Quantum Synthesis Workshop

May 19th to 21st, 2025

This workshop is 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 will be 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.

 

May 19th Henley Hall, Room 1010

8:00 & 8:30 am

    Van Pick-up at Best Western Plus South Coast Inn, Front Entrance

9:00 - 9:10 am

    Welcome Introduction

9:10 - 9:40 am

   Hidenori Takagi: Exploration of spin-orbit coupling induced quantum phases in 4d  and 5d transition metal compounds

9:40 - 10:10 am

    Tyrel McQueen: Frontiers of Quantum Materials Synthesis: Aspirations and Realities

10:10 - 10:40 am

    Gang Cao: Search for novel states of matter via magneto-synthesis

10:40 - 11:00 am

    Break

11:00 - 11:30 am

    Ania Jayich: Synthesizing many-body quantum sensors in diamond

11:30 - 12:00 pm

    Kaveh Ahadi: Flatlands of Charge: Crafting 2D Electronics in Oxides

12:00 - 1:40 pm

    Lunch

1:40 - 2:10 pm

    Michael Manfra: Understanding Disorder Mechanisms Limiting Hybrid Superconductor-Semiconductor Device Performance

2:10 - 2:40 pm

    Susanne Stemmer: Probing novel states in thin film topological insulators

2:40 - 3:10 pm

    Nathalie de Leon: Low-loss materials for 2D transmons with lifetimes and coherence times exceeding 1 millisecond

3:10 - 3:25 pm

    Break

3:25 - 3:55 pm

    Linda Ye: Electronic nematicity in a layered antiferromagnet

3:55 - 4:55 pm

    Day 1 Panel:  Capability gaps in materials synthesis

4:55 - 6:30 pm

    Poster Session

 6:30 & 6:50 pm

Van Pick-up at Henley Hall and drop-off at Best Western Plus South Coast Inn

 

May 20th

 

Henley Hall, Room 1010

8:00 & 8:30 am

    Van Pick-up at Best Western Plus South Coast Inn, Front Entrance

9:00 - 9:30 am

    Announcements

9:30- 10:00 am

    Jason Khoury: Preferential site ordering alters the magnetic structure of Sm3Ru4Sn13-xGex

10:00 - 10:30 am

    Sang Cheong: Alter-magnetism for Experimentalists

10:30 - 11:00 am

    Joshua Goldberger: Single Crystal Materials Uniting Magnetism and Topology

11:00 - 11:20 am

    Break

11:20 - 11:50 am

    Brenden Ortiz: Frontiers in AM3X4 and AM6X6 kagome metals; development of new kagome compounds

11:50 - 2:00 pm

    Lunch

2:00 - 2:30 pm

    Julia Zaikina: Hydride Synthesis for Quantum Materials

2:30 - 3:00 pm

    Ryan Baumbach: Design Principles Strong Electronic Correlations in Intermetallics

3:00 - 3:30 pm

    Bumjoon Kim: Single Crystal Growth of Iridates Using Aerosol-Assisted Chemical Vapor Deposition

3:30 - 3:50 pm

    Break

3:50 - 4:50 pm

    Day 2 Panel:  Role of AI in materials design and synthesis

6:00 - 9:00 pm

    Workshop Banquet Dinner: Located at The Club, UCSB

9:00 & 9:20 pm

    Van Pick-up at The Club and drop-off at Best Western Plus South Coast Inn

 

  
May 21st Henley Hall, Room 1010

8:00 & 8:30 am

    Van Pick-up at Best Western Plus South Coast Inn, Front Entrance

9:00 - 09:10 am

    Announcements

9:10 - 9:40 am

    Luis Jauregui: Manipulating Topological Phases and Correlated States in HfTe₅

9:40 - 10:10 am

    Thao Tran: Quantum Magnets Synthesis and Characterization: A Dance of Joy and Sorrow

10:10 - 10:40 am

    Break

10:40 - 11:10 am

   Yoshihiko Okamoto: Orbital-Disordered Insulating State in a Flat Band Metal NbSeI

11:10 - 11:40 am

    Christopher Palmstrom: Tuning Properties of Quantum Materials through Confinement and Strain

11:40 - 1:40 pm

    Lunch

1:40 - 2:30 pm

    Van Pick-up at Henley Hall & drop off at Best Western Plus South Coast Inn