Nicholas Butch receives the 2020 Samuel Wesley Stratton Award

Congratulations to QMC Faculty Member Nicholas P. Butch!  

Nicholas P. Butch is the 2020 recipient of the National Institute of Science and Technology's Wesley Stratton Award "for pioneering research into the exotic physics and extremely high-field re-entrant superconductivity in uranium ditelluride." The Stratton Award is named after the first director of the National Bureau of Standards, as it was then known, recognizes an unusually significant research contribution to science or engineering that merits the acclaim of the scientific world and supports NIST’s mission objectives. It is considered to be NIST's highest award for fundamental research.
 

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. 

 

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 Td 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 Td 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.

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