Website: http://sites.uwm.edu/weinert/

Research

Professor Weinert is a condensed matter theorist whose research interests include:

• The investigation of the electronic and magnetic properties of complex materials — surfaces, interfaces, alloys, and nanostructured systems — from first-principles, with emphasis on phase stability, defects, transport, and nanostructures.
• The analysis and interpretation of experiments involving spectroscopies such as photoemission, Auger, x-ray absorption, and scanning tunneling spectroscopy, and experiments related to the growth and atomic structure as probed by electron microscopy and scanning probes.
• The development and use of advanced first-principles electronic structure methods to model and understand the properties of materials.

Biographical Sketch

Michael Weinert received a BA in Physics and Mathematics from Northwestern University (1976), a ScM (1977) from Brown University, and a PhD in Physics (1982) from Northwestern University. He was a member of the Condensed Matter Theory Group at Brookhaven National Laboratory from 1982 to 2001, and was a Visiting Scientist at the KFA-Juelich (1986-7) and a Visiting Professor at the University of Vienna (2010).

Since 2001 Professor Weinert has been at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he is a Distinguished Professor and Director of the Laboratory for Surface Studies. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and of the Institute of Physics (U.K.), and previously was an Associate Editor of Physical Review B.

Further information regarding his research, including publications, can be found on the electronic structure group website.

Selected Publications

Ge, Z., Yan, C., Zhang, H., Agterberg, Daniel F., Weinert, Michael T., and Li, Lian. “Evidence for d-wave superconductivity in single layer FeSe/SrTiO3 probed by quasiparticle scattering off step edges” Nano Letters19. (2019): 2497.
Rameau, J. D., Zaki, N. , Gu, G. D., Johnson, P. J., and Weinert, Michael T.“Interplay of paramagnetism and topology in the Fe-chalcogenide high-Tc superconductors” Physical Review B99. (2019): 205117.
Mito, M., Ohsumi, H., Shishidou, T., Kuroda, F., Weinert, Michael T., Tsuruta, K., Kotani, Y., Nakamura, T., Togawa, Y., Kishine, J., Kousaka, Y., Akimitsu, J., and Inoue, K.. “Observation of orbital angular momentum in the chiral magnet CrNb3S6 by soft x-ray magnetic circular dichroism” Physical Review B99. (2019): 174439.
Li, Y. Y., Chen, M. X., Weinert, Michael T., and Li, Lian. “One-dimensional metallic edge states of oxygen-terminated zigzag graphene edges” 2D Materials6. (2019): 025038.
Shishidou, T., Agterberg, Daniel F., and Weinert, Michael T.“Magnetic fluctuations in single-layer FeSe” COMMUNICATIONS PHYSICS1. (2018).
Chen, M X., and Weinert, Michael T.“Layer k-projection and unfolding electronic bands at interfaces” Physical Review B98. (2018): 245421.
Nawa, K, Akiyama, T., Ito, T., Nakamura, K., Oguchi, T., and Weinert, Michael T.“Scaled effective on-site Coulomb interaction in the DFT+U method for correlated materials” Physical Review B97. (2018): 035117.
Nakamura, K., Pradipto, A. M., Akiyama, T., Ito, T. , Oguchi, T. , and Weinert, Michael T.“Symmetric and asymmetric exchange stiffnesses of transition-metal thin film interfaces in external electric field” J. Magnetic and Magnetic Materials457. (2018): 97.
Lu, L., Ge, Z., Yan, C., Moghadam, A. D., Weinert, Michael T., and Li, Lian. “Termination-dependent edge states of MBE-grown WSe2” Physical Review B98. (2018): 235304.
Chen, M. X., Chen, W., Zhang, Z., and Weinert, Michael T.“Effects of magnetic dopants in (Li_{0.8}M_{0.2}OH)FeSe (M = Fe, Mn, Co): Density-functional theory study using a band unfolding technique” Phys. Rev. B96. (2017): 245111.
Agterberg, Daniel F., Shishidou, Tatsuya, O’Halloran, Joseph, Brydon, Philip, and Weinert, Michael T.“Resilient nodeless d -wave superconductivity in monolayer FeSe” Physical Review Letters119. (2017): 267001.
Chen, M. X., Weinert, Michael T., and Zhong, Z.. “Designing substrates for silicene and germanene: First-principles calculations” Phys. Rev. B94. (2016): 075409.
Chen, M. X., and Weinert, Michael T.“Half-metallic Dirac cone in zigzag graphene nanoribbons on graphene” Phys. Rev. B94. (2016): 035433.
Rajput, S., Li, Y. Y., Weinert, Michael T., and Li, Lian. “Indirect Interlayer Bonding in Graphene-Topological Insulator van der Waals Heterostructure: Giant Spin-Orbit Splitting of the Graphene Dirac States” ACS Nano10. (2016): 8450.
Nawa, K, Kitakoa, Y., Nakamura, K. , Imaura, H., Akiyama, T., Ito, T., and Weinert, Michael T.“Search for the ground-state electronic configurations of correlated organometallic metallocenes from constraint density functional theory” Phys. Rev. B94. (2016): 035136.
Brydon, Philip M., Wang, Limin, Weinert, Michael T., and Agterberg, Daniel F.“Pairing of j=3/2 fermions in half-Heusler superconductors” Physical Review Letters116. (2016): 117001.
Liu, Y., Weinert, Michael T., and Li, Lian. “Determining charge state of graphene vacancy by noncontact atomic force microscopy and first-principles calculation” Nanotechnology26. (2015): 035702.
Oba, M, Nakamura, K, Akiyama, T, Ito, T, Weinert, Michael T., and Freeman, A J.“Electric-Field-Induced Modification of the Magnon Energy, Exchange Interaction, and Curie Temperature of Transition-Metal Thin Film” Phys. Rev. Lett114. (2015): 107202.
Mattson, Eric C., Pande, K, Cui, S, Weinert, Michael T., Chen, Junhong, and Hirschmugl, Carol J.“Investigation of NO2 adsorption on reduced graphene oxide” Chem. Phys. Lett622. (2015): 86-91.
Johnson, P D., Yang, H B., Rameau, J D., Gu, G D., Pan, Z H., Valla, T, Weinert, Michael T., and Fedorov, A V.“Spin-orbit interactions and the nematicity observed in the Fe-based superconductors” Phys. Rev. Lett114. (2015): 167001.