Our group is focused on the study of elementary quantum mechanical phenomena in interacting electron systems, in particular electron-self organization in doped Mott insulators (viz. “stripes”) and other forms of topological order, edge and interface effects in oxide devices, and collective excitations in interacting electron systems, particularly those that soften near a quantum critical point.

 

Our work involves both in-house sample fabrication and scattering experiments national facilities, including the National Synchrotron Light Source at Brookhaven National Laboratory (where we co-operate the undulator beam line X1B), the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory, and (recently) the Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

 

We are mainly funded by the Office of Basic

Energy Sciences at the U.S. Department of

Energy.