3.2 Solids and Nanostructures: Electrons, Spins, and Phonons

Our aim is ab-initio description of materials in ground-state as well as excited state. We do parameter free calculations for extended systems-- no input from experiments is used. This gives allows us to be predictive. In order to achieve this we (a) extend theories, (b) implement this into a highly accurate electronic structure code and finally (c) apply this to realistic materials.

For more information please refer to Condensed Matter Theory group page