Nicola Spaldin
Department of Materials Science, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Nicola Spaldin (left) with Matthias Troyer
Date
9 March 2011
Host
Matthias Troyer
Title
From Magnetoelectronics to a Theory of Everything
Abstract
Modern computational methods are proving to be invaluable in the first-principles design of new materials with specific targeted functionalities. I will illustrate their utility with two examples from the field of multiferroics: First, the design of new materials for electric-field control of magnetism, and second, testing extensions to the Standard Model by searching for the electric dipole moment of the electron.