From dzero@ameslab.gov Mon Feb  7 18:00:21 2005
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 18:13:05 -0600
From: dzero@ameslab.gov
To: Piers Coleman <coleman@physics.rutgers.edu>
Subject: Re: KITP


Hi Piers-
this is in response to your request for a paragraph of what interests me in
participating in this wonderful workshop:

1. I am very interested in finding out the tools which can help to fix the
"local QPT" by Q. Si et. al. to make spin fluctuations 3D, but leave all the
consequences of the their picture intact. One possibility is to invert
their picture and to consider electrons to be on the verge of the phase
transition (almost FM or AFM metal in the presence of paramagnetic impurities).
Some of this has been already considered by Varma, but I think
what he has is not a full story.

2. MnSi: the extremely clean material with NFL transport properties at
low-T. What the microscopic mechanism, which is responsible for such
a behaviour? Possibility for topological excitations causing anomalous
scattering?

3. Charge Kondo & superconductivity: can application of AC electric field
bring the Tc up? (that is what I am currently working on).

best, Maxim