Scialog award will help Cornell chemist research quantum entanglement

Youn Jue (Eunice) Bae, assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology in the College of Arts and Sciences, is a member of a team that's won funding from the inaugural Scialog Award focused on Quantum Matter and Information.

Bae is part of the three-person group researching "Quantum Entanglement of Skyrmion-Antiskyrmion Pairs." She and her teammates, Serena Eley, University of Washington and Kazuki Ikeda, University of Massachusetts Boston, will combine theoretical calculation and experiments to predict reliable ways to generate entangled pairs of tiny whirlpool-like magnetic structures, called skymrions, and their counterparts, antiskyrmions. Each of the three researchers will receive $60,000 in direct costs as part of the award.

Presented by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA), Scialog (short for "science + dialogue") Awards aim to accelerate breakthroughs by building creative networks of scientists from the U.S. and Canada and stimulating conversation around scientific themes of global importance.

In recent years, Scialog Awards on various themes have been given to Cornell researchers Phillip Milner, associate professor of chemistry and chemical biology (A&S); Anna H.Q. Ho, assistant professor of astronomy (A&S) and Antonio Fernandez-Ruiz, assistant professor and Nancy and Peter Meinig Family Investigator in the Life Sciences.