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, in Gaithersburg, MD. This year's school was focused on Novel and Emergent Magnetism, and included a combination of fundamental materials synthesis instruction as well as lectures on experimental techniques and practices from an impressive list of invited speakers.
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 home for the program, and this summer they introduced 15 students to quantum research. (read more)
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 small number of photons was enough to change the material's optical absorption. The nonlinearity features a pronounced asymmetry between electron and hole doping, highlighting the importance of exciton-free charge interactions. This nonlinear response and mechanism open new avenues for applications in classical and quantum optoelectronics. (read more)
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 successful lineup of QMC undergraduates who have been awarded the Goldwater Scholarship -- congrats! (read more) .