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Entropy engineering for future technologies

Researchers from the University of British Columbia’s Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute (Blusson QMI) have discovered a disordered material with...

Simon Godin (left) and Ke Zou (right) look at data on a computer in Zou's lab at UBC

New approach to polar surface substrates solves instability problem

A new technical paper from Ke Zou and colleagues describes an accessible approach to achieving an atomically flat and stable...

$Diagram of a double slit experiment showing light diffraction$

BC teachers get professional development course in quantum computing

High school science teachers in British Columbia (BC) have a new tool to help them teach quantum computing concepts to...

Adan Azem stands against a white background, wearing a white blazer and black top. She is wearing black-rimmed glasses.

People of Blusson QMI: Adan Azem

Adan Azem is a PhD student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia...

Andrew Potter, wearing a red button-down shirt and black glasses in front of a blackboard at UBC

New state of matter could make quantum computers less error-prone

Researchers at The University of British Columbia (UBC), Quantinuum, and the Flatiron Institute have demonstrated a new phase of matter...

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...

Nanofab Accelerator Program

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

Quantum synapses may solve the memory wall problem

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...

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...

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...

Disentangling superconductors

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

Matteo Michiardi worked with Andrea Damascelli on this spintronics discovery

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...

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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