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.

Magnetic field induced superconductivity is a fascinating quantum phenomenon, whose origin is yet to be fully understood. The recently discovered spin triplet superconductor, UTe2, exhibits two such superconducting phases, with the second one reentering in the magnetic field of 45 T and persisting up to 65 T. More surprisingly, in order to induce this superconducting phase, the magnetic field has to be applied in a special angle range, not along any high symmetry crystalline direction. The teams of QMC faculty Nick Butch and Johnpierre Paglione have investigated the evolution of this exotic superconducting phase under pressure, shedding more light on the mechanism of reentrant superconductivity This work has been posted on arXiv.

Congratulations to QMC faculty member Alicia Kollár on her NSF CAREER Award for a proposal aimed at developing a new window into the physics of particles interacting inside of materials. Way to go Alicia!   https://jqi.umd.edu/news/kollar-receives-national-science-foundation-career-award

QMC Engineer Doug Bensen has been awarded the Dean's Outstanding Employee Award for his dedication and effort to assist all manner of technical challenges in our center and other parts of the physics department. Congrats Doug - well deserved!! You can read an excellent story about Doug here.