| AVS 63rd International Symposium & Exhibition | |
| Magnetic Interfaces and Nanostructures | Monday Sessions |
| Session MI+2D+AC-MoA |
| Session: | Magnetism and Spin Orbit Effects at Interfaces and Surfaces: Recent Experimental and Theoretical Advances |
| Presenter: | Ruqian Wu, University of California Irvine |
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Magnetism, one of the oldest branches of physics, is having its renaissance in recent years due to the interest in developing various nanomagnets, molecular magnets and magnetic nanojunctions for the development of innovative devices. Magnetization of surfaces and nanostructures is sensitive to the change of environment and hence the availability of ultrahigh vacuum is crucial for the exploration of various magnetic systems. Equally important is the rapid advance of density functional theory (DFT) approaches, which now can reliably predict large amount physical properties of real materials in either their ground states or excited states. In this talk, I will discuss several our recent theoretical progresses in spin-related physics, including 1) the search for giant magnetic anisotropy energy in nanostructures; 2) the design to imprint large spin orbit coupling into graphene and other two-dimensional materials for the realization of quantum spin Hall effect and quantum anomalous Hall effect; 3) the photo-spin-voltaic effect; and 4) the generation of spin-polarized two-dimensional electron gas at oxide interfaces. Most of our DFT studies are performed in close collaboration with experimental groups so some experimental results will also be discussed.
Work at UCI was supported by DOE-BES (Grant No. DE-FG02-05ER46237) and NERSC.