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  1. A New Close-Up View of Electrons Inside Semiconductors

    September 17, 2026
    A collaboration between experimentalists and theorists, including quantum physicists at the Simons Foundation’s Flatiron Institute, has developed a new way to study how electrons interact with defects …
  2. The Mathematical Tools Trailblazing the Quantum Future

    June 23, 2026
    … benchmark their quantum claims. Researchers at the CCQ are continually working to improve their tensor network libraries to better handle complex systems and incorporate new techniques under …
  3. Alumni Spotlight: Ryan Levy

    May 8, 2026
    A former Flatiron Institute research fellow, Levy now explores how fault-tolerant quantum computers can advance basic research.
  4. Scientists Capture Superconductivity’s ‘Dancing Pairs’ for First Time, Filling Gap in Decades-Old Theory

    April 15, 2026
    Analysis of a first-of-its-kind experiment reveals missing pieces in the decades-old theory of superconductivity.
  5. Hidden Order in Quantum Confusion: The Pseudogap

    January 19, 2026
    Quantum simulator using ultracold atoms reveals how subtle magnetic patterns shape one of the most puzzling states of matter.
  6. Flatiron Institute Scientists Valentin Crépel and Ore Gottlieb Named Blavatnik Regional Award Honorees

    September 16, 2025
    Valentin Crépel of the institute’s Center for Computational Quantum Physics is the winner of the 2025 Blavatnik Regional Award for Young Scientists in the physical sciences and …
  7. Physicists Cool Quantum Simulator To Record-Breaking Low Temperatures

    June 17, 2025
    Physicists at Harvard University and the Flatiron Institute have chilled a quantum system called the Hubbard model to temperatures far below those previously reached by such a system …
  8. Quantum Physicists Tune Material’s Property Using Energy of ‘Empty’ Space

    May 14, 2025
    In quantum physics, there’s no such thing as truly empty space. Even the barest of voids has quantum fluctuations, such as particles continually being created and quickly …
  9. CCQ’s Nicolas Regnault Named American Physical Society Fellow

    January 14, 2025
    Nicolas Regnault, a research scientist at the Center for Computational Quantum Physics (CCQ) at the Flatiron Institute, has been named a Condensed Matter Physics Fellow by the American …
  10. The Surprising Reason a Classical Computer Beat a Quantum Computer at Its Own Game

    October 29, 2024
    As the battle between quantum and classical computers rages, scientists are making unexpected discoveries about quantum systems.
  11. A New Benchmark To Identify the Best Solutions to the Hardest Problems in Materials Science

    October 17, 2024
    A new benchmark called the V-score can help researchers determine the best algorithms for studying complex materials, helping optimize quantum simulations leveraged in industries like pharmaceuticals and …
  12. Max Planck-New York Center on Non-Equilibrium Quantum Phenomena Renewed

    October 7, 2024
    The quantum research center will continue its international collaboration for an additional five years with Cornell University as a new partner institution.
  13. Flatiron Initiative for Computational Catalysis Co-Director Timothy Berkelbach Receives 2025 ACS Award in Pure Chemistry

    September 19, 2024
    Timothy Berkelbach, co-director of the Initiative for Computational Catalysis. The American Chemical Society (ACS) today announced that Initiative for Computational Catalysis (ICC) Co-Director Timothy Berkelbach will …
  14. Mysteries of the Bizarre ‘Pseudogap’ in Quantum Physics Finally Untangled

    September 19, 2024
    A new paper unravels the mysteries of a bizarre physical state known as the pseudogap, which has close ties to the sought-after state called high-temperature superconductivity …
  15. Flatiron Research Fellow Aavishkar Patel Named Finalist for Blavatnik Regional Award for Young Scientists

    September 17, 2024
    The Blavatnik Family Foundation and the New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS) today announced Flatiron Research Fellow Aavishkar Patel as a finalist in the Blavatnik Regional Awards for …
  16. Former CCQ Flatiron Research Fellow Riccardo Rossi Awarded 2024 Hermann Kümmel Early Achievement Award in Many-Body Physics

    August 28, 2024
    Physicist Riccardo Rossi has received the 2024 Hermann Kümmel Early Achievement Award in Many-Body Physics for his groundbreaking research in computational quantum field theory. The award, established …
  17. Quantum Breakthrough Sheds Light on Perplexing High-Temperature Superconductors

    May 9, 2024
    Using the Hubbard model, Flatiron Institute senior research scientist Shiwei Zhang and his colleagues have computationally re-created key features of the superconductivity in materials called cuprates that …
  18. CCQ Distinguished Research Scientist Angel Rubio Awarded Spanish National Research Prize

    April 4, 2024
    The Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities awarded quantum physicist Angel Rubio the Spanish National Research Prize for his achievements in predicting new properties of nanoscale materials …
  19. Flatiron Institute’s LaToya Anderson Named a Top Student Presenter at APS March Meeting

    March 28, 2024
    The American Physical Society (APS) has named LaToya Anderson one of the top undergraduate presenters at its 2024 March Meeting in Minneapolis. Anderson is an associate research analyst …
  20. Old Questions, New Frontiers: Solving Condensed-Matter Problems With Concepts From High-Energy Physics

    February 26, 2024
    Physicist Kun Chen studies the unexpected behavior of many interacting electrons in solids by developing methodologies originating in other areas of physics.
  21. All Five Flatiron Centers Represented at the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)

    December 8, 2023
    For the first time, the five Flatiron Institute research centers (astrophysics, biology, mathematics, neuroscience and quantum physics), as well as its Scientific Computing Core and the Foundation Models …
  22. Capturing the Quantum Essence: Solving Simplified Models With High Precision

    September 5, 2023
    At the Flatiron Institute, computational quantum physicist Bo Xiao is working to understand the importance of materials’ fundamental properties by solving simplified mathematical models on an infinite grid.
  23. Watch: Jennifer Cano and Cyrus Dreyer on What’s Bringing Their Fields Closer Together

    August 28, 2023
    Center for Computational Quantum Physics associate research scientists Jennifer Cano and Cyrus Dreyer navigated their careers as a couple, each focusing on a different — though increasingly connected — field.
  24. We Finally Know Why Quantum ‘Strange Metals’ Are So Strange

    August 17, 2023
    A new study led by the Flatiron Institute’s Aavishkar Patel has identified a mechanism that explains the unusual behavior of strange metals, considered one of the greatest …
  25. Center for Computational Quantum Physics Announces New NYC Graduate Fellows

    May 1, 2023
    … made profound discoveries in superconductivity, statistical physics and nonlinear dynamics. The celebrated Hohenberg-Kohn theorem is foundational to CCQ’s work. The 2023 Pierre Hohenberg Fellow will …
  26. Simons Foundation Scientists Named as Sloan Research Fellows

    February 16, 2023
    The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has awarded its prestigious research fellowship to four past and present Simons Foundation researchers. This year’s 125 fellowship recipients “represent the most …
  27. Controlling the Complexity: Tuning Quantum Materials for Science and Technology

    November 22, 2022
    In quantum materials, electrons interact in complicated ways. At the Flatiron Institute, Sophie Beck is modeling how these electron dynamics shape materials properties to help lay the groundwork …
  28. Artificial Intelligence Reduces a 100,000-Equation Quantum Physics Problem to Only Four Equations

    September 26, 2022
    Researchers at the Flatiron Institute and their colleagues trained a machine learning tool to capture the physics of electrons moving on a lattice using far fewer equations than …
  29. Physicists Present New Method for Designing Topological Metals

    September 19, 2022
    Flatiron Institute’s Jennifer Cano is part of an international team that demonstrates a design principle for predicting whether metallic compounds are likely to host topological states caused …
  30. Old Problems, New Tools: Adapting Applied Mathematics for Quantum Physics

    September 19, 2022
    Flatiron applied mathematician Jason Kaye is bringing powerful new approaches to quantum physicists to help them answer big questions about small particles.
  31. CCQ Postdoc Aavishkar Patel Recognized With the Hermann Kümmel Early Achievement Award in Many-Body Physics

    September 14, 2022
    The International Conference on Recent Progress in Many-Body Theories has awarded the Hermann Kümmel Early Achievement Award in Many-Body Physics to quantum physicist Aavishkar Patel. The …
  32. CCQ Director Antoine Georges Awarded the Feenberg Memorial Medal

    September 14, 2022
    Antoine Georges, the director of the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Quantum Physics (CCQ), received the Feenberg Memorial Medal on September 14 at the International Conference Series …
  33. Neural Networks and ‘Ghost’ Electrons Accurately Reconstruct Behavior of Quantum Systems

    August 3, 2022
    Physicists at the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Quantum Physics and their collaborators have created a new way to simulate quantum entanglement between interacting particles. Their approach …
  34. Watch: John Bonini Tackles the Complexities of Quantum Machinery

    July 26, 2022
    Center for Computational Quantum Physics research fellow John Bonini is developing tools to elucidate quantum systems.
  35. Strange New Phase of Matter Created in Quantum Computer Acts Like It Has Two Time Dimensions

    July 20, 2022
    By subjecting a quantum computer’s qubits to quasi-rhythmic laser pulses based on the Fibonacci sequence, physicists demonstrated a way of storing quantum information that is less …
  36. American Academy of Arts and Sciences Elects 11 Simons Research Grantees

    May 6, 2022
    Eleven Simons Foundation grantees and one board member are among the latest cohort of prominent artists, scholars, scientists and leaders elected as fellows of the American Academy of …
  37. The Quantum Plumber

    May 6, 2022
    Sitting at the juncture of quantum physics and fluid dynamics, Flatiron Institute physicist Nikita Kavokine has been called a “quantum plumber” for having discovered the specifics of how …
  38. Theoretical Physicist Jennifer Cano Awarded Sloan Research Fellowship

    February 15, 2022
    The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has named theoretical quantum physicist Jennifer Cano a 2022 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Physics. The fellowship is one of the most …
  39. ‘Quantum Friction’ Slows Water Flow Through Carbon Nanotubes, Resolving Long-Standing Fluid Dynamics Mystery

    February 2, 2022
    Flatiron Institute research fellow Nikita Kavokine and his colleagues propose that water molecules interact with electrons in the nanotube walls, so that they push and pull on one …
  40. Watch: Math and Physics Collide in the Collaboration of Mathematician Tai-Danae Bradley and Physicist Miles Stoudenmire

    December 8, 2021
    Tai-Danae Bradley of Alphabet Inc.’s Sandbox team and physicist Miles Stoudenmire of the Center for Computational Quantum Physics find their research paths intersect in the use …
  41. Paradoxical Material a Mashup of Three Different Phases at Once, Quantum Physicists Find

    November 10, 2021
    ‘Geometric frustration’ can cause the electrons in materials with atoms arranged in a triangular pattern to organize in three competing ways simultaneously, reveals a new computational study …
  42. Ultrafast Microscope Observes Quick-Moving Excitation That Could Be a Long Sought Phase of Matter

    July 21, 2021
    … harness this property, including in computers,” Rao says.
  43. CCQ Hosts Virtual Electronic Structure Conference: July 12–July 15

    June 10, 2021
    The 33rd Annual Workshop on Recent Developments in Electronic Structure Methods (ES21) will be hosted online by the Center for Computational Quantum Physics (CCQ), Flatiron Institute, July 12 …
  44. Quantum Showdown: Competing Methods of Solving Quantum Systems Put to the Test

    March 23, 2021
    A many-method study of the Hubbard model demonstrates how the field of computational quantum physics is evolving to be more collaborative.
  45. Switching Nanolight On and Off

    February 10, 2021
    Physicists with the Max Planck–New York City Center for Nonequilibrium Quantum Phenomena discover a new way to program light on an ultra-small scale.
  46. New Material Pushes Limits of Superconductivity’s ‘Cousin’

    October 13, 2020
    By using a sandwich structure, researchers demonstrated the quantum anomalous Hall effect at record-high temperatures.
  47. Infinitely Long Chains of Hydrogen Atoms Have Surprising Properties, Including a Metallic Phase

    September 14, 2020
    Scientists with the Flatiron Institute and the Simons Collaboration on the Many Electron Problem combined cutting-edge computational methods to probe an endless line of protons surrounded by …
  48. Sandwich-Like Superlattice Structures Provide New Insight Into Materials Design

    September 9, 2020
    With newly published research, an international team of scientists lays fundamental groundwork for a new generation of electronics.
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