Dr. Ritwik Mondal

Profile

Academic positionLecturer, Assistant Professor, Researcher
Research fieldsTheoretical Condensed Matter Physics,Optics, Quantum Optics and Physics of Atoms, Molecules and Plasmas
KeywordsRelativistic spin dynamics, Current-induced torque, Field-derivative torque, Anisotropic Gilbert damping, Atomistic spin dynamics
Honours and awards

2020: International Postdoc fellowship from the Swedish Research Council

2019: Humboldt postdoctoral fellowship from Humboldt Stiftung, Germany

2019: Zukunftskolleg Mentorship Program 2019, Universität Konstanz, Germany

2008: INSPIRE scholarship from Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India

Current contact address

CountryIndia
CityDhanbad
InstitutionIndian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad
InstituteDepartment of Physics

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Ulrich NowakFachbereich Physik, Universität Konstanz, Konstanz
Start of initial sponsorship01/01/2019

Programme(s)

2018Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2026Mukherjee, Pratyay and Mondal, Ritwik: Ultrafast switching of antiferromagnetic order by field-derivative torque. In: Phys. Rev. B, 113, 2026, 054407
2025Ghosh, Subhadip and Basu, Darpa Narayan and Mondal, Ritwik: Engineering spin-wave spectrum via the magnetization inertia tensor. In: Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 38, 2025, 015803
2025Dutta, Arpita and Tzschaschel, Christian and Priyadarshi, Debankit and Mikuni, Kouki and Satoh, Takuya and Mondal, Ritwik and Pal, Shovon: Evidence of Relativistic Field-Derivative Torque in Nonlinear THz Response of Magnetization Dynamics. In: Advanced Functional Materials, 35, 2025, 2414582
2025Mukherjee, Pratyay and Dutta, Arpita and Bhattacharjee, Somasree and Pal, Shovon and Mondal, Ritwik: Field-derivative torque induced magnetization reversal in ferrimagnetic ${\mathrm{Gd}}_{\frac{3}{2}}{\mathrm{Yb}}_{\frac{1}{2}}{\mathrm{BiFe}}_{5}{\mathrm{O}}_{12}$. In: Phys. Rev. Mater., 9, 2025, 104405
2024Dutta, Arpita and Mukherjee, Pratyay and Sarangi, Swosti P. and Bhattacharjee, Somasree and Pal, Shovon and Mondal, Ritwik: Role of material-dependent properties in THz field-derivative-torque-induced nonlinear magnetization dynamics. In: Phys. Rev. Mater., 8, 2024, 114404
2024Ghosh, Subhadip and Cherkasskii, Mikhail and Barsukov, Igor and Mondal, Ritwik: Theory of tensorial magnetic inertia in terahertz spin dynamics. In: Phys. Rev. B, 110, 2024, 174430
2019Ritwik Mondal, Andreas Donges, Ulrike Ritzmann, Peter M. Oppeneer, Ulrich Nowak: Terahertz spin dynamics driven by a field-derivative torque. In: Phys. Rev. B (Rapid), 2019, 060409-1-060409-5
2018Ritwik Mondal, Marco Berritta, Peter M. Oppeneer: Generalisation of Gilbert damping and magnetic inertia parameter as a series of higher-order relativistic terms. In: Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2018, 265801-265810
2018Ritwik Mondal, Marco Berritta, Peter M. Oppeneer: Unified theory of magnetization dynamics with relativistic and nonrelativistic spin torques. In: Phys. Rev. B, 2018, 214429-1-214429-12
2017Ritwik Mondal: Relativistic theory of laser-induced magnetization dynamics. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2017
2017Ritwik Mondal, Marco Berritta, Ashis K. Nandy, Peter M. Oppeneer: Relativistic theory of magnetic inertia in ultrafast spin dynamics. In: Phys. Rev. B, 2017, 024425-024434