Workshop: Midscale Instrumentation to Accelerate Progress in Quantum Materials

材料研究部，物理部和多学科活动办公室在数学和物理科学的董事会提供支持的量子材料的中型仪器将于12月5日至7日2016年在弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿举行的研讨会（http：//sites.krieger.jhu.edu/miqm/）。该研讨会讨论了国家科学基金会主任的十大想法中的两个：量子飞跃和中型仪器。重点是量子材料的中型仪器，将支持下一次量子革命，量子飞跃。研讨会将讨论和描述中等规模的仪器，这将促进我们对广泛的量子材料的理解和应用。这些包括拓扑半金属和绝缘体，高温超导体，量子自旋液体，多铁性材料，纳米结构量子材料器件，以及超冷原子气体实现物质的新量子关联态。该研讨会将重点关注500万至6000万美元范围内的中型仪器，这些仪器可能对量子材料的科学和应用产生变革性影响。仪器的示例包括扩展现有用户设施的能力的束线、样品环境和检测器系统，采用新的源和/或方法来探测量子材料的先进的独立仪器，用于以块体或纳米结构形式合成的新工具，基于超冷原子的量子模拟器，以及用于量子材料的先进计算平台、软件和数据共享系统。研讨会的成果是一份简明的报告，描述了通过新的中型仪器刺激量子材料科学和技术进步的机会。在固态研究和开发工作中，我们发明了晶体管，量子材料及其应用的进步需要一种多学科的方法，将硬凝聚态物理学的基础科学与化学、材料科学和工程联系起来。量子材料中型仪器研讨会相应地具有先进电子材料科学和工程所有领域的广泛代表性。由此产生的讲习班报告将概述中型仪器，以加速基础科学进步具有巨大变革性技术影响潜力的研究领域。这些将导致下一次技术革命，这是在量子飞跃的想法。

The Division of Materials Research, the Division of Physics, and the Office of Multidisciplinary Activities in the Directorate of the Mathematical and Physical Sciences provide support for the Workshop on Midscale Instrumentation for Quantum Materials which will be held on December 5-7 2016 in Arlington Va (http://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/miqm/). The workshop addresses two of the 10 Big ideas of the Director of the National Science Foundation: Quantum Leap and Midscale Instrumentation. The focus is on midscale instrumentation for quantum materials that would support the next quantum revolution, Quantum Leap. The workshop will discuss and describe midscale instrumentation that would advance our understanding and applications of a broad array of quantum materials. These include topological semimetals and insulators, high temperature superconductors, quantum spin liquids, multiferroic materials, nano-structured quantum materials devices, as well as ultra-cold atomic gases realizing novel quantum correlated states of matter. The workshop will focus on midscale instrumentation in the $5M to $60M range that could have transformative impacts on the science and applications of quantum materials. Examples of instrumentation include beam line, sample environment, and detector systems that extend capabilities of existing user facilities, advanced stand-alone instrumentation employing new sources and/or methods to probe quantum materials, new tools for synthesis in bulk or nanostructured forms, quantum simulators based on ultra-cold atoms, and advanced computational platforms, software, and data sharing systems for quantum materials. The outcome of the workshop result in a concise report describing opportunities to stimulate scientific and technological progress in quantum materials through new midscale instrumentation As in the solid state research and development work that gave us the transistor, advances in quantum materials and their applications require a multidisciplinary approach that links the basic science of hard condensed-matter physics to chemistry, materials science, and engineering. The Workshop on Midscale Instrumentation for Quantum Materials has correspondingly broad representation from all areas of science and engineering of advanced electronic materials. The resulting workshop report would provide an overview of midscale instrumentation to accelerate a field of research where fundamental scientific progress has great potential for transformative technological impacts. These would result in the next technological revolutions that is captured in the Quantum Leap idea.