Theory and modelling of new functionality at the nanoscale (Zulicke, Governale, Hendy)

We plan to elucidate unconventional nanoelectronic properties of small systems arising from size quantisation, correlations, unconventional band structures, non-equilibrium and spin-dependent effects.  Microscopic modeling of material-growth processes at the nanoscale will be used to inform a more phenomenological description of relevant physical mechanisms.  We will focus on how unconventional band structures affect many-particle effects in low-dimensional systems/nanostructures, especially those related to magnetic response and electric screening.