ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a few examples of unusual magnetic and transport properties occurring at the oxide heterointerfaces. The structural reconstruction at the interfaces and the surfaces of the transition metal oxides can modify their physical properties due to the breaking of the crystal symmetry. The magnetic proximity effect and the reduction in the bandwidth can yield a substantial change in the magnetic properties of the materials as observed in many interfaces and surfaces of oxide perovskites. The evolution of unique features in electronic transport in complex oxide heterostructures, across a magnetic phase transition, opens new possibilities to manipulate the electronic and spin degrees of freedom by a selective choice and tailoring of their interfaces. The chapter discusses an unusual phenomenon of the large vertical shift in exchange bias occurring in a specific oxide heterostructure. The breaking of time reversal and/or inversion symmetry at the interfaces gives rise to unusual phenomena.
