Quantum materials design: challenges and opportunities
Roser Valenti
Department of Physics
Goethe University
Présentation en anglais
Vidéoconférence, Zomm #: 985 8788 9909 (Zoom link)
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Abstract: Unconventional superconductivity with high critical temperatures, frustrated magnetism, spin-liquid phases or the recently discussed Kitaev phases are a few examples of exotic states in quantum materials. One of the big challenges in quantum physics is the microscopic description of such materials. Moreover, being able to understand them implies the possibility of predicting compounds with desirable properties. In this talk, I will present and discuss strategies for designing quantum materials from first Principles.
Bio: Roser Valenti is professor of theoretical physics at the Goethe University Frankfurt. She received her Ph.D. degree in theoretical physics at the University of Barcelona. Before joining Frankfurt, she was postdoctoral Fulbright fellow at the University of Florida at Gainesville, Habilitation researcher at the University of Dortmund and Heisenberg fellow at the University of Saarland, Germany. From 2009 to 2012 she was vice-president of the Goethe University Frankfurt. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and an Advisor of the CIFAR Quantum Materials Program. Her field of research is computational solid-state physics, with a focus on the microscopic modelling of correlated electrons in materials such as unconventional superconductors, frustrated magnets and systems with topologically non-trivial states, via a combination of first-principles-based methods and many-body numerical techniques.
For more information about Prof. Valenti, you can consult her research web page.
Cette conférence est présentée par le RQMP.
