Attention! The seminar was canceled. First-principles study of magnetism in low-dimensional materials

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Attention! The seminar was canceled

Theory of Condensed Matter – Seminar “Statistical Mechanics”

Date and Time: Tuesday, 5 September 2017, at 4:00 PM

Venue: Blokhintsev Hall (4th floor), Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics

Seminar topic: «First-principles study of magnetism in low-dimensional materials»

Speaker: Professor Dorj Odkhuu (Incheon National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea)

Abstract:

Exploring magnetism in otherwise nonmagnetic two-dimensional materials, such as graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides, is at the heart of spintronics research. We mainly aim at the possibility of reaching an atomic-scale perpendicular magnetic anisotropy by carefully exploring the large spin-orbit coupling, orbital magnetism, and ligand field in a suitable choice of a two-dimensional material with external stimulus. Some novel approaches, as an example, for manipulating magnetism and magnetization vector in two-dimensional nanostructures include the light and heavy transition metal doping, strain effect, or applying an electric field.