Corentin Morice

Member of Corpus Christi College
PhD student in Prof Artacho's group

Email: cm712 @ cam.ac.uk
Personal web site

TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory
19 JJ Thomson Avenue,
Cambridge, CB3 0HE UK.

Research

I study new phenomena in condensed matter through various theoretical approaches. My current interests include:

Studying the new Bismuth-Sulphur family of superconductors, probing the interplay between superconductivity and other phenomena such as magnetism and charge density wave, using Density Functional Theory (DFT) and Superconducting Density Functional Theory (SCDFT).
Quantum criticality in mixed charge and spin systems. Quantum criticality has been studied extensively in magnetic systems, and more recently in nearly ferroelectric materials. In collaboration with Premala Chandra, we investigate the novel quantum effects that arise at very low temperature in systems where charge and spin degrees of freedom are mixed, close to a quantum phase transition.

In Plain English

Superconductivity is one of the most famous effects studied in condensed matter physics, thanks to its very large and exciting range of applications. This interest has been encouraged by the discovery of high-temperature superconductivity, making plausible room-temperature applications of this phenomenon. However, despite intensive research for the past three decades, our understanding of high-temperature superconductivity is still limited.

In this field, it is crucial to analyse newly discovered superconductors in order to find features common to all of them, and thus build a unifying theory. It is in this spirit that I probe a new group of superconductors recently discovered using computational tools.

Featured Publications

Electronic and magnetic properties of superconducting Ln(O,F)BiS2 (Ln = La, Ce, Pr, Nd) from first principles C. Morice, E. Artacho, S. E. Dutton, H. J. Kim and S. S. Saxena J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 28 (2016) 345504
Electronic structure predictions in Bi-O-S systems C. Morice, Emilio Artacho and Siddharth S. Saxena Nov. Supercond. Mater. 1, 75-78 (2015)
Fermi surfaces and orbital polarization in superconducting CeO0.5F0.5BiS2 revealed by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy T. Sugimoto, D. Ootsuki, C. Morice, E. Artacho, S. S. Saxena, E. F. Schwier, M. Zheng, Y. Kojima, H. Iwasawa, K. Shimada, M. Arita, H. Namatame, M. Taniguchi, M. Takahashi, N. L. Saini, T. Asano, R. Higashinaka, T. D. Matsuda, Y. Aoki, and T. Mizokawa Phys. Rev. B 92, 041113(R)
Effects of stoichiometric doping in superconducting Bi-O-S compounds C. Morice, E. Artacho, S. E. Dutton, D. Molnar, H. J. Kim and S. S. Saxena J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 27 (2015) 135501