Research interests

 

Mesoscopic and Nano- systems:

 

Quantum dots

 

  • Hidden symmetries
  • Exotic Kondo effects
  • Ballistic and diffusive transport
  • Effects of disorder
  • Dephasing and decoherence
  • Systems out of equilibrium

 

Molecular transistors

 

  • Single electron transport
  • Kondo Shuttling
  • Fano effect

One-dimensional systems

 

  • Luttinger liquids
  • Quantum wires
  • Spin chains and ladders

 

 

Strongly correlated electron systems:

 

Heavy Fermions

 

  • Kondo lattices
  • Itinerant and localized magnetism
  • Resonance Valence Bonds, spin liquids
  • Unconventional  superconductivity
  • Spin glasses
  • Competing orders vs disorder
  • Non-Fermi-Liquids

 

High temperature superconductors

 

  • Non-phonon superconductivity
  • Coexistence of magnetism and superconductivity
  • Spin and Charge fluctuations
  • Metal-Insulator Transition
  • Quantum Critical Phenomena