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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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December 21, 2020

People of Blusson QMI: Rafael Haenel

Rafael Haenel* was only supposed to be in Vancouver for a year. Haenel (pictured above) came to the Stewart Blusson...

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December 17, 2020

When temperature fails: A nonthermal description of electron relaxation

Pictured: MengXing Na in the Damascelli lab. Image source: grad.ubc.ca. , New work from a team of researchers at the...

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November 24, 2020

People of Blusson QMI: Alex Anees

Pictured: Alex Anees, a self-portrait. “You know, the world is your oyster,” said Alex Anees, Research Operations Facilitator (ROF) at...

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November 23, 2020

Milestone quantum computing paper celebrated in journal’s 50-year anniversary edition

Image source: It Takes Two to Entangle, Research2Reality, May 2020. To celebrate 50 years in print, the journal Physical Review A...

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November 5, 2020

UBC’s Quantum Devices group joins international collaboration to study the entropy of exotic quantum states

Pictured: Professor Joshua Folk speaks at the SBQMI retreat in 2019. Image credit: Paul Joseph/UBC. , A team of researchers...

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October 22, 2020

Quantum computing outreach paper awarded best at QCE2 in Quantum Education Track

Pictured: students participate in a quantum computing outreach program. Image source: Haris Amiri/UBC Geering Up. A team focused on outreach...

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October 21, 2020

First time achieving a monolayer ferromagnetic material Fe3GeTe2 in wafer scale

Researchers in Ke Zou’s lab have grown the first monolayer two-dimensional (2D) material that is both metallic and has an...

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October 21, 2020

Using pH to better understand CO2 conversion catalysis

Pictured: View of downtown Vancouver through haze, smog. Image source: Shutterstock. , One way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and...

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October 20, 2020

Model offers simple way to troubleshoot polymer thin-film self-assembly

Pictured: Images created by Professor Rottler to illustrate directed self-assembly. , Jörg Rottler, Professor in UBC’s Department of Physics and Astronomy, and...

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October 13, 2020

New mural merges the scientific and fantastic to tell a story about SBQMI

, ,, , , , , , Pictured, above: Artist Gina Leon stands beside the mural after installation on September...

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October 9, 2020

People of SBQMI: Bahiyyih Peters

Pictured: Bahiyyih Peters on a hike in Kananaskis Country, outside of Calgary, Alberta, this past summer.   For Bahiyyih Peters, August in...

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September 16, 2020

Outreach programs adapt and find success connecting with audiences remotely

With big changes and very little certainty about what the months ahead would look like – or what would be...

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