MATERIALS Research · Condensed Matter Physics

⚡ Materials Science — Superconductivity & Quantum Materials

High-temperature superconductors, topological materials, and quantum computing applications — where zero-resistance conductors meet the frontier of condensed matter physics.

Funding: ~$2B/year in US federal research funding (DOE Office of Science, NSF, DARPA, DOD).

21
Research Centers
$15.2B
Total Funding
6
National Labs
7
Industry Partners

Key Research Areas

High-Tc Superconductors — Cuprates (YBCO, BSCCO), iron-based, and hydride superconductors
Topological Superconductors — Majorana fermions for fault-tolerant quantum computing
Quantum Computing — Superconducting qubits powering IBM, Google, and Rigetti processors
Fusion Energy — HTS magnets for tokamaks (CFS SPARC, TAE Technologies)

Geographic Clusters

Chicago–Illinois Corridor — Argonne, Fermilab, UIUC, Northwestern
Bay Area — LBNL, Stanford, UC Berkeley, SLAC
Northeast Corridor — MIT, Harvard, Brookhaven, Princeton
Tennessee Valley — Oak Ridge (Spallation Neutron Source)
Boulder, CO — NIST, University of Colorado
Boston–Devens — MIT, CFS, AMSC

National Laboratories

Universities

Industry & Applications