Physics (PHY)
Recent Submissions
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Interfacial - Dzyaloshinskii - Moriya interaction in quasi-perpendicularly magnetized Ta/Pt/CoFeB/Pt ultra-thin films
The physics of Ferromagnetic-Metal/Heavy-Metal(FM/HM) ultra-thin film heterostructures is not only rich enough to investigate the interplay of magnetic interactions but also relevant enough to harness a new paradigm of ... -
Electro-optic charge transport in semiconducting polymers
In this thesis, I have discussed the electric field dependence of photoconductivity of regioregular poly(3-hexylthiophene) [rr-P3HT] and its sensitization with Squaraine (SQ) dye. Even 1 wt % of SQ dye enhances the transport ... -
Chaos, entanglement, and non-equilibrium dynamics in Hermitian and non-Hermitian quantum many-body systems
Quantum chaos and entanglement have appeared as two key intertwined concepts to characterize fundamental quantum correlations of quantum many-body states and to understand the emergence of thermal and non-thermal steady ... -
Realization of magnetic Weyl semimetallic phase in pyrochlore iridates thin films
Weyl semimetals (WSMs) are characterized by two linear non-degenerate band crossing inside the bulk of the Brillouin zone. The spin-degeneracy of the bands can be lifted by either broken inversion symmetry or broken ... -
Fluctuation Driven Collective Phenomena in Electron Doped Quantum Paraelectric: KTaO3
The study of quantum phase transitions, in which a system undergoes a change in its ground state and physical properties due to quantum fluctuations at absolute zero temperature, stands as one of the most celebrated themes ... -
Charge Transport in PEDOT:PSS and Blends
Charge transport properties and metal-insulator transition in conducting polymers de pend on doping, disorder and the complex nanomorphology. Conductivity of poly(3,4- ethylenedioxythiophene):poly(styrene-sulfonate) ... -
Collective Magnetic Phases with Pentavalent Iridates
Magnetism and magnetism-driven phenomena have always remained a central theme of modern condensed matter physics. Conventional magnetic transition, such as para magnetic to ferromagnetic phase, involves symmetry breaking ... -
Ultrastrong coupling in a cavity-electromechanical device
Cavity optomechanics is a field that explores the interaction between light and motion of matter via radiation pressure force. Such systems mainly consist of an optical/microwave cavity coupled to a mechanical resonator. ... -
Collective Phototaxis of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Cells
Microorganisms are omnipresent in our life and the environment, such as microbes in the gut, spermatozoa in reproductive organs, algae and protozoa in the aquatic ecosystem, and bacterial colonization and infection. ... -
Investigating spin transport across magnetic insulators and their interfaces
Spin transport across magnetic insulator/heavy metal (MI/HM) interfaces has been a topic of interest in spintronics. The spin Seebeck effect (SSE) and spin Hall magnetoresistance (SMR) are two phenomena that have ... -
Spectroscopic study of emitter assemblies coupled to Plasmonic nano-cavities and metamaterials
The plasma oscillations of noble metals as silver and gold are well understood from the free electron model of metals. In the past two decades, due to the availability of various physical and chemical fabrication methods ... -
Statistics of Conductance Fluctuations in 2D systems
Study of 2D materials is interesting due to the various phase transitions observed in these materials. I shall present the results obtained in the study of phase transi tions in three different 2D material systems – ... -
Linear and Nonlinear Ultrafast Time Resolved Spectroscopy of Topological Insulators, Weyl Semimetals and Semiconducting Nanowires
Ultrafast time resolved spectroscopy has recently gained immense significance due to its potential capability to explore the dynamics of photoexcited carriers in condensed matter systems. The technique has proved to be a ... -
Many-body classical chaos: A case study across thermal phase transitions and connection to quantum measurements
There has been enormous interest in understanding the emergence of thermal behavior in systems isolated from the environment, be it classical or quantum. For classical systems, it has been argued that chaos plays a vital ... -
Probing the inflationary universe and reheating with primordial black holes and induced gravitational wave background
The direct observational test for the earliest phase of our universe comes from cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation, which can only probe up to the recombination era. The only definitive event during the pre-recombination ... -
Global gyrokinetic simulations of electrostatic microturbulent transport in LHD stellarator and ADITYA-U tokamak
Tokamak and stellarator are two leading contenders in the quest to achieve nuclear fusion from magnetically-confined plasmas. They differ in terms of magnetic field structure in the toroidal direction. Irrespective of the ... -
Quantum oscillation in band insulators and properties of non-equilibrium steady states in disordered insulators
Starting with the experiment on Kondo insulator SmB6 , which shows 1/B-periodic oscillations despite the absence of gapless electronic excitations in bulk, the candidate insulators showing quantum oscillation (QO) are on ... -
Active matter: chirality, translational order, and interfaces
My PhD work is on chiral active matter with solid and fluid directions, dynamics of the interface of a nonconserved chiral order parameter in an active system, flocking on curved manifolds and field-driven colloids in ... -
Investigation of Optical and Electro-optical Effects at Material Interfaces
The key questions addressed in this thesis are related to light-matter interactions at the material interfaces and are related to both plasmonic as well as Pockels effects. Plasmonics enables the design of compact photonic ... -
Exploring dissipation dynamics in low-dimensional superconductor
Technological advances in the past decade in fabricating two-dimensional superconducting materials with low disorder have enabled exploring many exciting phases. In recent times, two-dimensional superconductors have been ...