Christian Batista

I work in theoretical physics with emphasis in strongly interacting electron systems. My research tools combine analytical methods with numerical techniques for describing static and dynamical properties of many-body systems. I am particularly interested in the novel states of matter that are realized in frustrated quantum materials. Quantum magnetism offers the simplest playground (purely bosonic systems) to study the multiplicity of exotic quantum states matter, ranging from multipolar orderings to spin liquids, that can emerge at low energies out of very simple competing interactions. I believe frustration is also a guiding principle for finding novel quantum states of matter in itinerant systems (metals), such unconventional superconductivity. For this reason, we are currently study the role of frustration in strongly correlated metals.