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The future of the correlated electron problem
Abstract
A central problem in modern condensed matter physics is the understanding of materials with strong electron correlations. Despite extensive work, the essential physics of many of these systems is not understood and there is very little ability to make predictions in this class of materials. In this manuscript we share our personal views on the major open problems in the field of correlated electron systems. We discuss some possible routes to make progress in this rich and fascinating field. This manuscript is the result of the vigorous discussions and deliberations that took place at Johns Hopkins University during a three-day workshop January 27, 28, and 29, 2020 that brought together six senior scientists and 46 more junior scientists. Our hope, is that the topics we have presented will provide inspiration for others working in this field and motivation for the idea that significant progress can be made on very hard problems if we focus our collective energies.
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Alexandradinata, Aris [Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)], Armitage, N. Peter [Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD (United States)] (ORCID:0000000175682059), Baydin, Andrey [Rice Univ., Houston, TX (United States)], Bi, Wenli [Univ. of Alabama, Birmingham, AL (United States)], Cao, Yue [Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)], Changlani, Hitesh [Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL (United States). National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (MagLab)] (ORCID:0000000185831281), Chertkov, Eli [Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)], Da Silva Neto, Eduardo [Univ. of California, Davis, CA (United States); Yale Univ., New Haven, CT (United States)], Delacrétaz, Luca V. [Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States)] (ORCID:0000000160785530), El Baggari, Ismail [Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY (United States)], Ferguson, Michael Sven [Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY (United States)], Gannon, William J. [Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY (United States)], Ali Akbar Ghorashi, Sayed [College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA (United States)], Goodge, Berit H. [Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY (United States)], Goulko, Olga [Boise State Univ., ID (United States); Univ. of Massachusetts, Boston, MA (United States)] (ORCID:0000000318950904), Grissonnanche, Gaël [Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY (United States)], Hallas, Alannah [Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC (Canada)], Hayes, Ian [Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States)], He, Yu [Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Yale Univ., New Haven, CT (United States)] (ORCID:0000000304254529), Huang, Edwin [Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)] (ORCID:0000000262509529), Kogar, Anshul [Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)], Kumah, Divine [North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC (United States)], Lee, Jong Yeon [Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States)], Legros, A. [Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD (United States)], Mahmood, Fahad [Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)], Maximenko, Yulia [Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)], Pellatz, Nick [Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States)], Polshyn, Hryhoriy [Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA (United States)], Sarkar, Tarapada [Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States)], Scheie, Allen [Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)] (ORCID:0000000274505138), Seyler, Kyle [California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States)], Shi, Zhenzhong [Duke Univ., Durham, NC (United States)], Skinner, Brian [The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH (United States)] (ORCID:0000000307743563), Steinke, Lucia [Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL (United States). National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (MagLab)], Thirunavukkuarasu, K. [Florida A & M University, Tallahassee, FL (United States)], Victa Trevisan, Thaís [Ames Laboratory (AMES), Ames, IA (United States)], Vogl, Michael [King Fahd Univ. of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran (Saudi Arabia)], Volkov, Pavel [Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ (United States)] (ORCID:0000000175869788), Wang, Yao [Clemson Univ., SC (United States)], Wang, Yishu [Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD (United States)], Wei, Di [Stanford Univ., CA (United States)], Wei, Kaya [Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL (United States). National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (MagLab)], Yang, Shuolong [Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States)], Zhang, Xian [Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ (United States)], Zhang, Ya-Hui [Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States)], Zhao, Liuyan [Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)], Zong, Alfred [Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States); Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)]. 2025-06-25. The future of the correlated electron problem. https://doi.org/10.21468/scipostphyscommrep.8
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