Project Grant 2414465

Award Date 4/1/25
Completion Date 3/31/29
Dollars Obligated $385K
Federal Grant Program
47.049
Assistance Type
Project Grant
Place of Performance
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487, USA
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  1. Developing a comprehensive theory of transport and thermodynamics near the metal-insulator transition in disordered two-dimensional electron systems, with the goal of enabling interpretation of experimental data to advance understanding of this phenomenon.

  2. Exploring thermal transport in disordered quantum critical metals to obtain results for the Lorenz ratio, which quantifies deviations from Fermi-liquid theory observed in experiments.

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