Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP160100060

Funded Activity Summary

Emergent quantum matter in multinuclear coupled coordination clusters. This project aims to understand how novel quantum states, such as topological spin liquids, emerge and how to control these emergent properties. Emergence is the observation that collections of objects can display very different properties from the individual objects: a water molecule is not wet; a neuron is not conscious. Understanding and controlling the emergent properties of materials has enormous potential applications from the lossless transport of electricity to next-generation computers. The magnetic systems to be studied are some of the simplest systems that show emergent quantum behaviours. Beyond the intrinsic scientific value of the questions, the exotic states the project seeks to engineer have potential applications in quantum computers.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 13-03-2016

End Date: 31-12-2019

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $347,582.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Organometallic Chemistry | Condensed Matter Physics | Electronic and Magnetic Properties of Condensed Matter; Superconductivity | Quantum Physics not elsewhere classified

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Chemical Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences |

Other Keywords

Condensed Matter Physics | Electronic and Magnetic Properties of Condensed Matter; Superconductivity | Expanding Knowledge in the Chemical Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences | Organometallic Chemistry | Quantum Physics not elsewhere classified

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