employment and education 

ICTS-Simons Postdoctoral Fellow, 2018- Present

International Center for Theoretical Sciences- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research,

Shivakote, Hesarghatta Hobli, Bengaluru 560089, India

PhD in Physics, 2012- 2018

C. N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics and Department of Physics and Astronomy,

Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, US.

Adviser: Tzu-Chieh Wei.

 M.A. in Physics, 2011-2012

Department of Physics and Astronomy,

Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY

M.Sc. (Hons) in Physics, 2006-2011

B.E. (Hons) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (Dual degree)

Birla Institute of Technology and Science - Pilani, Goa, India.

research interests

• Global symmetries in strongly correlated many-body systems,

• Symmetry protected and enriched topological phases, spin liquids, 

• Many-body localization and other eigenstate phases,

• Measurement-based quantum computation.

awards

• Fall 2018: ICTS-Simons Prize Postdoctoral Fellowship

• Fall 2017: YITP Student Travel Award

publications 

See arxiv.org/a/_a_5 for the latest listing 

1. Abhishodh Prakash, Jedidah Pixley, Manas Kulkarni, "The spectral form factor of many-body localized systems", in preparation

2. Abhishodh Prakash, "An elementary proof of 1d LSM theorems",  arXiv:2002.11176 [cond-mat.str-el]

3. Anshumitra Baul, Abhishodh Prakash, Subhro Bhattacharjee, "Tunneling spectroscopy in PT symmetric non-Hermitian superconductors", in preparation

4. Abhishodh Prakash, Juven Wang, "Unwinding 1d fermionic SPT phases", in preparation

5. J.P. Ang, Abhishodh Prakash, "Higher categorical groups and the classification of topological defects and textures", arXiv:1810.12965 [math-ph]. 

6. J.P. Ang, Abhishodh Prakash, "On the classification of topological defects and textures", arXiv:1810.12964 [cond-mat.str-el]. 

7. Abhishodh Prakash, Juven Wang, Tzu-Chieh Wei, "Unwinding Short-Range Entanglement", arXiv:1804.11236 [quant-ph], Phys. Rev. B 98, 125108 (2018).

8. Yanzhu Chen, Abhishodh Prakash, Tzu-Chieh Wei, "Universal quantum computing using (ℤ_d)3 symmetry-protected topologically ordered states",  arXiv:1711.00094 [quant-ph], Phys. Rev. A 97, 022305 (2018).

9. Abhishodh Prakash, Sriram Ganeshan, Lukasz Fidkowski, Tzu-Chieh Wei, "Eigenstate phases with finite on-site non-Abelian symmetry", arXiv:1706.06062 [cond-mat.dis-nn], Phys. Rev. B 96, 165136 (2017).

10. David T. Stephen, Dong-Sheng Wang, Abhishodh Prakash, Tzu-Chieh Wei, Robert Raussendorf, "Computational Power of Symmetry-Protected Topological Phases", arXiv:1611.08053 [quant-ph], Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 010504 (2017).

11. Robert Raussendorf, Dongsheng Wang, Abhishodh Prakash, Tzu-Chieh Wei, David Stephen, "Symmetry-protected topological phases with uniform computational power in one dimension", arXiv:1609.07549 [quant-ph], Phys. Rev. A 96, 012302 (2017).

12. Abhishodh Prakash, Colin G. West, Tzu-Chieh Wei, "Detection of gapped phases of a 1D spin chain with onsite and spatial symmetries",  arXiv:1604.00037 [cond-mat.str-el], Phys. Rev. B 94, 045136 (2016).

13. Abhishodh Prakash,  Tzu-Chieh Wei, "Ground states of 1D symmetry-protected topological phases and their utility as resource states for quantum computation", arXiv:1410.0974, Phys. Rev. A 92, 022310 (2015).

14. Prasanta Kumar Das, Abhishodh Prakash, "126 GeV Higgs boson pair production at linear colliders in noncommutative space-time", Int. J. Mod. Phys. A 28, 1350004 (2013),  arXiv:1207.1246 [hep-ph].

15. Prasanta Kumar Das, Abhishodh Prakash, "Laboratory frame analysis of e+ e- -----> \mu+ \mu- scattering in the Noncommutative Standard Model", Int. J. Mod. Phys. A 27, 1250141 (2012), arXiv:1112.0943 [hep-ph].

16. Abhishodh Prakash, "Tipping of a classical point mass pendulum: Role of statistical fluctuations", arXiv:1009.5602 [physics.class-ph].

17. Prasanta Kumar Das, Abhishodh Prakash, Anupam Mitra, "Neutral Higgs boson pair production at the linear collider in the noncommutative standard model", arXiv:1009.3571 [hep-ph], Phys. Rev. D 83, 056002 (2011).

18. Abhishodh Prakash, Anupam Mitra, Prasanta Kumar Das, "e+ e- -----> \mu+ \mu- scattering in the noncommutative standard model", arXiv:1009.3554 [hep-ph], Phys. Rev. D 82, 055020 (2010).

talks

[January 2020] "A simple proof of 1d LSM theorems", ICTS- TIFR Seminar

[January 2020] "A simple proof of 1d LSM theorems", BITS- Pilani Goa Campus.

[December 2019] "Emergent symmetries in invertible phases", Novel Phases of Quantum Matter, ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore 

[November 2019] "Computational Phases of Matter", ICTS Colloquium, ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore [video link]

[July 2019] "Invertible gapped phases of matter, boundary anomalies and emergent symmetries", Theoretical Physics seminar, Raman Research Institute, Bangalore

[Mar 2019] "Unwinding short-range entangled phases of matter", Higher Symmetries: Theory and Applications, Aspen Center for Physics.

[Oct 2018] "Unwinding short-range entangled phases of matter", Dynamics of Quantum Information, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara. [video link]. 

[Sep 2017] "Eigenstate phases with on-site finite non-Abelian symmetry", Program on Hydrodynamics, ergodicity, entanglement and localization in interacting lattice models and field theories, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook. [video link]

[Mar 2017] "Ergodicity and symmetry breaking in disordered spin chains with non-Abelian on-site symmetry.", APS March Meering 2017, Baltimore.

[Mar 2016] "Some tensor-network diagnostics for a class of 2D SPT states with internal symmetry", APS March Meering 2016, New Orleans.

computer skills

Github: https://github.com/abhishodh

• Languages: Julia (preferred), Mathematica, Matlab, Python, Fortran, C.

• Techniques: Exact diagonalization, tensor network methods.

Organization experience

[Dec 23, 2019- Jan 02, 2020] Co-organizer, Novel Phases of Quantum Matter, ICTS-TIFR, ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore

[2018 onwards] Co-organizer, Math-Physics Discussion Meeting, ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore