Abhishodh Prakash

about me

I am an ICTS-Simons Postdoctoral Fellow at the International Center for Theoretical Sciences in Bangalore, India. I got my PhD at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Stony Brook University working with Tzu-Chieh Wei at the CN Yang institute for Theoretical Physics. Before that, I completed my undergraduate education with a dual degree in Physics and Electrical Engineering at the Goa campus of the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS).

My research interests are broadly in the classification and characterization of various aspects of quantum many-body systems- their phases in and out of equilibrium, low-energy features like topological defects and textures, thermalization or lack thereof and their utility as resource states for quantum computation. I am especially interested in the role played by various kinds of global symmetries in all this.

News and olds

• [November 2018] My papers with J.P. Ang, "On the classification of topological defects and textures" and "Higher categorical groups and the classification of topological defects and textures" are on arXiv.
• [October 2018] I attended the Dynamics of Quantum Information program at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics. I gave a short talk titled "Unwinding short-range entangled phases of matter".
• [September 2018] My paper with Juven Wang and Tzu-Chieh Wei "Unwinding Short-Range Entanglement" is now published in Physical Review B. The latest version of the draft can also be found on arXiv.
• [July 2018] I attended the Boulder Summer School for Condensed Matter Physics on Quantum Information.
• [April 2018] My paper with Juven Wang and Tzu-Chieh Wei, "Unwinding Short-Range Entanglement" has been posted on arXiv.
• [March 2018] I attended the workshop on Chaos and Dynamics in Correlated Quantum Matter at the Max Planck institute for Complex Systems in Dresden.
• [March 2018] I presented my work with Lukasz Fidkowski on the Classification of one-dimensional drives of interacting fermions at the APS march meeting, 2018 in Los Angeles.
• [Jan 2018] I will be moving to ICTS-TIFR in Fall 2018 and starting as a Simons postdoctoral fellow!
• [Nov 2017] I attended the workshop "Progress in quantum collective phenomena – from MBL to black holes" at the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics where Tzu-Chieh presented our work on non-abelian symmetries in disordered spin chains. The video of the talk is available here.
• [Oct 2017] My paper with Sriram Ganeshan, Lukasz Fidkowski and Tzu-Chieh Wei, "Eigenstate phases with finite on-site non-Abelian symmetry" (previously titled "Ergodicity and symmetry breaking in disordered spin chains with on-site non-Abelian symmetry" ) has been published in Physical Review B.
• [Sep 2017] I gave a talk at the "Hydrodynamics, ergodicity, entanglement and localization in interacting lattice models and field theories" program at the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics. The video of the talk is available here.
• [August 2017] I attended the Simons Summer Workshop on "Strings and QFT without supersymmetry".
• [July 2017] My paper with David Stephen, Dongsheng Wang, Tzu-Chieh Wei and Robert Raussendorf "Computational Power of Symmetry-Protected Topological Phases" has been published in Physical Review Letters.
• [July 2017] My paper with Robert Raussendorf, Dongsheng Wang, Tzu-Chieh Wei and David Stephen, "Symmetry-protected topological phases with uniform computational power in one dimension" has been publised in Physical Review A.
• [June 2017] My paper with Sriram Ganeshan, Lukasz Fidkowski and Tzu-Chieh Wei, "Ergodicity and symmetry breaking in disordered spin chains with on-site non-Abelian symmetry" is on arXiv.
• [June 2016] I attended the workshop "Strongly Correlated Topological Phases of Matter" at the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics.
• [June 2016] I have been selected to receive one of the YITP Student Travel Awards for 2017.
• [January 2017] I presented a poster at the conference "Quantum Dynamics: From Models to Materials" at the Aspen Center for Physics.
• [July 2016] I attended the Boulder Summer School for Condensed Matter Physics on "Topological Phases of Quantum Matter".
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