Quantum states of matter: from spin liquids to superconductors

凝聚态物理产生了推动数字和通信革命的技术和材料。自1990年以来，已经有10个诺贝尔奖颁发给凝聚态物理领域的工作，这一事实表明了凝聚态物理学的科学重要性。该提案汇集了来自澳大利亚、美国和英国的世界领先的化学家、实验物理学家和理论物理学家，共同开展高度跨学科的项目，旨在发现量子力学如何导致化学复杂材料的新特性。这类材料将对未来的技术至关重要，比如计算机存储器和医院核磁共振成像仪中的超导磁体。

Condensed matter physics has produced the technologies and materials that fuelled the digital and communications revolution. The scientific importance of condensed matter physics is indicated by the fact that ten Nobel prizes have been awarded for work in this field since 1990. This proposal brings together world leading chemists, experimental physicists and theoretical physicists from Australia, USA and UK to work on highly interdisciplinary projects designed to discover how quantum mechanics leads to the novel properties of chemically complex materials. Such materials will be of central importance to the technologies of the future such as computer memories and the superconducting magnets in hospital MRI machines.