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February 20, 2026

Quantum Co-laboratory expands its national partnership, strengthening Canada’s leadership in quantum science and technology

Canada’s leading quantum research institutions are driving a unified national effort to advance quantum innovation and talent development through the...

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April 30, 2020

SBQMI teams adapt to COVID-19’s impact on operations

Science goes on, even as the rest of the world slows to a pause and COVID-19 sees the University of...

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April 22, 2020

Spins seek order in Kitaev-type systems in one dimension

The biggest enemy of quantum computing technology is “noise,” perturbation at the atomic level that can disrupt the resilience of...

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February 3, 2020

New quantum switch turns metals into insulators

Pictured: Artist’s impression of the dissolving of the electronic “traffic jam.” The red atoms are different in their quantum nature...

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December 10, 2019

New laser technique images quantum world in a trillionth of a second

Pictured: MengXing Na and Andrea Damascelli at UBC’s Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute (SBQMI). Credit: Research2Reality , For the first time,...

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November 13, 2019

QMI researchers have successfully grown a parent compound in a “quantum sandwich”

, , A group of researchers at Stewart Blusson QMI at the University of British Columbia have successfully grown the...

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October 9, 2019

3rd Annual QMI Team Retreat

View image gallery from the 2019 QMI Retreat. , The 3rd Annual QMI Retreat took place at Loon Lake Lodge...

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September 15, 2019

Nanofabrication Initiative receives funding from WD Canada

STEWART BLUSSON QUANTUM MATTER INSTITUTE RECEIVES $2,950,000 FROM WESTERN ECONOMIC DIVERSIFICATION CANADA TO SUPPORT NANOFABRICATION INITIATIVE , Western Economic Diversification...

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September 2, 2019

Quantum Pathways 2019 Wraps Up

For many Quantum Pathways students, August 30th was their last day at QMI. Hemadri Bhotla Vasudha is a 1st year...

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August 31, 2019

Stewart Blusson QMI Welcomes Alannah Hallas

In July, QMI welcomed new faculty member Alannah Hallas from Rice University. Now an Assistant Professor in the UBC Physics...

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August 17, 2019

QMI Welcomes President Gonokami and University of Tokyo Delegates

On Saturday, August 17, Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute (QMI) hosted the cross-institutional workshop, Quantum Materials from Frequency to Time...

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August 5, 2019

First test measurements to characterize the performance of the QMSC beamline

Studies of quantum materials heavily rely on experimental techniques which in some cases can only be conducted at large scale...

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August 2, 2019

Emerging Indigenous Scholars Learn Lab Skills at QMI

This summer, Stewart Blusson QMI had the pleasure of hosting students from the Pacific Institute for Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) Emerging...

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