Faculty Details

Areas of Interest

• Condensed Matter Theory
• Strongly Correlated Electronic Systems
• Unconventional Superconductivity

Current Research

Our group works on developing theoretical description of material systems with strongly correlated electrons, unconventional superconductors, magnetism and materials showing non trivial topological properties. We utilize quantum many body theoretical methods to understand the microscopic physics of these quantum materials. Our research is motivated by experiments such as scanning tunneling microscopy, neutron scattering, Angle resolved photo-emission spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy among others.

Students

Current PhD Students

• PH17D027    BUDDHADEB DEBNATH
• PH18D020    ANIRBAN DAS
• PH19D033    SUBHOJIT ROY
• PH20D088    AMAN SARDWAL

Recent Publications

• A Gate-Tunable Ambipolar Quantum Phase Transition in a Topological Excitonic Insulator. Yande Que, Yang-Hao Chan, Junxiang Jia, Anirban Das, Zhengjue Tong, Yu-Tzu Chang, Zhenhao Cui, Amit Kumar, Gagandeep Singh, Shantanu Mukherjee, Hsin Lin, Bent Weber . Advanced Materials. 2309356. 1.
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202309356. 2023.
• Role of interface hybridization on induced superconductivity in 1T'-WTe2 and 2H-NbSe2 heterostructures. Anirban Das, Bent Weber, and Shantanu Mukherjee. Phys.Rev. B. 108. 075410.
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.108.075410. 2023.
• Interlayer hybridization in a van der Waals quantum spin-Hall insulator/superconductor heterostructure.. Bussolotti, Fabio, Hiroyo Kawai, Ivan Verzhbitskiy, Wei Tao, Duc-Quan Ho, Anirban Das, Junxiang Jia, Shantanu Mukherjee, Bent Weber, and Kuan Eng Johnson Goh.. AIP Advances. 13. 35115. 2023.
• Signatures of orbital selective Mott state in doped Sr 3 Ru 2 O 7. Debnath, Buddhadeb, Anirban Das, Priyo Adhikary, and Shantanu Mukherjee. Phys. Rev. Materials. 7. 35001. 2023.
• Non-trivial impurity and field effects in topological Kondo insulator SmB6. Guha Roy S., Das A., Mukherjee Shantanu. Materials Today Proceedings. 55. 166. 2022.
• Tuning the many-body interactions in a helical Luttinger liquid. Jia, Junxiang, Elizabeth Marcellina, Anirban Das, Michael S. Lodge, BaoKai Wang, Duc-Quan Ho, Riddhi Biswas et al.. Nature Communications. 13. 6046. 2022.
• Disorder stabilized breached-pair phase in an s-wave superconductor. Karmakar, Madhuparna, Subhojit Roy, Shantanu Mukherjee, and Rajesh Narayanan.. Phys Rev Research. 4. 43159. 2022.
• Multiband superconductivity in strongly hybridized 1 T?? WTe 2/NbSe 2 heterostructures.. Tao, Wei, Zheng Jue Tong, Anirban Das, Duc-Quan Ho, Yudai Sato, Masahiro Haze, Junxiang Jia et al.. Phys. Rev. B. 105. 94512. 2022.
• Atomically Thin Quantum Spin Hall Insulators. Michael S. Lodge, Shengyuan A. Yang, Shantanu Mukherjee, Bent Weber. Advanced Materials. 2008029 . 1 . 2021.
• Cooperative effects of strain and electron correlation in epitaxial VO2 and NbO2. Wei-Cheng Lee, Matthew J. Wahila, Shantanu Mukherjee, et. al.. Journal Of applied Physics, Invited Paper, Special Topic: Strain Engineering in Functional Materials. 125 . 082539 . 2019.
• Emergent charge order near the doping-induced Mott-insulating quantum phase transition in Sr3Ru2O7. Justin Leshen, Mariam Kavai, Ioannis Giannakis, Yoshio Kaneko, Yoshi Tokura, Shantanu Mukherjee, Wei-Cheng Lee & Pegor Aynajian. Comm. Physics, Nature. 2 . 2 . 2019.
• Discovery of orbital-selective Cooper pairing in FeSe. P. O. Sprau, A. Kostin, A. Kreisel, A. E. Böhmer, V. Taufour, P. C. Canfield, Shantanu Mukherjee, P. J. Hirschfeld, B. M. Andersen, J. C. Séamus Davis. Science. 357 . 75-80. 2017.
• Resonant Plasmon-Axion Excitations Induced by Charge Density Wave Order in Weyl Semimetal. Matthew D. Redell, Shantanu Mukherjee, and Wei-Cheng Lee. Phys. Rev. B. 93 . 241201 . 2016.
• Structural and magnetic field effects on spin fluctuations in Sr3Ru2O7. Shantanu Mukherjee and Wei-Cheng Lee. Phys. Rev. B. 94 . 064407 . 2016.
• Tuning a Strain-Induced Orbital Selective Mott Transition in Epitaxial VO2. Shantanu Mukherjee, N. F. Quackenbush, H. Paik, C. Schlueter, T.-L. Lee, D. G. Schlom, L. F. J. Piper, and Wei-Cheng Lee. Phys. Rev. B. 93 . 241110 . 2016.
• Spin excitations in a model of FeSe with orbital ordering. A. Kreisel, Shantanu Mukherjee, P. J. Hirschfeld, and Brian M. Andersen. Phys. Rev. B. 92 . 224515 . 2015.
• Characterizing Featureless Mott Insulating State by Quasiparticle Interferences- A Dynamical Mean Field Theory view. Shantanu Mukherjee and Wei-Cheng Lee. Phys. Rev. B. 92 . 241102 . 2015.
• Model of electronic structure and superconductivity in orbitally ordered FeSe. Shantanu Mukherjee, Andreas Kreisel, P. J. Hirschfeld, B. M. Andersen. Phys. Rev. Lett.. 115 . 026402 . 2015.
• Ferroelectric order and magnetoelectric coupling in underdoped La-214 cuprates. Z. Viskadourakis, S. S. Sunku, S. Mukherjee, B. M. Andersen, T. Ito, T. Sasagawa & C. Panagopoulos. Scientific Reports. 5 . 15268 . 2015.

Teaching

• 2017 :  (Jul - Nov) - PH1010 Physics I
• 2018 :  (Jan - May) - PH1020 Physics II; (Jul - Nov) - PH1080 Thermodynamics and Kinetic Theory
• 2019 :  (Jul - Nov) - PH1080 Thermodynamics and Kinetic Theory
• 2020 :  (Jan - May) - PH1020 Physics II
• 2021 :  (Jan - May) - PH5680 Superconductivity & Its Applications ; (Jul - Nov) - EP3120 Statistical Physics and Applications / PH1030 Physics Laboratory I
• 2022 :  (Jan - May) - EP3291 Engineering Physics Lab IV / PH5230 Seminar / PH5680 Superconductivity & Its Applications ; (Jul - Nov) - PH1080 Thermodynamics and Kinetic Theory
• 2023 :  (Jan - May) - PH5680 Superconductivity & Its Applications