Department of Physics

  • Indian Institute Of Technology Madras , Chennai
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Welcome To Our Department

The department of Physics is a place where faculty, graduate and undergraduate students thrive on collaborating together in a vibrant academic atmosphere. The department encourages top-class innovation in both its research activities as well as pedagogy, on topics ranging from fundamental nature to those with immediate technological applications. The department currently has 59 faculty members, 200 graduate and 250 undergraduate students. The faculty and students have published on an average of 200 journal papers per year during the last five years. In addition, several undergraduate students in the department actively participate in research projects. The department attracts outstanding youngsters to join its faculty by providing an environment where academic ideas can blossom without barriers of groups and laboratories..

Latest News/Updates

  • A novel Gapless Quantum Spin Liquid in the S = 1 honeycomb material
    S. Bachhar, N. Pistawala, S. Kundu, M. Barik, M. Baenitz, J. Sichelschmidt, Koji Yokoyama, P. Khuntia, S. Singh, A. V. Mahajan, Phys. Rev. B (Letters) 111, L100403 ( 2025),
    DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.111.L100403

  • The nature of low-temperature spin-freezing in frustrated Kitaev magnets
    U. Jena and P. Khuntia*, Communications Materials ( Nature) 6, 63 (2025),

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