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December 9, 2025

Marcel Franz Appointed Scientific Director of UBC Blusson QMI

The University of British Columbia’s Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute (UBC Blusson QMI) announced today the appointment of Professor Marcel...

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July 11, 2022

People of Blusson QMI: Xiruo Yan

“I still remember when I was starting out with my PhD and Jeff (Young) asked me ‘what do you want...

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A wafer created in the Advanced Nanofabrication Facility at UBC as part of the Nanofab accelerator program.
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July 7, 2022

Nanofab Accelerator Program

We are pleased to announce that the Advanced Nanofabrication Facility (ANF) at the Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute has officially...

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Quantum synapses may solve the memory wall problem
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June 27, 2022

Quantum synapses could solve the memory wall problem in computers’ random-access memory

Researchers in Ke Zou’s lab at the Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute (Blusson QMI) are using quantum materials with intentionally...

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June 23, 2022

Blusson QMI PIs receive NSERC RTIs, Discovery Grants

New funding for research projects at the Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute was announced by the Government of Canada and...

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June 22, 2022

Seemingly at odds, with Marcus Prasad

Marcus Prasad thinks of his time with Ars Scientia as a kind of mini-residency with colleague James Day as the...

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Ryan Day studies superconductors
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June 22, 2022

Disentangling superconductors

Ryan Day studies superconductors: materials that conduct electricity perfectly, losing no energy to heat and resistance. Day, now a Banting-Berkeley...

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Matteo Michiardi worked with Andrea Damascelli on this spintronics discovery
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June 2, 2022

A new light on spintronics

Most electronic devices exploit the electric charge of the electrons in a material to store and manipulate information. However, electrons...

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May 26, 2022

New material shows promise as programmable semiconductor

New research from Ziliang Ye’s laboratory at the Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute, published today in the journal Nature Photonics,...

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May 24, 2022

Kids learn quantum computing at summer camp

This summer, kids will learn quantum computing principles and solve problems using a real quantum computer at summer camps in...

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Fabio Boschini at the Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute
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May 20, 2022

Free-electron laser study reveals how charge order and superconductivity are dynamically intertwined at nanoscale

A large-scale North American research collaboration has uncovered, for the first time, how charge order and superconductivity cohabit at nanoscale...

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LIGO Coating Tester capstone team
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May 6, 2022

Undergraduate researchers tackle quantum problems in Honours, Capstone projects

Undergraduate students make valuable contributions to research at the Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute (Blusson QMI) through programs such as...

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Technicians in the cleanroom at QMI.
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April 22, 2022

Cleanroom sensors detect eruption 10,000 kilometers away

A volcano erupted in Tonga in January and the atmospheric disturbance was detected by pressure sensors in the cleanroom at...

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