Andrew Houck seeks a quieter quantum world : Read Story “A single atom out of place could spell disaster,” said Andrew Houck, a professor of ECE and a leading expert on quantum information technology. Read Story Scientists discover exotic quantum state at room temperature : Read Story For the first time, physicists have observed novel quantum effects in a topological insulator at room temperature. Read Story Thompson wins New Horizons Prize in Physics for neutral-atom quantum computing : Read Story The Breakthrough Prize Foundation has awarded Jeff Thompson a 2023 New Horizons in Physics Prize for early-career researchers who have made a substantial impact in the field. Read Story Why ‘erasure’ could be key to practical quantum computing : Read Story A team led by Jeff Thompson, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, pioneered an approach to more efficient error correction in quantum computers. Read Story How water turns into ice — with quantum accuracy : Read Story Researchers at Princeton University combined artificial intelligence and quantum mechanics to simulate what happens at the molecular level when water freezes. Read Story 1 / 5 Start animation ▶ ︎ ︎ Quantum materials are vaguely defined as materials that don’t behave according to laws of classical physics. Examples include superconductors, complex magnets or topological materials. These materials can lead to many novel technologies, including faster computers, fault tolerant quantum computers, improved optical sensors or levitating trains. At the Princeton Materials Institute, we work to predict, synthesize, and characterize new quantum materials with new and/or improved properties. Associated Faculty Ravindra N. Bhatt Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Roberto Car Ralph W. *31 Dornte Professor in Chemistry. Professor of Chemistry and the Princeton Materials Institute. Robert J. Cava Russell Wellman Moore Professor of Chemistry Nathalie P. de Leon Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Claire F. Gmachl Eugene Higgins Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Associate Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Head of Whitman College. David B. Graves Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering F. Duncan Haldane Sherman Fairchild University Professor of Physics M. Zahid Hasan Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics Andrew A. Houck Anthony H.P. Lee '79 P11 P14 Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Inaugural Co-director, Princeton Quantum Initiative. David A. Huse Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics Alice Kunin Assistant Professor of Chemistry Stephen A. Lyon Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Associate Director, Princeton Materials Institute. Nai Phuan Ong Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics Loren N. Pfeiffer Senior Research Scholar, Electrical and Computer Engineering Herschel A. Rabitz Charles Phelps Smyth '16 *17 Professor of Chemistry Peter Schiffer Dean for Research. Vice President for Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. Class of 1909 Professor of Physics. Gregory D. Scholes William S. Tod Professor of Chemistry. Chair, Department of Chemistry. Leslie M. Schoop Professor of Chemistry. Director, Princeton Center for Complex Materials. Mansour Shayegan Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Aditya Sood Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the Princeton Materials Institute Jeffrey D. Thompson Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Sanfeng Wu Assistant Professor of Physics Lilia S. Xie Assistant Professor of Chemistry and the Princeton Materials Institute Saien Xie Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Princeton Materials Institute Nan Yao Professor of the Practice, Princeton Materials Institute. Director, Imaging and Analysis Center. Ali Yazdani James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Physics. Co-director, Princeton Quantum Initiative
