Department of Physics :: IIT Madras

Major Areas of Research

Research Groups

Alternative Energy and NanoTechnology	Dr. S Ramaprabhu
Atomic and Molecular Physics	Dr. G. Aravind \| Dr. P.C. Deshmukh
Dielectric Materials & Microwave Physics	Dr. V. R. K. Murthy \| Dr. P. Murugavel \| Dr. V. Subramanian
Dynamical Systems, Quantum Dynamics & Statistical Physics	Dr. V. Balakrishnan \| Dr. S. Lakshmi Bala \| Dr. N. M. Gupte \| Dr. Arul Lakshminarayanan
Environmental Nanotechnology	Dr. Somnath Chandra Roy
Experimental High Energy Physics	Dr. Prafulla Behera \| Dr. James Libby
Gravitation & Cosmology	Dr. Dawood Kothwala \| Dr. L. Sriramkumar
Low Dimensional Materials	Dr. Manu Jaiswal
Low Temperature Physics	Dr. R. Nirmala \| Dr. V. Sankaranarayanan \| Dr. P. N. Santhosh \| Dr. k. Sethupathi
Magnestism & Magnetic Materials	Dr. N. Harish Kumar \| Dr. G. Markandeyulu \| Dr. V. Srinivas
Molecular Electronics & Instrumentation	Dr. T. S. Natarajan
Multi Functional Materials	Dr. Sudakar Chandran
Nano-Scale Physics	Dr. Prahallad Padhan
Non-Destructive Measurements	Dr. C. V. Krishnamurthy
Nuclear & High Energy Physics	Dr. Sunethra Ramanan
Optics & Photonics	Dr. P. B. Bisht \| Dr. A. R. Ganesan \| Dr. M. P. Kothiyal \| Dr. M. Pattabiraman \| Dr. M. V. Satyanarayana \| Dr. C. Vijayan
Photovoltaics	Dr. M. K. Jain \| Dr. A. Subrahmanyam
Soft Condensed Matter & Biological Physics	Dr. Aditi Simha \| Dr. Manoj Gopalakrishnan \| Dr. Dilip Satapathy \| Dr. P. B. Sunil Kumar
Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics	Dr. B. R. K. Nanda \| Dr. Rajesh Narayanan
Theoretical High Energy Physics	Dr. Suresh Govindarajan \| Dr. Prasanta Tripathy
Thin Films	Dr. S. Kasiviswanathan
Thin Films & Nanomaterial for Magnetic, Optical, Photovoltaic & Energy Applications	Dr. M. S. Ramachandra Rao

Recent Publications

Sl.No	Titles	Authors	Journal
1	Autonomous Motility of Active Filaments due to Spontaneous Flow-Symmetry Breakin	Dr. P B. Sunil Kumar Dr. Gayathri Jayaraman Dr. Sanoop Ramachandran Dr. Somdeb Ghose Dr. Abhrajit Laskar Dr. M.Saad Bhamla Dr. R.Adhikari	Phy. Rev. Lett.109, 158302 (2012)
2	Evidence for B to Ds+ K- lepton antineutrino and search for B-$B"(BDs+K-lepton antineutrino	Dr. James Frederick Libby Dr.J. Stypula et al. (The Belle Collaboration)	Phys. Rev. D 86, 072007
3	[Rapid Communication] First observation of CP violation and improved measurement of the branching fraction and polarization of B0 to D+D- decays	Dr. James Frederick Libby Dr.B. Kronenbitter et al. (The Belle Collaboration)	Phys. Rev. D 86, 071103
4	Observation of the Dalitz decay Ds* to Ds+ positron electron	Dr. James Frederick Libby D. Cronin-Hennessy et al. (CLEO Collaboration)	Phys. Rev. D 86, 072005
5	Electronic structure and optical band gap of Co?Fe?_2 O_4 thin films,	Dr.Prahallad Padhan Dr.A. V. Ravindra, and Dr. W. Prellier,	Appl. Phys. Lett. 101, 161902 (2012).
6	Measurement of branching fraction and first evidence of CP violation in B0→a1±(1260)pi∓ decays	Dr. James Frederick Libby J. Dalseno et al. (Belle Collaboration)	Phys. Rev. D 86, 092012.
7	Measurement of gamma gamma*→pi-zero transition form factor at Belle	Dr. James Frederick Libby S. Uehara et al. (Belle Collaboration)	Phys. Rev. D 86, 092007.
8	Search for light scalar top-quark pair production in final states with two leptons with the ATLAS detector in √s = 7 TeV proton-proton collisions.	Dr. Prafulla Kumar Behera et al	The Atlas Collaboration, European Physical Journal C , 72 ( 11 ) pp. 1 - 20 . 2012.
9	Search for supersymmetry in events with large missing transverse momentum, jets, and at least one tau lepton in 7 TeV proton-proton collision data with the ATLAS detector.	Dr. Prafulla Kumar Behera et al	The Atlas Collaboration, European Physical Journal C , 72 ( 11 ) pp. 1 - 22 . 2012
10	Search for resonant top quark plus jet production in tt̄+jets events with the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at √s=7TeV	Dr. Prafulla Kumar Behera et al	The Atlas Collaboration, Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology , 86 ( 9 ) , art. no. 091103, 2012
11	Study of the baryonic B decays to Sigma_C++ p-bar pi-minus pi-minus	Dr. Prafulla Kumar Behera et al	Study of the baryonic B decays to Sigma_C++ p-bar pi-minus pi-minus
12	Study of magnetodielectric effect in hexagonal Ho1-xDyxMnO3	Dr.P. Murugavel Dr.J. Magesh, Dr.R.V.K. Mangalam, Dr.K. Singh, Dr.Ch. Simon and Dr.W. Prellier.	J. Appl.Phys. 112, 104116 (2012).
13	Notes on higher-dimensional partitions	Dr.Suresh Govindarajan	Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A 120 (2013) 600–622
14	Magnetoelectric effect in La0.7Sr0.3MnO3-BaTiO3 core-shell nanocomposite	Dr.P.Murugavel, Chiranjib Nayek Kishor Kumar Sahoo	Materials Research Bulletin, Vol 48, Page 1308-1311 (2013)
15	Entanglement signatures for the dimerization transition in the Majumdar-Ghosh model	Dr.Arul Lakshminarayan M.S.Ramkarthik V.Ravi Chandra	Phys. Rev. A 87, 012302 (2013)
16	Record statistics in random vectors and quantum chaos	Dr.Arul Lakshminarayan Shashi C L Srivastava Sudhir R Jain	Europhysics Letters 101 10003 (2013)