Strongly Correlated Electrons in Solids

Abstract

Most emergent properties of the materials discovered since the 1980s are related to the existence of electron-electron interactions which are large with respect to the kinetic energies and could not be thoroughly studied before. The occurrence of metal insulator transitions, of exotic magnetic and/or superconducting properties in many new compounds have stimulated a large series of ex- perimental and theoretical developments to grasp their physical significance. We present here a simple introduction to the elementary aspects of the physics of electron-electron interactions, which could be a starting point for typical undergraduate students.