Condensed Matter Theory

该奖项支持理论和计算研究和教育的量子和统计力学的各种重要的量子阶段的物质。其中包括：量子磁体和自旋玻璃，介观电子系统中的量子相干性，微机械系统，凝聚体和光学晶格中原子的新关联态，以及二维电子气。量子光学思想在超导电路和光机系统中的应用和扩展将继续得到发展。分析以及量子和经典蒙特卡罗和其他数值技术将被应用到这些现象的研究。将寻求、发展和研究具有广泛适用性的新的数值技术。这项工作具有很强的跨学科组成部分，汇集了凝聚态物质，原子物理学和量子光学社区中使用的思想和方法，并将有助于促进这些群体之间的沟通。这项研究还有助于为未来的网络基础设施奠定知识基础。研究生和博士后研究员将通过与PI的密切互动以及定期参加实验和理论小组会议来获得重要的培训。本科生将有机会在适当的水平做暑期研究，这将导致扩大他们的经验基础，并为以后的高级论文工作启动项目提供机会。将在出版物、研讨会、座谈会和会议介绍中广泛传播成果。在适当的情况下，PI还将传播这项工作的结果在博尔德暑期学校凝聚态物质和材料物理和会议，他帮助组织。

This award supports theoretical and computational research and education on the quantum and statistical mechanics of diverse important quantum phases of matter. These include: quantum magnets and spin glasses, quantum coherence in mesoscopic electrical systems, micro-mechanical systems, novel correlated states of atoms in condensates and optical lattices, and two-dimensional electron gases. Applications and extensions of quantum optics ideas for superconducting circuits and opto-mechanical systems will continue to be developed. Analytical as well as quantum and classical Monte Carlo and other numerical techniques will be applied to the study of these phenomena. New numerical techniques with wide applicability will be sought, developed and investigated. This work has a strong interdisciplinary component which brings together ideas and methods used in the condensed matter, atomic physics and quantum optics communities and will help foster communication among these groups. The research also contributes to the intellectual foundations of future cyberinfrastructure. Graduate students and postdoctoral fellows will receive significant training through close interactions with the PI and regular attendance at the experimental and theoretical group meetings. Undergraduates will have an opportunity to do summer research at an appropriate level which will lead to broadening their base of experience and provide opportunities for starting projects for later senior thesis work. Results will be widely disseminated in publications, seminars, colloquia and conference presentations. Where appropriate, the PI will also disseminate results of this work at the Boulder Summer School for Condensed Matter and Materials Physics and conferences which he helps organize.