Amani Jayakody

Scholarship

Selected Recent Publications

• Picoscale Magnetoelasticity Governs Heterogeneous Magnetic Domains in a Noncentrosymmetric Ferromagnetic Weyl Semimetal, 2021
  Journal Article, Academic Journal
• Strain-engineered interaction of quantum polar and superconducting phases, 2019
  Journal Article, Academic Journal

Research Interests

My research area is experimental condensed matter physics, where I explore strongly correlated oxide and fluoride systems, which show interesting and intriguing physical and quantum properties. There are many great discoveries that have been made which led to new phenomena simply by studying the basic physics of materials that are found around us, just like the initial discovery of superconductivity, antiferromagnetism, and colossal magnetoresistance. However, one of the disadvantages of having materials with ready-made phenomena which nature provides is that there is less control over important system parameters such as stress, strain, lattice constants, oxygen vacancies, etc. My research involves finding ways to control basic material parameters that will eventually help to venture new and unconventional physical phenomena.Currently, I am primarily working on cobaltite systems which show anomalous structural and magnetic behavior, which will hopefully lead to finding new physics.