Research areas within the program:

Magnetism

• Magnetic properties of transition and rare-earth metals in bulk, multilayer, surface and cluster geometries.
• Magnetism of novel superconductors, complex oxides and dilute magnetic semiconductors.

Lattice Dynamics

• Stability materials in their different phases, by investigating their lattice dynamics.
• Models which aim to accurately evaluate the free energy as a function of temperature.
• Same approach in order to predict superconducting transition temperatures.

Molecular Electronics

• Electronic transport through nano-sized systems, including molecules for new applications in the field of sensing and switching.
• Theoretical methods to determine the electric current through these systems, for a given bias voltage.

Code Development

• Number of methods and tools which we use to address different problems.