Postdoctoral position 2012-2014

 

CONDENSED MATTER THEORY

  • Starting date: Between June 2012 and September 2012.
  • Deadline: January 31, 2012. Late applications will be considered.
  • Qualifications: PhD and experience on strongly-correlated electron or spin systems.
  • Duration: One year renewable
  • Documents: Send resume and ask for three letters of reference to be sent to tremblay@physique.usherbrooke.ca
  • Scientific environment:

The Department focuses mainly on Condensed Matter and on the Physics of Quantum Information. The condensed matter theory group is composed of about twelve graduate students and four Faculty members: C. Bourbonnais, R. Côté, D. Sénéchal and A.-M.S. Tremblay. We interact with experimental groups of Louis Taillefer, Patrick Fournier, Mario Poirier working on high-temperature superconductors, pnictides, heavy fermions, low-dimensional organic conductors and magnets. Quantum Monte Carlo simulations, Cluster Dynamical Mean-Field Theory, Two-Particle Self-Consistent Approach, Renormalization group, quantum field theory, are amongst the tools used to study strongly-correlated electrons, ultracold atoms and spin systems.

Ongoing projects in the group of Tremblay 2011-2012: Transport and quantum criticality in the two-dimensional Hubbard model at weak to intermediate coupling, Thermoelectric power at strong coupling, Oxide heterostructures, Phase diagram of the layered organic superconductors and of the high-temperature superconductors using Quantum Cluster Methods and with exact diagonalizations and Continuous-Time Quantum Monte Carlo solvers.

  • The Area

About 20 000 students attend the University. It is located in a wooded and hilly area that is ideal for the outdoors at any time of the year. The City is a regional capital for about 100 000 people. It is well connected to a highway network that makes large urban centers easily accessible. Montréal is 90 minutes away, Québec City 130 minutes away and Boston can be reached in five hours. The main language is French but some nearby towns are English speaking and English is widely understood in commercial life.