The institute
The IFMP is located in the Recknagel-Bau on the central campus of the TU Dresden and accommodates a total of 7 work groups. It belongs to the Dresden Solid State Physics, which is one of the strongest in Germany and Europe and is involved in large coordinated research projects, especially the GRK 1621, the SFB 1143 and the new Cluster of Excellence "Complexity and Topology in Quantum Matter" (ct.qmat).
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Field of work
The IFMP deals with the electronic and structural properties of condensed matter. We investigate various material systems, ranging from single magnetic molecules to quasi one-dimensional spin chains, thin films and multilayers to three-dimensional solid state systems. A key feature of all studied materials the interaction of the electrons with each other, which is decisive for their physical properties. These many-particle quantum systems cannot be understood with conventional one-particle band models, as is the case with simple semiconductors, for example. Specifically, we investigate high-temperature superconductors based on cuprate and iron pnictide, rare-earth metals with frustrated magnetic interactions, heavy-fermion superconductors, one-dimensional quantum spin chains, molecular magnets and much more.
These systems exhibit unconventional and fascinating ground states such as superconductivity, spin-liquids or spontaneous charge, orbital and spin order, which can only be described within the framework of modern multi-particle quantum theories and which offer new properties and functionalities.