Condensed Matter Seminar

Strongly correlated superconductivity: what are we learning from

Prof. Gabi Kotliar
Rutger University
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Higgins 235, 2 pm

Motivated by the discovery of high temperature superconductivity, there has been a large effort to understand the nature of the superconductivity that emerges in the proximity to a Mott insulating state. In this talk I will explain the main ideas behind CDMFT (Cellular Dynamical Mean Field Theory), and present recent results obtained with this method for the Hubbard and the t-J model. We will compare these results to those of earlier static slave boson mean field theories and to numerous experiments in cuprate superconductors.