Research at the Institute of Solid State Physics

Electrons in condensed matter are the main object of investigation at the Institute of Solid State Physics. Different material systems are investigated, ranging from single magnetic molecules to spin chains, thin films and multilayers to three-dimensional metals.

It is characteristic that in all materials the interaction of the electrons with each other is decisive for the properties. These are many-particle quantum systems that cannot be understood with one-particle band models, as is the case with simple semiconductors, for example.  These systems show basic states such as superconductivity, ferro- and antiferromagnetism, spin fluids, charge and spin density waves, which can only be described within the framework of modern multi-particle quantum theory and offer new properties and functionalities.

High temperature copper and iron pnictide superconductors, rare earth metals with frustrated magnetic interactions, heavy fermion superconductors, one-dimensional quantum spin chains, molecular magnets, and much more are investigated. The submenu items on the left lead to the topics on which more detailed information has already been provided by the three working groups located directly at the TU. Click here for our working groups at the Dresden-Rossendorf High Magnetic Field Laboratory, the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids and the Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research.