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Physics and Astronomy

Matthew Foster

Professor, Physics and Astronomy

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4.1

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3.2

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2

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Research areas

Theoretical condensed matter physics. In particular, the effects of disorder and interactions in low-dimensional systems. Anderson localization and metal-insulator transitions. Dirac materials including graphene, topological insulators and superconductors. Non-equilibrium quantum dynamics. Applications of quantum field theory, renormalization group, and exact (symmetry-based) methods such as conformal field theory.

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