{"id":3901,"date":"2008-09-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpdev.hmc.edu\/physics\/2008\/09\/23\/how-do-we-use-computational-methods-to-design-new-materials\/"},"modified":"2008-09-23T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-23T00:00:00","slug":"how-do-we-use-computational-methods-to-design-new-materials","status":"publish","type":"physics_colloquium","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/research\/colloquium\/how-do-we-use-computational-methods-to-design-new-materials\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do We Use Computational Methods to Design New Materials?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"page-featured-image\" class=\"wp-block-image is-style-alignleft\" data-pic=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2023\/01\/\" alt=\"Promotional image for talk: Elements of a successful scientific talk\" data-pic=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Speaker(s):<\/strong> Nicola Spaldin<\/p>\n<p>Modern computational methods are proving to be invaluable in the first-principles design of new materials with specific targeted functionalities. After discussing the capabilities and limitations of available computational tools, I will illustrate their utility with a case study on materials that are simultaneously ferromagnetic and ferroelectric. Such &ldquo;multiferroics&rdquo; are of current interest because coupling between the order parameters leads both to novel fundamentalphysics and potentially transformative device paradigms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-3901","physics_colloquium","type-physics_colloquium","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/physics_colloquium\/3901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/physics_colloquium"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/physics_colloquium"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}