IITKGP

Research Areas

  • Quantum matter, Condensed matter Theory
Problems in Condensed-Matter Physics -- Correlated and disordered electronic systems, Phase transitions, Statistical mechanics including:
 
 
  • Correlation driven metal insulator transitions, Charge (or Spin)-density wave and other instabilities in electron systems, phenomenology of High-Tc superconductors, heavy fermions and Kondo effect.
 
  • Phenomenology and modeling of correlated systems. dichalcogenides and other frustrated systems. Hetero-interfaces and unusual states of matter. 
 
  • Statistical mechanics and studies of correlated and frustrated models (e.g., the Hubbard and extended-Hubbard models, Falicov-Kimball model).
 
  • Correlated, disordered Bosons: phase diagram, low-lying excitations and thermodynamics, competition between correlation and disorder.
 
  • Frustrated systems. Quantum phase transition.
 
  • Statistical mechanics of quasicrystals, NP-complete problems in physics.
 
  • Magnetotransport and high-resolution angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy studies of palladium-doped Bi2Te3 by Sharma S., Kumar S., Tewari G.C., Sharma G., Schwier E.F., Shimada K., Taraphder A., Yadav C.S. Physical Review B 105 115120-115129 (2022)
  • Chirality-dependent planar Hall effect in inhomogeneous Weyl semimetals by Ghosh S., Sinha D. , Nandy S. , . , Taraphder A. Physical Review B (Rapid Communication) 102 121105-121110 (2020)
  • Unveiling the Kondo cloud: Unitary renormalization-group study of the Kondo model by Mukherjee A., Mukherjee A., Vidhyadhiraja N.S., Taraphder A., Lal S. Physical Review B 105 085119-085136 (2022)
  • Electron-phonon coupling and quantum correction to topological magnetoconductivity in Bi2GeTe4 by Singh N.K., Rawat D., Dey D., Elsukova A., Persson P.O.A., Eklund P., Taraphder A., Soni A. Physical Review B 105 045134-045140 (2022)
  • Giant nonlinear response due to unconventional magneto-oscillations in nodal-line semimetals by Sinha D., Taraphder A. Physical Review B 104 245141-245147 (2021)
  • Effect of population migration and punctuated lockdown on the spread of infectious diseases by Kiran R., Roy M., Abbas S., Taraphder A. Nonautonomous Dynamical Systems 8 251-266 (2021)
  • Hidden Fermi liquidity and topological criticality in the finite temperature Kitaev model by Pradhan S., Laad M.S., Ray A., Maitra T., Taraphder A. Solid State Communications 332 - (2021)
  • Charge density wave and superconductivity in transition metal dichalcogenides by Koley S., Mohanta N., Taraphder A. European Physical Journal B 93 - (2020)
  • Co-Principal Investigator

Ph. D. Students

Ravi Kiran

Area of Research: condensed matter physics

Soham Maiti

Area of Research: condensed matter physics

Subhajit Pramanick

Area of Research: condensed matter physics

Sudipta Biswas

Area of Research: condensed matter physics

Swarup Sangiri

Area of Research: particle physics, cosmology and condensed matter physics