Tapan Chatterji

Research interests:

• Magnetism (magnetic structure, excitations and phase transitions in cuprates and manganites)
• Spin, charge and orbital ordering in transition metal oxides
• Neutron scattering, X-ray scattering, muon spin rotation and relaxation spectrocopy

Recent publications (of 170+ published papers):

• Coexistence of ferro- and antiferro-magnetic spin correlations in La_1.2Sr_1.8Mn₂O₇
  T. Chatterji, et al., Phys. Rev. B 73, 104449 (2006)
• Volume contraction and resistivity drop at the Jahn-teller transition in La_1-xCa_xMnO₃
  T. Chatterji et al., Phys. Rev. B 73, 094444 (2006)
• Spin dynamics of the quasi-two-dimensional ferromagnetic bilayer manganite La_1.2Sr_1.8Mn₂O₇
  T. Chatterji et al., Phys. Rev. B 72, 014439 (2005)
• Volume collapse in LaMnO₃ at the Jahn-Teller transition temperature
  T. Maitra, P. Thalmeier and T. Chatterji, Phys. Rev. B 69, 132417 (2004)
• Volume collapse in LaMnO₃ caused by an orbital order-disorder transition
  T. Chatterji et al., Phys. Rev. B 68, 052406 (2003)
• Resonant X-ray scattering from LaSr₂Mn₂O₇
  S. De Matteo, T. Chatterji et al., Phys. Rev. B 68, 024414 (2003)
• Jahn-Teller transition in La_1-xSr_xMnO₃ in the low doping region
  T. Chatterji et al., Phys. Rev. B 66, 214408 (2002)
• Spin dynamics of La_0.7Ba_0.3MnO₃
  T. Chatterji et al., Phys. Rev. B 66, 54403 (2002)
• Diffuse magnetic scattering above T_C in quasi-two-dimensional La_1.2Sr_1.8Mn₂O₇
  T. Chatterji et al., Phys. Rev. B 65, 134440 (2002)
• Charge ordering and spin dynamics of NaV₂O₅
  B. Grenier, O. Cepas, L.P. Regnault, J.E. Lorenzo, T. Ziman, J.P. Boucher, A. Hiess and T. Chatterji,
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5966 (2001)
• Re-entrant Behaviour of the Charge and Orbital Ordering and Ferromagnetism in LaSr₂Mn₂O₇
  T. Chatterji et al., Phys. Rev. B 61, 570-574 (2000).
• Critical fluctuation in the weak itinerant ferromagnet Ni₃Al:
  A comparison between self-consistent renormalization and mode-mode coupling theory
  F. Semadini, B. Roessli, P. Boeni, P. Vorderwisch and T. Chatterji, Phys. Rev. B 62, 1083-1088 (2000)
• Low energy magnetic excitations in double-layered La_1.2Sr_1.8Mn₂O₇
  T. Chatterji et al., Europhys. Lett. 46, 801-807 (1999)
• Spin waves in the quasi-2D ferromagnetic bilayer manganite La_1.2Sr_1.8Mn₂O₇
  T. Chatterji et al., Phys. Rev. B 60, R6965-R6968 (1999)
• Correlations of the Nd magnetic moments and their influence on the specific heat in Nd_2-xCe_xCuO₄
  W. Henggeler, B. Roessli, A. Furrer, P. Vorderwisch and T. Chatterji, Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1300-1303 (1998)

Books:

• Sub editor: Neutron scattering section of the book
  "Scattering: Scattering and Inverse Scattering in Pure and Applied Scince", Ed. P. Pike and P. Sabatier, Academic Press (2002)
• Colossal Magnetoresistive Manganites, Ed. Tapan Chatterji, Kluwer Academic Press (2004)
• Neutron Scattering from Magnetic Materials, Ed. Tapan Chatterji, Elsevier (2006)

Studies:

• 1972 Ph.D. (Physics) Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
  Thesis "X-ray Studies of Lattice Defects and Lattice Vibrations in F.C.C. Metals and Alloys"
• 1965 M.Sc. (Physics) Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
• 1963 B.Sc. (Hons. in Physics) Presidency College, Calcutta, India

Post-doctoral research:

• Max-Planck-Institute for Metal Research, Stuttgart, Germany

• Max-Planck-Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany

Employments:

• Max-Planck-Institute for Solid State research, Stuttgart, Germany
• Max-Planck-Institute of Physics of Complx Systems, Dresden, Germany
• Presently employed at the Institute Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, France