News/Highlights

06.07.2018
 

Controllable metal–insulator transitions (MIT), Rashba–Dresselhaus (RD) spin splitting, and Weyl semimetals are promising schemes for realizing...

02.02.2018
 

Compensating a polar surface

An ionic crystal surface can be electrostatically unstable, and the surface must reconstruct in some way to avoid this...

21.11.2017
 

Die meist zitierten WissenschafterInnen 2017 wurden gekürt: Von der Fakultät für Physik der Universität Wien sind Georg Kresse, Markus Aspelmeyer und...

08.11.2017
 

By combining relativistic density functional theory with an extended spin-1/2 compass-Heisenberg model, we find an antiferromagnetic single-stripe...

27.10.2017
 

Cesare Franchini from the research group “Computational Materials Physics” has been appointed full professor for Quantum Materials Modelling.

20.10.2017
 

Self-consistent scPBE0: evaluation of the mixing parameter alpha by means of an iterative calculation of the static dielectric constant using the...