Broadly, my research interest focuses on the microscopic understanding of the emergence of novel electronic and magnetic phenomena in atomically engineered thin films/heterostructures and electronically promising bulk-materials with occasional foray into other areas of physics.
Specific interest includes:-
- Dimensional control and manipulation of new phases/phenomena in atomically engineered heterostructures and interfaces
- Artificial design of high-Tc superconducting materials by atomic layer design
- Exploration of exotic electronic phases induced by strong spin-orbit interaction and electronic correlation (4d/5d transition metal oxides and related materials)
- Orbital engineering, orbital physics, and metal-insulator transition (symmetry breaking, dimensionality, and bandwidth control)
- Superconductor/ferromagnet heterostructures, proximity-effect induced exotic superconductivity (triplet, non-centrosymmetric, heavy fermionic) in the designed hybrids
- Search, design, and realization of new 3D-Dirac semi-metallic and topological phases
- Spin excitation, magnetism, and magnetic materials (with emphasis on frustrated, non-collinear, and quantum magnets)
- Behavior of electrons in low-dimensional materials/systems
- Collective and competing phenomena, electronic phase transition (electronic solid, liquid and gas) in correlated materials
