Honoring his first mentor Walter J. Carr: Through all his professional growth and success, James Carr (Ph.D. ’89, Physics) has always appreciated the impact his very first mentor—his father—had on his life. And, in 2007, he found a way to pay it forward.  Working with UMD, he established the W.J. Carr Lecture Series on Superconductivity and Advanced Materials in the Department of Physics to honor the man who introduced him to physics.  The next Carr lecture will be given by Dale J. Van Harlingen, the Donald Biggar Willett Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.  Read article "Taking Satellite Technology—and Physics—to New Heights" about James Carr's career.

A "Magazine" journalist visiting several UMD facilities discusses quantum science being pursued by QMC, JQI and IonQ in an article entitled "Who will dominate the tech arms race?". See article here and PDF version here.

Two QMC teams on the hunt for an unconventional kind of superconductor have produced the most compelling evidence to date that they’ve found one. In a pair of papers published in Science and Nature Communications, the teams of Steve Anlage and Johnpierre Paglione have shown that uranium ditelluride displays many of the hallmarks of a topological superconductor—a material that may unlock new ways to build quantum computers and other futuristic devices. See news story by Dina Genkina.

Three QMC-affiliated research teams have been awarded funds to enhance quantum materials research from the $10 million UMD Research Instrumentation Fund, created to support faculty and core facilities through significant investments to replace or upgrade research equipment. Awards include support for a Advanced Thin-Film Deposition Suite (J. Paglione, physics), Single-Crystal X-Ray Instrumentation (E. Rodriguez, chemistry), and an Aberration Corrected Transmission Electron Microscope (L. Salamanca-Riba, materials science). Congratulations!! See more details here.