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{\Large \bf Quantum Transport Theory Group}\\

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Professor &:&Hidetoshi~Fukuyama\\
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   Properties of materials around us are truly diverse but the unifying 
understandings of these are possible by the theory of condensed matter 
physics based on quantum mechanics. This branch of science, which is 
founded on solid basis, is healthy as a natural science since it is 
always motivated by various types of experiments, and will further 
expand its research targets into the interdisciplinary fields between 
chemistry and biology. Among many properties, the transport properties 
of condensed matter reflect very subtle features of the quantum effects, 
which is the research target of this group. More explicitly,

\noindent 1. Exploration of diversities and systematics of molecular solids\\
\hspace*{8mm} -- Charge ordering, and magnetic and superconducting phase transitions\\
\noindent 2. Metal-Insulator transition in transition metal oxides\\
\hspace*{8mm} -- Phase transition of strongly correlated systems with disorder,
 i.e. Mott\\ 
\hspace*{12mm} transition and Anderson transition.\\
\noindent 3. Dielectric properties in disordered spin-Peierls systems\\
\hspace*{8mm} -- Disorder-induced antiferromagnetic long range order and dielectric anomalies\\
\noindent 4.  Persistent currents in finite systems\\
\hspace*{8mm} -- Magnetization of superconducting proximity systems and orbital magnetism\\
\hspace*{12mm} in nanoscopic systems\\
\noindent 5.  Electrical conductivity of DNA\\
\hspace*{8mm} -- Possible carrier doping into molecular solids

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* No plan to accept graduate students for the academic year of 2004.\\

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