Scientific Opportunities with Soft X-Rays for Understanding Emergent Phenomena

Zahid Hussain

Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, USA

Sharper and sharper experimental tools are often crucial for understanding of novel physical phenomena and making new discoveries. Today in condensed matter physics we are experiencing need for sharper tools for exploring electronic and atomic properties of complex materials. The talk will address the following:

- What are the grand challenges?

- What are the techniques of choice for understanding electronic properties of strongly correlated electron systems?

- What are the scientific opportunities with new soft x-ray facilities at the ALS and with future sources?

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