Palestrante: João Nuno Barbosa Rodrigues (UFABC)
Title: Constructing realistic low-energy effective models of materials
Abstract: Recent advances in algorithms and computer performance enabled us to accurately simulate the many-body problem of systems with a few hundred electrons. Still, this is often too small to allow for realistic studies of low-energy properties of materials which generally take place at much larger length scales. Condensed Matter physicists thus frequently resort to working with simple effective models, justified by
clever physical arguments and experimental observations. Such models
often provide valuable physical insight and enable larger length-scale
studies. However, since model parameters are invariably unknown, this
approach often lacks predictive power, an issue that turns more
significant in materials with strong electronic correlations. Being able
to controllably construct accurate effective models of materials would
allow us to bypass this conundrum. In this colloquium I will present a
methodology that attempts to fill this gap by using highly accurate
many-body simulations of a material to inform the construction of
effective model Hamltonians that approximate the material’s low-energy
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