Tome M. Schmidt

At the present time I am interested to investigate electronic, structural and magnetic properties of nanostructures and Topological Insulators. I use first principles calculations based on Density Functional Theory as well model Hamiltonians to study the properties of the materials.

In nanomaterials, I am interested on the new properties due to quantum confinement and finite size effects. In particular, two-dimensional systems is the main focus of my work.

Topological insulatores, a new quantum phase of matter, present unique properties that are interesting from the fundamental physics concepts as well are promising for technological applications such as spintronics and quantum computing. I am interested not only on the precursor topological insulators, where the topological states are protected by time reversal symmetry, but also on the recent discovered topological insulators protected by crystal symmetry.