Academic/professional record
• 1986: B.E. in Electrical Engg, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India.
• 1990: M.Tech in Solid State Technology, I.I.T Madras, Madras, India.
• 1996: Ph.D. in Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
• Oct 96 - Oct 98: Post doctoral fellow, Bell Laboratories, NJ, USA.
• Employment: Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Fellow (1998-2001), Reader
(2001-2003), Associate Professor (2003-2007), Professor (2007-)
Area of work: Disordered and strongly correlated quantum systems
Selected publications:
1. Spectroscopic signatures of the Mott transition on the anisotropic triangular lattice
Rajarshi Tiwari and Pinaki Majumdar
Europhys. Lett. 108, 27007 (2014).
2. Charge dynamics across the disorder-driven superconductor-insulator transition
Sabyasachi Tarat and Pinaki Majumdar
Europhys. Lett. 105, 67002 (2014).
3. Antisite domains in double perovskite ferromagnets: impact on magnetotransport
and half-metallicity
Viveka Nand Singh and Pinaki Majumdar
Europhys. Lett. 94, 47004 (2011).
4. Conductance switching and inhomogeneous field melting in the charge ordered
manganites
Anamitra Mukherjee, Kalpataru Pradhan and Pinaki Majumdar
Europhys. Lett. 86, 27003 (2009).
5. Magnetic order beyond RKKY in the classical Kondo lattice
Kalpataru Pradhan and Pinaki Majumdar
Europhys. Lett. 85, 37007 (2009).
6. Exploiting B site disorder for phase control in the manganites
Kalpataru Pradhan, Anamitra Mukherjee and Pinaki Majumdar
Europhys. Lett. 84, 37007 (2008).
7. Distinct effects of homogeneous weak disorder and dilute strong scatterers on phase
competetion in the manganites
Kalpataru Pradhan, Anamitra Mukherjee, and Pinaki Majumdar
Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 147206 (2007)
8. Domain formation and orbital ordering transition in a doped Jahn-Teller insulator
Sanjeev Kumar, Arno P. Kampf and Pinaki Majumdar
Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 176403 (2006)
9. Insulator-metal phase diagram of the optimally doped manganites from the disor-
dered Holstein-double exchange model
Sanjeev Kumar and Pinaki Majumdar
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 016602 (2006)
10. Singular effect of disorder on electronic transport in strong coupling electron-
phonon systems
Sanjeev Kumar and Pinaki Majumdar
Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 136601 (2005)
11. Giant tunneling magnetoresistance, glassiness, and the energy landscape at nanoscale
cluster coexistence
Sanjeev Kumar, Chandra Shekhar Mohapatra, and Pinaki Majumdar
Europhys. Lett. 71, 804 (2005)
12. The many electron ground state of the adiabatic Holstein model in two and three
dimensions
B. Poornachandra Sekhar, Sanjeev Kumar and Pinaki Majumdar
Europhys. Lett. 68, 564 (2004)
13. Anti-localisation to strong localisation: the interplay of magnetic scattering and
structural disorder
Sanjeev Kumar and Pinaki Majumdar
Europhys. Lett. 65, 75 (2004)
14. Nanoscale phase coexistence and percolative quantum transport
Sanjeev Kumar and Pinaki Majumdar
Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 126602 (2004)
15. Inhomogeneous ferromagnetism and unconventional charge dynamics in disordered
double exchange magnets
Sanjeev Kumar and Pinaki Majumdar
Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 246602 (2003)
16. Anderson-Mott transition driven by spin disorder: spin glass transition and mag-
netotransport in amorphous GdSi
Pinaki Majumdar and Sanjeev Kumar
Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 237202 (2003)
17. Berry phase theory of the anomalous Hall effect: application to colossal magne-
toresistance manganites
Jinwu Ye, Y. B. Kim, A. J. Millis, B. I. Shraiman, P. Majumdar and Z. Tesanovic
Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 3737 (1999)
18. Dependence of magnetoresistivity on charge carrier density in metallic ferromag-
nets and doped magnetic semiconductors
Pinaki Majumdar and Peter B. Littlewood
Nature, 395, 479 (1998)
19. Magnetoresistance in the Mn pyrochlore: electrical transport in a low carrier den-
sity ferromagnet.
Pinaki Majumdar and Peter B. Littlewood
Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1314 (1998)
20. Lattice contraction driven insulator-metal transition in the local approximation
Pinaki Majumdar and H. R. Krishnamurthy
Phys. Rev. Lett. 73, 1525 (1994)
