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Professor G. Baskaran - General Colloquium
February 26, 2004
Professor G. Baskaran
Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India
Title: The Resonating Valence Bond theory for Cuprates: A success story.
It is nearly 14 years since resonating valence bond (RVB) theory of high temperature superconductivity in Cuprates was proposed by Anderson and vigorously developed by him and collaborators in 1987. I will present these and subsequent developments as a success story, in which one of the most complex quantum condensed matter physics problems of the past 3 decades is tackled. This will be contrasted with the well known success story of BCS theory of superconductivity. The remaining puzzles and challenges offered by Cuprates and other systems will be depicted as the 2nd volume of the story, in the continuing saga of quantum condensed matter physics.