Research Goals

The goal of the multidisciplinary research initiative (MURI) "Emergent Phenomena at Mott Interfaces" is to establish fundamentally new approaches to predict, understand and control the wealth of electronic, spin and collective mode excitations associated with complex oxide interfaces.  We are particularly interested in developing approaches that can be used to engineer interfaces using sophisticated theoretical approaches and unique interface-specific electron and x-ray spectroscopies. These will be used to obtain an understanding of interface-controlled changes in local orbital occupations, interface reconstructions (atomic and electronic) and to fine-tune the electron or hole density at interfaces. Optical conductivity and magnetization will be explored, documented and modeled.  Strongly-correlated interfaces will be assessed for future electronic, spintronic and photonic applications.

The MURI is supported by the Army Research Office under Award. No. W911-NF-09-1-0398