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Whither the oxide interface

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Interfaces formed by transition-metal oxide materials offer a tremendous opportunity for fundamental as well as applied research. Yet, as exciting as these opportunities are, several challenges remain.

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Figure 1: Examples of control parameters available at oxide interfaces.
Figure 2: Designing oxide interfaces.
Figure 3: Schematic of a 'Mott transistor' with oxide channel material (white) and top gate and substrate (blue), showing the electronic density of states (DOS) calculated from single-site dynamical mean field theory.

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  2. A. J. Millis is in the Department of Physics, Columbia University, 538 West 120th Street, New York 10027, USA,

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  3. J. Rondinelli is in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA,

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