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Md. Shafayat Hossain

Md. Shafayat Hossain

Spontaneous valley polarization of electrons- A breakthrough in valleytronics?

Electrons in solids can have two spins, up-spin and down-spin, giving rise to a spin degree of freedom. Leveraging the availability of two…

3 min readSep 9, 2021

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Spontaneous valley polarization of electrons- A breakthrough in valleytronics?

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Md. Shafayat Hossain

Spontaneous ferromagnetism in a semiconductor

The magnetic properties of a dilute 2D electron system have long been a topic of theoretical speculation and controversy because physics…

3 min readDec 3, 2020

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Spontaneous ferromagnetism in a semiconductor

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Md. Shafayat Hossain

The number of flux quanta per electron determines the symmetry and mass of the emergent particles!

Two-dimensional electron systems exposed to high magnetic fields generate emergent quasiparticles, the so-called composite fermions, whose…

2 min readOct 28, 2020

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The number of flux quanta per electron determines the symmetry and mass of the emergent particles!

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Md. Shafayat Hossain

Bloch Ferromagnetism finally observed in a fermionic quasiparticle

The magnetic properties of the ground state of a low-density, two-dimensional (2D) electron system have been a topic of intense…

3 min readAug 17, 2020

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Bloch Ferromagnetism finally observed in a fermionic quasiparticle

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Md. Shafayat Hossain

Composite fermions obey the Luttinger theorem and particle-hole symmetry precisely but show…

When electrons confined to two dimensions get exposed to a perpendicular magnetic field, their kinetic energy is quenched. Consequently, a…

3 min readAug 12, 2020

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Composite fermions obey the Luttinger theorem and particle-hole symmetry precisely but show…

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Md. Shafayat Hossain

Evidence for an exotic topological phase of matter in a system with 5-fold anisotropy!

The enigmatic even-denominator fractional quantum Hall state in the first-excited Landau level of two-dimensional electron systems are…

3 min readJun 13, 2019

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Evidence for an exotic topological phase of matter in a system with 5-fold anisotropy!

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Md. Shafayat Hossain

Exposing the interplay between charge and spin order

There are many different orders present in nature and the interplay between different orders is of fundamental importance in physics. One…

3 min readJun 12, 2019

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Exposing the interplay between charge and spin order

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Md. Shafayat Hossain

Unraveling the origin of a mysterious topological phase of nature

The idea of topological quantum computation has been in the literature for a few decades now. It promises to solve all the issues that the…

4 min readMay 28, 2019

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Unraveling the origin of a mysterious topological phase of nature

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Md. Shafayat Hossain

Md. Shafayat Hossain

A PhD candidate pursuing research on experimental condensed matter physics. In this blog, I will discuss some of my research efforts and current physics topics.

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