UT Physics and ORNL Materials Science & Technology Division

Brief Vita

• PhD, Physics, Instituto Balseiro, Bariloche, Argentina (1985)
• Licenciado en Fisica. Instituto Balseiro, Bariloche, Argentina (1982)
• Distinguished Professor, University of Tennessee Department of Physics and Astronomy and Distinguished Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (2004-present)
• Florida State University: Full Professor (1997-2004); Associate Professor (1994-1997); Assistant Professor (1992-1994)
• Research Associate in Physics, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara (1988-1991)
• Research Associate in Physics, University of Illinois (1985-1988)

Selected Honors

• UT Alexander Prize (2023)
• APS David Adler Lectureship Award in the Field of Materials Physics (2022)
• UT Society of Physics Students Teacher of the Year (2019, 2021, 2023)
• Co-editor of Multifunctional Oxide Heterostructures (Oxford University Press) (2012)
• Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2009)
• Included in list of top 250 most Highly Cited Physicists (http://isihighlycited.com) (2004)
• Author of Nanoscale Phase Separation and Colossal Magnetoresistance, (Springer) (2002)
• Divisional Editor of Physical Review Letters (Condensed Matter) (1998-2002)
• Fellow of the American Physical Society (1998)

Teaching

• Physics 411-412: Introduction to Quantum Mechanics (I & II)
• Physics 541: Electromagnetic Theory I
• Physics 599: Condensed Matter Seminar

Research Areas

• Correlated Electrons
• Electron Transport in Nanostructures
• Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors

Selected Recent Publications

• “Semi-Dirac and Weyl Fermions in Transition Metal Oxides,” Narayan Mohanta, Jong Mok Ok, Jie Zhang, Hu Miao, Elbio Dagotto, Ho Nyung Lee, Satoshi Okamoto, ArXiv:2106.07793 (2021) (PDF).
• “Magnetic states of quasi-one-dimensional iron chalcogenide Ba₂FeS₃,” Yang Zhang, Ling-Fang Lin, Gonzalo Alvarez, Adriana Moreo, Elbio Dagotto, ArXiv:2106.02753 (2021) (PDF).
• “Origin of insulating ferromagnetism in iron oxychalcogenide Ce₂O₂FeSe₂,”Ling-Fang Lin, Yang Zhang, Gonzalo Alvarez, Adriana Moreo, Elbio Dagotto, ArXiv:2105.09239 (2021) (PDF).
• “Orbital-selective Peierls phase in the metallic dimerized chain MoOCl₂,”Yang Zhang, Ling-Fang Lin, Adriana Moreo, Elbio Dagotto, ArXiv:2105.10004 (2021) (PDF).
• “Designer Magnetism in High Entropy Oxides,” Alessandro R. Mazza, Elizabeth Skoropata, Yogesh Sharma, Jason Lapano, Thomas W. Heitmann, Brianna L. Musico, Veerle Keppens, Zheng Gai, John W. Freeland, Timothy R. Charlton, Matthew J. Brahlek, Adriana Moreo, Elbio Dagotto, Thomas Z. Ward, ArXiv:2104.05552 (2021) (PDF).
• “Anomalous Magnetoresistance by Breaking Ice Rule in Bi₂Ir₂O₇/Dy₂Ti₂O₇ Heterostructure,” H. Zhang, K. Noordhoek, C. K. Xing, T. H. Zhao, L. Horak, Q. Huang, L. Hao, J. Yang, S. Pandey, E. Dagotto, Z. G. Jiang, E. S. Choi, H. D. Zhou, J. Liu, ArXiv:2011.09048 (2020) (PDF).
• “Large intrinsic anomalous Hall effect in SrIrO₃ induced by magnetic proximity effect,” Myoung-Woo Yoo, J. Tornos, A. Sander, Ling-Fang Lin, Narayan Mohanta, A. Peralta, D. Sanchez-Manzano, F. Gallego, D. Haskel, J. W. Freeland, D. J. Keavney, Y. Choi, J. Strempfer, X. Wang, M. Cabero, Hari Babu Vasili, Manuel Valvidares, G. Sanchez-Santolino, J. M. Gonzalez-Calbet, A. Rivera, C. Leon, S. Rosenkranz, M. Bibes, A. Barthelemy, A. Anane, Elbio Dagotto, S. Okamoto, S. G. E. te Velthuis, J. Santamaria and Javier E. Villegas, Nature Communications 12 3283 (2021) (PDF).
• “Skyrmion Control of Majorana States in Planar Josephson Junctions,” Narayan Mohanta, Satoshi Okamoto, Elbio Dagotto, Comm. Phys. (Nature) 4 163 (2021) (PDF).
• “Quantum magnetism of iron-based ladders: blocks, spirals, and spin flux,” Maksymilian Sroda, Elbio Dagotto, and Jacek Herbrych, Phys.Rev.B. 104 045128 (2021) (PDF).
• “Intertwined charge, spin, and pairing orders in doped iron ladders,” Bradraj Pandey, Rahul Soni, Ling-Fang Lin, Gonzalo Alvarez and Elbio Dagotto, Phys.Rev.B. 103 214513 (2021) (PDF).
• “Interaction-induced topological phase transition and Majorana edge states in low-dimensional orbital-selective Mott insulators,” J. Herbrych, M. Sroda, G. Alvarez, M. Mierzejewsk, and Elbio Dagotto, Nature Communications 12, 2955 (2021) (PDF).

Most-Cited Publications

• 2905 Refs: “Colossal Magnetoresistant Materials: The Key Role of Phase Separation,” E. Dagotto, T. Hotta, and A. Moreo, Physics Reports 344, 1 (2001). (PDF file)
• 2306 Refs: “Correlated Electrons in High Temperature Superconductors,” E. Dagotto, Rev. Mod. Phys. 66, 763 (1994). (PDF file)
• 1391 Refs: “Surprises on the Way from 1D to 2D Quantum Magnets: the Novel Ladder Materials,” E. Dagotto and T. M. Rice, Science 271, 618 (1996). (PDF file)
• 1256 Refs: “Complexity in strongly correlated electronic systems,” E. Dagotto, Science 309, 257-262 (2005). (PDF file)
• 1173 Refs: “Phase Separation Scenario for Manganese Oxides and Related Materials,” A. Moreo, S. Yunoki, and E. Dagotto, Science 283, 2034 (1999). (PDF file)
• 998 Refs: “Role of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in multiferroic perovskites,” Phys. Rev. B 73, 094434 (2006). (PDF file)
• 626 Refs: “Superconductivity in ladders and coupled planes,” E. Dagotto, J. Riera, and D. Scalapino, Phys. Rev. B 45, 5744(R) (1992). (PDF file)
• 450 Refs: “Phase Separation in Electronic Models for Manganites,” S. Yunoki, J. Hu, A. Malvezzi, A. Moreo, N. Furukawa, and E. Dagotto, Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 845 (1998). (PDF file)
• 365 Refs: “Excitation spectrum of Heisenberg spin Ladders,” T. Barnes, E. Dagotto, J. Riera, and E. Swanson, Phys. Rev. B 47, 3196 (1993). (PDF file)
• 355 Refs: “Magnetism and its microscopic origin in iron-based high-temperature superconductors,” Pengcheng Dai, Jiangping Hu, and Elbio Dagotto, Nature Physics 8, 709-718 (2012). (PDF file)