH Abdelrahman, N Liaros, MJ Hourwitz… - Advanced Materials …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
    37 days ago - Nanotopographic surfaces are a powerful tool for studying and controlling cell behavior. However, the fabrication of nanotopographic master patterns using conventional …

Upcoming Events

10 Oct
QMC Colloquium, Bing Cheng, Stonybrook
Date 10.10.2024 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
14 Oct
PHYS838C Seminar: Danila Sokratov
10.14.2024 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
17 Oct
QMC Colloquium: Shenqiang Ren, UMD
10.17.2024 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
21 Oct
PHYS838C Seminar: Thomas Wong
10.21.2024 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
24 Oct
QMC Colloquium: Kai Liu, Georgetown
10.24.2024 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