Faculty Details

Yasir Iqbal

Associate Professor

HSB 249A
Ph.D. University of Toulouse, France

📞 044 - 2257 4841
✉️ yiqbal@iitm.ac.in

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Areas of Interest

✔ Condensed Matter Theory

✔ Strongly Correlated Systems

✔ Frustrated Magnetism

✔ Quantum Spin Liquids

✔ Pseudo-Fermion Functional Renormalization Group and Variational Monte Carlo methods for spin systems

Current Research

Students

Current PhD Students

✔ PH18D022 AISHWARYA CHAUHAN

✔ PH19D011 SOURIN CHATTERJEE

✔ PH20D010 HARI PRASAAD B J

✔ PH19D033 SUBHOJIT ROY (Co-Guidance)

✔ PH21D054 AKSHAY KUMAR

✔ PH21D850 SASANK BUDARAJU

✔ PH22D078 HARSH RAJ

Recent Publications

  • ✔ 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. SciPost Phys. 14. 139. DOI: 10.21468/SciPostPhys.14.6.139. 2023.
  • ✔ 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. Phys. Rev. B. 107. 214414. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.107.214414. 2023.
  • ✔ Quantum spin liquids on the diamond lattice. Aishwarya Chauhan, Atanu Maity, Chunxiao Liu, Jonas Sonnenschein, Francesco Ferrari, and Yasir Iqbal. Phys. Rev. B. 108. 134424. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.108.134424. 2023.
  • ✔ Piercing the Dirac spin liquid: From a single monopole to chiral states. Sasank Budaraju, Yasir Iqbal, Federico Becca, and Didier Poilblanc. Phys. Rev. B. 108. L201116. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.108.L201116. 2023.
  • ✔ Noncoplanar magnetic order in classical square-kagome antiferromagnets. Martin Gembé, Heinz-Jürgen Schmidt, Ciarán Hickey, Johannes Richter, Yasir Iqbal, and Simon Trebst. Phys. Rev. Res.. 5. 043204. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.043204. 2023.
  • ✔ Pinch-points to half-moons and up in the stars: The kagome skymap. Dominik Kiese, Francesco Ferrari, Nikita Astrakhantsev, Nils Niggemann, Pratyay Ghosh, Tobias Müller, Ronny Thomale, Titus Neupert, Johannes Reuther, Michel J. P. Gingras, Simon Trebst, and Yasir Iqbal. Phys. Rev. Research. 5. L012025. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.L012025. 2023.
  • ✔ Tensor network study of the spin-1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnet on the shuriken lattice. Philipp Schmoll, Augustine Kshetrimayum, Jan Naumann, Jens Eisert, and Yasir Iqbal. Phys. Rev. B. 107. 064406. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.107.064406. 2023.
  • ✔ Projective symmetry group classification of Abrikosov fermion mean-field ansätze on the square-octagon lattice. Atanu Maity, Francesco Ferrari, Ronny Thomale, Saptarshi Mandal, and Yasir Iqbal. Phys. Rev. B . 107. 134438. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.107.134438. 2023.
  • ✔ Quantum Effects on Unconventional Pinch Point Singularities. Nils Niggemann, Yasir Iqbal, and Johannes Reuther. Phys. Rev. Lett. 130. 196601. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.196601. 2023.
  • ✔ Dimerization tendencies of the pyrochlore Heisenberg antiferromagnet: A functional renormalization group perspective. Max Hering, Vincent Noculak, Francesco Ferrari, Yasir Iqbal, and Johannes Reuther. Phys. Rev. B. 105. 054426. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.105.054426. 2022.

Teaching

✔ 2018 : (Jan - May) - PH5720 Numerical Methods and Programming Lab; (Jul - Nov) - PH5730 Methods of Computational Physics

✔ 2019 : (Jan - May) - PH1020 Physics II

✔ 2020 : (Jan - May) - PH1020 Physics II

✔ 2021 : (Jan - May) - PH1020 Physics II ; (Jul - Nov) - EP4040 Seminar / EP4140 Project / PH1010 Physics I

✔ 2022 : (Jan - May) - EP4150 Project / PH1020 Physics II ; (Jul - Nov) - PH1010 Physics I

✔ 2023 : (Jan - May) - PH1020 Physics II / PH5680 Superconductivity & Its Applications