Arun Grover
Professor
Department of Condensed Matter Physics & Materials Science
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
India
Biography
Dr. Arun Grover is a professor at Department of Condensed physics and material science, TIFR. His work focuses on how electrons organize themselves in different materials giving rise to a host of interesting physical phenomena. Strongly correlated electrons are responsible for many phenomena in solid-state physics, especially in the areas of magnetism and superconductivity, and physics at ultra-low temperatures. In semiconductors, confining electrons to very tiny nanometer-sized regions in thin sheets, narrow wires, or small boxes results in quantum wells, wires and dots, where their properties are modified by quantum mechanical effects in dramatic and potentially useful ways. The interaction between an electromagnetic field and free electrons in a metal can result in coherent electron oscillations at the interface – “plasmonics” tries to study and make use of these oscillations by patterning materials at the nanoscale. Superconductors can be used to build electrical circuits engineered to behave like quantum two level systems for applications in quantum computing.
Research Interest
Vortex Studies.
Publications
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Vaidya U, Thamizhavel A, Dhar SK, Ramakrishnan S, Grover AK (2011) Magnetic studies in La1-xGdxRh3B2 series AIP Conf. Proc. 1349.
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Singh RP, Marik S, Tomy CV, Grover AK (2009) Positive Exchange Bias in Sr2YbRuO6 Proceedings of the DAE Solid State Physics Symposium, 54 pp: 1085-1086.
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Sangeetha NS, Basu S, Thamizhavel A, Grover AK, Ramakrishnan S (2009) Transport and Magnetic Properties of Lu2(Ir1-xRhx)3Si5 Proceedings of the DAE Solid State Physics Symposium, 54 pp: 865-866.
