Research Skills

Computing: CUDA C, C++, Python, HTML, CSS, Mathematica, MATLAB
Physics: Condensed Matter Theory, Magnetism, Superconductivity, Cosmology, High Energy Physics
Maths: Topological Solitons, Differential Geometry and Topology, Lie Groups and Algebras

Research Interests

Anyon superconductivity and the fractional quantum Hall effect

  • Interactions of anyonic quasi-particles (vortices) in the Chern-Simons extension of the Ginzburg-Landau model

States of matter in ferromagnetic superconductors:

  • Interactions of compostie magnetic skyrmion-superconducting vortex pairs (SVPs)
  • Effects of spin-flip scattering on composite SVPs
  • Coexistence of mixed magnetic skyrmion and fractional vortex states in two-band ferromagnetic superconductors with equal spin-triplet pairing

Probing states of matter in superconducting condensed matter systems:

  • Ultrasound response to time-reversal symmetry breaking in a superconducting phase

Electrostatic self-interactions of topological textures in condensed matter systems:

  • Flexoelectric polarization effect on hopfions and skyrmions in liquid crystals
  • Magnetostatic self-interactions of bulk magnetic skyrmion textures in chiral ferromagnets

Magnetic skyrmion quasi-particles in condensed matter systems:

  • Effect of the dipolar interaction on bulk magnetic skyrmions in chiral ferromagnets
  • Trapping and manipulation of magnetic skyrmions with domain walls in chiral magnetic thin films

Nuclear matter as a crystal of topological solitons:

  • Quantized and gravitating skyrmion crystals as a model of isospin asymmetric nuclear matter with applications to neutron stars
  • Resolving the incompressibility of infinitely dense nuclear matter via soliton crystals stabilized by vector mesons
  • Predicting the Bethe-Weizsacker semi-empirical mass formula coefficients using non-linear \(\sigma\)-model crystals coupled to \(\omega\)-mesons
  • Proving the existence and uniqueness of energy minimizing lattices for a variety of generalized skyrmion models

Topological solitons in the presence of a strong background magnetic field:

  • Reduction of the chiral soliton lattice in quantum chromodynamics to a gauged \(\mathbb{C}P^1\) model with a constant background gauge
  • Crystalline structure of gauged lumps in an applied magnetic field

Gallery

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Flexoelectric liquid crystal hopfion

Director field of a hopfion with Hopf index 1 in a chiral liquid crystal including self-induced flexoelectric polarization

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Magnetic skyrmion crystals stabilized by dipolar interactions

Magnetostatic interaction of two magnetic anti-skyrmions in a tetragonal inverse Heusler compound

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Coexisting mixed vortex and skyrmion states

Effect of spin-flip scattering on a mixed magnetic Bloch skyrmion and ANO vortex state in a ferromagnetic superconductor

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Non-linear \(\sigma\)-model solitons stabilized by \(\omega\)-mesons

Predicitng coefficients in the Bethe-Weizsacker semi-empirical mass formula using topological soliton crystals

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Baby skyrmion crystal chunks

Crystal chunk constructed from the equianharmonic skyrmion crystal

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Magnetic skyrmions

Trapping magnetic skyrmion quasiparticles with domain walls in chiral magnetic thin films

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Skyrmion crystals

Determining the nature of dense nuclear matter in neutron stars from the crystalline structure of skyrmions

Neutron stars

Modelling neutron stars as quantized and gravitating multi-wall skyrmion crystals

Gauged Ginzburg-Landau vortices

Axially symmetric vortices

Gauged \(\mathbb{C}P^1\) lumps

Axially symmetric lumps in a gauged \(\mathbb{C}P^1\) model with an applied uniform magnetic field