We are so proud of you Lu, congratulations!! Thank you for all your hard work, and for sharing your passion of science and your bubbly personality with us. We wish you the best x
Good job Emma for all your hard work!! This scholarship is well-deserved (-:
Charles is a new master's student that will join the group in August! He is currently finishing his undergraduate studies in Physics at Université de Montréal, and will then do a co-supervised master's by Louis and Gaël. Congratulations Charles, and welcome to the group (-: !!
Lu's paper on the planar thermal Hall effect in NCTO has been published in Nature Communications!! In this paper, the planer thermal Hall which consists of applying the heat current and the magnetic field in-plane (parallel or perpendicular to one another) is investigated in the Kitaev quantum spin liquid candidate Na2Co2TeO6. Congratulations Lu (-: !!!
L’Ordre des Palmes Académiques is a French decoration that dates back to 1808, when Napoleon Bonaparte created this distinction to honor University members who rendered eminent services to National Education. Today, this honorary mention still distinguishes individuals who provide significant services and exceptional contributions to the French National Education. We are so proud of you, Louis. Congratulations!!!!
Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes académiques
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The Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings are annual scientific conferences held in Lindau, Bavaria, Germany, since 1951. Their aim is to bring together Nobel laureates and young scientists to foster scientific exchange between different generations, cultures and disciplines. The meetings assume a unique position amongst international scientific conferences, as from 30 to 65 Nobel laureates attending each edition they are the largest regular congregation of Nobel laureates in the world, apart from the Nobel Prize award ceremony in Stockholm. Congratulations Emma!!
Some members of the group (post-doc Lu Chen and Emma Campillo, reasearch professional Jordan Baglo and master's student Ashvini Vallipuram) attended and gave talks at the APS March Meeting in Minneapolis, USA.
The Taillefer group as well as Cyril Proust attended the writing retreat at Centre Tara. Many thanks to Paul-Antoine and Marie-Claire for the warm welcome!!!
Some members of the Taillefer group attended the IQ retreat that happened in Jouvence (5th to the 6th of February). They also went on a long walk on the beautiful snowy trails!
Some Taillefer group members also made a small movie for their booth.
The phonon Hall effect is a transverse temperature difference of phononic origin that is generated when an external magnetic field is applied. This phenomenon is yet to be understood. It has been observed in a growing number of insulators in which phonons have been found to be the main heat carriers. How are phonons, neutral excitations without any charge or spin, influenced by an external magnetic field? From a collaboration between Quebec and France, Amir and his collaborators have been trying to answer this question by studying the insulator Sr2IrO4. They found that impurities seem to play an important role!
Ataei et al., Nature Physics 20, 585 (2024)
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This award is given every year to researchers that have done excellent research. Amir received this price for his article "Electrons obey standard orbital motion in a magnetic field" published in Nature Physics. Congratulations Amir!!
Congratulations to Étienne, who obtained his doctorate after defending a thesis on thermal transport in the Kitaev quantum spin liquid spin candidate α-RuCl3!
Researchers in CIFAR’s Quantum Materials and Quantum Information Science programs are advancing quantum technologies that will revolutionize computing, electrical grids, transportation networks, and more.
In strange metals, electrons undergo Planckian dissipation. The temperature dependence of this strong scattering is anomalous (linear rather than quadratic resistivity). The Taillefer group has shown that the magnetic field dependence of this scattering is normal.
Electrons with Planckian scattering obey standard orbital motion in a magnetic field
Ataei et al., Nat. Phys. 18, 1420-1424 (2022).
Electrons with Planckian scattering in strange metals follow standard rules of orbital motion in a magnet
I. Fadelli, Phys.org
Influence of high magnetic fields on electrons undergoing Planckian dissipation
EMFL News, 4 (2022)
Percer les mystères des matériaux quantiques avec les champs magnétiques les plus intenses
H. Vincelette, IQ News (2023)
An international network in quantum science and technology, set in motion by the CNRS, will officially be launched as of January 1, 2023. 16 French and Canadian universities will be part of this network, including the University of Sherbrooke, and Louis Taillefer will be a member of the executive committee.
A few member of the Taillefer group attended the in-person Toronto 2022 Cifar Meeting. They had a great experience with lots of interresting discussion!
This program is working towards bringing on the Quantum Age. It explores the fundamental science behind quantum matter — the resource for the quantum technologies that will define the 21st century. These technologies could include room-temperature superconductors that would carry electricity without any loss and revolutionize power transmission. Or quantum tech could include the quantum computer that would exploit the entanglement of multiple electrons, resulting in a powerful way to manipulate information. And there are the quantum materials innovations we cannot yet imagine.
Quantum spin liquids are materials that have the potential, in theory, to host novel kinds of particles or excitations, such as spinons or Majorana fermions. The challenge for experimentalists is to conclusively detect these. Some of the predicted excitations are mobile and thus detectable with thermal transport measurements. Using thermal Hall conductivity—a transverse thermal conductivity generated by a magnetic field—we shed new light on mobile carriers of heat in one spin liquid candidate, α-RuCl3.
Evidence of a Phonon Hall Effect in the Kitaev Spin Liquid Candidate α-RuCl3
Lefrançois, Grissonnanche et al., PRX 12, (2022).
High-temperature superconductors have the potential to revolutionize the way we transport and store energy, but first, we must unravel the way electrons interact with each other within these unique quantum materials. In the copper-oxide materials called cuprates, electrons enter one of two unusual electronic phases of matter before they pair to become superconducting: the “strange metal” and “pseudogap” phases. The nature of these two phases is not fully understood and studying them can tell us how electrons collectively organize themselves to produce superconductivity. We shed new light on both phases by measuring the Seebeck effect: the electrical response of a cuprate to a temperature gradient.
Seebeck Coefficient in a Cuprate Superconductor: Particle-Hole Asymmetry in the Strange Metal Phase and Fermi Surface Transformation in the Pseudogap Phase
Gourgout, Grissonnanche et al., PRX 12, 011037 (2022).
As tradition dictates, each year, the magazine Québec Science highlights 10 discoveries that have stood out over the past year. The study by the Taillefer group, led by our former postdoctoral fellow Gaël Grissonnanche, on linear resistivity in strange metals and the Planckian limit is one of the finalists! Congratulations to the whole team.
Linear-in temperature resistivity from an isotropic Planckian scattering rate
Grissonnanche et al., Nature 595, 667 (2021).
Une limite de vitesse au coeur de la matière
Joël Leblanc, Québec Science
Deux découvertes de l'UdeS en lice au palmarès Québec Science
Sabrine Laboie, La tribune
Deux percées de l'université de Sherbrooke parmi les découvertes de l'année les plus remarquables
Valérie Millette, Institut Quantique
The members of the Taillefer group have just returned from a very productive week of writing at Jouvence! A good time to write, discuss and refocus. Several publications to come ...
The sixth meeting of the Franco-Canadian International Associated Laboratory (LIA) "Quantum circuits and materials" took place at Ax-les-Thermes in France from September 28 to October 1st, 2021. The members of the Taillefer group were present in large numbers! This symposium covered superconducting circuits and hybrid quantum devices on the one hand, and correlated systems and unconventional superconductivity on the other.
Building on the collaboration between French researchers and researchers from the Department of Physics of the University of Sherbrooke for several decades, the International Associated Laboratory (LIA) - Laboratory on Quantum Circuits and Materials (LIA LCMQ) was created in 2016 to strengthen research collaborations within the France-Canada axis.
Webpage of LIA
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In collaboration with an American team, Prof. Taillefer's group has just measured precisely what is mysteriously called the "Planckian limit" in strange metals (Nature 595, 667 (2021)). This limit, which seems to be determined by quantum mechanics and Planck's constant, imposes that when electrons collide at an extreme rate within matter, each electron has at least the Planckian time to rest before the next collision. The reasons for the Planckian limit remain a mystery.
Linear-in temperature resistivity from an isotropic Planckian scattering rate
Grissonnanche et al., Nature 595, 667 (2021).
A new quantum limit for electrons
Jon Farrow, CIFAR
A team from Institut quantique has identified what appears to be a new quantum limit for electrons
Communication IQ, Institut Quantique
Chaotic electrons heed ‘limit’ in strange metals
David Nutt, Cornell Chronicle
Louis is now among the new members of the Royal Society of London. It is one of the oldest academic society in the world. Congratulations Louis for this honor!
A major scientific honor for Professor Louis Taillefer
Johanne Leroux, Institut Quantique
Entrevue avec Louis Taillefer, professeur au département de physique de l'UdeS
Stéphan Bureau, Bien entendu, Radio-Canada
Physicist Professor Louis Taillefer made Fellow of the Royal Society
Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge
Louis was invited to give a public virtual lecture on superconductivity.
Simons Foundation Lectures are free public colloquia related to basic science and mathematics. These high-level talks are intended for professors, students, postdocs and business professionals, but interested people from the metropolitan area are welcome as well.
The collaboration between the Taillefer group and the team of Professor James Analytis (UC Berkeley) as well as Professor Jeffrey Quilliam (University of Sherbrooke) led to the publication of two papers on TaAs, a Weyl semi-metal, in PRB.
Field-angle dependence of sound velocity in the Weyl semimetal TaAs
F. Laliberté et al., Phys. Rev. B 102, 125104 (2020).
Signatures of possible surface states in TaAs
N.L. Nair et al., Phys. Rev. B 102, 075402 (2020).
Professor Taillefer's group continues to investigate the giant negative thermal Hall effect discovered last year in the pseudogap phase of superconducting cuprates (Nature 571, 376-380 (2019)). The team now reveals that this effect comes from the atomic vibrations of the material, the phonons. But how can it be that particles without an electric charge still manage to couple to the external magnetic field to generate a thermal Hall effect? Those responsible for the phenomenon have now been unmasked, but the origin of this mystery remains unsolved.
Chiral phonons in the pseudogap phase of cuprates
G. Grissonnanche et al., Nature Physics (2020).
Simon Fortier is preparing to reopen our two laboratories: cooling cryogenic systems, repair and maintenance of pumps as well as implementing security measures. This is the first step towards restarting research!
We hope everyone is safe in these uncertain times. In the meantime, we are lucky to work from home and we keep smiling. . We will be back soon :) .
Using thermal conductivity measurements, we investigated the issue of potential mobile spin excitations in a promising quantum spin liquid candidate and found no evidence that spinons contribute to heat transport. Despite measuring eight high-quality crystals, we were not able to reproduce the findings of a previous report on the same material that had found the opposite result.
Thermal conductivity of the quantum spin liquid candidate EtMe3Sb[Pd(dmit)2]2: No evidence of mobile gapless excitations
P. Bourgeois-Hope et al, PRX 9, 041051 (2019).
Congratulations to Gaël Grissonnanche, a post-doctoral student in Taillefer's group, for winning the Relève étoile Louis-Berlinguet. This award, granted but the Fonds de recherche- Nature et technologies (Québec), recognizes the excellence of research conducted by university-level students. Gaël received this award following her article Giant thermal Hall conductivity in the pseudogap phase of cuprate superconductors published in Nature in July 2019.
Giant thermal Hall conductivity in the pseudogap phase of cuprate superconductors
G. Grissonnanche et al. Nature 571, 376-380 (2019).
Giant thermal Hall effect reveals novel particles in high-temperature superconductors
Nicolas Doiron-Leyraud, Institut Quantique
Crafting new particles in the core of superconducting materials
Hugues Vincelette, Institut Quantique
The international colloquium on quantum circuits and materials was held in Jouvence from October 2nd to 4th. All of the Taillefer group attended to discuss the latest advances in the field of quantum materials with our French collaborators.
Taking its roots in the decade-long collaborations between French researchers and members of the Physics Department of the Université de Sherbrooke, the LIA (International Associated Laboratory) on quantum circuits and materials was created in 2016 to strengthen research collaborations across the France-Canada axis.
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Laboratoire de Circuits et Matériaux Quantiques
This year, four students of the Taillefer group were invited to the Université de Sherbrooke's graduation ceremony, held on September 21st. Amirreza Ataei, Marie-Eve Boulanger and Maude Lizaire received their Master's diplomas, whilst Anaëlle Legros was awarded her PhD diploma. Congratulations to all for your achievements!
An experiment led by the Taillefer group has now found something entirely new and unexpected about the pseudogap phase, this mysterious electronic phase of matter that coexists with superconductivity and is considered one of the great enigmas in physics today: it harbors exotic excitations that produce a negative thermal Hall effect.
Giant thermal Hall conductivity in the pseudogap phase of cuprate superconductors
G. Grissonnanche et al. Nature 571, 376-380 (2019).
Giant thermal Hall effect reveals novel particles in high-temperature superconductors
Nicolas Doiron-Leyraud, Institut Quantique
Crafting new particles in the core of superconducting materials
Hugues Vincelette, Institut Quantique
Louis Taillefer, together with Pr Yoshua Bengio (Department of Computer Science and Operations Research of the Université de Montréal) received the 2019 Prix d'excellence FRQNT. The Prix d'excellence FRQNT, in the amount of $10,000, recognizes the outstanding contributions of university or college researchers in the areas of natural sciences, mathematics and engineering, their international reputation and the benefits of their research for Québec.
Yoshua Bengio and Louis Taillefer, winners of the 2019 Prix d'excellence FRQNT
FRQNT, Fonds de recherche nature et technologies
Le professeur Louis Taillefer honoré par le Fonds de recherche du Québec - nature et technologies
Rosalie Cyr, Institut Quantique
CIFAR leaders Yoshua Bengio and Louis Taillefer honoured with Quebec science prize
Jon Farrow, CIFAR
Congratulations to Anaëlle Legros, a former doctoral student in the Taillefer group, for winning the Relève étoile Louis-Berlinguet. This award, granted but the Fonds de recherche- Nature et technologies (Québec), recognizes the excellence of research conducted by university-level students. Anaëlle received this award following her article Universal T-linear resistivity and Planckian dissipation in overdoped cuprates published in Nature Physics in November 2018.
Universal T-linear resistivity and Planckian dissipation in overdoped cuprates
A. Legros et al, Nature Physics 15, 142 (2019).
Universal Quantum Phenomenon Found in Strange Metals
Nathalie Wolchver, Quanta Magazine
IQ Scientits unravel yet another mystery of high-temperature superconductors
Nicolas Doiron-Leyraud, Institut Quantique
Members of the Taillefer group at the top of Glacier 3000, Switzerland, during the Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Superconductivity. GRC is a non-profit organization dedicated to building communities that go beyond the boundaries of science. This conference brought together professors, postdocs, scientists, scientific publishers and students to discuss the latest research on superconductivity. Gaël Grissonnanche, post-doc in the group, was invited to share his results in the form of an oral presentation at the student seminar.
The Quantum Materials Summer School was held at the Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute in Vancouver from April 8 - 10, 2019. Marie-Eve, Étienne and Gaël were able to learn more about 2D materials and van der Waals heterostructures.
Étienne Lefrançois, Gaël Grissonnanche, Bastien Loret and Adrien Gourgout went to the 2019 March Meeting organized by the American Physical Society. This event, which brings together more than 11,000 physicists from around the globe, offers a unique opportunity to discover and present innovative research from universities and leading laboratories.
We recently first putted in evidence, by using high field specific heat measurements, the quantum criticality nature of the pseudogap critical point, called p*, in the cuprate superconductors. Two signatures are remarkable and are the archetypes of a quantum critical point: a logarithmic temperature dependence of the electronic specific at the critical point as the temperature goes to zero, and, at low temperature, an effective mass enhancement by crossing the critical point. This discovery supports the paradigm of the pseudogap fluctuations like a glue for the Cooper pairs mechanism.
Thermodynamic signatures of quantum criticality in cuprate superconductors
B. Michon et al, Nature 567,218-222 (2019).
Marie-Eve Boulanger, Étienne Lefrançois and Adrien Gourgout, three members of the group, went to the Fundamentals of Quantum Materials Winter School. They developed their knowledge in synthesis, characterization and electronic modeling of quantum materials.
Experiments suggest that exotic superconducting materials share a "strange metal" state characterized by a quantum speed limit that somehow acts as a fundamental organizing principale
Universal T-linear resistivity and Planckian dissipation in overdoped cuprates
A. Legros et al, Nature Physics 15, 142 (2019).
Universal Quantum Phenomenon Found in Strange Metals
Nathalie Wolchver, Quanta Magazine
IQ Scientits unravel yet another mystery of high-temperature superconductors
Nicolas Doiron-Leyraud, Institut Quantique
On August 21, 2018, Louis Taillefer receive the Karmelingh Onnes prize for his important research of transport measurement in heavy fermions and curates superconductors under high magnetic fields.
Pr Louis Taillefer reçoit une nouvelle accolade internationale
Faculté des sciences, Université de Sherbrooke
Louis Taillefer wins Kamerlingh Onnes prize for superconductivity research
CIFAR, Canadian Institute for Quantum Research
Louis Taillefer is the first Canadian to receive the prize since it was established in 1957. Every three years, the Institute of Physics (IOP) gives this international prize in recognition of honorable work in low temperature physics either in theoretical and experimental physics..
CIFAR’s quantum physicist Louis Taillefer first Canadian to win Simon Prizen
CIFAR, Canadian Institute for Quantum Research
Louis Taillefer : premier Canadien à recevoir le prix Simon Memorial
Faculté des sciences, Université de Sherbrooke