Conveners
CB. Strongly Correlated Systems
- Vito Scarola (Virginia Tech)
Fei Lin
(Virginia Tech)
10/20/11, 10:45 AM
Invited
Fullerenes (C20, C36, C60) are a family of Carbon cage molecules that have exactly twelve pentagons. The most famous Fullerene is C60 ("bucky ball"), which when being doped with three electrons per molecule will exhibit superconductivity. Here we describe electronic structures of these molecules with a tight-binding Hubbard model and solve the model with quantum Monte Carlo simulations and...
Ribhu Kaul
(University of Kentucky)
10/20/11, 11:15 AM
Invited
Co Nb_2 O_6 is a remarkable magnetic material. The interplay between two of the most exciting features of correlated quantum physics, quantum criticality and geometric frustration, results in a rich phase diagram which reflects the fundamental underlying quantum many-body physics in this complex oxide material. Many aspects of the theoretically calculated phase diagram and expectations for...
Prof.
David Hilton
(University of Alabama at Birmingham)
10/20/11, 11:45 AM
Invited
In correlated electronic systems, observed electronic and structural behavior results from the complex interplay between multiple, sometimes competing degrees-of- freedom. One such material used to study insulator-to-metal transitions is vanadium dioxide, which undergoes a phase transition from a monoclinic-insulating phase to a rutile-metallic phase when the sample is heated to 340 K. The...
Enrico Rossi
(College of William and Mary)
10/20/11, 12:15 PM
Invited
An exciton is a quasiparticle state formed by an electron bound to a "hole." Many years ago it was proposed theoretically that a population of excitons can condense into a spontaneously broken symmetry ground state characterized by excitonic superfluidity. The quest for the experimental realization of the exciton condensate has lasted decades. Recently bilayer systems have emerged as some of...
