Quantum System with Restricted Dimension - Potential for high temperature superconductivity in FeSe/SrTiO3

Quantum System with Restricted Dimension - Potential for high temperature superconductivity in FeSe/SrTiO3

Friday, May 24, 2013
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
(Pacific)
Stanford Center at Peking University
Speaker: 
  • SHEN Zhixun,
  • XIE Xincheng,
  • XUE Qi-kun

Quantum system with restricted dimension has emerged as the most fertile

ground for discoveries in condensed matter, as evidenced by the Nobel prize

winning discoveries of Cuprate High Temperature Superconductivity, Quantum

Hall Effect, Fractional Quantum Hall Effect, Giant Magnetoresistance, and

Graphene.  What we have seen is likely the tip of the iceberg - this field

will continue to drive key intellectual debates leading to new paradigms of

physics.  The recent report of FeSe monolayer with potential

superconductivity at very high temperature is an exciting development.  This

workshop brings together experts working on this problem for a focused

discussion on this and related phenomena. The goal is to identify key issues

for next round of experiments and theory, and to foster collaborations on

this subject.