Novel Collective Properties of Quantum Systems

理论凝聚态物理学的研究将是 致力于从根本上了解分数 带电准粒子，包括如何在理论上 描述它们的特征以及如何通过实验观察它们。 其他 新的集体行为的研究将在 有限温度自旋液体状态的简单模型 受抑反铁磁体，超导的性质 态的量子硬核二聚体模型，和过渡 从无自旋导体（孤子金属）到普通金属， 在导电聚合物中观察到。

Research in theoretical condensed matter physics will be undertaken to obtain a fundamental understanding of fractionally charged quasi-particles, including how to theoretically characterize them and how to observe them experimentally. Other studies of novel collective behavior will be conducted on the finite temperature spin-liquid state of simple models of frustrated antiferromagnets, the nature of the superconducting state in the quantum hard-core dimer model, and the transition from a spinless conductor (soliton metal) to normal metal as has been observed in conducting polymers.