Many strongly correlated transition metal oxides exhibit a metal-insulator transition (MIT), the manipulation of which is essential for their application as active device elements. However, such manipulation is hindered by lack of microscopic understanding of mechanisms involved in these transitions. A prototypical example is VO2, where previous studies indicated that the MIT resistance change ...

The goal of this work is to understand the properties of mixed-metal intercalation oxides. Using first-principles methods, the effect of doping on the mixing, energetic, and voltage properties as well as the phase diagrams of lithium transition-metal oxides for lithium battery cathode materials was investigated. The effect of doping on the phase separation tendencies of layered transition-metal...

2014 We study the metal-insulator transition due to correlations between electrons using a Hubbard model. Neglecting fluctuations in charge, we only take into account fluctuations in spin density which build up magnetic moments on each site. A close analogy with binary alloys follows from this. At zero temperature, with increasing value of the ratio of the interaction between electrons U to the...

The interaction between spin and charge degrees of freedom offers a powerful tool to manipulate magnetization in memories by the current induced spin–orbit torque. This novel phenomenon, conventionally existing semiconductors metallic systems, has recently been observed transition metal oxides, exhibiting surprising large spin-Hall angle. In this Perspective, we will review recent research prog...