Dr. Thomas A. Maier
Senior Research Staff
Computer Science and Mathematics Division &
Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge, TN 37831 USA

Tel.: ++1 865 576 3597
Fax: ++1 865 574 1753
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Research Fields:

• Strongly correlated electron systems
• Unconventional superconductors
• Heterostructures and nano-structured systems
• Computational physics

Recent highlights:

• Enhanced superconductivity in systems with nano-scale charge modulation
• Spin-fluctuation pairing in iron-pnictide superconductors
• Pairing mechanism in Hubbard model of cuprate superconductors

Research Interests:

My research focuses primarily on the theoretical study of strongly correlated electron systems on a fundamental level and the many phenomena occurring in these materials. Examples include superconductivity, magnetism, phase separation and the rich phenomenology occurring in low di- mensional systems. My research has concentrated on the development and application of high-end computational techniques, in particular quantum cluster theories, to investigate these systems. Recent projects include studies of Hubbard and similar models to gain insight into the pairing mechanism and the effects of disorder and inhomogeneities in cuprate superconductors, to study the possibility for higher temperature superconductivity in composite multi-layer systems, and to understand the gap structure and neutron scattering response in the iron-pnictide and organic superconductors.