The Quantum Light-Matter Cooperative’s (QLMC) mission is to understand, design, and ultimately control light-driven physical processes to help solve interconnected socio-technological challenges.

We work on groundbreaking frameworks for filming the quantum world – in essence, we are quantum documentary filmmakers. This work is enabled by developing novel instruments that orchestrate and capture images of electronic, atomic, and molecular motion in action with unprecedented precision. Our research is founded on the following four intersecting areas that seed new concepts, theory, and experiments in the advancement of ultrafast photon sciences and light-matter interactions:

Ultrafast Sciences & Molecular Dynamics

Scientific Epistemology in Critically Representative Science & Technology

Partner Institutions

The QLMC is a research consortium located across various areas in California: the UCLA School of Engineering (headquarters), the UCLA Physics Science Division, Stanford University’s Photon Science Directorate, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory’s Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) Directorate, the UCLA Center for Quantum Science and Engineering (CQSE), and the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI).

Sponsors