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“Intrinsic Ferromagnetism of Two-Dimensional (2D) MnO2 Revisited: A Many-Body Quantum Monte Carlo and DFT+U Study” Daniel Wines, Kayahan Saritas, and Can Ataca The Journal of Physical...

Remarkable new technologies have allowed quantum physicists to “zoom-in”, study, and control some of the tiniest things in the universe — things like individual atoms, electrons, and photons....

Dr. Yoon-Ho Kim (PhD '01), was recently honored as a 2022 Fellow Member of Optica (formerly OSA),  the society advancing optics and photonics worldwide, is a leader of excellence, delivering...

UMBC has officially reached the nation’s highest level of research performance. The Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education recently announced that UMBC has been placed into...

“Eavesdropping on the Decohering Environment: Quantum Darwinism, Amplification, and the Origin of Objective Classical Reality” Akram Touil, Bin Yan, Davide Girolami, Sebastian Deffner, and...

“A pathway toward high-throughput quantum Monte Carlo simulations for alloys: A case study of two-dimensional (2D) GaSxSe1−x” Daniel Wines, Kayahan Saritas, Can Ataca STEAM Lab members Daniel...

Dr. Matthew Pelton is an investigator in two newly funded multi-university collaborations bridging nanoscience and quantum information. Dr. Pelton is participating in the new NSF Center for...

Congratulations to our grad students who have advanced into PhD Candidacy over the past year: Atmospheric Physics Program Achala Wickramasuriya Denagamage, Mentor – Dr. Zhibo Zhang...

Former UMBC physics major Rachel Morin (currently a Ph.D. student at the Catholic University of America) is the first author of a recently published article based on research she did as an...

Dan Wines and Jon Gustafson, two of our Physics graduate students have been awarded NRC postdocs. Dan who is advised by Prof. Ataca will work on “Many-body treatment of 2D materials using...