Theoretical Modelling of Materials with Novel Electronic Properties
This project combines three groups of theorists, led by Dionys Baeriswyl (University of Fribourg), Frederic Mila and Maurice Rice (ETH Zürich) and Manfred Sigrist (ETH Zürich) with the goal of developing a deeper understanding of novel physical phenomena and effects in materials of interest. Where possible, we strive for a close collaboration and engagement with experiment, since successful interchange between theory and experiment is the key to success in this field.
The activities are spread over several projects covering a number of materials. The main themes are drawn from the fields of unconventional superconductivity, metal-insulator transitions and quantum magnetism. In all cases there are strong interactions between the electrons and their motion is strongly correlated, which poses a challenge to theory. Numerical simulations are an important tool to supplement analytic methods.
References:
[1] F. Mila et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 85 (2000), 1714.
[2] M. Zhitomirsky and T.M. Rice, Phys. Rev. Lett. 87 (2001), 057001.
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