Maryland Quantum Materials Center

W. J. Carr Lecture Series: Carlo Beenaker

This year's Carr Lecturer is Prof. Carlo Beenaker, professor of theoretical physics at Leiden University and leader of the university's mesoscopic physics group, established in 1992. Professor Beenakker is one of the absolute top international experts on mesoscopic physics. He has an exceptionally long list of scientific analyses, inventions and discoveries to his name, including mesoscopy in superconducting metal structures, quantization of conductivity, edge channels and contributions to random matrix theory. He also made a substantial contribution to establishing the basic concepts of single-electron tunnelling, Coulomb Blockade and noise in mesoscopic systems, and to transport theory of the Quantum Hall effect.

The schedule for Prof. Beenaker's seminars includes the Tuesday Physics Department Colloquium (4pm), a Wednesday CMTC seminar (11am) and the Thursday CNAM Condensed Matter Colloquium (2pm) -- information can be found here.

Manucharyan Receives NSF-Career Award

Assistant Professor Vladimir Manucharyan has received a prestigious five-year National Science Foundation CAREER Award for his proposal entitled “Realizing the ultrastrong coupling regime of quantum electrodynamics using high-impedance Josephson superconducting circuits”. Prof. Manucharyan is also among the four University of Maryland faculty members that have been awarded 2015 Sloan Research Fellowships. This award, granted by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, identifies 126 early-career scientists based on their potential to contribute fundamentally significant research to a wider academic community.

JQI Fellow and Assistant Professor of physics Vladimir Manucharyan has received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award. His proposal, entitled “Realizing the ultrastrong coupling regime of quantum electrodynamics using high-impedance Josephson superconducting circuits,” will receive five years of funding. NSF funds research in science and engineering through grants, contracts and cooperative agreements.

For more information on NSF Awards visit: http://www.nsf.gov/about/

- See more at: http://jqi.umd.edu/news/vladimir-manucharyan-receives-career-award#sthash.7sUiVpos.dpuf

For more information on NSF Awards visit: http://www.nsf.gov/about/

- See more at: http://jqi.umd.edu/news/vladimir-manucharyan-receives-career-award#sthash.7sUiVpos.dpuf

For more information on NSF Awards visit: http://www.nsf.gov/about/

- See more at: http://jqi.umd.edu/news/vladimir-manucharyan-receives-career-award#sthash.7sUiVpos.dpuf

APS PhD Dissertation Award in Condensed Matter Physics

The American Physical Society has initiated a new PhD dissertation award to honor the best thesis in experimental condensed matter physics. Called the Richard L. Greene award in Experimental Condensed Matter or Materials Physics, it was initiated by Richard Greene, Emeritus Director of CNAM (formerly Center for Superconductivity Research).

The prize will be awarded every year, with 2015 being the inaugural year. See the APS Physics link for details.

Team Finds New Order in Exotic Superconductors

Richard Greene and collaborators at the University of British Columbia have discovered charge ordering in the electron-doped cuprates. Their findings, now published in Science, suggest that charge order may be a universal feature of high-temperature superconductors.

Read more in the UMD Press Release and CMNS News & Events.