WELCOME TO DAS RESEARCH GROUP
DAS group employs various first-principles theoretical methods to understand and predict the quantum phenomena in materials, ranging from the ones having diverse commercial applications to those which are relevant vis-à-vis core earth related issues, at the level of atoms and electrons. The group aims to elucidate structure-property relationship in various structurally and chemically complex systems, including single crystals, thin films, artificial heterostructures and nanostructures, in order to design new materials with desired properties. Various research activities that the group currently focuses on are as follows; (1) quantum theory of magnetic and spin-dependent phenomena, (2) role of atomic order/disorder on the properties of materials, (3) materials' properties at low dimension. In this regard, the materials of interest are primarily transition metal oxides and chalcogenides.
To achieve the research goals, DAS group uses microscopic models that best describes the problem. They use group theoretic techniques to quickly gain a qualitative understanding of the problem and to identify the key microscopic degrees of freedom. The group follows a material specific approach. Through Density Functional Theory (DFT) based electronic structure calculations they incorporate the structural and chemical aspect of a real material. DAS group employs various Monte Carlo simulation techniques to investigate phase stability and properties of materials at finite temperature. Such exploratory route is quite demanding for not only in understanding observed experimental phenomena at the atomic and electronic level, but also important in designing and the discovery of new materials with desired properties.
DAS GROUP NEWS
August 1st, 2018
Dr. Hena Das joined Tokyo Institute of Technology.
October 1st, 2018
DAS Group HPE computing clusters were installed.
October 1st, 2018
Kotaro Ohashi and Shogo Wakazaki (Joined master students with Prof. Masaki Azuma) joined DAS research group.
November 14th, 2018
Hena presents an invited Quantum Materials Seminar at the Institute for Solid State Physics (ISSP), University of Tokyo, Japan.
November 19th, 2018
Hena presents an invited Condensed Matter Theory Seminar at the Okayama University, Japan.
December 12th, 2019
Hena talked about "Material Specific Theoretical Approach to Understand and Predict Quantum phenomena in Materials" in the 4th WRHI Lecture series at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, 4th WRHI Lecture (December 12).
February 19th, 2019
Hena presented an invited seminar on "Density Functional Theory - A powerful approach for materials simulations" at the University of Yamanashi, Japan.
April, 2019
DAS group received JSPS KAKENHI grant.
April, 2019
Dr. Sergey A. NIKOLAEV joined DAS group as Specially Appointed Assistant Professor. Welcome Sergey!!!!
September, 2019
Dr. Gaku Okuma joined DAS group as Specially Appointed Assistant Professor. Welcome Gaku!!!!
September, 2019
Hena attended and gave a talk in the JSAP Autumn meeting
September, 2019
We welcome new Master student Yusuke Arai
April, 2020
Dr. Yue-Wen FANG joined DAS group as Post-doctoral Researcher.
September, 2020
Our research work on Stabilized Charge, Spin, and Orbital Ordering by the 6s2 Lone Pair in Bi0.5Pb0.5MnO3 appeared in Inorg. Chem.
October, 2020
Our research work on Quantum transport evidence of Weyl fermions in an epitaxial ferromagnetic oxide in collaboration with the NTT Basic Research Laboratories appeared in Nature Communications. Our work is also featured in the Tokyo Tech October 2020 news release https://www.titech.ac.jp/news/2020/048102.html and NTT October 2020 news resease First observation of quantum transport phenomena peculiar to an exotic state
November, 2020
Our research work on Site-specific spectroscopic measurement of spin and charge in (LuFeO3)m/(LuFe2O4)1 multiferroic superlattices appeared in Nature Communications.
November, 2020
Our research work on Lithium Ion Conduction in a Cation-Deficient Quadruple Perovskite LiCuTa3O9 Epitaxial Thin Film: Theoretical and Experimental Investigations appeared in Chem. Mater.