November 30 - December 5, 2025
Boston, Massachusetts
2025 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit
Symposium MQ04-Emerging Materials for Quantum Information Technologies
The quest for next-generation quantum devices has driven the interest in developing new materials with the potential to significantly improve the performance of quantum information technologies. Beyond the well-explored materials systems, recent advancements have demonstrated the potential of a wide range of emerging materials, such as topological insulators, superconductors, color centers, and two-dimensional materials, to be used in applications, including quantum computing, communication, and sensing.
This symposium will focus on the recent advancements and future prospects of new materials in quantum device applications. The symposium seeks to cover a wide range of materials-related challenges in quantum technologies, which include, but are not limited to:
1. Superconducting Qubits: Investigation of integrating new superconducting and dielectric materials platforms, such as tantalum and hBN, into qubit architectures, aiming to improve coherence times, qubit connectivity, and device scalability. Studies of materials quality, surface structures, and their effects on qubit properties.
2. Quantum-Dot Qubits and Quantum Emitters in Semiconductors: Development and manipulation of quantum dots and single-photon emitters in materials such as silicon carbide (SiC), ZnS, ZnSe, and hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) as well as gate-defined quantum dot, which are essential for realizing robust and scalable quantum memory, communication, and sensing applications. For quantum emitters in 2D, a joint session would be organized with the symposium "Strain and Defect Engineering in 2D Materials".
3. Topological Systems: Examination of topological insulators, semimetals, and superconductors, including 2D and 3D materials, and their potential for realizing fault-tolerant quantum computing.
4. Quantum Simulation: Exploration of new platforms, such as moiré superlattices in 2D heterostructures, for simulating quantum many-body physics, Investigation of coherent quantum states, such as exciton Bose-Einstein condensates, and their role in advancing our understanding of quantum coherence and superfluidity in low-dimensional systems.
The symposium will provide a platform for materials researchers, physicists, and engineers from various disciplines to share their latest findings, methodologies, and theoretical insights, bringing together researchers from academia, industry, and government. It will showcase cutting-edge research and technological breakthroughs in the synthesis, characterization, and application of new materials in quantum devices. It seeks to help the communities identify challenges, such as scalability, reproducibility, and integration of new materials into existing quantum device architectures.
This symposium will focus on the recent advancements and future prospects of new materials in quantum device applications. The symposium seeks to cover a wide range of materials-related challenges in quantum technologies, which include, but are not limited to:
1. Superconducting Qubits: Investigation of integrating new superconducting and dielectric materials platforms, such as tantalum and hBN, into qubit architectures, aiming to improve coherence times, qubit connectivity, and device scalability. Studies of materials quality, surface structures, and their effects on qubit properties.
2. Quantum-Dot Qubits and Quantum Emitters in Semiconductors: Development and manipulation of quantum dots and single-photon emitters in materials such as silicon carbide (SiC), ZnS, ZnSe, and hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) as well as gate-defined quantum dot, which are essential for realizing robust and scalable quantum memory, communication, and sensing applications. For quantum emitters in 2D, a joint session would be organized with the symposium "Strain and Defect Engineering in 2D Materials".
3. Topological Systems: Examination of topological insulators, semimetals, and superconductors, including 2D and 3D materials, and their potential for realizing fault-tolerant quantum computing.
4. Quantum Simulation: Exploration of new platforms, such as moiré superlattices in 2D heterostructures, for simulating quantum many-body physics, Investigation of coherent quantum states, such as exciton Bose-Einstein condensates, and their role in advancing our understanding of quantum coherence and superfluidity in low-dimensional systems.
The symposium will provide a platform for materials researchers, physicists, and engineers from various disciplines to share their latest findings, methodologies, and theoretical insights, bringing together researchers from academia, industry, and government. It will showcase cutting-edge research and technological breakthroughs in the synthesis, characterization, and application of new materials in quantum devices. It seeks to help the communities identify challenges, such as scalability, reproducibility, and integration of new materials into existing quantum device architectures.
Topics will include:
- Quantum dot qubits
- Moiré materials
- Coherence properties
- Excitons
- Topological systems
- Qubit designs
- Color centers
- Superconducting qubit
Invited Speakers:
- Igor Aharonovich (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
- Lucas Caretta (Brown University, USA)
- Yong Chen (Purdue University, USA)
- Kristiaan De Greve (imec, Belgium)
- Nathalie De Leon (Princeton University, USA)
- Andrea Ferrari (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
- Kin Chung Fong (Northeastern University, USA)
- Danna Freedman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
- Kai-Mei Fu (University of Washington, USA)
- Qiushi Guo (The City University of New York, USA)
- Mohammad Hafezi (University of Maryland, USA)
- Mark Hersam (Northwestern University, USA)
- Thomas Ihn (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
- Atac Imamoglu (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
- Pablo Jarillo-Herrero (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
- Thomas Kempa (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
- Philip Kim (Harvard University, USA)
- Jun Lou (Rice University, USA)
- William Oliver (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
- Hongkun Park (Harvard University, USA)
- Jason Petta (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
- Diana Qiu (Yale University, USA)
- Javad Shabani (New York University, USA)
- Jelena Vuckovic (Stanford University, USA)
- Edo Waks (University of Maryland, USA)
- Xi Wang (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
- Binghai Yan (The Pennsylvania State University, USA)
- Xiaoxiao Zhang (University of Florida, USA)
Symposium Organizers
You Zhou
University of Maryland
USA
Chitraleema Chakraborty
University of Delaware
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
USA
Jian Shi
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Materials Science and Engineering
USA
Bernhard Urbaszek
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Department of Physics
Germany
Topics
2D materials
crystal growth
flux growth
magnetic properties
quantum effects
quantum materials
semiconducting
simulation
topological