
QTwist
The QTWIST program aims to uncover the fundamental properties of emerging synthetic quantum materials, including a vast range of two-dimensional materials, and their potential future applications in quantum nanoelectronics and optoelectronics.
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Unique infrastructure and imaging techniques are needed to observe desired properties that can be achieved by precise twisting of synthetic quantum matter.
Through the QTwist program, ICFO, in close collaboration with Distinguished Invited Professors from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US) and the Max Planck Society (DE), as well as other world renown scientific collaborators from leading institutions around the world, aims to create completely new functionalities from two-dimensional quantum materials. An important aspect in this effort is to develop novel experimental tools to probe the phenomena that emerge from interaction, topology, and twisting.
Concentration of international expertise through formal international collaborations with Distinguished Invited Professors as well as world-renown scientists involved in the QTWIST Board.
Establishing Barcelona, Catalonia and Spain as a pivotal center for Quantum materials, with the aim of generating economic value and fostering societal engagement.
Participants

Claudia Felser
Director at Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids and ICFO Distinguished Invited Professor. Member of National Academy of Sciences

Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and ICFO Distinguished Invited Professor. Member of National Academy of Sciences
Funding
Funded by
Joint Labs
Work with us
We are actively recruiting PhD students and postdoctoral researchers to do cutting edge research in the QTwist program.
Open positions are listed on the corresponding ICFO group pages and linked to application details on the institute’s JOBS website, alongside projects and positions throughout the center. You may contact ICFO group leaders directly for further information.
Quantum NanoElectronics and NanoMechanics
Calls openWe investigate quantum transport properties down to 7 mK temperature of correlated electron states in twisted bilayer graphene and other superlattice systems.
ICFO Group Leader Prof. Dr. Adrian Bachtold
adrian.bachtold@icfo.eu
Quantum Nano-Optoelectronics
Calls openWe study interactions between light and 2D material for quantum technologies and novel ways of manipulating materials
ICFO Group Leader ICREA Prof. Dr. Frank Koppens
frank.koppens@icfo.eu
STM on 2D quantum materials
Calls openWe focus on the study of cirreskated ogases that emerge in two dimensional astystems by means of low-temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Spectroscopy (STM/ STS)
ICFO Group leader Prof. Carmen Rubio Verdú
carmen.rubio@icfo.eu