Quantum Materials Synthesis Workshop Held at UCSB

May 19th to 21st, 2025

This workshop was organized by the Quantum Foundry at UC Santa Barbara with the goal of communicating recent developments, new research areas, and materials challenges faced by the community pursuing the synthesis of quantum materials. The workshop was an interdisciplinary forum to bring together physicists, materials scientists, chemists, and engineers in the quantum materials community. Discussion of new synthesis techniques, materials design pathways, and the role of data/AI are increasingly important as synthesis bottlenecks are major rate limiters within the field.  This workshop's third iteration looks to continue fostering a community of specialists focused on addressing this problem.

The workshop addressed strategies for the design and synthesis of new quantum materials and the role that AI can play in accelerating materials discovery. An interesting aspect of the workshop was that efforts to describe research into bulk quantum materials were interwoven with recent advances in thin films and devices aimed at quantum sensing and quantum information processing.