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Philip Brydon

Academic Title: Senior Lecturer

Name: Philip Brydon

 

Department: Department of Physics

Department Website: http://www.physics.otago.ac.nz/

Institution: University of Otago

 

Address: PO Box 56
Dunedin
New Zealand

 

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Expertise: The physics of the solid state offers an amazing variety of quantum phenomena. Amongst the most exotic is superconductivity - the ability of material to conduct electricity without resistance. I am currently interested in the physics of so-called "unconventional" superconductors, which have properties that cannot be explained by the Nobel-prize-winning 1955 theory of Bardeen, Cooper, and Schrieffer. I am particularly interested in the interplay of superconductivity with spin-orbit coupling, which is a ubiquitous feature of solid state systems. In some cases, this coupling is so strong that it can force the electrons to behave as if they are in fact spin-3/2 particles. Together with my collaborators, I have already identified a number of systems where this could lead to highly unusual superconducting states.

 

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