Shahid Sattar

A combination of GW calculations with GW perturbation theory methods predicts temperature-dependent electron-phonon renormalization of semiconductor band gaps in very good agreement with experiments Letter: go.aps.org/4acBhCq Synopsis: go.aps.org/4nTgzxl

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The standard band structure picture cannot be applied to amorphous materials as they lack crystal symmetry. Now a first-principles approach captures the possibility of band-like electron transport in amorphous solids, with In₂O₃ as an example. nature.com/articles/s4156…

This is allegedly the 28 points of the peace plan, which will end over 11 years of proxy war: 1. Ukraine's sovereignty will be confirmed. 2. A full and comprehensive non-aggression agreement will be concluded between Russia, Ukraine, and Europe. All the ambiguities of the past 30 years will be considered resolved. 3. Russia is expected not to invade neighbouring countries, while NATO will not expand further. 4. A US-mediated dialogue between Russia and NATO will be held to resolve all security issues and create conditions for de-escalation in order to ensure global security and increase opportunities for cooperation and future economic development. 5. Ukraine will receive reliable security guarantees. 6. The Ukrainian Armed Forces will be limited to 600,000 personnel. 7. Ukraine agrees to enshrine in its constitution that it will not join NATO, and NATO agrees to include in its charters a provision stating that Ukraine will not be admitted in the future. 8. NATO agrees not to station troops in Ukraine. 9. European fighter jets will be stationed in Poland. 10. US guarantee: ▪️ The US will receive compensation for the guarantee. ▪️ If Ukraine invades Russia, it will lose the guarantee. ▪️ If Russia invades Ukraine, in addition to a decisive, coordinated military response, all global sanctions will be reinstated, recognition of the new territory, and all other benefits of this deal will be revoked. - If Ukraine launches a missile at Moscow or St. Petersburg without cause, the security guarantee will be considered null and void. 11. Ukraine has the right to EU membership and will receive short-term preferential access to the European market while this issue is under consideration. 12. A robust global package of measures to rebuild Ukraine, including, but not limited to: a. Establishment of a Ukraine Development Fund to invest in high-growth industries, including technology, data centers, and artificial intelligence. b. The United States will cooperate with Ukraine to jointly restore, develop, modernise, and operate Ukraine's gas infrastructure, including pipelines and storage facilities. c. Joint efforts to rebuild war-torn areas to restore, reconstruct, and modernise cities and residential areas. d. Infrastructure development. e. Mining of minerals and natural resources f. The World Bank will develop a special financing package to accelerate these efforts 13. Russia will be reintegrated into the global economy: a. The lifting of sanctions will be discussed and agreed upon in stages and on a case-by-case basis. b. The United States will enter into a long-term economic cooperation agreement to promote mutual development in energy, natural resources, infrastructure, artificial intelligence, data centers, Arctic rare earth metal mining projects, and other mutually beneficial corporate opportunities. c. Russia will be invited to re-join the G8. 14. Frozen funds will be used as follows: $100 billion of frozen Russian assets will be invested in US-led reconstruction and investment efforts in Ukraine. The United States will receive 50% of the profits from this venture. Europe will contribute $100 billion to increase the volume of investment available for Ukraine's reconstruction. Frozen European funds will be unfrozen. The remaining frozen Russian funds will be invested in a separate US-Russia investment vehicle, which will implement joint projects in specific areas. This fund will be aimed at strengthening relations and expanding common interests to create a strong incentive not to return to conflict. 15. A joint US-Russian working group on security issues will be established to promote and ensure implementation of all the provisions of this agreement. 16. Russia will enshrine in law its non-aggression policy toward Europe and Ukraine. 17. The US and Russia will agree to extend the nuclear non-proliferation and arms control treaties, including START I. 18. Ukraine agrees to be a non-nuclear state in accordance with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. 19. The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant will be started under IAEA supervision, and the electricity generated will be shared equally between Russia and Ukraine - 50:50. 20. Both countries commit to implementing educational programs in schools and society aimed at understanding and tolerance of different cultures and eliminating racism and prejudice: a. Ukraine will adopt EU rules on religious tolerance and the protection of linguistic minorities. b. Both countries will agree to abolish all discriminatory measures and guarantee the rights of Ukrainian and Russian media and education. c. All Nazi ideology and activity must be rejected and prohibited. 21. Territories: a. Crimea, Luhansk, and Donetsk will be recognized de facto as Russian, including by the United States. b. Kherson and Zaporizhzhia will be frozen along the line of contact, which means de facto recognition along the line of contact. c. Russia will give up other agreed upon territories that it controls outside the five regions. d. Ukrainian forces will withdraw from the part of Donetsk oblast they currently control, and this withdrawal zone will be considered a neutral demilitarised buffer zone, internationally recognized as belonging to the Russian Federation. Russian forces will not enter this demilitarised zone. 22. After agreeing on future territorial agreements, both the Russian Federation and Ukraine undertake not to change these agreements by force. Any security guarantees will not apply if this commitment is violated. 23. Russia will not impede Ukraine's use of the Dnieper River for commercial activity, and agreements will be reached on the free transportation of grain through the Black Sea. 24. A humanitarian committee will be established to resolve outstanding issues: a. All remaining prisoners and bodies will be exchanged on an "all for all" basis. b. All civilian detainees and hostages will be returned, including children. c. A family reunification program will be implemented. d. Measures will be taken to alleviate the suffering of the victims of the conflict. 25. Ukraine will hold elections in 100 days. 26. All parties involved in this conflict will receive a full amnesty for their actions during the war and agree not to pursue claims or consider any further grievances. 27. This agreement will be legally binding. Its implementation will be monitored and guaranteed by a Peace Council chaired by President Trump. Violations will be subject to sanctions. 28. Once all parties agree to this memorandum, the ceasefire will take effect immediately after both sides withdraw to the agreed-upon points to begin implementing the agreement.

A machine learning model that can solve nanocrystalline structures from highly degraded PXRD patterns is presented. It is shown to be successful on simulated crystals as small as 10 Å, and is robust to noisy patterns from real-world experiments. nature.com/articles/s4156…

@kanika4444 @Jain_Physics @htTweets @zee_talk Great achievement indeed.

"Growing up in a poor village in India, traumatized by an accident that left me on crutches... I did not think I would ever walk... let alone become a physicist." Read my @htTweets interview with @Jain_Physics, the 2025 Wolf Prize winner (second to the Nobel) edits: @zee_talk

@GangTang7 @NatureProtocols Thank you for making vaspkit available. Very useful too!

Just published in @NatureProtocols: "Empowering materials science with VASPKIT: a toolkit for enhanced simulation and analysis". This powerful toolkit streamlines computational materials research workflows and data analysis. doi.org/10.1038/s41596…

@2DSPINTECH @SarojChalmers @GrapheneEU Congratulations @SarojChalmers

Congratulations to 2DSPIN-TECH project leader @SarojChalmers who today became a full Professor at the Chalmers Department of Microtechnology and Nanoscience. He held an impressive inauguration lecture “Spin together in Quantum matter”. Hats off, Professor Dash! @GrapheneEU

Surface reconstructions in thin films of magnetic topological insulator MnBi2⁢Te4, Shahid Sattar, Daniel Hedman, and C. M. Canali @linneuni @sattarspk @danhed89 #CondensedMatter #Materials go.aps.org/4iqXdLH

Spin-split bands and certain lattice symmetries are required to generate spin currents. Now, a layered room-temperature antiferromagnet is shown to exhibit anisotropic spin splitting between valleys paired by a crystal symmetry. nature.com/articles/s4156…

It is well known that flat bands exist in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene. Now thermopower measurements show that the strong correlations between electrons in these bands result in the formation of local moments. nature.com/articles/s4156…

Today we release TorchSim, a next-generation PyTorch-native atomistic simulation engine for the MLIP era. Our hope is that this open-source package ignites a materials simulation revolution.

We published in ACS Nano - Field-Free Spin–Orbit Torque Switching of Canted van der Waals Magnets pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10… Bing Zhao, Lalit Pandey, Khadiza Ali, Erdi Wang, Craig M. Polley, B Thiagarajan, Peter Makk, Marcos H. D. Guimarães, Saroj Prasad Dash

#KAUST proudly welcomes 2025 cohort of exceptional Saudi researchers of #KAUSTIbnRushd Postdoctoral Fellows, who will advance their expertise at top global institutions, strengthen Saudi Arabia's #research ecosystem, & position it as a leader in innovation. kaust.news/UAHo

One billionaire couple owns almost all the water in California. In 1994, the Resnicks secretly seized control of California’s public water supply. Now their companies use 150 billion gallons every year while working class people suffer under drought conditions.

Machine learning can be powerful for understanding defects, but currently sufficient only in select cases. MLFFs (& geometric/electrostatic tools in doped) allow screening for challenging 'non-local' defect reconstructions (split vacancies) in all ICSD/MP solids, w/caveats 🔗👇

The authors report a Hall effect that originates from a fictitious magnetic field associated with antiferromagnetic order that breaks time-reversal symmetry, followed by translation symmetry. @Eng_Univ_Tokyo nature.com/articles/s4156…

Today, I led over 60 Members of Congress in a letter supporting human rights & democracy in Pakistan and calling for the release of political prisoners — including former Prime Minister Imran Khan.