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What are Quantum Materials? Appears in Frontiers in Energy Research Newsletter

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What are Quantum Materials? is a new article in the Frontiers in Energy Research Newsletter written by Elizabeth Pogue, a postdoctoral fellow in Tyrel M. McQueen’s research group.

Science Collaboration 101 as Taught by Graduate Student Researchers

Researchers with different Energy Frontier Research Centers share their tips for working together in the newest EFRC Newsletter.

Agenda for IQM Advisory Committee Meeting March 20-21, 2019

The agenda for this year’s Advisory Committee Meeting has been posted on Google Docs.

Job Opening: Condensed Matter Physics Postdoctoral Position

An outstanding postdoctoral fellow is sought to participate in coordinated research at the interface between spintronics, experimental condensed matter physics, and materials science. The successful candidate will design, synthesize, and analyze thin film structures based on topological quantum materials under the principal supervision of Prof. Satoru Nakatsuji. There will be opportunities to work both in...

Yi Li’s Work on Itinerant Ferromagnetism Featured in Quanta Magazine

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Yi Li’s group’s work (supported by IQM funding) about itinerant ferromagnetism is featured by Quanta Magazine in an article titled “A Child’s Puzzle Has Helped Unlock the Secrets of Magnetism.”

DoE Names IQM One of Six New Energy Frontier Research Centers

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The IQM is now one of six centers supported by the Department of Energy that will explore the quantum landscape to build a fundamental understanding of how quantum properties manifest themselves in materials and how they might become the basis for new, energy-related technologies.

Shu Zhang Earns Graduate Fellowship at Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics

Graduate student Shu “Suzy” Zhang has earned a graduate fellowship at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics. The purpose of the Graduate Fellowship Program is to offer a unique opportunity for a select group of physics doctoral students to spend a minimum period of 5 months at the KITP, participate in KITP research programs, and...

The Institute for Quantum Matter to Become an Energy Frontier Research Center

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The Institute for Quantum Matter is to become an Energy Frontier Research Center. IQM will focus on the realization and understanding of new states of quantum matter: (1) Quantum Spin Liquids (2) Magnetic Weyl Semi-metals (3) Monopole Superconductors (4) Axion Insulators. IQM joins a list of 42 EFRCs that were announced today. IQM was selected at a funding...

Natalia Drichko’s Lab Publishes Evidence for a New Property of Quantum Matter

A theorized but never-before detected property of quantum matter has now been spotted in the lab, a team led by Associate Research Professor Natalia Drichko reports. The study findings, published online in the journal Science, show that a particular quantum material first synthesized 20 years ago, called k-(BEDT-TTF)2Hg(SCN)2 Br, behaves like a metal but is derived from...

Wesley Fuhrman Recognized by the Schmidt Science Fellows Program for His Outstanding Research into Topological Insulators

Doctoral candidate Wesley Fuhrman has been selected as an inaugural Schmidt Science Fellow for his research into topological insulators. Endowed by Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, and his wife, philanthropist Wendy Schmidt, the fellowship program seeks to support the next generation of scientific leaders, giving them the tools and opportunities they need to...