Condensed Matter Theory

该奖项支持物质的各种重要量子相的量子和统计力学的理论和计算研究和教育。这些包括：量子磁体和自旋玻璃，介观电系统中的量子相干性，微机械系统，冷凝物和光学晶格中原子的新相关状态，以及二维电子气体。量子光学思想在超导电路和光机械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应用于这些现象的研究。寻找、发展和研究新的具有广泛适用性的数值技术。这项工作具有很强的跨学科成分，它汇集了凝聚态物质，原子物理学和量子光学社区中使用的想法和方法，并将有助于促进这些团体之间的交流。这项研究还为未来网络基础设施的智力基础做出了贡献。研究生和博士后将通过与PI的密切互动和定期参加实验和理论小组会议得到重要的培训。本科生将有机会在适当的水平上进行暑期研究，这将扩大他们的经验基础，并为以后的毕业论文工作提供开始项目的机会。研究结果将在出版物、研讨会、座谈会和会议发言中广泛传播。在适当的情况下，PI还将在博尔德凝聚态物质和材料物理暑期学校以及他帮助组织的会议上传播这项工作的结果。

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.