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The recent discovery of superconductivity at high temperature in iron-based materials have highly renewed the interest in the scientific community for the comprehension of the physical properties of superconductors and their applications. In this talks, we will give an overview of some new experimental results in this field and their theoretical interpretations by means of density functional theory calculations. In particular, we will present results on the effects of charge doping, pressure and reduced dimensionality on the electronic, Fermi surface topology and magnetic properties in conventional and non-conventional superconductors, highlighting their debated role in the appearance of the superconducting phase.

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Gianni Profeta, CNR-SPIN and University of L'Aquila
Seminar Room of the Institute of Physics II
Contact: Alexander Grueneis