Simulating strongly correlated fermions opens the door to practical superconductor applications
Sunday, March 18, 2012 - 13:00
in Physics & Chemistry
Combining known factors in a new way, theoretical physicists Boris Svistunov and Nikolai Prokof'ev at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, with three alumni of their group, have solved an intractable 50-year-old problem: How to simulate strongly interacting quantum systems to allow accurate predictions of their properties.