About Me

Hi! I am Ahana and I am currently an Abrahams Postdoctoral Fellow, a distinguished postdoctoral position offered by Center for Materials Theory, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA.  

My research in theoretical condensed matter physics and quantum information science began at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India. My primary research involved understanding the role of memory of initial conditions in the dynamics of many body open quantum systems and disordered systems under supervision of Prof. Rajdeep Sensarma. I obtained my PhD in Physics in 2019 based on the thesis titled "Memory of Initial Conditions in Quantum Many Body Dynamics: A Non-Equilibrium Field Theoretic Approach". My doctoral thesis was award the Best Thesis Award 2020 (Honourable Mention) by the institute for "developing a field theoretical formalism to study dynamics of quantum many-body system and calculating entanglement entropy of Bosonic many body systems". 

Thereafter, I joined as a guest scientist at Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems (MPIPKS), Dresden, Germany in 2019. I worked with the "Strongly Correlated Light-Matter Systems" group led by Prof. Francesco Piazza. At MPIPKS, my research explored novel possibilities of inducing superconductivity mediated by cavity and controlling it by engineering quantum states of light. A part of my ongoing research revolves around the broader theme of manipulation of quantum material and associated collective phenomena by quantum light.

Since joining Rutgers in 2021 as an Abrahams Postdoctoral Fellow, I have been actively exploring various avenues within the realm of non-equilibrium dynamics in open quantum systems. I am currently collaborating with Prof. Piers Coleman and Prof. Premi Chandra, along with their respective groups and collaborators, to investigate light-induced structural phase transitions in polar materials.  Additionally, I am also investigating the non-unitary dynamics of monitored quantum circuits and measurement-induced entanglement phase transitions in collaboration with Prof Jed Pixley and his group.  

 

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