Group Leader
Dr. Tusharkanti Dey
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, IIT (ISM) Dhanbad
Email: tushar [at] iitism.ac.in, Ph (Office): +91-326-223-5341
Office: Room No 613, 6th floor, Academic Complex
Laboratory: Room No 527, 5th floor, Academic Complex
Academics:
M.Sc. and Ph.D. (Dual Degree): IIT Bombay (2013) [Supervisor: Prof. A. V. Mahajan]
B.Sc. (Honors in Physics): Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira, Belur Math, Howrah, (University of Calcutta), (2005)
Professional Experience:
Assistant Professor: IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, India (Since Nov 2020)
Visiting Assistant Professor: IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, India (Nov 2019- Nov 2020)
Postdoc: University of Cologne, Germany (July 2018- Oct 2019) [Mentor: Prof. T. Lorenz]
Postdoc: University of Augsburg, Germany (Dec 2014- June 2018) [Mentor: Prof. P. Gegenwart]
Postdoc: IFW Dresden, Germany (Jan 2013-Nov 2014) [Mentors: Dr. S. Wurmehl and Prof. B. Buechner]
Research/Academic Visits:
IFW Dresden, Germany (June - July 2024)
IFW Dresden, Germany (May - June 2023)
Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland, May 2017, Oct 2017
ISIS Muon Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK, March 2017
International Conference on Highly Frustrated Magnetism (HFM 2014), Cambridge, UK, July 2014
EPFL Switzerland (June-July 2012)
Itinerant Spin-Orbital Systems: From Magnetic Frustration to Novel Superconductivity, MPIPKS, Dresden, Germany, May 2012
Gordon Research Conference on Superconductivity, Waterville Valley, NH, USA, June 2011
Teaching Experience (at IIT Dhanbad):
PHC201 (Classical Mechanics), MS 20-21, MS 21-22, MS 22-23
PHE202 (Material Science and Engineering), WS 20-21, WS 21-22, WS 22-23, WS 23-24
PHO571 (Material Characterization), WS 21-22, WS 22-23
PHD509 (Advanced Condensed Matter Physics), MS 20-21, MS 21-22, MS 23-24
PHD507 (Plasma and Space Physics), WS 20-21
APE34107 (Plasma and Space Physics), WS 19-20
APC34102 (Advanced Condensed Matter Physics), WS 19-20
Invited/Seminar Talks:
Novel magnetism in A3BM2O9 materials, University of Wuppertal, Germany, 2nd July 2024
Search for spin liquid candidates, Workshop on topology, quantum criticality and strongly correlated systems, IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, 16th Jan 2024
A3BM2O9 materials: A playground for novel magnetism, QMAT2023, NISER Bhubaneswar 28th Nov 2023
A3BM2O9 materials: A playground for novel magnetism, IFW Dresden, Germany, 7th June 2023
Novel magnetism in spin-orbit driven Mott insulators, Department of Physics, IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, 27th Aug 2019
Novel magnetism in spin-orbit driven Mott insulators, Department of Physics, IIT (BHU)Varanasi, 8th Aug 2019
Novel magnetism in spin-orbit driven Mott insulators, Department of Physical Sciences, IISER Kolkata, 6th Aug 2019
Novel magnetism in spin-orbit driven Mott insulators, Department of Physics, Shiv Nadar University, 10th July 2019
Search for Kitaev spin liquid materials, Department of Physics, IIT Ropar, 9th Nov 2017
Search for Kitaev spin liquid materials, Department of Physical Sciences, IISER Mohali, 6th Nov 2017
Search for Kitaev spin liquid materials, Department of Physics, IIT Bombay, 3rd Nov 2017
Possible materials for realization of (i) Heisenberg-Kitaev physics in triangular lattice and (ii) excitonic magnetism, CRC-1238 seminar, University of Cologne, Germany, 19th Oct 2016
Novel magnetism in some iridium based oxides, Department of Applied Physics, IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, India, 27th Oct 2015
Novel magnetism in some iridium based oxides, Department of Physics, IIT Kharagpur, India, 14th Oct 2015
Novel magnetism in Ir-based oxides, TRR80 Seminar, Institute for Physics, University of Augsburg, Germany, 29th July 2014
Poster presentations:
Synthesis and magnetic properties of Ba3InIr2O9, International workshop on From Electronic Correlations to Functionality, September 12 - 15, 2016, Kloster Irsee, Germany
7Li and 23Na NMR measurements on (Na0.75Li0.25)2IrO3, Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG) spring meeting, 6th - 11thMarch, 2016, Regensburg, Germany
Unconventional magnetism in the Ir5+ cubic double perovskite Ba2YIrO6, International Workshop on New states of matter and their excitations, MPIPKS Dresden, Germany, 29th Sept-02nd Oct 2014
Unconventional magnetism in the Ir5+ cubic double perovskite Ba2YIrO6, International Conference on Highly Frustrated Magnetisim (HFM 2014), Cambridge, UK, July 2014
Single crystal growth of BaIrO3, Electronic Properties of Spin-Orbit Driven Oxides 2013, Dresden, Germany, Sept 2013
Spin-orbit driven novel magnetic properties in some Iridium-based oxides, Itinerant Spin-Orbital Systems: From Magnetic Frustration to Novel Superconductivity, MPIPKS, Dresden, Germany, May 2012
75As NMR probe of antiferromagnetic fluctuations in Ba(Fe1-xRux)2As2, Gordon Research Conference on Superconductivity, Waterville Valley, NH, USA, June 2011
27Al and 119Sn NMR Study of Magnetism in Nanoparticles of Al2O3 and SnO2, ICMM-2010, SINP, Kolkata, India, Nov 2010
Magnetic Studies on the S=1/2 Hyperkagome System Na4Ir3O8, MSM-2009, Kolkata, India, Nov 2009
Spin Liquid state in S=1/2 Hyperkagome System Na4Ir3O8, Indo-US Workshop on Advanced Magnetic Materials and Their Application, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India, March 2009
Spin gap behavior in (CuCl)LaNb2O7, ICMM 2007, SINP, Kolkata, India, Dec 2007