Quantum Materials, where electronic correlations play a major role, offer spectacular quantum phenomena as well as many technological perspectives. The research is focused on the study of magnetism, unconventional superconductivity, topological properties and related electronic phenomena of new Quantum Materials, in bulk form (powder/ single crystals), as well as thin films and nanoparticles.
The main experimental approach is the use of powerful microscopic probes of condensed matter, such as nuclei and muons, to reveal information that cannot be obtained by other methods. In addition, macroscopic characterization such as x-rays and neutron diffraction, transport and magnetization measurements are used to complement the experimental investigation. The main compounds under investigation are superconducting and magnetic materials, strongly coupled spin-orbit compounds, ferromagnetic-organic heterostructures, heavy fermions, nanomagnets, magnetic nanoparticles.
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