Department of Physics

  • Indian Institute Of Technology Madras , Chennai

Welcome To Our Department

The Department of Physics at IIT Madras, established in 1959, is now one of the largest and most active in the country. We have 56 faculty with expertise across various disciplines of physics, both traditional and emerging, working on problems of foundational and applied interest. Our faculty further the cause of research in frontier areas with their unique contributions, by being a part of nearly a dozen Centers of Excellence seeded by IIT Madras. Teaching and training future scientists, especially physicists, is one of the major goals of the Department. Our department is thus well known for its core undergraduate and masters programs, which are now augmented by interdisciplinary dual degree MTech programs. At the apex is our regular doctoral (PhD) program, with a current strength of nearly 200 research scholars.

Latest News/Updates

  • Classical and quantum phases of the pyrochlore S=1/2 magnet with Heisenberg and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions
    Vincent Noculak, Daniel Lozano-Gómez, Jaan Oitmaa, Rajiv R. P. Singh, Yasir Iqbal, Michel J. P. Gingras, and Johannes Reuther, 107, Phys. Rev. B, 214414
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.107.214414

  • Static and dynamical signatures of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions in the Heisenberg model on the kagome lattice
    Francesco Ferrari, Sen Niu, Juraj Hasik, Yasir Iqbal, Didier Poilblanc, and Federico Becca, 14, SciPost Phys, 139
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21468/SciPostPhys.14.6.139

  • Limits of a non-local quantum spacetime
    Dawood Kothawala, Honorable Mention in the Gravity Research Foundation Essay Competition, 2023 ,
    DOI: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.09265

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