Electronic, magnetic and structural properties of systems close to a metal-insulator transitioan ab initio study

  1. Alberto Piñeiro Rodrígue
Supervised by:
  1. Daniel Baldomir Fernández Director
  2. Víctor Pardo Castro Director

Defence university: Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

Fecha de defensa: 01 July 2013

Department:
  1. Department of Applied Physics

Type: Thesis

Abstract

As a general summary, we note that ab initio techniques allow to describe the physics of compounds near a metal-insulator transition, or presenting different types of conduction depends on the spin-channel. Also, electronic structure properties and their variations with pressure or doping can be controlled, and this helps us predict new phenomenology and approach to describe possible technological applications in various functional materials.