An Indian researcher is aiming to explore the new and uncharted frontier of quantum materials and is working on a theoretical understanding of 'strange metals' related to high-temperature superconductors.
According to the Science and Technology Ministry statement, Subhro Bhattacharjee, Associate Professor at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Bengaluru.
They give rise to magnets, semiconductors and superconductors, due to subtle interplay of quantum mechanics and interaction between the electrons present inside the material.
In spite of its remarkable success, the current theoretical framework to describe collective electronic behaviour of such quantum materials and will severe limitations and calls for fundamentally new ideas to capture the above interplay.
Prof. Bhattacharjee's research helps to provide a generalised paradigm to understanding the plethora of novel electronic properties in such quantum systems. "This research will help to bridge the gap between theory and experiments of these phases and provide key insights into the non-trivial role of quantum mechanics that shapes the correlated behaviour of electrons in these strange metals," he said.
A rather bizarre phenomenon called quantum entanglement has been found to play the central role in stabilising these electronic phases of matter in many candidate materials around us.
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