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Dr. Soham Manni
Assistant Professor
Physics
smanni@iitpkd.ac.in
+91 4923226 325
Research Area: Experimental Condensed Matter Physics- Magnetism and Superconductivity, Research Area: Material Science - Single crystal growth
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  • Biosketch

    Experience

    Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, IIT Palakkad, Kerala, India (August, 2018 - Present)

    Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at TIFR, Mumbai, India  (August, 2017 - August, 2018 ).

    Postdoctoral Research Associate at Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, USA. (January, 2015 - July, 2017).

    Scientific Researcher at University of Augsburg, Germany (June, 2014 - August, 2014).

    Education

    Ph.D. in Physics from Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany on 2014.

    M.Sc. in Physics from IIT Roorkee, India on 2010.

    B.Sc. with Physics Honours from University of Calcutta, India on 2008.

  • Research

    Research Interests

    • Discovery, design and single crystal growth of correlated electron materials having novel electronic and magnetic ground states. 
    • Structural, magnetic, transport and thermodynamic measurements in extreme condition, down to mK temperature.

    Current topics of interest

    • Spin-orbit materials e.g. Ruthenate and Iridate.
    • Magnetic Topological materials for Magnonics
    • Spintronics Materials and possible device application.
    • Charge Density Wave Materials.

    Research Grant

    INSPIRE Faculty Award : Oct'18 - Oct'23

    Research Facilities

    • Crystal Growth Facilities:
      • 1300oC Chamber furnace with programmable PID temperature Controller [Nabertherm]
      • 1200oC Two-zone Gradient Tube furnace with with programmable PID temperature Controller (possibility of controlled atmosphere) [Carbolite Gero]
      • Mono Arc melting Furnace.
      • Quartz Tube Sealing station.
      • Weighing balance, Centrifuge etc.
    • Measurement Facilities
      • Central Instrumentation Facility : https://cif.iitpkd.ac.in/node/12
  • Teaching

    PH4601 - Magnetic Materials and its Applications (B.Tech GCE)

    PH1130 - B.Tech Physics lab

    PH1020 - Physics II (B.Tech)

    PH5003- Electromagnetic Theory (M.Sc.)

    PH5101, PH 5102- M.Sc. Physics Lab

    PH6001- Experimental Techniques in Physics (PG Elective)

    PH6003-Magnetism in Materials (PG Elective)

  • Research Group

    Current Members:

    • PhD. Students:

               Ms. Asha Ann Abraham : Spin Orbit Mott Insulator

               Ms. Reshna Elsaphilip : Heusler and Inverse Heusler Spintronics

    • M.Sc. Students:

              Mr. Sathishkumar and Mr. Som Subhra Guria

    Alumni:

    • M.Sc. Students
      •  Mr. Abinash Das and Mr. Ved Krishna [2021]
      •  Mr. Ashutosh Kumar and Mr. Rahul Kumar [2022]

           

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    Nila Campus, Hill Top, Lab 5

    Phone No. : +91 4923226 325

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    Workshop/Conference/Seminar participation :
    Description
    • Invited Lecture (Single Crystal Synthesis Techniques): Faculty Development Program, Mechanical Engineering Department, NSS College of Engineering, Palakkad, Kerala on January, 2020.

    • Invited Lecture National Conference -AMTEA-2019; at Ansar Women's College, Thrissur, Kerala  February, 2019; Title: Frustrated Magnetism.

  • Publications
    Effects of magnetic and non-magnetic doping on the vortex lattice in MgB2
    Elizabeth R. Louden, Soham Manni, Judah E. Van Zandt, Allan W. D. Leishman, Valentin Taufour, Sergey L. Bud’ko, Lisa DeBeer-Schmitt, Dirk Honecker, Charles D. Dewhurst, Paul C. Canfield and Morten R. Eskildsen
    J. Appl. Cryst. 55 693-701 (2022)
    MgB2-SANS.pdf (1.02 MB)
    Coplanar cavity for strong coupling between photons and magnons in van der Waals antiferromagnet
    Supriya Mandal, Lucky N. Kapoor, Sanat Ghosh, John Jesudasan, Soham Manni, A. Thamizhavel, Pratap Raychaudhuri, Vibhor Singh, and Mandar M. Deshmukh
    Applied Physics Letters 117 263101 (2020)
    Observation of Standing Spin Waves in a van der Waals Magnetic Material
    Lucky N. Kapoor, Supriya Mandal, Pratap Chandra Adak, Meghan Patankar, Soham Manni, Arumugam Thamizhavel, Mandar M. Deshmukh
    Advanced Materials (2020)
    Spin dynamics and field-induced magnetic phase transition in the honeycomb Kitaev magnet α-Li2IrO3
    S Choi, S Manni, J Singleton, CV Topping, T Lancaster, SJ Blundell, DT Adroja, V Zapf, P Gegenwart, R Coldea
    Physical Review B 99 054426 (2019)
    Investigation of structural and magnetic properties of PrIr3B2 single crystal
    S. Manni, A. Thamizhavel, and S. K. Dhar
    AIP Advances 9, (2019). 9 035021 (2019)
    An inverse Ruddlesden-Popper nitride Ca7(Li1−xFex)Te2N2 grown from Ca flux
    G Wang, S Manni, Q Lin, P McVey, RS Houk, L Wu, SL Bud’ko, Paul C. Canfield
    Philosophical Magazine Letters 98 (3) 118-125 (2018)
    Probing magnetism in 2D van der Waals crystalline insulators via electron
    Dahlia R. Klein, David MacNeill, Jose L. Lado, David Soriano, Efrén Navarro-Moratalla, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Soham Manni, Paul Canfield, Joaquín Fernández-Rossier, Pablo Jarillo-Herrero.
    Science 360 (6394) 1218-1222 (2018)
    Effect of pressure on the physical properties of the superconductor NiBi3
    E Gati, L Xiang, LL Wang, S Manni, PC Canfield, SL Bud’ko
    Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 31 (3) 035701 (2018)
    BaSn2: A new, wide-gap, strong topological insulator
    Steve M Young, S. Manni, Junping Shao, Paul C. Canfield, Aleksey N. Kolmogorov
    Physical Review B 95 085116 (2017)
    GdPtPb: A non collinear antiferromagnet with distorted Kagome lattice
    S. Manni, Sergey L. Bud'ko, Paul C. Canfield. "GdPtPb
    Physical Review B 96 054435 (2017)
    Local Magnetism and Spin Dynamics of the Frustrated Honeycomb Rhodate Li2RhO3
    P. Khuntia, S. Manni, F. R. Foronda, T. Lancaster, S. J. Blundell, P. Gegenwart, M. Baenitz
    Physical Review B 93 195158 (2017)
    Growth and characterization of BaZnGa
    Na Hyun Jo, Qisheng Lin, Manh Cuong Nguyen, Udhara S. Kaluarachchi, William R. Meier, Soham Manni, Savannah S. Downing, Anna E. Böhmer, Tai Kong, Yang Sun, Valentin aufour, Cai-Zhuang Wang, Kai-Ming Ho, Sergey L. Bud’ko & Paul C. Canfield
    Philosophical Magazine 97 3317-3324 (2017)
    Extremely large magnetoresistance and Kohler's rule in PdSn4: A complete study of thermodynamic, transport, and band-structure properties
    Na Hyun Jo, Yun Wu, Lin-Lin Wang, Peter P. Orth, Savannah S. Downing, Soham Manni, Dixiang Mou, Duane D. Johnson, Adam Kaminski, Sergey L. Bud’ko, and Paul C. Canfield
    Physical Review B 96 165145 (2017)
    Isotope effect on electron-phonon interaction in the multiband superconductor MgB2
    Daixiang Mou, Soham Manni, Valentin Taufour, Yun Wu, Lunan Huang, S. L. Bud'ko, P. C. Canfield, and Adam Kaminski.
    Physical Review B 93 144504 (2016)
    Incommensurate counterrotating magnetic order stabilized by Kitaev interactions in the layered honeycomb alpha-Li2IrO3
    S. C. Williams, R. D. Johnson, F. Freund, Sungkyun Choi, A. Jesche, I. Kimchi, S. Manni, A. Bombardi, P. Manuel, P. Gegenwart, and R. Coldea
    Physical Review B 93 195158 (2016)
    Highly unconventional surface reconstruction of Na2IrO3 with persistent energy gap
    F. Luepke, S. Manni, S. C. Erwin, I. I. Mazin, P. Gegenwart, and M. Wenderoth
    Physical Review B (Rapid) 91 041405(R) (2015)
    Effect of isoelectronic doping on honeycomb lattice iridate A2IrO3
    S. Manni, S. K. Choi, I. I. Mazin, R. Coldea, Michaela Altmeyer, Harald O. Jeschke, Roser Valenti, P. Gegenwart
    Physical Review B 89 245113 (2014)
    Effect of nonmagnetic dilution in honeycomb lattice iridates Na2IrO3 and Li2IrO3
    S. Manni, Y. Tokiwa, P.Gegenwart
    Physical Review B (Rapid) 89 241102(R) (2014)
    Unconventional magnetic order on the hyperhoneycomb Kitaev lattice in Beta-Li2IrO3: Full solution via magnetic resonant x-ray diffraction
    A. Buffin, R. D. Johnson, Sungkyun Choi, F. Freund, S. Manni, A. Bombardi, P. Manuel, P. Gegenwart, and R. Coldea
    Physical Review B 90 205116 (2014)
    Crystal-Field Splitting and Correlation Effect on the Electronic Structure of A2IrO3
    H. Gretarsson, J. P. Clancy, X. Liu, J. P. Hill, Emil Bozin, Yogesh Singh, S. Manni, P. Gegenwart, Jungho Kim, A. H. Said, D. Casa, T. Gog, M. H. Upton, Heung-Sik Kim, J. Yu, Vamshi M. Katukuri, L. Hozoi, Jeroen van den Brink, and Young-June Kim
    Physical Review Letter 110 076402 (2013)
    Origin of the insulating state in honeycomb lattice iridates and rhodates
    I. I. Marzin, S.Manni, K. Foyevtsova, Harald O. Jeschke, P. Gegenwart, and Roser Valenti
    Physical Review B 88 035115 (2013)
    Relevance of the Heisenberg-Kitaev Model for the honeycomb lattice iridates
    Y. Singh, S. Manni, J. Reuther, T. Berlijn, R. Thomale, W. Ku, S. Trebst, and P. Gegenwart
    Physical Review Letter 108 127203 (2012)

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