Effective theory of high temperature superconductors

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The modern world, with its computers, mobile phones, navigation systems, etc. functions on basis of quantum mechanics, as applied to solid state physics. Just as the dicovery of semiconductors ushered this new era half a century ago, new materials such as high temperature superconductors or carbon based nanotubes and graphene promise spectacular new technological developments. However, basic physical mechanisms operating in these materails and governing their conductive properties are at the moment rather poorly understood, and seem completely different from the known ones. My research hopes to contribute to the understanding of the physical problems posed by these new classes of materials. The goal is to, through discovery of new physical mechanisms, speed up the technological development, and at the same time use the new knowledge to understand some other relate fundamental problems in physics, such as some forms of the Bose - Einstein condensation, and the quark confinement.