Projects of the Max-Planck-UBC Centre for Quantum Materials

Based on the idea that significant synergies can be created by widely sharing ideas and expertise as well as access to materials and experimental infrastructure between the partner institutions, the Center provides a platform for interdisciplinary exchange and cooperation in a broad area of research. This page provides a list of current collaborative projects within the Centre.
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Metal-oxide interfaces and heterostructures

• Oxide materials for neuromorphic electronic devices
• Environmental effects in nanoscale polymer films

• Control of collective quantum phenomena in metal-oxide superlattices
• Atomistic free energy functionals for modeling dynamics and thermodynamics in multicomponent alloys

Cuprates and Ruthenates

• Unveiling the role of charge-order in the phase-diagram of cuprates via uniaxial strain
• Interplay between spin-triplet superconductivity and ferromagnetism

Spin liquides and strong spin-orbit coupling

• Exotic phenomena in Dirac and Weyl semimetals
• J_eff = 0 Mott state and excitonic magnetism in 5d⁴ and 4d⁴ systems
• Multipolar ordering, SU(4) spin-orbital liquid and multipolar metals

• From the spin-orbital entangled J_eff = 1/2 state to a Kitaev quantum spin liquid
• Influence of spin-orbit coupling on the magnetic properties of substituted Ir-oxides
• Metallic quantum spin liquids in frustrated and low dimensional magnets

Topological phenomena in solids

• Strongly interacting topological phases of quantum matter
• Theory of Topological Quantum Matter
• Topological phases and quantum dynamics in many-body systems
• Electronic and Optical Properties of Topological Electride Materials

Electronic properties of graphene-adatom systems

• Next-Generation Graphene
• Studying electron-phonon coupling in Kekule and Charge Density Wave phases in graphene

Dynamical Control and Nano-optics of Electron Systems

• Non-equilibrium Dynamics in Quantum Materials : Theory meets experiments
• Optics and dynamics of quantum materials on the nanoscale
• Optical coherent control of topological insulators and dichalcogenides
• Nonlinear quantum optics with single quantum emitters in integrated nanophotonic circuits
• Probing coherence of many-body states