The workshop on experiment and theory of the electronic structure of correlated f-electron materials will be held on the campus of Temple University in Philadelphia, PA, USA on August 15-17, 2016.
The program will comprise invited talks (list of confirmed speakers here) and a selection of contributed talks as well as a poster session on the second day. All attendees are encouraged to present at the workshop although it is not required for attendance.
Synopsis and Scope
The novel quantum phases of highly-correlated materials often involve renormalization of near Fermi-energy states and the breaking of symmetries. Therefore, understanding these novel phases necessitates detailed knowledge of the electronic states close to the Fermi-energy, their characters and their interactions. Existing experimental spectroscopic techniques have been able to elucidate much of the essential physics, by mapping out the near Fermi-energy states, identifying the nesting conditions leading to instabilities and the reconstruction of Fermi-surface.
There have also been rapid developments of new experimental probes. Such recent and exciting developments include time-resolved and spin-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, THz-pump THz/IR/optical probe spectroscopy, ultrafast resonant coherent diffraction and holography, ultrafast high-harmonic generation, resonant inelastic x-ray scattering, non-linear optical spectroscopy and related techniques in which x-rays probe equilibrium and non-equilibrium electronic structures. Time-resolved techniques not only yield information about the electronic structure, but also provide information about the time-scales over which correlations relax thereby providing information on the origins of the interactions and electronic correlations.
The conference will bring together a mixture of researchers in the diverse fields of novel spectroscopies and highly-correlated f-electrons in order to explore opportunities at the frontier of condensed matter physics, close the gap between theory and experiment and spur the career development of budding researchers.
The program will comprise invited talks (list of confirmed speakers here) and a selection of contributed talks as well as a poster session on the second day. All attendees are encouraged to present at the workshop although it is not required for attendance.
Synopsis and Scope
The novel quantum phases of highly-correlated materials often involve renormalization of near Fermi-energy states and the breaking of symmetries. Therefore, understanding these novel phases necessitates detailed knowledge of the electronic states close to the Fermi-energy, their characters and their interactions. Existing experimental spectroscopic techniques have been able to elucidate much of the essential physics, by mapping out the near Fermi-energy states, identifying the nesting conditions leading to instabilities and the reconstruction of Fermi-surface.
There have also been rapid developments of new experimental probes. Such recent and exciting developments include time-resolved and spin-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, THz-pump THz/IR/optical probe spectroscopy, ultrafast resonant coherent diffraction and holography, ultrafast high-harmonic generation, resonant inelastic x-ray scattering, non-linear optical spectroscopy and related techniques in which x-rays probe equilibrium and non-equilibrium electronic structures. Time-resolved techniques not only yield information about the electronic structure, but also provide information about the time-scales over which correlations relax thereby providing information on the origins of the interactions and electronic correlations.
The conference will bring together a mixture of researchers in the diverse fields of novel spectroscopies and highly-correlated f-electrons in order to explore opportunities at the frontier of condensed matter physics, close the gap between theory and experiment and spur the career development of budding researchers.
Sponsored by the National Science Foundation