Boulder School 2025: Dynamics of Strongly Correlated Electrons
June 30-July 25, 2025
Scientific Coordinators
Debanjan Chowdhury (Cornell)
Sean Hartnoll (Cambridge)
Minhyea Lee (CU Boulder)
Andrew Lucas (CU Boulder)
Director: Leo Radzihovsky (CU Boulder)
Top left: “Local current ow illustrating ohmic (top) vs. viscous (bottom) electronic transport regime” (arxiv/2202.02798); Top right: “Numerically obtained phase diagram with high-temperature superconductivity and non-Fermi liquid transport near a nematic quantum critical point in a metal” (Lederer et al., PNAS 2017); Bottom left: “A moiré superlattice, realized in a bilayer graphene, as a tunable correlated electron system with a rich phase diagram”; Bottom right: “A broad variety of quantum materials with linear-in-temperature resistivity consistent with a “Planckian” scattering time” (Science.339(6121) pp. 804-807).
The past few decades have seen tremendous progress in the study of quantum materials with strongly correlated electrons, both in theory and in experiment. At the same time, many important challenges remain. We still lack a full theory of high-temperature superconductivity and the adjacent strange metal phase. New materials are being discovered, including twisted van der Waals heterostructures, which experimentally probe regimes requiring new theoretical frameworks.
This school focuses on some of the profound and long-standing challenges and mysteries in the field of correlated quantum materials, and covers both theoretical and experimental advances. Experimental topics include the quantum chemistry of correlated electron systems, to novel platforms such as Moiré materials, to state-of-the-art techniques to detect quasiparticles (or the lack thereof) in material systems. Theoretical topics will include transport and hydrodynamic theory, quantum phase transitions and superconductivity, application of quantum field theory methods to correlated metals, and computational method.
Group Photo
Public Lecture
Lecturers
Peter Armitage (Johns Hopkins)
Debanjan Chowdhury (Cornell)
Andrey Chubukov (Minnesota)
Luca Delacrétaz (Chicago)
Dan Dessau (Boulder)
Mike Hermele (Boulder)
Philip Kim (Harvard)
Steven Kivelson (Stanford)
Minhyea Lee (Boulder)
Leonid Levitov (MIT)
Andy Lucas (Boulder)
Allan MacDonald (UT Austin)
Andrew Mackenzie (MPI-CPfS)
Dmitrii Maslov (Florida)
Umang Mehta (Boulder)
Margaret Murnane (JILA)
Frank Pollmann (TU Munich)
Subir Sachdev (Harvard)
Jie Shan (Cornell)
Senthil Todadri (MIT)
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