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REVIEW article

Front. Mater.
Sec. Quantum Materials
Volume 11 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fmats.2024.1343005
This article is part of the Research Topic 10 years of Frontiers in Materials: past discoveries, current challenges and future perspectives View all 5 articles

Modern Quantum Materials

Provisionally accepted
Vincent G. Harris Vincent G. Harris *Parisa Andalib Parisa Andalib
  • Northeastern University, Boston, United States

The final, formatted version of the article will be published soon.

    Quantum phenomena, e.g., entanglement, superposition, tunneling, and spin-orbit interactions, among others, are foundational to the development of recent innovations in quantum computing, teleportation, encryption, sensing, and new modalities of electronics, such as spintronics, spin-orbitronics, caloritronics, magnonics, twistronics, and valleytronics. These emerging technologies provide disruptive influences to global commercial markets. These remarkable advances in quantum technologies are nearly always enabled by the discovering of materials and their quantum behaviors. Such advances are governed by quantum principles that are strongly influenced by environmental, physical, topological, and morphological conditions such as very small length scales, short time durations, ultrahigh pressures, and ultralow temperatures, etc. leading to quantum behaviors that manifest as quantum tunneling, entanglement, superpositioning, superfluidity, low-dimensional, high-temperature and high-pressure superconductivity, quantum fluctuations, Bose-Einstein condensates, topological effects, and other phenomena that are not yet fully understood nor adequately explored. Here, we provide a review of quantum materials developed up to 2023. Remarkable advances in quantum materials occur daily, and therefore, by the time of publication, new and exciting breakthroughs will have occurred that are regrettably not covered herein.

    Keywords: entanglement, Superposition (SP), Spin orbit coupling, qubit, Quantum computing (QC), Quantum Annealing (QA)

    Received: 23 Nov 2023; Accepted: 26 Mar 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Harris and Andalib. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Vincent G. Harris, Northeastern University, Boston, United States

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