CMT Groups overview
Overview of the main research areas
Group of Dr. Irene Aguilera
- First-principles calculations of ground state and excited state properties
- Electronic and optical properties of materials for spintronics, photonics and photovoltaics
- Density functional theory and many-body perturbation theory
- Topological matter, 2D materials, van der Waals heterostructures
- Materials with strong spin-orbit interactions
Group of Prof. Dr. Jean-Sébastien Caux
- Strongly correlated systems: cold atomic gases, quantum spin systems, quantum dots and quantum wires
- Integrable models
- Equilibrium and out-of-equilibrium phenomena
- Nonperturbative theoretical methods
Group of Dr. Philippe Corboz
- Strongly correlated electron systems
- Novel states of matter in quantum spin systems
- Development of numerical methods for many-body systems
- Tensor network algorithms and Monte Carlo methods
Group of Dr. Vladimir Gritsev
- Strongly-correlated systems
- Exactly solvable models and field theory
- Non-equilibrium quantum dynamics
- Quantum optics
Group of Dr. Sara Jabbari Farouji
- Soft condensed matter and statistical Physics
- Active matter
- Supramolecular self-assembly and Polymer physics
- Deformation of solid-like polymers
Group of Dr. Edan Lerner
- Marginal stability in disordered materials
- Emergence of solidity & the `jamming' transition
- The elasto-plastic yielding transition
- Mechanics of bio-materials
Group of Dr. Clélia de Mulatier
- Physics of data, development of methods for solving inverse problems (statistical inference, Bayesian model selection; information theory)
- Classical spin models with high-order interactions (properties and inverse problem)
- Statistical physics of complex systems; theory and simulation (e.g. emergent phenomena, out-of-equilibrium properties)
- Stochastic processes in/out-of-equilibrium; branching processes, anomalous diffusion
Group of Prof. Dr. Theo M. Nieuwenhuizen
- Condensed matter and statistical physics
- Theoretical modeling of ideal quantum measurements
- Dark matter and structure formation in the early universe
Group of Dr. Emilia Olsson
- Atomic scale design of functional materials
- Crystalline, disordered, and amorphous materials
- Bulk, surface, and interface structures
- Density functional theory simulations and molecular dynamics
Group of Prof. Dr. Kareljan Schoutens
- Topological phases of matter as realised in fractional quantum Hall systems and cold atomic matter
- Non-Abelian braid statistics and topological quantum computation
- Quantum information: quantum simulation and quantum control of multi-qubit registers
- Supersymmetric lattice models: mathematical structure and field theory connections
Group of Dr. Jasper van Wezel
- Strongly correlated electron systems
- Competing instabilities in electronically ordered materials
- Emergent phenomena in quantum information
- Consequences of spontaneous symmetry breaking