Dr. Sudhakar Pandey

Designation: Associate Professor

Department: Physics

Qualifications:

  • 2002-2009: Ph.D. (Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics) from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
  • 1997-1999: M.Sc. (Physics) from the Banaras Hindu University, India

Experiences:

  1. October 2023 – Contd.:  Associate Professor, Department of Physics, North-Eastern Hill University (NEHU), Shillong, India 
  2. September 2022 – October 2023:  Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh, India
  3. January 2022 – August 2022: Guest Faculty, Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology (MMMUT), Gorakhpur, UP, India                                                                                                                       
  4. February 2020 – October 2021 :  Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of  Physics, Zagreb, Croatia   
  5. October 2014 – May 2017:  Staff Scientist, Institute for Theoretical  Solid State Physics (ITF), Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research (IFW) Dresden, Germany
  6. February 2012 – January 2014: Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa, USA
  7. October 2011 – February 2012:  Postdoctoral Researcher, Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics (APCTP), POSTECH, South Korea
  8. July 2009 – July 2011:  JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physics, Nagoya University, Japan

Awards/Fellowships:

A) National:

  1. Qualified for Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE), Physics (1999)
  2. Qualified for Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) and Lectureship (LS), Physical Sciences (2000)

B) International:

  • Received the JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2009, awarded by the Japan Society For The Promotion of Science (JSPS), Japan

Memberships:

  1. American Physical Society       
  2. Physical Society of Japan

Research Projects

Completed:

Title: Theoretical study of strongly correlated electron system with emphasis on spin degree of freedom
Period: July, 2009- July, 2011
Funding agency: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)   

Publications

Selected Publications:

  1. S. Pandey, N. Scopigno, P. Gentile, M. Cuoco, and C. Ortix, Topological quantum pump in serpentine-shaped semiconducting narrow channels, Physical Review B  97, 241103 (R) (2018).
  2. S. Pandey and C. Ortix,  Topological end states due to inhomogeneous strains in wrinkled       semiconducting ribbons,  Physical Review B 93, 195420 (2016). 
  3. S. Pandey, A. V. Chubukov, and M. Khodas, Spin resonance in AFe2Se2 with s-wave pairing symmetry, Physical Review B 88, 224505 (2013).
  4. S. Pandey, H. Kontani, D. S. Hirashima, R. Arita, and H. Aoki, Spin Hall effect in iron-based superconductors: A Dirac point effect, Physical Review B 86, 060507 (R) (2012).
  5. S. Pandey and A. Singh, Spin-charge coupling in a band ferromagnet: Magnon-energy reduction, anomalous softening, and damping, Physical Review B, 78, 014414 (2008).
  6. S. Pandey, S. Das, B. Kamble, S. Ghosh, D. Singh, R. Ray, and A. Singh,  Fermionic representation for the ferromagnetic Kondo lattice model: Diagrammatic study of spin-charge coupling on magnon excitations, Physical Review B, 77, 134447 (2008).
  7. S. Pandey and A. Singh, Quantum and thermal fluctuations in a two-dimensional correlated band ferromagnet: Goldstonemode-preserving investigation with self-energy and vertex corrections, Physical Review B, 76, 104437 (2007).
  8. S. Pandey and A. Singh, Ferromagnetism in the t-t’ Hubbard model: Interplay of lattice, band dispersion, and interaction effects studied within a Goldstone-mode preserving scheme, Physical Review B, 75, 064412 (2007).