About Me

I am primarily an experimental physicist with an interest in theoretical aspects of physics as well.

I have had the opportunity of exploring various research directions and tools in my research career which has given me invaluable experience and training in different avenues.

My PhD in the University of Cambridge, U.K. dealt with experimental and theoretical studies of the a.c. Josephson effect in high T_C superconductivity. The experimental aspect involved device fabrication in a "Clean Room" environment as well as cryogenic measurements.

During my first post-doctoral position at the Cavendish laboratories, Cambridge, I worked on a fascinating paper-industry funded Soft Condensed Matter based project.

Over the last fifteen years or so, I have been doing quantum optics based experiments primarily targeted towards testing fundamentals of quantum mechanics as well as quantum information, quantum computing and secure quantum communications. During my post-doctoral work at the Institute for Quantum Computing, Waterloo, Canada, one of the very interesting pieces of work that I was involved in dealt with a triple-slit experiment which served as a precision test for the Born Rule for probabilities in quantum mechanics.The following you-tube video has a nice description of the same.

Our laboratory at RRI called the Quantum Information and Computing lab (QuIC) is a part of the Light and Matter Physics group. Our lab is an optics lab which is also a class 10000 clean room thus enabling precision control on temperature, humidity and dust particles. Such modulation provides us with the right environment to perform precision experiments.More details of our current projects and lab activities can be found in subsequent pages of the website as well as our dedicated lab website: http://www.rri.res.in/quic/index.php

My latest CV can be found here.