ABOUT
Quantum materials is an umbrella term that describes the broad class of solids whose physical properties are strongly influenced by enhanced quantum effects, including quantum magnets, superconductors and topological electronic materials. They often have striking functional properties, such as superconductivity, spin-polarised electron transport, and a variety of enhanced cross-coupling phenomena including magnetotransport, multiferroic and magnetocaloric effects. Exploratory research that seeks to explain why quantum materials exhibit their special characteristics is important for developing new materials with desirable properties for applications ranging from energy efficiency and information technology, to electronics and spintronics. Scattering techniques play a major role in quantum materials research because they give direct and clean experimental access to the underlying response functions that characterise electronic correlations.
This Theme will bring together experimentalists and theoreticians with common interests in quantum materials to identify new opportunities in quantum materials research at the ESS and MAX IV.
Quantum Materials: Linking theory and experiments at LINXS, ESS and MAX IV: Core Group Leader, Leader of WG 3 – Topological quantum materials, LINXS Fellow
Professor, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, UK.
Andrew is a Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford, a Tutorial Fellow of Oriel College, and Associate Head of the Department of Physics. He is an experimentalist with broad interests in the fundamental properties of quantum materials, especially superconductors, magnetic materials, and topological semimetals. His group uses neutron and synchrotron x-ray scattering techniques to investigate novel electronic ground states and associated physical phenomena.