Partnerships for Research and Education in Materials

The objective of the PREM program is to expand and strengthen the research and educational activities of the multidisciplinary W. M. Keck Computational Materials Theory Center (CMTC) at California State University Northridge (CSUN), a Hispanic-serving institution, by forming a formal and long-term collaborative relationship with the Princeton Center for Complex Materials (PCCM). The goals of [...]

The ability to perform quantum simulations of materials properties over length scales that are relevant to experiments represents a grand challenge in computational materials science.

We study the non-abelian quantum Hall effect, a spectrum gap is established to protect topological degenerating Pfaffian states, which may have novel applications in quantum computing.

We reproduce the recent experimentally discovered odd integer quantum Hall effect in graphene The bottom image reveals a stripe order and symmetry broken state in higher Dirac Landau levels Small projects involved in this research are used in a new course taught at CSUN by Dr. Sheng (PHYS 466) for undergraduate students, where density of [...]

When a spin polarized current passes through a magnetic multilayer structure, it can transfer spin angular momentum from one ferromagnet to another, and hence exert a torque on the magnetic moments of the electrodes. At sufficiently high current densities, this spin transfer torque can even reverse the magnetization of an individual domain. We predicted an [...]