Curriculum Vitae and list of Talks

Academic Record:

Ph.D. in Physics from Jadavpur University, Kolkata (March 2000, thesis submitted in July 1999).

Title of Thesis: Quantum Phase Transitions in disordered and frustrated systems

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Bikas K. Chakrabarti (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata)

• M.Sc. in Physics, from University of Calcutta, (1991) (Ranked 2nd).

• B. Sc. (Honours) in Physics, from University of Calcutta, (1989, appeared from Presidency College, Kolkata)

• Higher Secondary Examination, under the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education, (1986)

• Secondary Examination, under the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education, (1984) (Ranked 10th)

I gratefully acknowledge scientists I have (been) collaborated (collaborating) with:

• Prof. J. K. Bhattacharjee (HRI, Allahabad, India)

• Prof. Diptiman Sen (Indian Insititute of Science, Bangalore, India)

• Prof. R. B. Stinchcombe (Oxford University, Oxford, UK)

• Prof. R. R. P. Singh (University of California at Davis)

• Prof. Anatoli Polkovnikov (Boston University)

• Prof. Giuseppe Santoro (SISSA and ICTP, Trieste)

• Prof. Gabriel Aeppli (EPFL, PSI,UCL)

• Prof. Thomas Rosenbaum (Caltech, Pasadena)

• Dr. Angelo Russomanno (Bar IIan University, Israel)

Research Experience:

• Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, Würzburg University, Würzburg, Germany, with Prof. Dr. R. Oppermann (Sep 2002 ― Mar 2003).

• Guest Scientist in the Electronic Correlation Group headed by Prof. Dr. Peter Fulde at the Max Planck Institute for Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany (Sep 2000 ― Aug 2002).

Professional Experience:

Currently,

• Professor

• Department of Physics, I.I.T. Kanpur, Kanpur, India.

Formerly,

• Assistant Professor,

• Department of Physics, I.I.T. Kanpur, Kanpur, India.

• (5th May, 2003-Dec, 2007)

• Associate Professor

• Department of Physics, I.I.T. Kanpur, Kanpur, India.

• (Dec, 2007 – 25th March, 2012 )

List of my talks: (not updated)

Recent Talks:

** "Dynamics of the Haldane Model Following a Quench: Non-analyticities and Emergent Topology", seminar at ICTP, Trieste, 7th July, 2017

** “ Dynamical phase transitions and emergent topology in quenched quantum systems", Seminar at PSI, Villegen, 6th July, 2017

** “ Dynamical Quantum Phase transitions in a quenched Haldane model and connection to topology”, Seminar at MPIPKS, Dresden, 27th June, 2017

** “ Non-equilibrium dynamics and dynamical phase transitions of the topological Haldane model”, Seminar at Indian Association of cultivation of Science, 16^th March, 2017

** “Dynamics of closed quantum systems”, Institute Colloquium, Indian Association of cultivation of Science, 15^th March, 2017.

** “Quenches, non-analyticities, emergent topology: Topological Haldane model”, seminar at department of theory physics, TIFR, Mumbai, 22^nd Feb., 2017.

** “Dicke model: fidelity, Loschmidt echo and dynamics”, International Conference on Complex Quantum Systems, BARC, 20^th Feb., 2017.

** "Higher Haldane model: quenches, Chern number and Edge states”, conference Low Dimensional Qunatum Systems, HRI, Allahabad 15^th Feb,. 2017

** “Periodically driven closed quantum systems: periodic steady state”, seminar at Department of Physics,

IISER, Kolkata, 24th January, 2017

** “Dynamics of decoherence: universal scaling of the decoherence factor”, at Theory conference, IISER, Kolkata, 21^st January, 2017.

** “Nobel prize in Physics: 2016”, IIT Kanpur organized by The Physics Society, IIT Kanpur, 14^th Jan., 2017.

** Set of three lectures on “Periodically driven closed quantum systems” in the “Discussion Meeting on Nonequilibrium Quantum Systems”, HRI Allahabad, 20^th-25^th November, 2016.

** “Slow quenches, dynamical phase transitions and emergent topology” at IMSc, Chennai, 3^rd October 2016.

** “Dynamics of Decoherence: Universal scaling of decoherence factors” in “Workshop on Theory and Practice of Adiabatic Quantum Computers and Quantum Simulation”,

at Abdus Salam ICTP, 22^nd-26^th August 2016.

** “Emergent topology in quenched quantum systems”, in “School on Current Frontiers in

Condensed Matter Research” held at ICTS, TIFR, Bangalore 20^th-29^th June, 2016.

** “Dynamical phase transitions: non-equilibrium real time quantum phase transitions” at Department of theoretical physics, IACS, Kolkata, 7th March, 2016.

** Periodically driven closed quantum systems: periodic steady state and dynamical localization “Conference on quantum disordered systems”, IMSc, Chennai, March 1-3 (2016).

** “Periodically driven quantum closed quantum systems: periodic steady state” at “Indian Statistical physics community meeting”, ICTS, Bangalore, Friday 12 Feb, 2016 - Sunday 14 Feb, 2016.

** “Closed quantum critical systems: dynamics and information” seminar, at the condensed matter theory group, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland, June 26th, 2015

** “Periodically driven closed quantum systems: saturation and dynamical localization”, 11^th Dec, 2014 at InIndo-Israeli meeting on "Frontiers in Condensed Matter Physics", held in Jerusalem, Israel, December 8-11, 2014.

** “Periodic driving, periodic steady state and dynamical localization”, Colloquium at HRI, Allahabad, 19^th September, 2014

** “Dynamical fidelity of periodically driven quantum systems”, seminar at S N Bose National Center for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, 26^th August, 2014.

** “Quantum Phase Transition and quantum fidelity” , condensed matter physics seminar, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, 22^nd August, 2014.

** “Quantum Phase transitions and fidelity measures” at Enreiso Lecture, Applied Physics Department, Hokkaido University, 11th June, 2014.

** “Quench Dynamics and Topology”- at Mini-workshop on the real-time dynamics of quantum many-body systems, organized at Tokyo University, (by Prof. S. Suzuki (Saitama) and Prof. S. Miyashita (School of Science, Tokyo University), Japan, 20^th May, 2014.

** Series of Lectures: “Understanding statics and dynamics of quantum phase transitions: Fidelity and Loschmidt echo” 8^th, 9^th and 14^th May, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan (organized by Prof. Hidetoshi Nishimori)

** “Quench Dynamics and Topology”- Indian Association for Cultivation of Science, 1^st May, 2014 (at “Discussion meeting on Non-equilibrium dynamics and ultracold atoms”, 1^st and 2^nd May, 2014.)

** “Floquet dynamics of a periodically driven quantum system and the dynamical fidelity”, Center for condensed matter theory seminar, IISc, Bangalore, 13^th Feb., 2014.

** “Quantum Criticality, dynamics and Loschmidt echo”, 4^th Dec., 2013 at Meeting of quantum information processing and application, 2^nd-8^th Dec., 2013, HRI, Allahabad.

** “Quantum Criticality, dynamics and Loschmidt echo”, theoretical physics colloquium, TIFR, Mumbai, 29^th Oct., 2013.

** “Quench Dynamics of Edge States in 2-D Topological Insulator Ribbons”, 22^nd Aug., 2013, at Quantum systems out of equilibrium, MPIPKS, Dresden.

** “The scaling of the decoherence factor of a qubit coupled to a driven spin chain”, SNS, Pisa, 9^th July, 2013.

** A set of three lectures, “Quantum quenches”, 11^th-13^th June, 2013, US-India Advanced Studies Institute on Thermalization, from glasses to Black hole held at ICTS, Bangalore, 10^th-21^st June, 2013.

** “Quantum critical dynamics of decoherence”, Physics Department, Delhi University, April, 2013.

** “Quench Dynamics of Edge States in 2-D Topological Insulator Ribbons”, colloquium at HRI, Allahabad, 26^th April, 2013.

** “The ground state quantum fidelity: an indicator of quantum criticality?” , seminar at HRI Allahabad, 25^th April, 2013.

Earlier Talks:

1. “Quantum Phase transitions: Dynamics and Fidelity”, Colloquium, Department of Physics, IIT Kanpur

2. “Quantum Phase transitions, dynamics and Information: Fidelity and Quenches” at ICTS program on “International Non-equilibrium School (INES2011)”, 27th Dec,2011-11th Jan., 2012

3. “Quantum Phase transitions, dynamics and Information: Fidelity and Quenches” at International conference on “Dynamics of Phase transitions”

at JNCSAR, Bangalore, 28-30th Nov., 2011

4. “Fidelity and fidelity susceptibility near a quantum critical point” at “Low Dimensional Quantum Systems”, HRI, Allhabad, October 10-13, 2011

5. “The Scaling of fidelity Susceptibility close to a quantum (multi-) critical point” at “ICTS conference on Condensed Matter (ICMP10)”, Mysore, India, 22nd Dec, 2010.

6. “The Scaling of fidelity Susceptibility close to a quantum multicritical point”, at “Statphys-Kolkata VII”, organized SINP and S. N. Bose Center for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, 26-30Nov.,2010

7. “Adiabatic Multi-critical quantum quenches: Defect density and Fidelity Susceptibility” Seminar at Physics Department, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India , 22nd September, 2010.

8. “Adiabatic Multicritical Quantum Quenches: Beyond the Kibble- Zurek Scaling”, Seminar at London Center for Nanotechnology, University College of London, UK, 9th July,2010.

9. “Adiabatic Multicritical Quantum Quenches: Defect Density and Beyond the Kibble- Zurek Scaling”, Seminar at Theoretical Physics, Saarland University, Saarbrucken, Germany, 30th June, 2010.

10. “Defect Generation in a Generalized Quenching”, at “Interaction, Instability, Transport and Kinetics: Glassiness and Jamming”, IIT Kanpur, 4th-8th Feb, 2010.”

11. “Defect Generation in a Generalized Quenching” at “ICTS conference on Condensed Matter (ICMP)”, Mahabaleswar, India, Dec, 2009.

12. “Adiabatic dynamics of quantum spin chains” at “Recent Trends in Condensed Matter”, Saha Institue of Nuclear Physics, India, 27-28th March, 2009

13. “Beyond the Kibble-Zurek Scaling relation: Quenching through a gapless line and a multicritical point” at “Quantum Phase Transition and Dynamics : Quenching, Annealing and Quantum Computation” , Organized by CAMCS at Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, India, 3-7 February, 2009

14, “Quantum Dynamics of quantum spin chains” at “Disorder, Complexity and Biology II (DISCOMB09)”, Benaras Hindu University, India, 5-8th Jan., 2009

15, “Quenching through a Multicritical Point”, Seminar, International Center for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste, Italy, 9th June, 2008

16. “RFBM with mixed uniform distribution” at “Statistical Physics Approaches to Multi-Disciplinary Problems”, IIT Guwahati (Jan 7 – 13, 2008).

17. “Effect of long-range connections on an infinite randomness Fixed point”

at “Statphys – Kolkata-VI”, International conference in Statistical Physics at Raichak, West Bengal (Jan 2007).

18. “Long-range connections, contact processes and Disorder Correlation”, Physics Department Colloquium, IIT Kanpur (Feb 2007).

19. “Long-range percolation and contact processes”, Colloquium at S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata (Mar 2007).

20. “Anisotropic & transverse quenching of a a transverse XY spin chain”, Colloquium at SINP, Kolkata (Jul, 2007).

21. “Adiabatic Dynamics of Quantum Spin Chains”, One Day Meeting On The Frontiers Of Theoretical Sciences, IACS, Kolkata, (August 17, 2007).

22. “Long-range connections, infinite randomness fixed point and Griffiths singularities”, at “Condensed Matter Workshop”, IIT Kanpur (Feb 2006).

23. “Quantum Phase Transitions and long-range interactions” , at “Condensed Matter Workshop”, IIT Kanpur (March 2004).