The "Frontiers in Correlated Quantum Materials" workshop is convened to capture a unique moment of convergence in exotic materials, bringing together the communities driving experimental discovery with those pioneering computational methods. Key Scientific Themes: AI and Inverse Design in Quantum Matter: How can machine learning go beyond accelerating simulations to actually identifying order parameters in...
Irfan Siddiqi received his AB (1997) in chemistry & physics from Harvard University. He then went on to receive a PhD (2002) in applied physics from Yale University, where he stayed as a postdoctoral researcher until 2005. Irfan joined the faculty at the physics department at the University of California, Berkeley in the summer of 2006. He is also a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and a Faculty Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Irfan served as Department Chair from 2023-2026.
His research group focuses on the development of advanced...
Seven UC Berkeley faculty members have been named 2026 Sloan Research Fellows, an honor widely regarded as one of the most prestigious awards for early-career researchers in the United States and Canada.
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced this year’s 126 fellows, recognizing exceptional young...
Yuan Cao is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Physics. He obtained bachelor's degree at University of Science and Technology of China in 2014, and master's degree and Ph.D. at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2016 and 2020 respectively. From 2021 to 2024, he served as a Junior Fellow at Harvard University, before joining Berkeley as faculty in 2024.
His primary research interest is in the electrical, optical, and mechanical properties of low-dimensional materials, and how to engineer these properties and find applications for them...
The Joe Orenstein Group has published their findings on antiferromagnetic spin wavepackets in Nature Physics.
The spin of the electron is Nature’s perfect quantum bit, capable of extending the range of information storage beyond “one” or “zero.” Consequently, exploiting the electron...
From top left: Scanning tunneling microscope images of electrons evolving into a single Wigner molecule (bottom right). Credit: Berkeley Lab
Electrons typically travel at high speeds, zipping through matter unbound. In the 1930s, physicist Eugene Wigner predicted that electrons could be coaxed into stillness at low densities and cold temperatures, forming an electron ice that would later be...
STM image of a chiral interface state wavefunction (bright stripe) in a QAH insulator made from twisted monolayer-bilayer graphene in a 2D device. Credit: Canxun Zhang/Berkeley Lab
An international research team led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has taken the first atomic-resolution images and demonstrated...
Dan M. Stamper-Kurn came to Berkeley following his studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D. 2000) and postdoctoral work at the California Institute of Technology (1999 – 2001). He is the recipient of the 2000 APS Division of Atomic, Optical and Molecular Physics Outstanding Thesis award, the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship (2001 – 2003), the David and Lucile Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering (2002 – 2007), and the Presidential Young Investigator Award in Science and Engineering (2002). He holds the Class of 1936 Second Chair in the College of Letters and Sciences...
