Conductor-Insulator Quantum Phase Transitions Workshop
This international workshop, scheduled for January 9-11, 2008 at The Ohio State University, will highlight the current progress and fundamental open questions on quantum phase transitions between conducting and insulating phases in low dimensional systems. Such quantum criticality is likely to be of key importance to many materials that find themselves close to an insulating state.
CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF ANDERSON LOCALIZATION
Before the banquet, Phil Anderson will present a historical perspective on his classic 1958 paper, “Absence of diffusion in certain random lattices." Download flyer.
The conceptual understanding of such phase transitions has proven difficult and challenging to achieve since the very nature of the elementary excitations, which are different in the two phases, becomes completely ill-defined at the transition. Over the last few years fascinating new results have started to emerge in this field, both on the experimental and theoretical fronts. We believe that the time is right to bring together distinguished experts working in several areas associated with the conductor-insulator criticality.
The workshop will focus on experiment and theoretical developments in the areas of:
- Superconductor-insulator transition
- Metal-Insulator transition in two dimensional electron gases
- Pseudogap behavior in underdoped high Tc cuprates
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For more information, please contact Arshad Javed ajaved@magnet.fsu.edu at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory.
