Quantum Materials Lab

DR. AMITAVA BHATTACHARYYA, RKMVERI, Assistant Professor of Physics, Experimental Condensed-Matter Physics (Research Work)

I'm an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute, India. I received Ph.D. from Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, India. After Ph.D., I held Post-Doctoral Research Assistant positions at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxford, United Kingdom (2013-2016), Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan (2012-2013), and Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India, (2012-2013).

PhD positions

Highly motivated Post-Graduate (MSc) students who wish to find out more about doing research (PhD) in the group are encouraged to talk to Dr. Bhattacharyya (Contact amitava.bhattacharyya.rkmveri@gmail.com or amitava.bhattacharyya@rkmvu.ac.in)

Keywords

Quantum Materials, High-Quality Crystal Growth, Unconventional Superconductivity, Non-Centrosymmetric Superconductors, Iron-Based Superconductors, Topological Superconductors, Quantum Spin liquid systems, Geometrical Frustration, Magnetic Skyrmion, Electronic Structure Calculations, Time-Reversal Symmetry Breaking.

Research Overview

1. Our research group experimentally investigates novel properties of quantum materials using thermodynamic, transport, and structural measurements as well as microscopic techniques, e.g., neutron scattering and muon spin resonance.
2. The major thrust of our group is to know how electrons organize themselves in quantum materials to lead to unusual properties, such as high-temperature superconductivity, unconventional superconductivity, geometrically frustrated states, quantum spin liquid states etc.
3. Understanding emergent quantum phenomena is a significant challenge of materials physics and a requirement for future technologies that intend to manipulate in a controlled way the quantum properties of many electrons.
4. A strong emphasis of our research is in the quantitative comparison of the experimental data with modern theories. We have strong collaborations with leading theory groups worldwide who develop new theoretical models to confront our experimental results.