Electronic and magnetic interactions in the presence of disorder provide for a wide variety of collective effects at low temperatures. They propose to study: (i) The Mott-Hubbard transition from the antiferromagnetic insulator to the correlated metal, both in the limit where Coulomb interactions alone dominate and where the effects of electron interactions and disorder are comparable. Experiments at milliKelvin temperatures above, below, and at the metal-insulator transition should help deconvulate these competing effects. (ii) The insulating properties of transition metal and rare earth oxides, where a description in terms of both electronic and magnetic glassiness appears to be most appropriate at low temperatures, and (iii) The correlation-enhanced metallic properties and the anisotropic superconducting order in heavy fermion compounds.

Agency
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Institute
Division of Materials Research (DMR)
Application #
8816817
Program Officer
H. Hollis Wickman
Project Start
Project End
Budget Start
1989-05-01
Budget End
1993-04-30
Support Year
Fiscal Year
1988
Total Cost
$324,400
Indirect Cost
Name
University of Chicago
Department
Type
DUNS #
City
Chicago
State
IL
Country
United States
Zip Code
60637