Ing. Alexander B. Shick, DSc


    Senior Research Fellow
    Institute of Physics, AS CR
    Na Slovance 2, 182 21 Prague 8,
    Czech Republic
    Tel:+420-2-6605-2412
    Email: shick@fzu.cz

    Research interests:
  • Computational Materials Theory
  • Realistic Theory of Electron Correlations in Complex Materials
  • Magnetism and Unconventional Superconductivity

  • Selected Publications:
    1. N. Magnani, R. Eloirdi, F. Wilhelm, E. Colineau, J.-C. Griveau, A.B. Shick, G.H. Lander, A. Rogalev, and R. Caciuffo,"Probing Magnetism in the Vortex Phase of PuCoGa5 by X-Ray Magnetic Circular Dichroism", Phys. Rev. Letters 119, 157204 (2017).
    2. A. B. Shick, D. S. Shapiro, J. Kolorenc, and A. I. Lichtenstein, "Magnetic character of Ho atom adsorbed on Pt surface", Nature Scientific Reports 7, 2752 (2017).
    3. A. B. Shick, L. Havela, A. I. Lichtenstein, and M. I. Katsnelson, "Racah materials: role of atomic multiplets in intermediate valence systems", Nature Scientific Reports 5, 15429 (2015).
    4. A. A. Khajetoorians, M. Valentyuk, M. Steinbrecher, T. Schlenk, A. Shick, J. Kolorenc, A. I. Lichtenstein, T. O. Wehling, R. Wiesendanger, and J. Wiebe,"Tuning emergent magnetism in a Hund's impurity", Nature Nanotechnology 10, 958 (2015).
    5. I. Fina, X. Marti, D. Yi, J. Liu, J. H. Chu, C. Rayan-Serrao, S. Suresha, A. B. Shick, J. Železný T. Jungwirth, J. Fontcuberta, and R. Ramesh, "Anisotropic magnetoresistance in an antiferromagnetic semiconductor", Nature Communications 5, 4671 (2014).
    6. D. Daghero , M. Tortello, G.A. Ummarino, J.-C. Griveau, E. Colineau, R. Eloirdi , A.B. Shick , J. Kolorenc , A. I. Lichtenstein, and R. Caciuffo,"Strong-coupling d -wave superconductivity in PuCoGa5 probed by point-contact spectroscopy", Nature Communications 3, 786 (2012). (2012).
    7. B. G. Park, J. Wunderlich, X. Marti, V. Holy, Y. Kurosaki, M. Yamada, H. Yamamoto, A. Nishide, J. Hayakawa, H. Takahashi, A. B. Shick and T. Jungwirth,"A spin-valve-like magnetoresistance of antiferromagnet-based tunnel junction", Nature Materials 10, 347 (2011).
    8. B. G. Park, J. Wunderlich, D. A. Williams, S. J. Joo, K. Y. Jung, K. H. Shin, K. Olejník, A. B. Shick, and T. Jungwirt, "Tunneling Anisotropic Magnetoresistance in Multilayer-(Co/Pt)/AlOx/Pt Structures", Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 087204 (2008)
    9. Alexander B. Shick, Vaclav Janis, and Peter M. Oppeneer,"Effect of Coulomb Correlations on the Electronic Structure of PuCoGa5", Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 016401 (2005).
    10. A. B. Shick and W. E. Pickett, "Magnetism, Spin-Orbit Coupling and Superconducting Pairing in UGe2", Phys. Rev. Letters 86, 300 (2001).
    11. W. E. Pickett, R. Weht, and A. B. Shick, "Superconductivity in Ferromagnetic RuSr2GdCu2O8", Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 3713 (1999).
    12. A.B. Shick, A.I. Liechtenstein, W.E. Pickett, ``Implementation of the LDA+U method using the full potential linearized augmented plane wave basis", Phys. Rev. B 60, 10763 (1999).
    13. A.B. Shick, D.L. Novikov, A. J. Freeman, ``Relativistic theory of magnetoelastic coupling and magnetic anisotropy strain dependence: application to Co/Cu(001)", Phys. Rev. B 56 - Rapid Comm., 14259 (1997).
    14. A.B. Shick, V. Drchal, J. Kudrunovsky, P. Weinberger, ``Electronic structure and magnetic properties of random alloys: Fully relativistic linear muffin-tin-orbital method", Phys. Rev. B 54, 1610 (1996).
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