Boulder School 2014: Modern Aspects of Superconductivity

June 30-July 25, 2014

Scientific Coordinators

Andrey Chubukov (U Wisconsin)
Dan Dessau (CU Boulder)
Leo Radzihovsky (CU Boulder) 
Fbouquet), LPS, Orsay, France
 
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The 2014 Boulder school will concentrate on modern aspects of superconductivity. Superconductivity is a well-known phenomenon – it has been around for over 100 years, and BCS theory for conventional s-wave superconductors is over 50 years old. Over the last few decades, however, the field of superconductivity witnessed a remarkable renewal of interest in the physics community. A number of reasons exist for this, including the discovery of unconventional (not ordinary s-wave) superconductivity in cuprates, heavy-fermions, and organic superconductors, and, more recently, in Fe-pnictides and Fe-chalcogenides as well as the fact that superconductivity in all these materials likely originates from screened Coulomb interactions rather than from electron-phonon interactions. Another, arguably the most fundamental reason, is that superconductivity in these novel materials emerges from a normal state that is very different from a conventional Fermi liquid. Finally there is the hope, based on specific theoretical predictions and non-stop improvements of the experimental techniques, to obtain chiral superconductivity, which would breaks time-reversal symmetry and exhibit a wealth of fascinating properties that are highly sought after for nano-science applications.


Group Photo

 

Boulder School 2014 Group Photo

Public Lecture

Professor Steven Kivelson, “Superconductivity: Quantum Mechanics at a Human Scale” in Duane Physics Building, Rm. G1B20 on Wednesday, July 9, 2014 at 7pm. Click here for YouTube video.

 Quantum Mechanics at a Human Scale" in Duane Physics Building, Rm. G1B20 on Wednesday, July 9, 2014 at 7pm

 

Lecturers and seminar speakers

  • Greg Boebinger, NHMFL, Tallahassee, FL
  • Piers Coleman, Rutgers University
  • Liang Fu, MIT
  • Jenny Hoffman, Harvard
  • Bernhard Keimer, Max-Planck Institute for Solid State Physics, Stuttgart
  • Steven Kivelson, Stanford University
  • John Martinis, UC-Santa Barbara
  • Yuji Matsuda, Kyoto University, Japan
  • Andrew Millis, Columbia University
  • Joseph Orenstein, UC-Berkeley
  • Arun Paramekanti,  University of Toronto
  • Mohit Randeria, Ohio State University
  • Subir Sachdev, Harvard University
  • Manfred Sigrist, Institute for Theoretical Physics, ETZ, Zurich
  • Xiao-Gang Wen*, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Canada