Recent advances in the field of quantum materials have demonstrated the fundamental importance of symmetry breaking and topological classification. Notable examples include the strongly correlated cuprates and nickelates with unidirectional orders that break the rotational symmetry, as well as the zoo of topological systems with novel boundary states that are protected by time reversal and inversion symmetries. Understanding and controlling symmetry, therefore, provide a powerful means towards rational design and realization of material properties. Over the last few years, there has been increasing excitement over transient, hidden, and metastable phases induced using external stimuli. The creation of these novel phases fundamentally involves the breaking or conservation of symmetry. This symposium will present recent progress in the prediction, modeling, detection, and control of out-of-equilibrium quantum phenomena, and highlight the role of symmetry as the guiding principle. Key focus areas include new material properties induced using optical, electric, and magnetic stimuli and new synthesis and fabrication paradigms enabled through non-equilibrium methods. The symposium will also harness the capabilities of emerging research tools, e.g. exascale modeling, artificial intelligence, ultrafast optics and X-ray free electron lasers, and advanced synthesis capabilities. The proposed symposium will drive the field forward by creating synergy across diverse and sometimes disparate communities, to realize new materials and new properties towards future quantum technologies.

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