Embedded Files
February 2025
We participated in the QuanTimeNM event at Explora in Albuquerque on Febryary 8, 2025 link
December 2024
2024 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit on December 1-6, 2024 in Boston, MA.
2024 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit on December 1-6, 2024 in Boston, MA.
QT05.09.07
Floquet Effects and Relaxation of Hot Electrons in Graphene Under Continuous-Wave Mid-infrared Irradiation
Yijing Liu, Christopher Yang, Gabriel Gaertner, John Huckabee, Alexey Suslov, Luis E.F. Foa Torres, Gil Refael, Frederik Nathan, Cyprian Lewandowski, Iliya Esin, Paola Barbara, Nikolai Kalugin link
November 2024
Faculty senate of New Mexico Tech approved the creation of Minor in Quantum Materials
The future addition to the NMT catalog:
MTLS 2020, Materials I (3)
MTLS 2035, Materials 2 (3)
MTLS 4010 Materials Characterization (3)
MTLS 4099 Intro to Quantum Materials (3)
MTLS 4052 Solid State Physics for Engineers (3)
3 credits from either MTLS 4075 Intro to Nano Materials, or MTLS 4043 Magnetic Materials, or MTLS 4047 Optical Materials, or a course approved by the Quantum Materials Minor Advisor. 18 credit hours total
October 2024
Quantum Materials education program news:
Several classes were designed or modified to be focused on Quantum Materials, including:
-the new class “Designing quantum-teaching classes and laboratory works” for high school teachers- NMT students of Master of Science for Teachers (MST) program. This class was taught for the first time in Summer 2024 semester, as a Directed Study class with in-person laboratory component.
- the Fall 2024 “Introduction to Quantum Materials” senior level graduate/undergraduate class.
-the Quantum Materials-modified “Solid State Physics for Engineers” 400-level class is planned to be taught by Dr.Kalugin in the Spring 2025 semester.
In early June of 2024, the department of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering voted for establishment of the Minor in Quantum Materials, which will provide the opportunity of learning about quantum materials to non-Materials Majors (for students from Physics, Chemistry, Electrical Engineering, Chemical Engineering and other programs outside of the Materials Engineering Department of New Mexico Tech)
One MST student -high school teacher took new summer MST quantum-focused course STCH 5081 and participated in the QuDrive summer camp.
September 2024
Senator Heinrich speaks on the future of Quantum
August 2024
Taylor Terrones started his MS work in the group
July 2024
CNM a Designated Lead for Training Quantum Technicians. link
New Mexico awarded coveted quantum tech hub designation – Tens of millions of federal dollars coming to New Mexico
New Mexico Governor Lujan Grisham: “Quantum information is exactly the kind of industry we want to build and expand in New Mexico, and I thank our partners in Colorado, sector leaders in New Mexico, and the entire Elevate Quantum team for this historic announcement making the Mountain West the only quantum tech hub in the country. Once again, EDA has demonstrated their immense value as a partner for New Mexico and the region.” link
New Mexico Governor Lujan Grisham: “Quantum information is exactly the kind of industry we want to build and expand in New Mexico, and I thank our partners in Colorado, sector leaders in New Mexico, and the entire Elevate Quantum team for this historic announcement making the Mountain West the only quantum tech hub in the country. Once again, EDA has demonstrated their immense value as a partner for New Mexico and the region.” link
QuDrive quantum summer camp
The summer research camp QuDrive (the name reflects the research focus on strongly optically driven systems) has been created and run for the first time during July 7-12, 2024. It was conducted by Prof. Kalugin and Prof. Barbara, the student participation was: two NMT students , one GU graduate student, one CNM student, one MST student. The activities included safety training, demonstration and training (for MST student) to perform Meissner effect experiment with a high-Tc superconductor, a quantum transport tutorial (HE, QHE) with related cryogenic measurements, a tutorial on the optical properties of quantum materials (including phonons and excitons in 2D materials using MoS2 as an example), and the optical and magnetotransport experiments. Profs. Kalugin and Barbara performed Hall/quantum Hall, Raman scattering and Photoluminescence experiments demonstrating all the steps, with hands-on participation from the students. Students from CNM and NMT’s MST program received stipends.
March 2024
2024 APS March Meeting
Y. Liu, G.Gaertner, T.Terrones, A. Suslov, L.E.Foa Torres, P.Barbara, N.Kalugin, B10.00009 : Light-induced Floquet effects in graphene under continuous-wave mid-infrared irradiation. https://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/MAR24/Session/B10.9
November 2023
2023 MRS Fall Meeting
Y. Liu, G.Gaertner, J.Huckabee, A. Suslov, L.E.Foa Torres, P.Barbara, N.Kalugin Light-Induced Floquet Effects in Graphene under Continuous-Wave Mid-Infrared Irradiation. https://www.mrs.org › 2023_mrs_fall_meeting-3954729
August 2023
We received an NSF ExpandQISE award!. link
March 2023
2023 APS March Meeting
Y. Liu, G.Gaertner, J.Huckabee, A. Suslov, L.E.Foa Torres, P.Barbara, N.Kalugin, A32.00007 : Experimental study of strong light-matter interaction in graphene Hall bar devices
https://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/MAR23/Session/A32.7
November 2022
Gabriel Gaertner successfully defended his Master of Science thesis "“Delivering Circularly Polarized Mid-Infrared Light to Liquid Helium Temperatures and High Magnetic Fields for Generation of Floquet-Bloch States in 2D Materials”
July 2022
NSF MRI award: New Instrument Allows Researchers To See Inside Minerals, https://nmt.edu/news/2022/raman-lab.php
August 2021
Georgetown University, Department of Physics news: Prof. Barbara and her colleague at New Mexico Tech, Prof. Nikolai Kalugin, awarded a three-year NSF collaborative grant
Prof. Barbara and her colleague at New Mexico Tech, Prof. Nikolai Kalugin, were recently awarded a three-year NSF collaborative grant for a project titled Floquet-Bloch topological states in quantum Hall systems. Recent theories predict that light can act as a switch to induce new quantum electronic states in some atomically thin materials. These new states are named topological states and they yield robust, dissipationless currents along the perimeter of the two-dimensional material. This project will involve collaborations with the University of Chile-Santiago (Prof. Luis Foa Torres) and the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, FL (Dr. Alexey Suslov) to study the generation of these edge states by driving two-dimensional materials away from equilibrium, thereby inducing topological states “on demand”. link
Page updated
Report abuse