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Karin Rabe
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Home page of Karin Rabe |
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| Position: | Faculty |
| Research group: | Condensed Matter Theory |
| Email address: | rabe@physics.rutgers.edu |
| Telephone: | (732) 445-4186, 5-4400 fax |
| Office: | Serin E275A |
| Mailing address: | Karin Rabe Department of Physics and Astronomy Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 136 Frelinghuysen Road Piscataway, NJ 08854-8019 USA |
Chemical and structural complexity has proved to be an critical factor
in
producing a variety of
fascinating properties of solids, including ferroelectricity, large
piezoelectric and dielectric responses, and multiferroicity in metals
and
insulators, as well as quasicrystallinity and high-temperature
superconductivity. The research in my group currently centers on the
theoretical investigation of ferroelectrics and related materials, and
of
magnetic and nonmagnetic martensites. First-principles
density-functional
methods are used both directly and in the construction of
first-principles
effective Hamiltonians for theoretical prediction and analysis of
properties
of materials, both real and as-yet hypothetical, in bulk and thin film
forms.
Revised August 1, 2006