Quantum Materials //

Quantum materials encompass a large group of compounds whose properties expose the quantum character of the underlying physics. Besides its fundamental interest, research on novel quantum materials is of uppermost importance for developing quantum sensing and quantum metrology, as well as hardware for quantum computation. 

Research groups at GQC have the expertise to produce artificial materials and devices such as superconductors, topological insulators, 2D van der Waals crystals, strongly correlated oxides, 2D magnetic materials and ionic gate transistors. These novel materials with genuine quantum properties are synthetized with a variety of tools, from epitaxial deposition to single crystal growth, through mechanical exfoliation and hetero-structure stacking process. These materials are further tailored by engineering ad-hoc hetero-structures, tuning their properties with electric field in field effect devices, controlling their lattice by mechanical strain and illuminating them with pico-second laser pulses. 

Experimental facilities include electric transport experiments, spectroscopy techniques with space resolution at atomic scale (scanning tunnelling spectroscopy), mesoscopic scale (laser Angle Resolved Photoemission) and macroscopic scale (optical spectroscopy). Research on Quantum Materials at GQC benefit from the collaboration of experimental and theoretical groups performing analytical and numerical complementary studies.

Members //

Felix Baumberger

Felix Baumberger

Andrea Caviglia

Andrea Caviglia

Thierry Giamarchi

Thierry Giamarchi

Alexey Kuzmenko

Alexey Kuzmenko

Alberto Morpurgo

Alberto Morpurgo

Patrycja Paruch

Patrycja Paruch

Louk Rademaker

Louk Rademaker

Christoph Renner

Christoph Renner

Jean-Marc Triscone

Jean-Marc Triscone

Fabian von Rohr

Fabian von Rohr