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Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Physik I
Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg Mail: l-tp1@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de Url: http://theorie.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/TP1/ |
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Research foci (and basic equipment-based research projects):
Central theme of the scientific work in the chair for solid-state physics is the study of co-operative phenomena in quantum mechanic interacting many-body systems. The central issue is: How do the interaction and the collective behavior of the microscopic degrees of freedom of the electrons (spin, charge etc.) and of the ionic lattice induce the complex phase diagram of novel solid-state systems? The transition metal oxides represent an ideal material class to study these effects and therefore establish a common bridge for the systems studied. However, also semiconductors and, in particular, their surfaces are in the center of the scientific activities of the chair.
Results:
Specifically in the high-Tc superconductors, it could be shown on the basis of supercomputing simulations that these technologically extremely interesting compounds have as their basis for superconductivity a new pairing mechanism. This pairing mechanism is of purely electronic nature (magnetic nature) and is immediately responsible for the high transition temperatures. Also in other areas of novel materials? science, the so far mostly empirical search for improved material properties could be replaced by a systematic ?first-principle? understanding of the various phenomena.
Rewards and prizes:
The chair holder has been elected in various leading supercomputing scientific council position, such as at HLRS Stuttgart and the LRZ Munich. He has also been elected as a permanent member of the commission for informatics at the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften Munich.
Equipment:
The chair has a sufficient number of modern scientific workplaces, equipped with Unix workstation, suited for parallel computations. All important tools for rapid software development for high performance computers as well as for the analysis of the produced
data are available.
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Chair of Theoretical Physics I - University of Wuerzburg