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 pleased to announce the TRR 288 Special Seminar on 13.02.25, 15:00 via zoom.
Speaker: Jingyuan Xu (KIT), Title: "Advancing Elastocaloric Cooling: From Micro-Scale to Macro-Scale Systems"
We are pleased to announce that three of our junior PIs have been awarded the following grants and appointments:
Libor Šmejkal: He is now an Independent Max Planck Research Group Leader at MPI-PKS and MPI-CPfS Dresden. Awarded an ERC Starting Grant for his project "Magnetic Counterparts of Unconventional Superconductors for Spin-Conserved and Non-Dissipative Electronics" (since November 2024).
Hilary Noad: Will serve as Junior-Heareus Visiting Professor in Condensed Matter Physics 2025, awarded by the President of GU Frankfurt honoring her pioneering contributions in the use of piezoelectric-driven devices for measuring stress-strain relations in quantum materials (December 2024).
Olena Fedchenko: Appointed to the Gisela and Wilfried Eckhardt Professorship for Experimental Physics in Solid-State Spectroscopy of Electronically Correlated Materials at GU Frankfurt (effective January 2025).