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The 5th Quantum Matters in Materials Science (QMMS) workshop organized by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will be held as an in-person only event at the NIST Gaithersburg campus, Maryland on February 18-19, 2026.
The workshop will be focused on quantum phenomena in emerging materials for next generation devices. All materials are inherently quantum in nature, but when quantum phenomena manifest at the classical scale, we can hope to leverage their properties for applications. Large scale initiatives such as the Materials Genome Initiative, the National Quantum Initiative, and the CHIPS for America Act represent compelling approaches to investigate quantum materials and accelerate their development for quantum information systems (QIS), for the use in future integrated circuits, and other practical industrial applications. For these approaches and initiatives to be successful, it is essential to have good synergy between experimental and computational efforts. This workshop aims at streamlining this effort. To make the workshop as effective as possible, we plan to mainly focus on 2D and 3D inorganic superconducting, topological, magnetic, and semiconducting materials, but we are not limited to those systems.
Some of the key topics to be addressed by both theory and experiments are:
- discovery and characterization of new superconductors/topological, magnetic, and semiconducting materials,
- optimization of known quantum materials,
- investigation of defect induced behavior and transitions,
- electronics, spintronics, and quantum memory applications,
- challenges in applying QIS technologies at industrial scale,
- successes and challenges in integrating next-generation materials into integrated circuits (microchips)
- the role of material interfaces at the quantum level,
- high fidelity many-body computational methods to treat quantum materials,
- applications for quantum computing and quantum simulations.
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
If registered participants are interested in presenting a poster, please send name, affiliation, title, and abstract to daniel.wines [at] nist.gov (daniel[dot]wines[at]nist[dot]gov) no later than 1/30/2026.
Wednesday, February 18, 2026 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time (EST) | Presentation | Speaker |
| 9:00 -9:10am | Opening Remarks | Mark VanLandingham (NIST) |
| 9:10 - 9:20am | Overview and Logistics | Daniel Wines (NIST) |
| 9:20 - 9:40am | Transition-metal-related quantum emitters in wide-band-gap semiconductors | Chris Van de Walle (UCSB) |
| 9:40 - 10:00am | Rutile Magnetism by Design: Symmetry-Broken Surfaces and Long-Range Exchange Pathways | Anderson Janotti (U of Delaware) |
| 10:00 - 10:20am | Break/Group Photo | |
| 10:20 - 10:40am | Two-dimensional materials as hosts of spin qubits | Michael Toriyama (U Chicago) |
| 10:40 - 11:00am | Tuning Superconductivity and Topology via Electronic Correlations and Lattice Coupling | Subhasish Mandal (WVU) |
| 11:00 - 11:20am | Break | |
| 11:20 - 11:40am | Millisecond lifetimes and coherence times in 2D transmon qubits | Nathalie de Leon (Princeton) |
| 11:40am - 12:00pm | Scalable materials for quantum sensing and quantum computing | Gregory Fuchs (Cornell) |
| 12:00 - 1:00pm | Lunch | |
| 1:00 - 1:20pm | Three-Dimensional Integration and Packaging of Silicon Carbide Integrated Circuits for Extreme-Temperature Applications | Feng Li (U of Idaho) |
| 1:20 - 1:40pm | Simulation for technology development now and in the future | Stephen Cea (Technical Consultant, U of Florida) |
| 1:40 - 2:00pm | Accelerating Development and Discovery Through Multi-Scale Material Simulation: A Call for Broader Adoption | Russ Robison (IBM) |
| 2:00 -2:20pm | Break | |
| 2:20 - 2:40pm | Polarization Rotation and Field-Assisted Switching in Strained Anisotropic Ferroelectrics | Dmitri Nikonov (Kepler Computing) |
| 2:40 - 3:00pm | Cryogenic semiconductor modeling for quantum technologies at Boeing | Bogdan Neculaes (Boeing) |
| 3:00 - 3:20pm | Semiconductor-Superconductor Hybrid Structure for Topological Quantum Computing | Geoff Gardner (Microsoft) |
| Thursday, February 19, 2026 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time (EST) | Presentation | Speaker |
| 9:00 -9:20am | Silicon Carbide on Insulator Integrated Photonics Devices | Danny Kim (HRL) |
| 9:20 - 9:40am | Handling the heat: routes to computing thermal conductivity in disordered materials | Jon Owens (GE Vernova) |
| 9:40 - 10:05am | Break | |
| 10:05 - 10:25am | TBD | Prineha Narang (UCLA) |
| 10:25 - 10:45am | Modeling Biology on a Quantum Computer: Deciphering the Mechanism of ATP Hydrolysis Through a Fruitful Marriage of Machine Learning and Quantum Hardware | Brenda Rubenstein (Brown) |
| 10:45 - 11:10am | Break | |
| 11:10 - 11:30am | Nanoscale Cathodoluminescence Probing of Defect-Induced Electronic States in β-Ga₂O₃ | David Yang (NIST) |
| 11:30 - 11:50am | Magnetic Imaging for Emerging Materials and Next-Gen Electronics | Connor Hart (EuQlid, Inc.) |
| 11:50 - 1:00pm | Lunch | |
| 1:00 - 1:20pm | Defects by Design: Atom-by-atom Engineering of Dopant Structures in Silicon as a Platform for Quantum Devices | Jonathan Wyrick (NIST) |
| 1:20 - 1:40pm | In-plane polarization and flat-band formation in twisted dichalcogenide bilayers | Stephen Hellberg (NRL) |
| 1:40 - 2:00pm | Break | |
| 2:00 -2:20pm | TBD | Dustin Gilbert (UTK) |
| 2:20 - 2:40pm | Synergistic Integration of Metamaterials and Quantum Photonics as a Pathway for the Quantum-Enabled Internet | Thomas Searles (UIC) |
| 2:40 - 2:45pm | Closing remarks | Daniel Wines (NIST) |
- Anderson Janotti, University of Delaware
- Anouar Benali, Chembricks AI
- Bogdan Neculaes, Boeing
- Brenda Rubenstein, Brown
- Chris Van de Walle, UCSB
- Connor Hart, EuQlid, Inc.
- Danny Kim, HRL
- Dmitri Nikonov, Kepler Computing
- Dustin Gilbert, UTK
- Feng Li, University of Idaho
- Geoff Gardner, Microsoft
- Gregory David Fuchs, Cornell
- Jon Owens, GE Vernova
- Jonathan Wyrick, NIST
- Michael Toriyama, UChicago
- Nathalie de Leon, Princeton
- Nikhil Sivadas, Samsung
- Prineha Narang, UCLA
- Russ Robison, IBM
- Stephen Cea, Intel (retired)
- Steven Hellberg, NRL
- Subhasish Mandal, WVU
- Thomas Searles, UIC
Dates Available: February 17-19, 2026
Rate: $149.00 USD per night (includes complimentary hot breakfast and transportation to and from NIST Gaithersburg)
Last Day to Book : Tuesday, January 20, 2026 Monday, February 2, 2026
Book your stay for the 5th NIST Quantum Matters in Material Sciences (QMMS) Workshop
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