Dr. Soumyajit Sarkar

2013 Ph.D. (Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics), S N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, India.

2007 M.Sc. (Physics), Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India.

2005 B.Sc. (major in Physics), Serampore College, University of Calcutta, India.

The primary focus of my research interest is understanding the unique properties and behavior of materials and interfaces, using first-principles quantum mechanical calculations based mostly on density functional theory. A detailed microscopic study at the most fundamental level using atomistic first-principles (ab initio) quantum-mechanical calculations can shed light on complex relationships between composition, structure, and physical properties of functional materials that result from the intriguing interplay of charge, spin, orbital, and lattice degrees of freedom therein. My overarching interest in material systems lies at length scales ranging from the nano to the macro scale. I am particularly interested in the study of material properties that are directly experimentally observable.

List of publications in peer-reviewed journals

(Articles are listed in reverse chronological order)

27. S. Sarkar and P. Kratzer

Signatures of Dichalcogenide-Gold Interaction in the Vibrational Spectra of MoS2 and MoSe2 on Au(111)

J. Phys. Chem. C 125, 26645-26651(2021) Impact Factor: 4.189

26. S. Sarkar* and P. Kratzer

Magnetic exchange interactions in bilayer CrX3 (X=Cl, Br, and I): A critical assessment of the DFT+U approach

Phys. Rev. B. 103, 224421 (2021) Impact Factor: 4.036

25. S. Sarkar and P. Kratzer

Electronic correlation, magnetic structure and magnetotransport in few-layer CrI3

Phys. Rev. Materials 4, 104006 (2020) Impact Factor: 3.989

24. A. N. Pal, D. Li, S. Sarkar, S. Chakrabarti, A. Vilan, L. Kronik, A. Smogunov, and O. Tal

Nonmagnetic single-molecule spin-filter based on quantum interference

Nat. Commun. 10, 5565 (2019) Impact Factor: 14.92

23. N. Kramer, S. Sarkar, L. Kronik, and N. Ashkenasy

Systematic modification of the indium tin oxide work function via side-chain modulation of an amino-acid functionalization layer

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 21, 21875-21881 (2019) Impact Factor: 3.567

22. K. Banerjee-Ghosh, O. Ben Dor, F. Tassinari, E. Capua, S. Yochelis, A. Capua, S-H Yang, S. S. P. Parkin, S. Sarkar, L. Kronik, L. T. Baczewski, R. Naaman, and Y. Paltiel

Separation of enantiomers by their enantiospecific interaction with achiral magnetic substrate

Science 360, 1331-1334 (2018) Impact Factor: 41.84

21. C. Guo, S. Sarkar, S. Refaely-Abramson, D. Egger, T. Bendikov, K. Yonezawa, Y. Suda, T. Yamaguchi, I. Pecht, S. Kera, N. Ueno, M. Sheves, L. Kronik, D. Cahen

Electronic structure of dipeptides in the gas-phase and as an adsorbed monolayer

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 20, 6860-6867 (2018) Impact Factor: 3.567

20. S. Sarkar, J. Yang, L. Z. Tan, A. M. Rappe, and L. Kronik

Molecule-adsorbed topological insulator and metal surfaces: a comparative first principles study

Chem. Mater. 30, 1849-1855 (2018) Impact Factor: 9.811

19. L. Musbat, J. M. Dilger, M. Nihamkin, D. R. Fuller, T. J. El-Baba, S. Sarkar, L. Kronik, A. Hirshfeld, N. Friedman, M. Sheves, Y. Toker, and D. E. Clemmer

Measurements of the Stabilities of Isolated Retinal Chromophores

Phys. Rev. E 95, 012406 (2017) Impact Factor: 2.529

18. D. Rakhmilevitch, S. Sarkar, O. Bitton, L. Kronik, and O. Tal

Enhanced magnetoresistance in molecular junctions by geometrical optimization of spin-selective orbital hybridization

Nano Lett. 16, 1741-1745 (2016) Impact Factor: 11.189

17. S. Sarkar and L. Kronik

Ionization and (de-)protonation energies of gas-phase amino acids from an optimally tuned range-separated hybrid functional

Mol. Phys. 114, 1228 (2016) Impact Factor: 1.7

16. M. Eckshtain-Levi, E. Capua, S. Refaely-Abramson, S. Sarkar, Y. Gavrilov, S. Mathew, Y. Paltiel, Y. Levy, L. Kronik, and R. Naaman

Cold Denaturation induces inversion of dipole and spin transfer in chiral peptide monolayers

Nat. Commun. 7, 10744 (2016) Impact Factor: 14.92

15. R. Vardimon, T. Yelin, M. Klionsky, S. Sarkar, A. Biller, L. Kronik, and O. Tal

Probing the Orbital Origin of Conductance Oscillations in Atomic Chains

Nano Lett. 14, 2988 -2993 (2014) Impact Factor: 11.189

14. S. Sarkar, M. Kabir, M. Greenblatt, and T. Saha-Dasgupta

The role of an oxometallic complex in OH dissociation during water oxidation: a microscopic insight from DFT study

J. Mater. Chem. A 1, 10422-10428 (2013) Impact Factor: 8.3

13. S. Jana, C. Meneghini, P. Sanyal, S. Sarkar, T. Saha-Dasgupta, O. Karis, S. Ray

Signature of an antiferromagnetic metallic ground state in heavily electron doped Sr2FeMoO6

Phys. Rev. B 86, 054433 (2012) Impact Factor: 4.036

12. S. Mukherjee, S. Sarkar, and T. Saha-Dasgupta

First-principles study of CaCu3B4O12, (B=Co, Rh, Ir)

J. Mater. Sci. 47, 7660-7664 (2012) Impact Factor: 2.3

11. S. Baidya, S. Sarkar, T. Saha-Dasgupta and D. D. Sarma

Localized versus Itinerant character of pyrochlore ruthenates: Tl2Ru2O7 versus Hg2Ru2O7

Phys. Rev. B 86, 125117 (2012) Impact Factor: 4.036

10. S. Sarkar and T. Saha-Dasgupta

Orbital ordering in FeV2O4: Spinel with two orbitally active site

Phys. Rev. B 84, 235112 (2011) Impact Factor: 4.036

9. S. Sarkar, I. Dasgupta, M. Greenblatt and T. Saha-Dasgupta

Electronic and magnetic structure of bi-layer, La3Ni2O6, and tri-layer, La4Ni3O8 nickelates from first principles

Phys. Rev. B 84, 180411(R) (2011) Impact Factor: 4.036

8. S. Sarkar, K. Tarafder, P. M. Oppeneer and T. Saha-Dasgupta

Spin-Crossover in Cyanide-Based Bimetallic Coordination Polymers – Insight from First-Principles Calculations

J. Mater. Chem. 21, 13832-13840 (2011) Impact Factor: 6.626

7. E. Jacobi, S. Kanungo, S. Sarkar, S. Schmitt and T. Saha-Dasgupta

LDA+DMFT study of Ru-based perovskite SrRuO3 and CaRuO3

Phys. Rev. B 83, 041103(R) (2011) Impact Factor: 4.036

6. S. Sarkar, S. Kanungo and T. Saha-Dasgupta

Ab initio study of low-dimensional quantum spin systems Sr3NiPtO6, Sr3CuPtO6, and Sr3NiIrO6

Phys. Rev. B 82, 235122 (2010) Impact Factor: 4.036

5. S. Sarkar, R. Valentí, T. Maitra and T. Saha-Dasgupta

Comparative study of FeCr2S4 and FeSc2S4: Spinels with orbitally active A site

Phys. Rev. B 82, 041105(R) (2010) Impact Factor: 4.036

4. R. T. Clay, H. Li, S. Sarkar, S. Mazumdar and T. Saha-Dasgupta

Cooperative orbital ordering and Peierls instability in the checkerboard lattice with doubly degenerate orbitals

Phys. Rev. B 82, 035108 (2010) Impact Factor: 4.036

3. S. Sarkar, T. Maitra, R. Valentí and T. Saha-Dasgupta

Proposed orbital ordering in MnV2O4 from first-principles calculations

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 216405 (2009) Impact Factor: 9.161

2. S. Sarkar, M. De Raychaudhury, I. Dasgupta and T. Saha-Dasgupta

Electronic structure of FeCr2S4: Evidence of Coulomb enhanced spin-orbit splitting

Phys. Rev. B 80, 201101(R) (2009) Impact Factor: 4.036

1. S. Sarkar, M. De Raychaudhury and T. Saha-Dasgupta

Density-functioanal Study of Electronic and Optical Properties of Spinel compound CuIr2S4

Phys. Rev. B 79, 113104 (2009) Impact Factor: 4.036

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ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0003-4921-9284

June 2022 - till date: Assistant Professor at Brainware University, Barasat, Kolkata, India.

January 2019 - December 2021: Research Associate, Faculty of Physics, University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany.

April 2016 - December 2018: Senior post-doctoral research fellow, Department of Materials and Interfaces, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.

December 2013 - March 2016: Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Materials and Interfaces, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.

June 2013 - November 2013: Assistant Professor, Hooghly Engineering and Technology College, Vivekananda Road, Pipulpati, Hooghly, West Bengal, India.

August 2009 - February 2013: Senior Research Fellow, S N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, India.

August 2007 - July 2009: Junior Research Fellow, S N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, India.

Received the Senior Koshland Scholarship of the Weizmann Institute of Science in 2017.

Received the Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship of the Weizmann Institute of Science in 2016.

Received the Dean of Chemistry Postdoctoral Fellowship of the Weizmann Institute of Science in 2014.

Received CSIR junior research fellowship (JRF-NET) awarded in 2007.