Six early-career professors win NSF development awards
Karan Mehta, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering in Cornell Engineering, is one of six Cornell researchers who recently received National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Awards. Mehta’s award supports his group’s investigations of ion-light interaction in tailored spatial field profiles, in which fine spatial variations of the field profile can potentially enhance basic operations relevant for quantum computation and atomic clocks.
Four early-career faculty win 2024 Sloan Research awards
Four Cornell professors, including quantum scientists Chao-Ming Jian and Karan Mehta, have won 2024 Sloan Research Fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Jian and his research group study highly entangled quantum matter and exotic quantum criticalities. Mehta and his lab work at the intersection of photonics, atomic physics, and quantum technologies.
Semiconductor defects could boost quantum technology
Researchers went searching for a quantum spin in the popular semiconductor gallium nitride and found it, surprisingly, in two distinct species of defect.
Physicists detect elusive ‘Bragg glass’ phase with machine learning tool
The discovery settles a long-standing question of whether this almost–but not quite–ordered state of Bragg glass can exist in real materials.
Engineers win Air Force awards to study networks, spintronics
A novel way to analyze complex network contagion and a new material to improve quantum computers, among other devices, is what two Cornell Engineering faculty members will be working toward, respectively, as recipients of 2024 Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Research Program grants.
‘Flawed’ material resolves superconductor conundrum
Researchers developed a more controlled way of making nickelates, a material that could potentially help pinpoint the key qualities that enable high-temperature superconductivity.
Molecular properties are only weakly correlated, study finds
An international team of researchers, including chemist Robert DiStasio of Cornell, has introduced a novel concept, “freedom of design,” that has important implications in the fields of rational molecular design and computational drug discovery.
Nobel Prize winner to talk about science education research
Nobel Prize-winning physicist Carl Wieman will visit campus Sept. 25-29 as an A.D. White Professor-at-Large, working with students and faculty and offering a public talk about his work in science education.
Powerful X-ray laser ushers in a new era of science
The newly upgraded Linac Coherent Light Source X-ray free-electron laser at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has produced its first X-rays, and researchers are ready to kick off an ambitious science program.
Promising quantum state found during error correction research
Cornell researchers unexpectedly discovered the presence of “quantum spin-glass” while conducting research designed to learn more about quantum algorithms and, relatedly, new strategies for error correction in quantum computing.
Comparing ‘sister’ compounds may hold key to quantum puzzle
In two new papers, an international collaboration of researchers including Cornell physicists explain, on the microscopic level, why “Planckian” scattering of electrons occurs in some materials but not in others.
Current takes a surprising path in quantum material
Cornell researchers used magnetic imaging to obtain the first direct visualization of how electrons flow in quantum anomalous Hall insulators, and by doing so they discovered the transport current moves through the interior of the material.
Breakthrough identifies new state of topological quantum matter
Cornell scientists have revealed a new phase of matter in candidate topological superconductors that could have significant consequences for condensed matter physics and for the field of quantum computing and spintronics.
Cornell, Google first to detect key to quantum computing future
Eun-Ah Kim, professor of physics, and Google researchers report the first demonstration of two-dimensional particles, called non-Abelian anyons, that are the key ingredient for realizing topological quantum computing, a promising method of introducing fault resistance to quantum computing.
Semiconductor lattice marries electrons and magnetic moments
A model system created by stacking a pair of monolayer semiconductors is giving physicists a simpler way to study confounding quantum behavior.
Benjamin Malia to improve quantum sensors as Intelligence Community Fellow
Benjamin Malia will advance the precision of quantum sensors as one of the newest Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Research Fellows. The 2022 fellowships, granted by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, support unclassified basic research in areas of interest to the intelligence community.
Harnessing machine learning to analyze quantum material
A collaboration led by Eun-Ah Kim, professor in the College of Art and Sciences, employed machine learning to analyze a massive dataset from a quantum metal to settle a debate about this material.
Radical Collaboration initiative adds AI, quantum, design tech
Artificial Intelligence, Design + Technology and Quantum Science and Technology will become part of “Radical Collaboration Drives Discovery,” bringing to 10 the number of initiatives in the provost office’s five-year-old program.
$10M gift boosts quantum science at Cornell
A $10 million gift from an alumni donor will grow the roster of faculty, students and equipment needed to study the mysterious behavior of matter at atomic and subatomic scales, strengthening the university’s position as a leader in quantum science and technology.
Hans Bethe Lecture to illuminate black hole paradox
In the Fall 2021 Hans Bethe Lecture, physicist Andrew Strominger will describe the compelling progress made towards understanding black holes as well as future prospects for our understanding of black holes. The lecture will take place Oct. 27.
Weak coupling shows flaw in strange metal model
Cornell researchers found that an experimental model used to explain the inner workings of Planckian metals doesn’t capture what’s really happening inside them.
X-rays, energy tech, wireless charging earn research awards
Powerful X-rays, energy tech, wireless electric-vehicle charging, and swarming robots are among the projects that earned faculty 2021 Cornell Engineering Research Excellence Awards.
Tying quantum computing to AI prompts a smarter power grid
Fumbling to find flashlights during blackouts soon may be a memory, as quantum computing and AI may quickly solve an electric grid’s hiccups so fast, humans may not notice.
Researchers receive $5.4M to advance quantum science
Cornell researchers and their collaborators will continue to advance quantum science and technology thanks to $5.4 million in new funding from the U.S. Department of Energy to support two projects.
Engineers show new control of phonons using laser pulses
Cornell engineers used laser pulses to control changeable properties in a quantum material, pioneering a method that may have wide applications across a class of materials with immense technological interest.
Elusive particle may point to undiscovered physics
Cornell researchers played a key role in an international collaboration that measured the magnetic field of the elusive subatomic particle known as the muon. Their findings provide strong evidence of an undiscovered type of fundamental physics.
Researchers create ‘beautiful marriage’ of quantum enemies
Cornell scientists from the College of Engineering have identified nitrides as new contenders when it comes to quantum materials for computing and low-temperature electronics.