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Tailored for undergraduate researchers, this calendar is a curated list of research seminars at the University of Illinois. Explore the diverse world of research and expand your knowledge through engaging sessions designed to inspire and enlighten.

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Condensed Matter Seminar - "Discovery and Defects in Optical and Chiral Quantum Materials"

Event Type
Seminar/Symposium
Sponsor
Physics - Condensed Matter
Location
ESB 190
Date
Apr 4, 2025   1:00 pm  
Speaker
Condensed Matter Seminar - Daniel Shoemaker, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Contact
Stephen Bullwinkel
E-Mail
bullwink@illinois.edu
Phone
217-333-1652
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Physics - Condensed Matter Seminar

This talk will provide an overview of our group’s capabilities for materials discovery and crystal growth. We enjoy spanning a wide range of properties, from intermetallics to insulators. I will focus on two specific examples: First, I will discuss our work on new candidates for Eu3+-based quantum information storage in collaboration with the Goldschmidt group. These materials must be optically transparent with Eu-Eu distances large enough to achieve atom-like excitation spectra. Crystal symmetry, stability, and size are crucially important. Second, I will describe challenges and opportunities in chiral materials, with the champion being (TaSe4)2I with its dynamic charge density wave response. We reveal to be a much more disordered material than previously reported, but the chirality is surprisingly robust. Lessons from this material also inform our investigations of chiral transformations in CsCuCl3. 

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