Congratulations Nick!

Congratulations to QMC's Nick Poniatowski!

Nick is the first UMD student to ever win the American Physical Society's Apker Award! Check out the full story here. 

Visiting Undergraduate Awarded Jackie Robinson Scholarship

Samantha O’Sullivan was awarded the Jackie Robinson Scholarship based on research completed this summer at QMC with Professor Johnpierre Paglione and Dr. Yun Suk Eo. Check out more on her experiance at QMC here. 

QMC Team Discovers New Topological Phase of Matter

A collaboration between QMC and the NIST Center for Neutron Research, lead by QMC graduate student I-Lin Liu, has just published results reporting the discovery of a new topological phase in the layered transition metal chalcogenide MoTe₂, a promising host of electronic Weyl nodes and topological superconductivity. MoTe₂ harbors both noncentrosymmetric T_d and centrosymmetric T’ structural phases, both of which have been identified as topologically nontrivial. However, Liu and colleagues demonstrated via quantum oscillations and neutron scattering measurements, and first-principles calculations, how applied pressure drives MoTe₂ between the T_d and T’ phases, through an intermediate mixed-phase region. The mixed-phase region gives rise to a network of topological interface states that yield quantum oscillations that survive despite the strong structural disorder, opening the possibility of stabilizing multiple topological phases coexisting with superconductivity. This work is published in npj Quantum Materials.

QMC Undergraduates Nick Poniatowski and Mark Zic named UMD Undergraduate Researchers of the Year" for 2020

Congratulations to QMC undergraduates Nick Poniatowski and Mark Zic they have been named UMD Undergraduate Researchers of the Year" for 2020 by the Maryland Center for Undergraduate Research. Poniatoswki and Zic were selected from a highly competitive group of nominees working in diverse fields throughout the university, was recognized for thier accomplishments in Physics.