Faculty at School of Natural Sciences

Hab. Ipsita Mandal
Assistant Professor
School of Natural Sciences
Contact Information
Graduation, Aug 2002 - Jun 2005, B.Sc. (Hons.) in Physics, with Mathematics and Chemistry as subsidiaryJadavpur University, Kolkata, IndiaAggregate Percentage: 84.5; Rank: 2; First-division with Distinction;Highest scorer in subsidiary subjects
Post-Graduation , Aug 2005 - Apr 2008 Integrated M.Sc.-Ph.D. ProgrammeHarish-Chandra Research Institute (HRI), India(Affiliated to: Homi Bhabha National Institute)Aggregate Percentage: 84.7
Doctoral Research (Apr 2008 - Aug 2011)
Doctoral Supervisor Prof. Ashoke Sen
Harish-Chandra Research Institute (HRI), India
Doctoral Thesis Aspects of Supersymmetric Black Holes and Galilean Conformal Algebras
Degree Awarded by Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI), Mumbai, India
Post-Doctoral Research (Sep 2011 - Aug 2013)
Supervisor Prof. Sudip Chakravarty, University of California Los Angeles
Position Postdoctoral Scholar-Employee, University of California Los Angeles, USA
Post-Doctoral Research (Dec 2013 - Aug 2016)
Position Postdoctoral Researcher, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Canada
Post-Doctoral Research (Sep 2016 - Dec 2016)
Position Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Basel, Switzerland
Previous Employment (Dec 2016 - Sep 2017)
Position Assistant Professor in Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT-KGP), India
Previous Employment (Oct 2017 - Jan 2018)
Position Guest Scientist, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Germany
Previous Employment (Jan 2018 - July 2019)
Position Visiting Scientist (at the level of a Visiting Assistant Professor), LASSP, Cornell University, USA
Previous Employment (Aug 2019 - Nov 2020)
Position Associate Professor, University of Stavanger, Norway
Previous Employment (Dec 2020 - May 2023)
Position Associate Professor (Profesor Instytutu), The Henryka Niewodniczański Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish
Academy of Sciences (IFJ PAN), Poland
Current Employment (May 2023 - Present)
Position Assistant Professor, Shiv Nadar I.O.E.
- Symmetry and Higher-Order Exceptional Points
Ipsita Mandal and Emil J. Bergholtz
PHYS. REV. LETT. 127, 186601 (2021)
e-Print: arXiv:2103.15729 [physics.optics]
- Generic deformation channels for critical Fermi surfaces in the collisionless regime
Kazi Ranjibul Islam and Ipsita Mandal
e-Print: arXiv:2304.04720 [cond-mat.str-el]
- Anatomy of plasmons in generic Luttinger semimetals
Jing Wang and Ipsita Mandal
e-Print: arXiv:2303.10163 [cond-mat.str-el]
- Transmission and conductance across junctions of isotropic and anisotropic
three-dimensional semimetals
Ipsita Mandal
e-Print: arXiv:2302.10078 [cond-mat.mes-hall]
- Signatures of two- and three-dimensional semimetals from circular dichroism
Ipsita Mandal
To appear in Int. J. Mod. Phys. B
e-Print: arXiv:2302.01829 [cond-mat.mes-hall]
- One dimensional magnetism in synthetic Pauflerite, β-VOSO4
Diana Lucia Quintero-Castro, Gøran J. Nilsen, Katrin Meier-Kirchner, Angelica Benitez-Castro, Gerrit Guenther, Toshiro Sakakibara, Masashi Tokunaga, Chidozie Agu, Ipsita Mandal, Alexander A. Tsirlin
Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 045003 (2023)
e-Print: arXiv:2212.08473 [cond-mat.str-el]
- Enhanced eigenvector sensitivity and algebraic classification of sublattice-symmetric
exceptional points
Kang Yang and Ipsita Mandal
Phys. Rev. B 107, 144304 (2023)
e-Print: arXiv:2211.08449 [quant.ph]
- Floquet transmission in Weyl/multi-Weyl and nodal-line semimetals through a time-periodic
potential well
Sandip Bera, Sajid Sekh, and Ipsita Mandal
Ann. Phys. (Berlin) 535, 2200460 (2023)
e-Print: arXiv:2209.11747 [cond-mat.mes-hall]
- Boundary logarithmic corrections to the dynamical correlation functions of
one-dimensional spin-1/2 chains
Imke Schneider, Ipsita Mandal, Polina Matveeva, Dominik Strassel, and Sebastian Eggert
Phys. Rev. B 106, 155104 (2022)
e-Print: arXiv:2208.00019 [cond-mat.str-el]
- Magneto-optical conductivity in the type-I and type-II phases of multi-Weyl semimetals
Shivam Yadav, Sajid Sekh, and Ipsita Mandal
Physica B: Condensed Matter 656, 414765 (2023)
e-Print: arXiv:2207.03316 [cond-mat.mes-hall]
- Valley-polarized nematic order in twisted moiré systems: in-plane orbital magnetism and non-Fermi liquid to Fermi liquid crossover
Ipsita Mandal and Rafael M. Fernandes
Phys. Rev. B 107, 125142 (2023)
e-Print: arXiv:2202.04630 [cond-mat.str-el]
- Magneto-transport signatures in periodically-driven Weyl and multi-Weyl semimetals
Shivam Yadav, Serena Fazzini, and Ipsita Mandal
Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures 144, 115444 (2022)
e-Print: arXiv:2203.04281 [cond-mat.mes-hall]
- Raman response and shear viscosity in the non-Fermi liquid phase of Luttinger semimetals
Ipsita Mandal and Hermann Freire
J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 34, 275604 (2022)
e-Print: arXiv:2201.04045 [cond-mat.str-el]
- Zero Sound And Plasmon Modes For Non-Fermi Liquids
Ipsita Mandal
Phys. Lett. A 447, 128292 (2022)
e-Print: arXiv:2108.09480 [cond-mat.str-el]
- Robust marginal Fermi liquid in birefringent semimetals
Ipsita Mandal
Phys. Lett. A 418, 127707 (2021)
e-Print: arXiv:2107.07145 [cond-mat.str-el]
- Magnus Hall Effect In Three-Dimensional Topological Semimetals
Sajid Sekh and Ipsita Mandal
Eur. Phys. J. Plus 137, 736 (2022)
e-Print: arXiv:2111.05322 [cond-mat.mes-hall]
- Magnetotropic Response in Ruthenium Chloride
Ipsita Mandal
Acta Physica Polonica A 140(5), 372-378 (2021)
e-Print: arXiv:2111.05429 [cond-mat.str-el]
- Robust quantum transport at particle-hole symmetry
Ipsita Mandal and Klaus Ziegler
Europhysics Letters 135, 17001 (2021)
e-Print: arXiv:2106.03313 [cond-mat.dis-nn]
- Circular dichroism as a probe for topology in three-dimensional semimetals
Sajid Sekh and Ipsita Mandal
Phys. Rev. B 105, 235403 (2022)
e-Print: arXiv:2105.05272 [cond-mat.mes-hall]
- Thermoelectric and thermal properties of the weakly disordered non-Fermi liquid phase of Luttinger semimetals
Hermann Freire and Ipsita Mandal
Phys. Lett. A 407, 127470 (2021)
e-Print: arXiv:2104.07459 [cond-mat.str-el]
- Floquet scattering of quadratic band-touching semimetals through a time-periodic potential well
Sandip Bera and Ipsita Mandal
J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 33, 295502 (2021)
e-Print: arXiv:2103.05335 [cond-mat.mes-hall]
- Tunneling of multi-Weyl semimetals through a potential barrier under the influence of
magnetic fields
Ipsita Mandal and Aritra Sen
Phys. Lett. A 399, 127293 (2021)
e-Print: arXiv:2012.15567 [cond-mat.mes-hall]
- Transport in the non-Fermi liquid phase of isotropic Luttinger semimetals
Ipsita Mandal and Hermann Freire
Phys. Rev. B 103, 195116 (2021)
e-Print: arXiv:2012.07866 [cond-mat.str-el]
- Correlated Insulators in Twisted Bilayer Graphene
Ipsita Mandal, Jia Yao, and Erich J. Mueller
Phys. Rev. B 103, 125127 (2021)
e-Print: arXiv:2008.13752 [cond-mat.str-el]
- Critical Fermi surfaces in generic dimensions arising from transverse gauge field interactions
Ipsita Mandal
Phys. Rev. Research 2, 043277 (2020)
e-Print: arXiv:2006.10766 [cond-mat.str-el]
- Transmission in pseudospin-1 and pseudospin-3/2 semimetals with linear dispersion through scalar and vector potential barriers
Ipsita Mandal
Phys. Lett. A 384, 126666 (2020)
e-Print: arXiv:2004.14749 [cond-mat.mes-hall]
- Tunneling in Fermi Systems with Quadratic Band Crossing Points
Ipsita Mandal
Annals of Physics 419, 168235 (2020)
e-Print: arXiv:2004.06134 [cond-mat.mes-hall]
- Effect of interactions on the quantization of the chiral photocurrent for double-Weyl semimetals
Ipsita Mandal
Symmetry 12(6), 919 (2020)
e-Print: arXiv:2002.10480 [cond-mat.str-el]
- Sign of viscous magnetoresistance in electron fluids
Ipsita Mandal and Andrew Lucas
Phys. Rev. B 101, 045122 (2020)
e-Print: arXiv:1908.04886 [cond-mat.str-el]
- Symmetry-breaking signatures of multiple Majorana zero modes in one-dimensional spin-triplet superconductors
Arnab Barman Ray, Jay D. Sau, and Ipsita Mandal
Phys. Rev. B 104, 104513 (2021)
e-Print: arXiv:1907.10626 [cond-mat.mes-hall]
- Order parameter dynamics of the non-linear sigma model in the large N limit
Sebastian Gemsheim, Ipsita Mandal, Krishnendu Sengupta, and Zhiqiang Wang
Eur. Phys. J. B 93, 40 (2020)
e-Print: arXiv:1906.05306 [cond-mat.stat-mech]
- Electric Field Response In Breathing Pyrochlores
Ipsita Mandal
Eur. Phys. J. B 92, 187 (2019)
e-Print: arXiv:1904.07251 [cond-mat.str-el]
- Quench, thermalization and residual entropy across a non-Fermi liquid to Fermi liquid transition
Arijit Haldar, Prosenjit Haldar, Surajit Bera, Ipsita Mandal, and Sumilan Banerjee
Phys. Rev. Research 2, 013307 (2020)
e-Print: arXiv:1903.09652 [cond-mat.str-el]
- Thermopower in an anisotropic two-dimensional Weyl semimetal
Ipsita Mandal and Kush Saha
Phys. Rev. B 101, 045101 (2020)
e-Print: arXiv:1811.04952 [cond-mat.mes-hall]
- Search for plasmons in isotropic Luttinger semimetals
Ipsita Mandal
Annals of Physics 406, 173 (2019)
e-Print: arXiv:1810.06574 [cond-mat.str-el]
- Emergence of topological Mott insulators in proximity of quadratic band touching points
Ipsita Mandal and Sebastian Gemsheim
Condens. Matter Phys. 22(1), 13701 (2019)
e-Print: arXiv:1808.03560 [cond-mat.str-el]
- Non-Fermi liquid at the FFLO quantum critical point
Dimitri Pimenov, Ipsita Mandal, Francesco Piazza, and Matthias Punk
Phys. Rev. B 98, 024510 (2018)
e-Print: arXiv:1711.10514 [cond-mat.str-el]
- Majorana Kramers pairs in Rashba double nanowires with interactions and disorder
Manisha Thakurathi, Pascal Simon, Ipsita Mandal, Jelena Klinovaja, and Daniel Loss
Phys. Rev. B 97, 045415 (2018)
e-Print: arXiv:1711.04682 [cond-mat.mes-hall]
- Critical scaling of the mutual information in two-dimensional disordered Ising models
P. V. Sriluckshmy and Ipsita Mandal
J. Stat. Mech. 043301 (2018)
e-Print: arXiv:1711.02352 [cond-mat.dis-nn]
- Fate of superconductivity in three-dimensional disordered Luttinger semimetals
Ipsita Mandal
Annals of Physics 392, 179 (2018)
e-Print: arXiv:1710.08428 [cond-mat.str-el]
- Interplay of Coulomb interactions and disorder in three dimensional quadratic band crossings without time-reversal symmetry and with unequal masses for conduction and valence bands
Ipsita Mandal and Rahul M. Nandkishore
Phys. Rev. B 97, 125121 (2018)
e-Print: arXiv:1709.06580 [cond-mat.str-el]
- Majorana fermions in finite-size strips with in-plane magnetic fields
Vardan Kaladzhyan, Julien Despres, Ipsita Mandal, and Cristina Bena
Eur. Phys. J. B 90, 211 (2017)
e-Print: arXiv:1611.09367 [cond-mat.supr-con]
- Scaling behaviour and superconducting instability in anisotropic non-Fermi liquids
Ipsita Mandal
Annals of Physics 376, 89 (2017)
e-Print: arXiv:1609.00020 [cond-mat.str-el]
- UV/IR Mixing In Non-Fermi Liquids: Higher-Loop Corrections In Different Energy Ranges
Ipsita Mandal
Eur. Phys. J. B 89, 278 (2016)
e-Print: arXiv:1608.06642 [cond-mat.str-el]
- Superconducting instability in non-Fermi liquids
Ipsita Mandal
Phys. Rev. B 94, 115138 (2016)
e-Print: arXiv:1608.01320 [cond-mat.str-el]
- Super-GCA connection with tensionless strings: Addendum to "Super-GCA from N=(2,2) super-Virasoro"
Ipsita Mandal
Phys. Lett. B 760, 832-834 (2016)
e-Print: arXiv:1607.02439 [hep-th]
- Hyperscaling violation at the Ising-nematic quantum critical point in two dimensional metals
Andreas Eberlein, Ipsita Mandal, and Subir Sachdev
Phys. Rev. B 94, 045133 (2016)
e-Print: arXiv:1605.00657 [cond-mat.str-el]
- Geometrical mutual information at the tricritical point of the two-dimensional Blume-Capel model
Ipsita Mandal, Stephen Inglis, and Roger G. Melko
J. Stat. Mech. 073105 (2016)
e-Print: arXiv: 1604.02464 [cond-mat.stat-mech]
- Cold atoms in U(3) gauge potentials
Ipsita Mandal and Atri Bhattacharya
Condens. Matter 1(1), 2, (2016)
e-Print: arXiv: 1603.08526 [cond-mat.quant-gas]
- Super-GCA from N = (2, 2) Super-Virasoro
Ipsita Mandal and Ahmed Rayyan
Phys. Lett. B 754, 195-200 (2016)
e-Print: arXiv: 1601.04723 [hep-th]
- Counting Majorana bound states using complex momenta
Ipsita Mandal
Condens. Matter Phys. 19(3), 33703 (2016)
e-Print: arXiv:1503.06804 [cond-mat.mess-hall]
- Exceptional points for chiral Majorana fermions in arbitrary dimensions
Ipsita Mandal
Europhysics Letters 110, 67005 (2015)
e-Print: arXiv:1503.03839 [cond-mat.mess-hall]
- Exceptional point description of one-dimensional chiral topological superconductors/superfluids in BDI class
Ipsita Mandal and Sumanta Tewari
Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures 79, 180 (2016)
e-Print: arXiv:1502.03110 [cond-mat.mess-hall]
- Pairing in half-filled Landau level
Zhiqiang Wang, Ipsita Mandal, Suk Bum Chung, and Sudip Chakravarty
Annals of Physics 351, 727 (2014)
e-Print: arXiv:1408.6860 [cond-mat.str-el]
- Ultraviolet/infrared mixing in Non-Fermi Liquids
Ipsita Mandal and Sung-Sik Lee
Phys. Rev. B 92, 035141 (2015)
e-Print: arXiv:1407.0033 [cond-mat.str-el]
- Higher angular momentum pairing from transverse gauge interactions
Suk Bum Chung, Ipsita Mandal, S. Raghu, and Sudip Chakravarty
Phys. Rev. B 88, 045127 (2013)
e-Print: arXiv:1305.3938 [cond-mat.str-el]
- Amplitude mode of the d-density-wave state and its relevance to high-Tc cuprates
Jay D. Sau, Ipsita Mandal, Sumanta Tewari, and Sudip Chakravarty
Phys. Rev. B 87, 224503 (2013)
e-Print: arXiv:1207.6834 [cond-mat.supr-con]
- Majorana Zero Modes in a Quantum Ising Chain with Longer-ranged Interactions
Yuezhen Niu, Suk Bum Chung, Chen-Hsuan Hsu, Ipsita Mandal, S. Raghu, and Sudip Chakravarty
Phys. Rev. B 85, 035110 (2012)
e-Print: arXiv:1110.3072v2 [cond-mat.str-el]
- Logarithmic Corrections to N=4 and N=8 Black Hole Entropy: A One Loop Test of Quantum Gravity
Shamik Banerjee, Rajesh Kumar Gupta, Ipsita Mandal, and Ashoke Sen
JHEP 11, 143 (2011)
e-Print: arXiv:1106.0080 [hep-th]
- Black Hole Microstate Counting and its Macroscopic Counterpart
Ipsita Mandal and Ashoke Sen
Class. Quant. Grav. 27, 214003 (2010);
Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements 216 (1), 147 (2011)
e-Print: arXiv:1008.3801 [hep-th]
- Supersymmetric Extension of GCA in 2d
Ipsita Mandal
JHEP 11, 018 (2010)
e-Print: arXiv:1003.0209 [hep-th]
- GCA in 2d
Arjun Bagchi, Rajesh Gopakumar, Ipsita Mandal, and Akitsugu Miwa
JHEP 08, 004 (2010)
e-Print: arXiv:0912.1090 [hep-th]
- Supersymmetry, Localization and Quantum Entropy Function
Nabamita Banerjee, Shamik Banerjee, Rajesh Gupta, Ipsita Mandal, and Ashoke Sen
JHEP 02, 091 (2010)
e-Print: arXiv:0905.2686 [hep-th]
- Supersymmetric Extension of Galilean Conformal Algebras
Arjun Bagchi and Ipsita Mandal
Phys. Rev. D 80, 086011 (2009)
eprint: arXiv:0905.0580 [hep-th]
- On Representations and Correlation Functions of Galilean Conformal Algebras
Arjun Bagchi and Ipsita Mandal
Phys. Lett. B 675, 393-397 (2009)
eprint: arXiv:0903.4524 [hep-th]
- Black Hole Hair Removal
Nabamita Banerjee, Ipsita Mandal, and Ashoke Sen
JHEP 07, 091 (2009)
ePrint: arXiv:0901.0359 [hep-th]
- Conformal Nonlinear Fluid Dynamics from Gravity in Arbitrary Dimensions
Sayantani Bhattacharyya, R. Loganayagam, Ipsita Mandal, Shiraz Minwalla, and Ankit Sharma
JHEP 12, 116 (2008)
ePrint: arXiv:0809.4272 [hep-th]
- Critical properties of spherically symmetric black hole accretion in Schwarzschild geometry
Ipsita Mandal, Arnab K. Ray, and Tapas Kumar Das
Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 378. 14001406 (2007)
eprint: astro-ph / 0702733
Spring 2008, HRI: Quantum Field Theory (Course Instructor: Prof. Sumathi Rao)
Fall 2010, HRI: Mathematical Methods (Course Instructor: Prof. Tirthankar Roy Choudhury)
Spring 2017, IIT-KGP: First year B.Tech. Laboratory
Fall 2017, IIT-KGP: Classical Mechanics I
Fall 2017, IIT-KGP: First year B.Tech. Laboratory
Spring 2019, Cornell University: Senior Teaching Associate for PHYS 2214 Physics III: Oscillations, Waves
and Quantum Physics
Fall 2019, University of Stavanger: Classical Mechanics (Masters level, Course code: FYS500)
Spring 2020, University of Stavanger: Statistical Physics and Solid State Physics
(Bachelor and Masters studies, Course code: FYS310)
July 2022, IFJ PAN: Basic tools to study quantum matter
(Masters, PhD students, post-PhD researchers)
Referee for Physical Review Letters, Physical Review B, Europhysics Letters, Physica E, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, Physics Letters A, SciPost, New Journal of Physics, Canadian Journal of Physics, Journal of mathematical physics, Annalen der Physik, Annals of Physics, Scientific Reports, The Physica Status Solidi (RRL) - Rapid Research Letters, Communications Physics
Reviewer of a scientific proposal for the ERC (European Research Council) Starting Grant 2020 (Step 2)
External Reviewer of the MSc thesis of Ushakov Ivan, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, in 2020
External Reviewer of the PhD thesis of Anirban Mukherjee, Indian Institute of Science Education & Research Kolkata, India, in 2020
External Evaluator at the University of Malta, in the selection process of its annual internal research proposals in 2022
In 2001, I was selected by the CSIR (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research) as one of the CPYLS (CSIR Program in Youth for Leadership in Science) scholars. In 2005, I secured Rank 8 in All India Joint Entrance Screening Test for admission in a PhD / Integrated PhD Programme in Physics, India; and Rank 24 in All India Joint Admission Test for MSc (JAM) for admissions to MSc / MSc-PhD Programmes at the Indian Institutes of Technology, India.
I have completed research mentor training through “Building Mentoring Skills for an Academic Career” workshops, offered by Cornell University in Spring 2019.
I have completed the NyTi peer-to-peer mentoring programme of the University of Stavanger (https://bit.ly/2kAz8Lf) during 2019-2020, which aims to provide teaching-related peer-based support to ensure that new colleagues get off to a good start as university teachers, and that their students receive the best possible teaching as soon as possible. Participation in the programme contributes to qualifying as a university teacher.
I have been appointed as a Nordita Corresponding Fellow in Nordita (Stockholm) from 01-07-2020 to 30-06-2023.
I have won fundings for grant proposals, submitted as part of the
(1) PRELUDIUM BIS-2, 2020; and
(2) PRELUDIUM BIS-3, 2021
competitions of the National Science Centre (Narodowe Centrum Nauki), Poland.
I have received financial support for extended research visits from the host institutes as follows:
(1) September 30 to October 12, 2015 – Visitor at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc), Chennai, India, under the PI- IMSc partnership program.
(2) May 10 to July 16, 2017 – Visitors Program of the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany.
(3) October 01 to November 02, 2018 – Participant of the Kavli Institute For Theoretical Physics program “Chaos and Order: from Strongly Correlated Systems to Black Holes”, Santa Barbara, USA.
(4) November 23 to December 08, 2019 – Visiting Scientist at the Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Shanghai, China.
(5) September 01 to November 30, 2020 – Guest Scientist with a German Research foundation (DFG) stipend at the Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany.
(6) May 01 to May 31, 2022 – Guest scientist at the University of Cologne at Institute for Theoretical Physics, under the framework of the Collaborative Research Center 183 (CRC183), which is funded by the DFG.
(7) June 01 to June 30, 2022 – Visiting scientist at the Institute for Theoretical Physics of ETH Zurich, under the visitors program of Pauli Center for Theoretical Studies.
I have been awarded a Prime Minister’s Award in 2022 for highly rated achievements, which were the basis for awarding my Habilitation degree
(link: https://ifjpan.bip.gov.pl/postepowania-w-sprawie-nadania-stopnia-doktora-habilitowanego/dr-ipsita-mandal.html) – https://www.ifj.edu.pl/en/news/2023/23-01-04/ and https://www.gov.pl/attachment/d972bc56-d0b9-43e4-bf69-0fe66a393e41
I have been invited as a Plenary speaker at the XLVIII Congress of Polish Physicists, which will be held in Gdańsk during September 1-7, 2023.
I have been selected for the 2023/2024 Marie Skłodowska-Curie FRIAS COFUND Fellowship Programme (Senior FCFP fellowship at the level of W3 professorship) at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies.