Homepage of Dr. Sananda Biswas

Address: Institut für Theoretische Physik Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main Max-von-Laue-Strasse 1 60438 Frankfurt Germany Office: 01.139 Phone: +49-69-798-47825 Fax: +49-69-798-47832 E-Mail: biswas itp.uni-frankfurt.de

Postdoctoral research fellow

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Research interests (topics and methods):

• Superconductivity and electron-phonon mechanism
  
• Spin-orbit assisted Mott insulators and Kitaev materials
  
• Materials under pressure
  
• Magnetism, correlations and finite temperature phonons
  
• Density functional theory based model calculations
  

Publications: (Google Scholar page)

2023

• Bowen Yang, Yin Min Goh, Suk Hyun Sung, Gaihua Ye, Sananda Biswas, David A. S. Kaib, Ramesh Dhakal, Shaohua Yan, Chenghe Li, Shengwei Jiang, Fangchu Chen, Hechang Lei, Rui He, Roser Valentí, Stephen M. Winter, Robert Hovden, Adam W. Tsen
  Magnetic anisotropy reversal driven by structural symmetry-breaking in monolayer α-RuCl3
  Nature Materials, 22, 50–57 (2023)
  arXiv preprint:2210.05733 (2022)
  
  
• Sananda Biswas, Andreas Kreisel, Adrian Valadkhani, Matteo Dürrnagel, Tilman Schwemmer, Ronny Thomale, Roser Valentí, Igor I. Mazin
  Hybrid s-wave superconductivity in CrB2
  PHYSICAL REVIEW B 108, L020501 (2023)
  arXiv preprints:2211.0105 (2022)
  
  

  2022

• Jesse Balgley, Jackson Butler, Sananda Biswas, Zhehao Ge, Samuel Lagasse, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Matthew Cothrine, David G. Mandrus, Jairo Velasco Jr., Roser Valentí, and Erik A. Henriksen
  Ultrasharp Lateral p–n Junctions in Modulation-Doped Graphene,
  Nano Lett. 22, 10, 4124–4130 (2022)
  arXiv preprint:2203.06295 (2022)
  
  
• B. Wolf, D. A. S. Kaib, A. Razpopov, Sananda Biswas, K. Riedl, S. M. Winter, R. Valentí, Y. Saito, S. Hartmann, E. Vinokurova, T. Doert, A. Isaeva, G. Bastien, A. U. B. Wolter, B. Bu ̈chner, and M. Lang
  Combined experimental and theoretical study of hydrostatic (He-gas) pressure effects in α-RuCl3,
  Phys. Rev. B 106, 134432 (2022)
  arXiv preprint:2206.13178 (2022)
  
  

  2021

• David A. S. Kaib, Sananda Biswas, Kira Riedl, Stephen M. Winter and R Valentí
  Magnetoelastic coupling and effects of uniaxial strain in α-RuCl3 from first principles,
  Phys. Rev. B 103, L140402 (2021)
  arXiv preprint:2008.08616 (2020)
  
  
• V. Leeb, K. Polyudov, S. Mashhadi, Sananda Biswas, R. Valentí, M. Burghard, J. Knolle
  Anomalous Quantum Oscillations in a Heterostructure of Graphene on a Proximate Quantum Spin Liquid,
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 097201 (2021)
  arXiv preprint:2010.01649 (2020)
  
  

  2020

• Beatriz H. Cogollo-Olivo, Sananda Biswas, Sandro Scandolo and Javier A. Montoya
  Ab initio determination of the phase diagram of CO2 at high pressures and temperatures,
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 095701 (2020)
  arXiv preprint:1908.11352 (2019)
  
  

  2019

• Sananda Biswas, Ying Li, Stephen M. Winter, Johannes Knolle and Roser Valentí
  Electronic properties of α-RuCl3 in proximity to graphene,
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 237201 (2019)
  arXiv preprint:1908.04793 (2019)
  Figure appeared as journal cover of PRL, Volume 123, Number 23
  
  
• Alyssa Henderson, Lianyang Dong, Sananda Biswas, Hannah Revell, Yan Xin, John A. Schlueter, Roser Valentí and Theo Siegrist
  Dynamic Order-Disorder Transition in the S = ½ KagomeAntiferromagnets Barlowite and Claringbullite,
  Chem. Commun., 55, 11587 (2019)
  chemrxiv preprint:7468070 (2018)
  
  
• V. Hermann, Sananda Biswas, J. Ebad-Allah, F. Freund, A. Jesche, A. A. Tsirlin, M. Hanfland, D. Khomskii, P. Gegenwart, R. Valentí and C. A. Kuntscher
  Pressure-induced formation of rhodium zigzag chains in the honeycomb rhodate Li2RhO3,
  Phys. Rev. B, 100, 064105 (2019)
  arXiv preprint:1905.04930 (2019)
  
  
• Vladislav Borisov, Sananda Biswas, Ying Li and Roser Valentí
  Microscopic Modeling of Correlated Systems Under Pressure: Representative Examples,
  physica status solidi (b), 1900229 (2019)
  
  
• Masato Matsuura, Takahiko Sasaki, Satoshi Iguchi, Elena Gati, Jens Müller, Oliver Stockert, Andrea Piovano, Martin Böhm, Jitae T. Park, Sananda Biswas, Stephen M. Winter, Roser Valentí, Akiko Nakao, and Michael Lang
  Lattice dynamics coupled to charge and spin degrees of freedom in the molecular dimer-Mott insulator κ-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu[N(CN)2]Cl,
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 027601 (2019)
  arXiv preprint:1906.08590 (2019)
  
  
• Sananda Biswas, Ion Errea, Matteo Calandra, Francesco Mauri and Sandro Scandolo
  Ab initio study of the LiH phase diagram at extreme pressures and temperatures,
  Phys. Rev. B, 99, 024108 (2019)
  
  

  2018

• Beatriz H. Cogollo-Olivo, Sananda Biswas, Sandro Scandolo and Javier A. Montoya
  Phase diagram of oxygen at extreme pressure and temperature conditions: An ab initio study,
  Phys. Rev. B, 98, 094103 (2018)
  
  
• Jayanta Das, Sananda Biswas, Kanchan Ulman, Rajdeep Banerjee, Gaurav Gautam, Asish K. Kundu, Shobhana Narasimhan, and Krishnakumar S. R. Menon
  Electronic structure of a buried two-dimensional antiferromagnetic layer: Experimental and theoretical investigation of Ag/Cr/Ag(001),
  Phys. Rev. B, 98, 075137 (2018)
  
  
• Tobias Biesner, Sananda Biswas, Weiwu Li, Yohei Saito, Andrej Pustogow, Michaela Altmeyer, Anja UB Wolter, Bernd Büchner, Maria Roslova, Thomas Doert, Stephen M Winter, Roser Valentí and Martin Dressel
  Detuning the honeycomb of α−RuCl3: Pressure-dependent optical studies reveal broken symmetry,
  Phys. Rev. B, 97, 220401(R) (2018)
  arXiv preprint:1802.10060 (2018)
  
  

  2016

• Sananda Biswas and Shobhana Narasimhan
  Bromine as a Preferred Etchant for Si Surfaces in the Supersaturation Regime: Insights from Calculations of Atomic Scale Reaction Pathways,
  J. Phys. Chem. C, 120, 28, 15230-15234 (2016)
  

  2015

• Jayanta Das, Sananda Biswas, Asish K Kundu, Shobhana Narasimhan and Krishnakumar SR Menon
  Structure of Cr monolayer on Ag(001): A buried two-dimensional c(2×2) antiferromagnet,
  Phys. Rev. B, 91, 125435 (2015)
  
  

  2013

• Sananda Biswas, Sadanand V Deshpande, Derren N Dunn and Shobhana Narasimhan
  Tuning patterning conditions by co-adsorption of gases: Br2 and H2 on Si(001)
  J. Chem. Phys., 139, 184713 (2013)
  
  

Teaching:

Summer Semester (SS) 2023: Tutorial for Advanced Solid State Physics

Winter Semester (WS) 2021/22: Tutorial for Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics

Summer Semester (SS) 2020: Tutorial for Quantum Mechanics I

Winter Semester (WS) 2019/20: Tutorial for Theoretical Solid State Physics

Winter Semester (WS) 2018/19: Tutorial for Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics

Summer Semester (SS) 2018: Tutorial for Theory of Magnetism, Superconductivity and Electronic Correlation

Winter Semester (WS) 2017/18: Tutorial for Introduction to Theoretical Solid State Physics



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