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Using Density Functional Theory to Design New Materials; From Magnetoelectronics to a Theory of Everything.
(A Colloquium that I gave at EMPA, Dubendorf, Switzerland, on 12th April 2011)
Abstract: Modern computational methods are proving to be invaluable in the first-principles design of new materials with specific targeted functionalities. I will illustrate their utility with two examples from the field of multiferroics: First, the design of new materials for electric-field control of magnetism, and second, testing extensions to the Standard Model by searching for the electric dipole moment of the electron.