Invited Speakers

Eun-Ah Kim eunahkim@stanford.edu Stanford

Theoretical CM, Quantum Hall effect I will discuss the role of self-organized mesoscale inhomogeneity and spatial anisotropy in the macroscopic and collective properties of strongly correlated condensed matter systems. Conventional theoretical approach to the emergent behavior of systems with many strongly interacting degrees of freedom often assumes translational and/or rotation symmetry of systems. However, with modern development of new probing techniques and improved resolution of familiar techniques, mesoscale inhomogeneities and spatial anisotropy have been observed in various strongly correlated low dimensional systems including cuprate perovskite high temperature superconductors. Such observations call for careful study on the role of these phenomena and the interplay between such phenomena and other orders. I will discuss some specific examples of theoretical studies where mesoscale inhomogeneity and spatial anisotropy were found to have profound effect.