Faculty Details

Rajesh Narayanan

Professor

HSB 311A
Ph.D. University of Oregon

📞 044 - 2257 4858
✉️ rnarayanan@iitm.ac.in

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Areas of Interest

✔ Condensed Matter Theory: Quantum Field Theories applied to condensed matter systems

✔ Quantum Phase Transitions

✔ Strong disorder physics

Current Research

Students

Current PhD Students

✔ PH18D005 VISHNU P K

✔ PH19D044 KETAN MAHENDRAKUMAR AMIN

✔ PH19D064 SUDESHNA PAL

Recent Publications

  • Holographic approach to entanglement entropy in disordered systems . Rajesh Narayanan, Chanyong Park, and Yun-Long Zhang . Phys. Rev. D . 99 . 046019 . 2019.
  • Tuning a random-field mechanism in a frustrated magnet . Shashikant Singh Kunwar, Arnab Sen, Thomas Vojta, and Rajesh Narayanan . Phys. Rev. B . 98 . 024206 . 2018.
  • Emergent infinite-randomness fixed points from the extensive random bipartitions of the spin-1 Affleck-Kennedy-Lieb-Tasaki topological state . Min Lu, Wen-Jia Rao, Rajesh Narayanan, Xin Wan, and Guang-Ming Zhang . Phys. Rev. B . 94 . 214427 . 2016.
  • Intertwined nematic orders in a frustrated ferromagnet . Yasir Iqbal, Pratyay Ghosh, Rajesh Narayanan, Brijesh Kumar, Johannes Reuther, and Ronny Thomale . Phys. Rev. B . 94 . 224403. 2016.
  • Strong-randomness phenomena in quantum Ashkin-Teller models . Hatem Barghathi, Fawaz Hrahsheh, Jose A. Hoyos, Rajesh Narayanan, Thomas Vojta, . Physica Scripta . T165 . 014040. 2015.
  • Emerging criticality in the disordered three-color Ashkin-Teller model. . Qiong Zhu, Xin Wan, Rajesh Narayanan, José A. Hoyos, Thomas Vojta, . Phys. Rev. B . 91 . 224201. 2015.
  • Strong-randomness infinite-coupling phase in a random quantum spin chain . Fawaz Hrahsheh, Rajesh Narayanan, José A. Hoyos, Thomas Vojta . Phys. Rev. B. . 89 . 014401. 2014.
  • Density of states in Graphene with vacancies: Midgap power-law and frozen multifractality. . V. Haefener, J. Schindler, N. Weik, T. Mayer, S. Balakrishnan, R. Narayanan, S. Bera, and F. Evers . Phys. Rev. Lett. . 113 . 186802. 2014.
  • Influence of spin fluctuations near the Mott transition: a DMFT study . Serge Florens, Priyanka Mohan, C. Janani, T. Gupta, R. Narayanan, . Europhys. Lett. . 103 . 17002. 2013.
  • Influence of superohmic dissipation on a disordered quantum critical point.. Thomas Vojta, J. A. Hoyos, Priyanka Mohan, and Rajesh Narayanan,. Condens. Matter. 23. 094206. 2011.

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