• Rick Greene Awarded 2026 Kamerlingh Onnes Prize

    Our founding Director, Rick Greene, has been honored with the 2026 Heike Kamerlingh Onnes Prize for his outstanding achievements in the realm of superconductivity. See News Article and Prize web
  • New Cook in the QMC Kitchen

    New Assistant Professor Frank Zhao is setting up his new lab in QMC to fabricate new materials, study their properties and investigate how they might be incorporated into new technologies.
  • NSF Award Launches High Entropy Quantum Materials Program

    The QMC research team including Paglione, Takeuchi and Rodriguez has been awarded a highly competitive grant from the National Science Foundation’s Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF)
  • "Halo" Superconductivity Mapped

    The "resurrection" of superconductivity in uranium ditelluride at extremely high magnetic fields, initially identified by researchers at the University of Maryland Quantum Materials Center and the National Institute of Standards
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Upcoming Events

5 Mar
QMC COLLOQUIUM - Alex Gray - Temple University
Date 03.05.2026 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
9 Mar
PHYS838C Seminar: Han Cai
03.09.2026 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
12 Mar
QMC COLLOQUIUM - Chris Richardson, LPS
03.12.2026 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
16 Mar
Spring Break
03.16.2026
19 Mar

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