Project Details
Projekt
GRK 790: Electron-Electron Interactions in Solids
Subject Area
Condensed Matter Physics
Term
from 2002 to 2011
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 273463
The central research objective of our European research training group is a deeper understanding of electron-electron interactions in solids. Electron-electron interactions manifest themselves in many physical properties: superconductivity, magnetism, metal-to-insulator transitions driven by disorder as well as by interactions, and anomalous transport and relaxation properties in low-dimensional materials, for example. The scientists of the participating institutions in Marburg and in Budapest have a long-standing experience in the study of electronic many-particle interactions in solids which constitute a field of intense ongoing research worldwide.
Using various experimental, analytical and numerical methods, the graduate students in our research projects study the transport properties of the quasi-one-dimensional Bechgaard salts and of oligomers and polymers, they analyze the diffusion of adsorbates on surfaces, and investigate magnetic impurities in metals and semiconductors, and magnetic semiconductor systems. Further topics of their PhD-theses are many-particle interactions in ordered and disordered semiconductor structures and the incoherent relaxation of interacting optical excitations in semiconductors.
Our teaching program aims at a broad education on experimental and theoretical methods, an increase of human mobility, and a training of organizatorial skills.
A thorough study of electron-electron interactions in solids requires a whole range of experimental and theoretical tools which are taught in a `common lecture of the college' and special courses. The program is organized in close collaboration between the participating institutes in order to facilitate the mandatory six-month exchange of graduate fellows between Marburg and Budapest. The exchange of students as well as of lecturers allows the students to profit from the broad scope of experience and competence at both places.
Using various experimental, analytical and numerical methods, the graduate students in our research projects study the transport properties of the quasi-one-dimensional Bechgaard salts and of oligomers and polymers, they analyze the diffusion of adsorbates on surfaces, and investigate magnetic impurities in metals and semiconductors, and magnetic semiconductor systems. Further topics of their PhD-theses are many-particle interactions in ordered and disordered semiconductor structures and the incoherent relaxation of interacting optical excitations in semiconductors.
Our teaching program aims at a broad education on experimental and theoretical methods, an increase of human mobility, and a training of organizatorial skills.
A thorough study of electron-electron interactions in solids requires a whole range of experimental and theoretical tools which are taught in a `common lecture of the college' and special courses. The program is organized in close collaboration between the participating institutes in order to facilitate the mandatory six-month exchange of graduate fellows between Marburg and Budapest. The exchange of students as well as of lecturers allows the students to profit from the broad scope of experience and competence at both places.
DFG Programme
International Research Training Groups
International Connection
Hungary
Applicant Institution
Philipps-Universität Marburg
IRTG-Partner Institution
Budapesti Műszaki és Gazdaságtudományi Egyetem; Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS); Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Research Institute for
Solid State Physics and Optics
Research Institute for
Solid State Physics and Optics
Spokesperson
Professor Dr. Florian Gebhard
Cooperation Partners
Professor Dr. András Jánossy; Professor Dr. Sándor Kugler; Professor Dr. István László; Professor Dr. György Mihály; Privatdozent Dr. Karlo Penc; Professor Dr. János Pipek; Professor Dr. Jenö Sólyom; Privatdozent Dr. Imre Varga; Professor Dr. Gergely Zaránd; Professor Dr. Alfréd Zawadowski
Participating Researchers
Professor Dr. Sergei Baranovski; Professor Dr. Wolfram Heimbrodt; Professor Dr. Ulrich Höfer; Professor Dr. Heinz Julius Jänsch; Professor Dr. Mackillo Kira; Professor Dr. Stephan W. Koch (†); Professor Dr. Reinhard M. Noack; Professor Dr. Wolfgang Stolz; Professorin Dr. Kerstin Volz
IRTG-Partner: Spokesperson
Professor Dr. Attila Virosztek
