Projects

Development, validation, and distribution of external-parameter-free methods and open source codes to predict and understand the properties of functional materials, emphasizing those with strong electronic correlations, van der Waals and spin-orbit interactions.

The overarching goal of this project is to elucidate how interfaces and dimensionality affect chiral transport phenomena by targeted modification of the underlying many-body electronic, magnetic, and lattice interactions in heterostructured quantum materials.

The overarching goal of this proposal is to uncover the generative mechanisms behind static and dynamic structures, local functionalities, and collective phenomena in quantum materials using advanced aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) techniques.

The overarching goal of this project is to co-design structural stability and function to engender and control emergent properties derived from the coupling of magnetism to other degrees of freedom, i.e., lattice instabilities, non-local interactions, and superconductivity.

Our overarching goal is the quantitative understanding of the many-body states generated in models for quantum materials with simultaneously active spin, charge, and orbital degrees of freedom, including electronic Hubbard repulsion, as well as Hund and spin-orbit couplings.

The overarching goal of this project is to achieve a fundamental understanding of how anisotropy, competing interactions, frustration, and disorder are intertwined and can be tuned to produce and control collective quantum and topological
states of matter.

The overarching goal of this project is to establish a comprehensive understanding of fundamental chemistry principles, with a focus on tailoring the chemical composition, functionality, and architecture of electrodes and electrolytes.

The overarching goal of this program is to establish a fundamental understanding of atomistic mechanisms that control the structural and dynamic properties of liquids and glasses through a combination of tightly coupled experiment, simulation, and theory.

The overarching goal of this project is to understand how hybridization between atomic vibrations and spin excitations control transport and functionalities in energy materials.