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Physics Undergraduate Research Showcase 2025
Congratulations to Nicholas Crombie, one of the Poster Winners. Nick is an enterprising researcher in QMC and an undergraduate student pursuing a dual degree in physics and mathematics. (read more) -
FQM Students VISIT NCNR
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,… -
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…
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Giant nematic response of the incommensurate charge density wave in the nickel-pnictide BaSrNiAs
T Johnson, S Lee, C Bernal-Choban, X Guo… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2025 - arxiv.org
8 days ago - Electron nematicity-the breaking of rotational symmetry while preserving translational symmetry-is the quantum analogue of classical nematic liquid crystals. First predicted … -
Dissecting coupled orders in a terahertz-driven electron-doped cuprate
L Feng, H Zhang, T Priessnitz, J Cao, T Sarkar… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2025 - arxiv.org
9 days ago - The interplay between superconductivity and charge density wave has often been studied from an equilibrium point of view. For example, using static tuning knobs such as …
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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