Article ID: CBB001421697

The Beginnings of Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics in Rome: A Personal Remembrance (2014)

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This oral history interview provides a personal view on how theoretical condensed matter physics developed in Rome starting in the sixties of the last century. It then follows along the lines of research pursued by the interviewee up to the date of the interview, in March 2006. The topics considered range from the phenomenology of superfluid helium and superconductors, critical phenomena and renormalisation group approach, quantum fluids to strongly correlated electron systems and high temperature superconductors. Within these topics, fundamental problems of condensed matter physics are touched upon, such as the microscopic derivation of scaling, the metal-insulator transition and the interaction effects on disordered electron systems beyond the Anderson localisation, and the existence of heterogeneous states in cuprates.

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Authors & Contributors
Merchant, Paul
Chao Gu
Murphy, Hugh
Dunn, Rhonda Thayer
Denis, Philippe
Decker, M O
Concepts
Oral history
Interviews
Historical method
Superconductivity
History of science, as a discipline
Helium
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century
20th century, early
19th century
Places
China
Great Britain
West Africa
United States
South Africa
Japan
Institutions
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Cambridge University
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (United States)
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