Research Projects


  • Spatially anisotropic frustrated antiferromagnets: competition between long range magnetic and dimer orders. Triangular, checkerboard, pyrochlore, kagome and J1-J2 models.
  • Magnetic field versus temperature phase diagram of Cs2CuCl4.
  • Elementary excitations of frustrated magnets: spinons, magnons, triplons. Neutron scattering in Cs2CuCl4.
  • Rotons in excitation spectra of triangular lattice antiferromagnet: strong renormalization of dispersion (1/S effect) in non-collinear magnets; finite lifetime of magnons due to decay into two-particle continuum.
  • Magnetization physics of triangular antiferromagnet: M=1/3 plateau in Cs2CuBr4.
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  • Effects due to non-commutativity of spin-orbital (Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya) interaction and magnetic fields: stabilization of spin density wave in one dimension.
  • Spin-orbit-induced interaction between spins in the absence of exchange: spin analogue of van der Waals interaction. Implications for Wigner crystal and quantum computation.
  • Generation of spin current by Coulomb drag. Quantum wires: charge-density wave versus superconducting pair tunneling.
  • Conductance of quantum wires with strong spin-orbital coupling. Tunneling in vicinal (stepped) surface of gold.
  • My recent talks:

  • Spinons and triplons in spatially anisotropic triangular antiferromagnet (pdf), workshop on "Unconventional Phases and Phase Transitions in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems", Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Dresden, Germany, June 18, 2008.
  • Spatially anisotropic spin-1/2 Heisenberg kagomé antiferromagnet (pdf), invited talk, APS March meeting, Pittsburgh, March 19, 2009.

  • Ground states and excitations of spatially anisotropic quantum antiferromagnets (pdf), conference on "The Heisenberg Model: past, present and future", International Centre for Condensed Matter Physics, Brasilia, Brasil, July 20-27, 2009.

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