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Educational Background:
Master of Science: School of Physical Sciences, JNU, New Delhi 2003.
PhD: SSCU, IISc, Bangalore (2009).
Professional Background:
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton University Princeton (2009-2012)
Assistant Professor, S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Calcutta (2012 – present)
Main area of work
• Study of electronic properties of strongly correlated low dimensional systems.
• Developing and implementing numerical methods including DMRG methods,
exact diagonalization and quantum Monte Carlo methods for solving strogly
correlated model Hamiltonians.
• Transport properties of metal-organic and organic-organic interfaces.
• Study of electronic potential energy surfaces in biological systems.
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Significant recent publications:
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Spin parity and broken symmetry in finite spin-1/2 chains with frustrated
exchange:quantum transition from high to low spin, MANORANJAN KUMAR,
and Z. G. Soos, Phys. Rev. B 85, 144415 (2012) .
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Density Matrix Renormalization Group Algorithm for Bethe Lattices of Spin 1/2 or
1 Sites with Heisenberg Antiferromagnetic Exchange, MANORANJAN KUMAR, S. Ramasesha,
and Z. G. Soos, Phys. Rev. B 85, 134415 (2012).
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Field driven quantum critical transition in LiCuSbO4, an S=1/2 1D
frustrated chain magnet S. E. Dutton, MANORANJAN KUMAR, M. Mourigal,
Z. G. Soos, C. L. Broholm, J. Wen, N. H. Andersen, Q. Huang, M. Zbiri,
R. Toft-Petersen and R. J. Cava Phys. Rev. Lett. (2012).
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A Density Matrix Renormalization Group Method Study of Optical Properties of
Porphines and Metalloporphines, MANORANJAN KUMAR, Y. Anusooya Pati, S. Ramasesha,
J. Chem. Phys. 136, 014112 (2012).
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Profiles of work function shifts and collective charge transfer in
submonolayer metalorganic films, Benjamin J. Topham, MANORANJAN KUMAR and
Zoltan G. Soos, Advanced Functional Materials 21, 1931 (2011).
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Modified density matrix renormalization group algorithm for the
zigzag spin- 1/2 chain with frustrated antiferromagnetic exchange:
Comparison with field theory at large J2/J1,MANORANJAN KUMAR, Zoltan G. Soos,
Diptiman Sen, and S. Ramasesha, Phys. Rev. B 81, 104406 (2010).
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Dimerization transition of alkali-TCNQ salts:Charge degrees of
freedom near the CDW boundary, MANORANJAN KUMAR, S. Ramasesha, R.A.
Pascal Jr. and Z.G. Soos, Euro Phys. Lett., 37001, 83, (2008). (Editor’s choice).
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