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
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.
We are pleased to announce the TRR 288 Special Seminar on 13.07.26, 16:00 at GU Frankfurt (Phys 01.114) and via Zoom.
Speaker: Andrey Chubukov (University of Minnesota), Title: "Magnon-mediated superconductivity inside a ferromagnet - application to graphene multilayers"