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We review recent theoretical developments, which suggest that a set of shared principles underpin macroscopic quantum phenomena observed in high temperature super conducting materials, room temperature coherence in photosynthetic processes…
Topological insulators are states of matter distinguished by the presence of symmetry protected metallic boundary states. These edge modes have been characterised in terms of transport and spectroscopic measurements, but a thermodynamic…
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Using a cluster extension of the dynamical mean-field theory, we show that strongly correlated metals subject to Hund's physics exhibit significant electronic structure modulations above magnetic transition temperatures. In particular, in a…
The recent discovery of magnetic ordering in two-dimension has lead to colossal efforts to find atomically thin materials that order at high temperatures. However, due to fundamental spin fluctuation in reduced dimension, the…
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With the development of electronic structure theory, a new class of materials - quantum ones has been recognized by the community. Traditionally, it has been believed that the properties of such compounds cannot be described within the…
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The Callovo-Oxfordian (COx) claystone is considered as a candidate host rock for a deep geological radioactive waste repository in France. Due to the exothermic waste packages, the rock is expected to be submitted to temperatures up to 90…
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The thermodynamic theory of dislocation-enabled plasticity is based on two unconventional hypotheses. The first of these is that a system of dislocations, driven by external forces and irreversibly exchanging heat with its environment, must…
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The cold curves for energy and pressure of Copper, Iron, and Tantalum were obtained using methods of the density functional theory. We consider hydrostatic and uniaxial deformations in the range from double compression of the initial volume…
Negative thermal expansion (NTE) - the phenomenon where some materials shrink rather than expand when heated - is both intriguing and useful, but remains poorly understood. Current understanding hinges on the role of specific vibrational…
Recent realizations of intrinsic, long-range magnetic orders in two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals materials have ignited tremendous research interests. In this work, we employ the XXZ Heisenberg model and Monte Carlo simulations to study a…
Compacted unsaturated swelling clay is often considered as a possible buffer material for deep nuclear waste disposal. An isotropic cell permitting simultaneous control of suction, temperature and pressure was used to study the…
We study the thermal transport properties in three-dimensional disordered systems close to the metal-insulator transition within linear response. Using a suitable form for the energy-dependent conductivity $\sigma$, we show that the value…
This investigation extends earlier studies of a shear-transformation-zone (STZ) theory of plastic deformation in amorphous solids. My main purpose here is to explore the possibility that the configurational degrees of freedom of such…
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