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Correlated electrons in transition metal oxides (TMOs) exhibit a variety of emergent phases. When TMOs are confined to a single-atomic-layer thickness, experiments so far have shown that they usually lose diverse properties and become…
Sodium layered oxides often undergo phase transformations involving ordering or disordering of Na+ upon desodiation, i.e., when cycled as a battery electrode. Accurately characterizing these phases is crucial for understanding functional…
The properties of Shockley-type interface states between $\pi$-conjugated organic molecular layers and metal surfaces are investigated by time-resolved two-photon photoemission experiments and density functional theory. For perylene- and…
2D magnetism in triangular lattices has already shown potential for hosting exotic magnetic states. Control of these magnetic states, both in terms of magnetic properties and in terms of charge doping would be the next step. This makes…
First principles calculations reveal that adding a metallic overlayer on LaAlO3/SrTiO3(001) eliminates the electric field within the polar LaAlO3 film and thus suppresses the thickness-dependent insulator-to-metal transition observed in…
Understanding ferroelectricity is of both fundamental and technological importance to further stimulate the development of new materials designs and manipulations. Here, we perform an in-depth first-principle study on the well-known…
The model of a strongly correlated system in which periodically spaced Anderson-Hubbard centers are introduced into narrow-band metal is considered. Besides the interactions between localized magnetic moments and strong on-site Coulomb…
We present a combined theoretical and experimental study of the electronic structure and equation of state (EOS) of crystalline PdN2. The compound forms above 58 GPa in the pyrite structure and is metastable down to 11 GPa. We show that the…
A 3D layered system of charges with logarithmic interaction parallel to the layers and random dipoles is studied via a novel variational method and an energy rationale which reproduce the known phase diagram for a single layer. Increasing…
A series of kinetic phenomena in metallic multilayers has been considered. The kinetic properties of multilayers differ essentially from the properties of both massive metals and thin films. One of the main reasons of that is the influence…
We study the effect of quantum interference on the structure and properties of spontaneous and stimulated transitions in a degenerate V-type three-level atom with an arbitrary total momentum of each state. Explicit expressions for the…
We propose mechanism for pressure-induced transitions between ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic phases that relies on a competition between characteristic energy scales ubiquitous among $d$-electron metallic magnetic compounds. Principles…
Layered magnetic transition-metal thiophosphate NiPS3 has unique two-dimensional (2D) magnetic properties and electronic behavior. The electronic band structure and corresponding magnetic state are expected to sensitive to the interlayer…
A magnetically trapped atom experiences an adiabatic geometric (Berry's) phase due to changing field direction. We investigate theoretically such an Aharonov-Bohm-like geometric phase for atoms adiabatically moving inside a storage ring as…
We find that ion creation/destruction dominates the behavior of electrochemical reaction barriers, through grand-canonical electronic structure calculations of proton-deposition on transition metal surfaces. We show that barriers respond to…
Exotic quantum phenomena often emerge near an electronic delocalization transition (EDT) from an antiferromagnetic insulating phase to a strongly correlated metallic state under pressure. We report the pressure-induced structural and…
Strongly interacting electrons in layered materials give rise to a plethora of emergent phenomena, such as unconventional superconductivity. heavy fermions, and spin textures with non-trivial topology. Similar effects can also be observed…
Topological phase transitions occur when the electronic bands change their topological properties, typically featuring the closing of the bandgap. While the influence of topological phase transitions on electronic and optical properties has…
We study the influence of external pressure on the electronic and magnetic structure of EuMnO3 from first-principles calculations. We find a pressure-induced insulator-metal transition at which the magnetic order changes from A-type…
By means of first-principles electronic structure calculations, we hereby investigate the structural transitions induced by epitaxial strain in (111)-oriented (LaMnO$_3$)$_{2n}|$(SrMnO$_3$)$_n$ superlattices, with $n=2,4,6$. All…