Call for Papers

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Solid-state materials set the ideal platform for future devices with quantum applications, such as quantum computing, quantum simulations, quantum communications, and quantum sensing. This rapidly evolving field calls for profound understanding of quantum phenomena in materials and quantitative measurements of entanglement in real time and in operando. Together with these understanding and measurements comes the engineering and design of quantum materials. This includes the design of new material structures exhibiting novel quantum phenomenon and the control of existing quantum materials for application purpose. All these quantum material applications have been driven by the synergy of experiments and theory in recent decade. Given these rapidly evolving applications, we feel obliged to organize a symposium to address the three aspects of quantum materials and how these research studies can lead to new revolutions in industry. We envision this first part of this symposium to highlight the most recent progress in novel quantum phenomenon in materials with, such as topological superconductivity, quantum spin liquidity, many-body localization, and Wigner crystallization. This symposium should also cover as it second objective the experimental techniques for quantum materials characterization and theoretical proposals about for novel quantum measurements, such as coherent spectroscopy, color-center measurements, and quantum noise. Finally, we emphasize the engineering of quantum materials in samples and devices and their potential connections to industrial applications. The goal of this symposium is to provide an interactive forum to facilitate materials scientists from all these three fields to communicate cutting-edge progress and discuss synergistic collaborations. Specific sessions will be organized regarding the scientific theme topics to benefit cross-fertilization.

Topics will include:

• Topological quantum materials; Strongly correlated quantum materials
• Photonic quantum materials; Quantum simulations based on materials
• Phonon spectroscopy for quantum measurements
• Microscopy probe for quantum entanglement
• Ultrafast quantum control; Interface control of quantum states
• Synthesis of quantum materials; Quantum sensors

• A tutorial complementing this symposium is tentatively planned.

Invited Speakers:

• Igor Aharonovich (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
• Peter Armitage (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
• Leon Balents (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
• Dmitri Basov (Columbia University, USA)
• Denitsa Baykusheva (Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Austria)
• Mona Berciu (The University of British Columbia, Canada)
• Laurent Cognet (Université de Bordeaux, France)
• Maria Daghofer (Universität Stuttgart, Germany)
• Eugene Demler (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
• Michel Devoret (Yale University, USA)
• Chunhui Du (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
• Universität Düsseldorf (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany)
• Danna Freedman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
• Kai-Mei Fu (University of Washington, USA)
• Liang Fu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
• Tony Heinz (Stanford University, USA)
• James Hone (Columbia University, USA)
• Ania Jaych (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
• Hae-Young Kee (University of Toronto, Canada)
• Junichiro Kono (Rice University, USA)
• Ju Li (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
• Charles Marcus (University of Washington, USA)
• Janina Maultzsch (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
• Matteo Mitrano (Harvard University, USA)
• Prineha Narang (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
• Titus Neupert (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
• Elke Neu-Ruffing (RPTU Kaiserslautern, Germany)
• Branislav Nikolic (University of Delaware, USA)
• Markus Oberthaler (Heidelberg University, Germany)
• Hongkun Park (Harvard University, USA)
• Friedrich Prinz (Stanford University, USA)
• Stephanie Reich (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
• Ivano Tavernelli (IBM Research-Zurich, Switzerland)
• Lieven Vandersypen (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands)
• Shuo Yang (Tsinghua University, China)
• Yi Yin (Zhejiang University, China)

Symposium Organizers