Research
 
  1. • Highly-correlated electron phenomena, high-temperature superconductivity, magnetism and  heavy-fermion physics.
  2. • Physics at surfaces, dynamics, electronic and geometrical structure.
  3. • Quantum liquids.
  4. • Equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics.
  5. • Breakdown phenomena in disordered materials.
  6. • First-principles calculations of electronic and structural properties.
  7. • Phase transitions, classical and quantum critical phenomena.
  8. • Semiconductors, mesoscopics and quantum dots.
  9. • Quantum statistical mechanics and field theory.
  10. • Thermodynamics, transport and localization in disordered systems.
  11. • Quantum Computation.
  12. • Mathematical physics, rigorous results in statistical mechanics and quantum field theory.
New mathematical principles, involving the quantum field theory of many body systems, are required to understand the collective behavior of matter on diverse scales.  The Rutgers group has pioneered some of these new methods - with the development of the scaling theory of localization in metals, the first exact solution of the Kondo model,  the development of new methods for exploring ferroelectricity and hydrogen bonds with density functional theory, the invention of the slave boson method and dynamical mean field theory.
 
The quest to understand the  principles that  govern collective behavior of matter, from the coldest quantum fluids to the simplest biological systems, poses a new frontier for 21st century science. The Rutgers Center for Materials Theory is developing the tools, the models and the new concepts needed to explore this new  world.
Spanning   the frontier of condensed matter physics