Research Interests
The collective behavior of matter can give rise to surprising emergent
properties inconceivable from its constituent elements.
Well known examples are magnetism and superconductivity.
The focus of my research is strongly correlated
electron systems in low dimensions, a very fertile area to find these new
emergent properties. In strongly correlated electron systems
the electron interaction dominates the motion of the electrons
and cannot be described with the standard theory of metals
(Fermi liquid theory).
Furthermore, in low dimensions
quantum fluctuations are unavoidable. Due to
this complex interplay between the
strong interactions and quantum fluctuations,
strongly correlated electron systems present rich
phase diagrams that can include conventional phases such as
BCS superconductivity, antiferromagnetism,
ferromagnetism, etc, and some other phases presenting new physics.
The characterization and the microscopic description of these phases is
a field of intense debate in condensed matter theory.
In particular I am interested in the following fields:
Conferences
We organized the first edition of the conference
"The New Generation in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems",
which was held in 2010, Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain.
The second edition was held in July 2011
in Santiago de Compostela and the
third edition will be held in Portoroz, Slovenia, in June 2012.
Selected seminars
Some of my collaborators
Elena (Leni) Bascones Instituto de
Ciencias Materiales de Madrid, Spain
Maria José
Calderón
Instituto de
Ciencias Materiales de Madrid, Spain
Maria Angeles Hernández Vozmediano Instituto de
Ciencias Materiales de Madrid, Spain
Dionys Baeriswyl Theoretical
Physics Group,
University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Simone Fratini
Laboratoire d'Etudes des Proprietes Electroniques des Solides
(CNRS), Grenoble (France)
Interesting Links
In these pages you can learn more about superconductors, BCS theory and
the fascinating history of superconductivity,
Superconductividad
Superconductors.org
Superconductivity
