The Centre for Emergent Quantum Materials (CEQM) is dedicated to exploring the expanding class of quantum materials that display unconventional quantum properties persisting over mesoscopic length scales.

These quantum properties emerge from the unconventional winding of wavefunctions in quantum materials that fundamentally alter the character of electrons as they propagate. For instance, quantum materials can possess Hall effects in the absence of a magnetic field, magnetic moments without electron spin, and current flow with very little resistance. The growing list of new behavior unique to quantum materials is rapidly changing what was thought to be possible with materials and device engineering.

Conventional device technologies have focused on manipulating the free-particle-like properties of semiconductors, but the fundamentally different character of quantum materials demands a radically different approach. New quantum devices should be based on the intrinsic functionalities of quantum materials. The CEQM aims to use these quantum materials to re-imagine the conventional solid-state device toolbox, by creating new types of electronic, opto-electronic, optical, and magnetic devices.

Based in the School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, the CEQM comprises an international team of closely collaborating experimentalists and theorists. The CEQM activities are supported, through its investigators, by a Ministry of Education (MOE) AcRF Tier 3 Grant, several National Research Foundation (NRF) fellowships and Competitive Research Programme (CRP) grants.

• MOE Tier 3 "Geometrical Quantum Materials (GQMs)" ​
• NRF-CRP21 "Towards On-Chip Topological Quantum Devices" 
• NRF-CRP22 "Negative Capacitance Field-effect Transistor for Ultra-low-power Electronics" 
• MOE Tier 2 "Networks of Bose-Einstein Condenstates in Exciton-Polariton Lattices" 
• MOE Tier 2 "Room Temperature Optical Control of Polarion Condensate in Perovskite Nanowire" 
• NRF Fellowship "Interplay between Geometry and Topology: Effective Theories and Novel Manipulations in Low-dimensional Strongly Correlated Topological Materials" 
• NRF-CRP 22 "The next generation of spintronics with 2D heterostructures"