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Cours de Physique (2/9)
Chaire internationale de recherche Blaise Pascal
Strongly Correlated Electron Systems are materials whose behavior does not fit the predictions of the “Standard Model of Solids” based on Fermi liquid theory. Instead they display extraordinary properties such as large variations in resistivities near a Mott transition, large volume collapses in rare earth and actinides, colossal magnetoresistance in manganites and high temperature superconductivity in copper oxides.

Dynamical Mean Field Theory methods (DMFT) are promising tools for constructing a theoretical framework for the description of these systems. These nine lectures will provide a general introduction to DMFT for strongly correlated materials and will cover the following topics:
– Introduction to strongly correlated materials. Overview of the lectures.
– Weakly correlated electrons. Fermi Liquid Theory. Density Functional Theory.
– Quantum impurity models.
– Introduction to DMFT and its applications to strongly correlated systems (e.g. transition metal oxides, heavy fermions…)
– Finite temperature Mott transition within single site DMFT. Comparison to experiments.
– First principles calculations with DMFT. Applications to actinides.
– High temperature superconductivity: phenomenology and Cluster DMFT methods.

Rutgers University – CPhT Polytechnique – SPhT CEA/Saclay