Gayanath W. Fernando

Professor

Department of Physics

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Education

• Ph.D., Physics, Cornell University, 1985
• M.S., Physics, Cornell University, 1982
• B.S., Mathematics, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, 1978

Research Focus

• materials with strongly correlated electrons
• exact calculations of correlated nanoclusters
• high temperature superconductivity
• magnetism, topological materials and various symmetry breaking mechanisms in condensed matter systems including quasi two-dimensional organic materials.

Publications

Driven emergent phases in small interacting condensed-matter systems, Gayanath W. Fernando, R. Matthias Geilhufe, Adil-Gerai Kussow and W. Wasanthi P. De Silva.
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1209/0295-5075/134/37004

EPL (Europhysics Letters), Volume 134, 37004 (2021).

Chemical-strain induced tilted Dirac nodes in (BEDT-TTF)2 X3 (X=I, Cl, Br, F) based charge transfer salts, R. M. Geilhufe, B. Commeau and G. W Fernando, Physica Status Solidi, 1800081 (2018).

Structural and electronic properties of alpha-(BEDT-TTF)2I3, beta-(BEDT-TTF)2I3 and kappa-(BEDT-TTF)2X3 (X=I,F,Br,Cl) organic charge transfer salts,
B. Commeau, R. M. Geilhufe, G. W. Fernando, and A. V. Balatsky, Physical Review B 96, 125135 (2017).

From a Z2 topological insulator to a square ribbon: Tuning
quantum spin Hall states and conductivity, Zhiwei Zhang, Yiteng Tang, and Gayanath Fernando,
Journal of Applied Physics, 121, Issue 20, 204302 (2017).

My teaching interests include condensed matter physics, quantum mechanics, many-body theory, classical and statistical mechanics and mathematical methods in physics. I am also interested in improving the technical (math and physics) skills of STEM students and currently working on a related book to be published by World Scientific.