Lawler Research Group

We are a group of people spread across Binghamton and Cornell Universities interested in emergent phenomena arising in strongly correlated electrons.

Research philosophy

We follow Marguerite de Angeli’s “door-in-the-wall” principle. Follow a wall long enough and you are bound to find a door in it.

We do not, however, subscribe to the “well-lit paths” philosophy. As J.R.R. Tolkien might have suggested, “Not all those who wander are lost.”

We also believe everyone is capable of contributing to research. The experience of hitting a wall is tough but having the experience of finding the door can turn us all into scientists.

History

We have deep expertise in highly frustrated magnetism and strongly correlated electrons such as non-Fermi liquids and high temperature superconductivity.

But, in the past five years, we have branched out to study quantum computing and machine learning to harness the power of these novel methods both to solve decades long problems in our field and to for their potential to make new discoveries as we begin to explore the vastness of Hilbertspace and the possibility that many phenomena have remained hidden until now.