Arijit Saha

Arijit Saha (Professor)

Area of Research: Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics

Joining Date: 05/05/2015

Biosketch
  • Email: arijit[at]iopb[dot]res[dot]in
  • Telephones :+91-674-230-6406 (Office)
    +91-674-230-6606 (Residence)

Selected Publications

  • “Current switching behavior mediated via hinge modes in higher order topological phase using altermagnets” Minakshi Subhadarshini, Amartya Pal, and Arijit Saha Phys. Rev. B 113, 195421 (2026).
  • “Josephson current signature of Floquet Majorana and topological accidental zero modes in altermagnet heterostructures” Amartya Pal, Debashish Mondal, Tanay Nag, and Arijit Saha Phys. Rev. B (Letter) 112, L201408 (2025).
  • “Topological Majorana zero modes and the superconducting diode effect driven by Fulde-FerrellLarkin-Ovchinikov pairing in a helical Shiba chain” Sayak Bhowmik, and Arijit Saha Phys. Rev. B (Letter) 111, L161402 (2025).
  • “Distinguishing between topological Majorana and trivial zero modes via transport and shot noise study in an altermagnet heterostructure” Debashish Mondal, Amartya Pal, Arijit Saha, and Tanay Nag, Phys. Rev. B (Letter) 111, L121401 (2025).
  • “Optimizing one dimensional superconducting diodes: Interplay of Rashba spin-orbit coupling and magnetic fields” Sayak Bhowmik, Dibyendu Samanta, Ashis K. Nandy, Arijit Saha, and Sudeep Kumar Ghosh, Communication Physics 8, 260 (2025).
  • “Second-order topological superconductor via noncollinear magnetic texture” Pritam Chatterjee, Arnob Kumar Ghosh, Ashis K. Nandy and Arijit Saha, Phys. Rev. B (Letter) 109, L041409 (2024).
  • “Topological Superconductivity by Engineering Noncollinear Magnetism in Magnet/Superconductor Heterostructures: A Realistic Prescription for 2D Kitaev Model” Pritam Chatterjee, Sayan Banik, Sandip Bera, Arnob Kumar Ghosh, Saurabh Pradhan, Arijit Saha, and Ashis K. Nandy Phys. Rev. B (Letter) 109, L121301 (2024).
  • “Engineering anomalous Floquet Majorana modes and their time evolution in helical Shiba chain” Debasish Mondal, Arnob Kumar Ghosh, Tanay Nag and Arijit Saha, Phys. Rev. B (Letter) 108, L081403 (2023).
  • “Dynamical construction of Quadrupolar and Octupolar topological superconductors” Arnob Kumar Ghosh, Tanay Nag and Arijit Saha, Phys. Rev. B 105, 155406 (2022).
  • “Floquet generation of Second Order Topological Superconductor” Arnob Kumar Ghosh, Tanay Nag and Arijit Saha, Phys. Rev. B 103, 045424 (2021).
  • “Tailoring Metal Insulator Transitions & Band Topology via Off-resonant Periodic Drive in an Interacting Triangular Lattice”, Sayan Jana, Priyanka Mohan, Arijit Saha and Anamitra Mukherjee, Phys. Rev. B 101, 115428 (2020).
  • “Geometric Quantum Noise of Spin”, Alexander Shnirman, Yuval Gefen, Arijit Saha, Igor S. Burmistrov, Mikhail N. Kiselev, Alexander Altland, Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 176806 (2015).
  • “Transport signature of fractional Fermions in Rashba nanowires”, Diego Rainis, Arijit Saha, Jelena Klinovaja, Luka Trifunovic, Daniel Loss, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 196803 (2014).

Group Members

Ph.D. Scholars
PhotoNameThesis Area

Kamalesh BeraThesis area: Twisted bi-layer/multi-layer systems

Amartya PalThesis area: Transport properties of Superconducting hybrid
structure, unconventional superconductivity and Floquet dynamics

Sayak BhowmikThesis area: Superconducting diode effect and topological
Superconductivity

Minakshi SubhadarshiniThesis area: Higher-order topological superconductivity and braiding of Majorana modes

Ohidul AlamThesis area: Altermagnets, Skyrmions and Superconducting proximity effect
Postdoctoral Fellows


Koushik R. Das
Research Area: Unconventional magnetism, Topological superconductivity
Working area: Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics.

Areas of Interest

  • Quantum transport in low dimensional electronic systems.
  • Dirac/Weyl Materials.
  • Topological Insulators, Topological Superconductors and Majorana physics.
  • Driven (out of equilibrium) topological systems.
  • Proximity induced superconductivity in mesoscopic systems.
  • Strongly correlated electronic systems and Luttinger liquid physics.
  • Quantum pumping through nanostructures.
  • Quantum computation.

Experience

  • 1st July 2025 – Present: Professor-H, Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India.
  • 1st July 2020 – 30th June 2025: Associate Professor-G, Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India.
  • 5th May 2015 – 30th June 2020: Reader-F, Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India.
  • October 2012 – March 2015: Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Basel, Switzerland.
  • September 2009 – August 2012: Postdoctoral Fellow, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.