Talks and Events | MAVENs

Beyond Diamond: Finding and understanding nuclear-spin-quiet hosts for solid-state spin qubits

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Invited talk delivered in Session 1: Quantum Materials and Devices at ISSMD-2026, hosted by IIT Ropar on 23–25 October 2026.

The talk covered two connected threads from our group:

Interpretable ML screening for nuclear-spin-quiet qubit hosts (work by Md Mahshook A, published in Physical Review Materials): using composition-only models and Rashomon-set agreement across ~45,000 stable compounds to identify 122 candidate host materials, including layered chalcogenides, alkaline-earth tellurides, high-ε oxides, and ternaries.
The ¹⁷O hyperfine bath of Ce³⁺ polarons in CeO₂ (work by Chithresh T M): showing how orbital orientation of the localised 4f¹ state selects a single strongly coupled first-shell ¹⁷O neighbour (2.02 MHz by DFT), yielding an exceptionally quiet spin bath with testable ESEEM/HYSCORE signatures.

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Disorder and Size Effects in Quantum Materials (DSQM)

Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Co-organised and delivered a talk at Disorder and Size Effects in Quantum Materials (DSQM), a scientific conference held at the S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences (SNBNCBS), Kolkata, on 4–5 February 2026 in memory of Late Prof. Abhijit Mookerjee on his 80th birthday.

Organising Committee

Biplab Sanyal (Uppsala University)
Nitesh Kumar (SNBNCBS, Kolkata)
Thirupathaiah Setti (SNBNCBS, Kolkata)
Rudra Banerjee (SRMIST, Chennai)

Data-driven discovery of Quantum Compatible Deep Centers in Semiconductors

Fri, 15 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Invited talk delivered at ESTESODP-2024, jointly hosted by IIT Bombay and Uppsala University.

The talk presented Md Mahshook A’s work on developing a data-driven machine-learning framework to screen wide-bandgap semiconductors as hosts for quantum-compatible deep centers and NV-like spin defects.

Workshop and International Conference on Electronic Structure Theory of Emergent Spin Orbit Driven Phenomenon (ESTESODP-2024)

Mon, 11 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Poster presentation by Shrestha Dutta and Rudra Banerjee at the Workshop and International Conference on Electronic Structure Theory of Emergent Spin Orbit Driven Phenomenon (ESTESODP-2024) (11–15 November 2024), organized by the Department of MEMS, IIT Bombay, Maharashtra, India.

Electronic Structure Engineering of Zr-doped Ti₃C₂ and Ti₃CN MXenes for Efficient Hydrogen Evolution Reaction

Thu, 21 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Poster presentation by Shrestha Dutta and Rudra Banerjee at the International Conference on Advanced Materials for Sustainability (ICAMS-2023) (21–23 December 2023), organized by the School of Physical Science, University of Calicut, Kerala, India.

Award: Chosen by the Royal Society of Chemistry for the Best Poster Prize at ICAMS-2023 (see announcement).

A Study of Electronic and Magnetic Properties of Transition Metal Trihalides

Mon, 10 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Poster presentation by Shrestha Dutta and Rudra Banerjee on “A Study of Electronic and Magnetic Properties of Transition Metal Trihalides” at Quantum Technologies – Introduction, Materials and Devices (10–14 July 2023), organized by the Department of Physics, IISER Pune and I-HUB Quantum Technology Foundation, Maharashtra, India.

7th International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICONN-2023)

Mon, 27 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Poster presentation by Shrestha Dutta and Rudra Banerjee at the 7th International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICONN-2023) (Virtual Conference, 27–29 March 2023), organized by the Department of Physics and Nanotechnology, SRMIST, Kattankulathur, Tamil Nadu, India.

Controlling the thermodynamic properties of Heusler Alloys using doping

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Invited talk delivered at the International Online Conference on Materials Science and Technology (ICMT 2021), jointly organised by Mahatma Gandhi University (India), Gdańsk University (Poland), and Wrocław University (Poland).