Projects

1. Title: Assisted microwave annealing for spin defects in silicon carbide
   Summary: Silicon carbide-based nanomaterials and thin films on insulators are relevant for applications in biomedical imaging and quantum technologies due to their intrinsic high electrical and thermal conductivity, biocompatibility, and fluorescent emission in the near-infrared. Current fabrication methods based on top-down approaches such as chemical and mechanical ablation, ions implantation, and conventional thermal annealing, are time-consuming, have a low yield, and introduce surface defects that limit their application in quantum technology as the resulting material is not quantum-grade. In this project initially, Molecular Dynamics simulations will be used to study the effect of assisted microwave annealing/fabrication in combination to ion implantation to enhance the yield of silicon carbide fluorescent spin qubits within nanomaterials and thin film on the insulator. The technique will then be experimentally tested, and the material properties will be characterized.
   Project Team: Prof. Radha Raman Mishra, BITS Pilani, Prof. Stefania Castelletto, RMIT University Australia

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2. Title: Geometric Aspects of Quantum Correlations in Dynamics
   Funding Agency: DST (Scheme DST-Quest)  
   Project Investigators: Professor Radhika Vathsan, Head of Physics Department, BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus

Research Scholars:  Sourav Kesharee  Sahoo, Dharmaraj M

3. Title: Real-time dynamics of quarks and gluons: a quantum simulation approach
   Funding Agency: DST (Scheme: SERB SRG)  
   Project Investigators:   Dr. Indrakshi Raychowdhury, Assistant Professor Physics Department, BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus