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Max Planck-New York Center for Non-Equilibrium Quantum Phenomena

We aim to understand, control and manipulate the uniquely useful properties of quantum materials.

About

The Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter in Hamburg (MPSD) and the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz (MPIP), together with Columbia University and the Center for Computational Quantum Physics, have launched a joint research center: The Max Planck–New York Center for Non-Equilibrium Quantum Phenomena.

Inaugurated in 2019, this enterprise aims to understand, control and manipulate the uniquely useful properties of quantum materials in unstable states.

The center advances one of the most vibrant and exciting areas of research in the physical sciences: control of non-equilibrium quantum phenomena in complex materials. We especially focus on applications of non-linear light-matter coupling that result in phases with no equilibrium counterparts.

Scientific breakthroughs are enabled by the center’s combination of electromagnetic and scanning probe spectroscopies that measure the dynamics of matter at the shortest time and length scales, world-leading expertise in creating materials with uniquely tunable properties, and new theoretical and computational methods.

Our goals are to become a world leader in these areas of science and to establish a new blueprint for international collaboration.

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Max Planck-New York Center on Non-Equilibrium Quantum Phenomena Renewed

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Columbia University, Flatiron Institute, Max Planck Society Launch Max Planck–New York City Center for Nonequilibrium Quantum Phenomena

Flatiron Institute Contacts

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Andrew Millis

Co-Director, Center for Computational Quantum Physics

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Angel Rubio

Co-Director, Initiative for Computational Catalysis

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Antoine Georges

Director, Center for Computational Quantum Physics

International Advisory Board

Keith Nelson

Department of Chemistry, MIT

Jacqueline Bloch

Research Director, CNRS

Yoshi Maeno

Department of Physics, Kyoto University