Bill Atkinson

Associate Professor
Physics & Astronomy

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 Department of Physics & Astronomy
Trent University
1600 West Bank Dr.
Peterborough ON
K9J 7B8
Canada

Phone (705) 748-1011 x7716
Fax: (705) 748-1652
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Teaching


  • I'm on sabbatical this year.
       
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Research

My research area is theoretical condensed matter physics.  My main interest is high temperature superconductors and materials like them.  Specifically, I am interested in disentangling the roles of strong correlations, competing phases, disorder, and band structure effects in these materials.  In recent years I have looked at
  • Band structure effects in tunneling experiments in YBa2Cu3O7-y.[1,2,11]
  • Inhomogeneous superconductivity in the high temperature superconductors.[3,4,5,6]
  • The effect of disorder on the Hubbard model for strongly-correlated electrons.[7,8,9,10, 12]
An (almost) complete list of my publications can be found here.

A more detailed descritpion of my research can be found here.

Last updated January 24, 2012