Projects

The overarching goal of this project is to understand the fundamental mechanisms controlling the stability of amorphous materials formed from aqueous solutions in the absence and presence of interfaces.

The overarching goal of this project is to understand and discover correlated and topological states of matter by exploiting the interplay between symmetry, correlation, and topology in oxide- and chalcogenide-based quantum heterostructures.

The overarching goal of this project is to advance our understanding of correlated quantum materials through discovery, development, and investigation of model materials that exhibit magnetic order, topological order, and collective phenomena.

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 to understand, predict, and design the electronic properties of correlated and topological 2D layered materials and interfaces, and the impact of defects and dopants, using high-performance computing (HPC)-enabled many-body ab-initio approaches.

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 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 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 understand how hybridization between atomic vibrations and spin excitations control transport and functionalities in energy materials.