Gopal Dixit
Associate Professor
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Phone: 
+91 22 25767558
Email: 
gdixit@phy.iitb.ac.in
g.dixit@iitb.ac.in
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Research Interests: 
My research centers on quantum materials and their light-matter interactions, with an emphasis on ultrafast phenomena. For more information, please visit our group webpage: Attosecond Group.

 

Selected Publications: 

A complete list of my publications is available in my CV.

1. Gopalan G. N., Bharti A., Venkat P., and Dixit G.: “Harnessing light for valley control in 2D semiconductors” Advanced Optical Materials (2025)

2. Rana N., Mrudul M. S., Bharti A., Giri S., and Dixit G.“Nonlinear optical spectroscopy of Nodal line semimetals”  Phys. Rev. Applied  24, L021001 (2025).

3. Bharti A., and Dixit G.“Photocurrent generation in solids via linearly polarised laser”  Phys. Rev. B 109, 104309 (2024).

4. Bharti A., and Dixit G.“Tailoring photocurrent in Weyl semimetals via intense laser irradiation”  Phys. Rev. B 108, L161113 (2023).

5. Bharti A., Ivanov M., and Dixit G.“How massless are Weyl fermions in Weyl semimetals”  Phys. Rev. B 108, L020305 (2023). 

6. Rana N., and Dixit G.“All-optical ultrafast valley switching in two-dimensional materials”  Phys. Rev. Applied 19, 034056 (2023).

7. Rana N., Mrudul M. S., and Dixit G.Generation of circularly-polarized high-harmonics with identical helicity in two-dimensional materials  Phys. Rev. Applied 18, 064049 (2022)

8. Bharti A., Mrudul M. S., and Dixit G.“High-harmonic spectroscopy of light-driven nonlinear anisotropic anomalous Hall effect in a Weyl semimetal”  Phys. Rev. B 105, 155140 (2022).

9. Mrudul M. S., Jimenez-Galan A., Ivanov M., and Dixit G.: “Light-Induced Valleytronics in Pristine Graphene”  Optica 8, 422 (2021).

10. Rana N., Roy A. P., Bansal D., and Dixit G.: “Four-dimensional imaging of lattice dynamics using ab-initio simulation”  Npj Computational Materials  7, 7 (2021).

11. Mrudul M. S., Tancogne-Dejean N., Rubio A., and Dixit G.: “High-harmonic generation from spin-polarised defects in solids”  Npj Computational Materials  6, 10 (2020).

12. Hermann G., Pohl V.,  Dixit G. and Tremblay J. C.: “Probing electronic fluxes via time-resolved x-ray scattering”  Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 013002 (2020).

13. Jimenez-Galan A., Dixit G.,  Patchkovskii S., Smirnova O., Morales F., and Ivanov M.: “Attosecond recorder of the polarization state of light”  Nature Communications 9, 850 (2018).

14. Bredtmann T., Ivanov M. and Dixit G.: “X-ray imaging of chemically active valence electrons during a pericyclic reaction”  Nature Communications 5, 5589 (2014).

15. Dixit G., Vendrell O. and Santra R.: “Imaging electronic quantum motion with light” Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 109, 11636 (2012). (see also news and views in Nature Photonics 6, 645, 2012).

16. Dixit G., Slowik J. M. and Santra R.:  “Proposed imaging of the ultrafast electronic motion in samples using x-ray phase-contrast” Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 137403 (2013).  Appeared as a cover page in Phys. Rev. Lett. (see also highlight in Nature Photonics 7, 423, 2013).

17. Dixit G., Chakraborty H. S. and Madjet M. E.: “Time delay in the recoiling valence-photoemission of Ar endohedrally confined in C60”  Phys. Rev. Lett111, 203003 (2013). 

 

 

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