The ELASTO-Q-MAT initiative, embodied by this CRC/TRR 288, has the goal to understand, advance, and exploit new physical phenomena emerging from a particularly strong coupling between a material's elasticity and its electronic quantum phases. To this end, we will study the effects of elastic tuning and elastic response of various types of electronic order in representative classes of quantum materials that share a high sensitivity to intrinsic strain or externally applied stress fields.
News & Announcements
The next ECR summer school for PhD candidates, senior master students and junior postdocs will take place from 23.03. - 25.03.2027 in Bochum. Registration is open now until 02.11.2026.
We are delighted to congratulate Libor Šmejkal, Jairo Sinova, and Tomas Jungwirth on receiving the 2026 EPS Europhysics Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Condensed Matter Physics. The prize recognizes their discovery of altermagnetism, a third elementary magnetic class combining ferromagnetic-like and antiferromagnetic-like characteristics. Read the EPS announcement.