smanni | IIT Palakkad

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:
  - 1300^oC Chamber furnace with programmable PID temperature Controller [Nabertherm]
  - 1200^oC 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 M and Mr. Som Subhra Guria

Alumni:
- M.Sc. Students
  - 2021: Mr. Abinash Das (Currently Project Student at IIT Palakkad) and Mr. Ved Krishna (Currently PhD student at IGCAR Kalapakkam)
  - Mr. Ashutosh Kumar and Mr. Rahul Kumar [2022]
Additional Information
Title

Office

Description

Nila Campus, Hill Top, Lab 5

Phone No. : +91 4923226 325
Title

Workshop/Conference/Seminar participation :
Description
Invited Lecture in Physics of Strongly Correlated Electron System (PSCES 2023) organized by IISER Pune on March, 2023. Title : Two rare earth magnets with strong spin-orbit and charge-lattice coupling: Ce2Al3Ge4 and PrIr3B2

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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