Sohrab Ismail-Beigi, (Ex-Officio)
Strathcona Professor of Applied Physics, and Professor of Physics and Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science
+1 (203) 432-2107
Our group uses first principles computational methods to attack topical and fundamental questions in condensed matter theory and materials physics/chemistry. Present topics of interest include:
• Transition metal oxide interfaces and surfaces: electronic and atomic
reconstructions, orbital control, novel electronic phases, design principles,
electronic correlations, switchable properties, catalysis
• Semiconductor-oxide interfaces: growth strategies and resulting structures,
electronic/chemical/mechanical properties, engineering interfaces
for desired technological applications
• Electronic, mechanical, and structural properties of nanomaterials: nanotubes,
nanowires, 2D systems, and clusters
• Slave-boson methods for complex oxides and approximate solution of extended
Hubbard models
• Many-body Green’s function methods for describing exchange and correlation
• Software development for massively parallel GW calculations
You can find more details of our research group regarding research activities, publications, group members, and recent news by visiting the Ismail-Beigi research group website.