Group members

Former / current Ph. D. Students

R. Sankaranarayanan

(PRL, Ahmedabad) 

 Associate Professor, NIT Trichy.

Jayendra Nath Bandyopadhayay

(PRL Ahmedabad) 

Associate Professor, BITS Pilani

N. Meenakshisundaram

 Assistant Professor, Vivekananda College, Madurai

Udaysinh Bhosale

Assistant Professor, VNIT, Nagpur 

M. S. Ramkarthik

Assistant Professor,  VNIT, Nagpur

Shashi C. L. Srivastava

Scientist, VECC, Kolkata

Suhail Ahmad Rather

Postdoctoral Fellow, MPIPKS, Dresden, Germany

Former / current Postdoctoral Fellows

Shruti Dogra

Ph. D. IISER Mohali, Now, Postdoc at Alto Univ. Finland

Rajarshi Pal

Ph. D. IMSc. Chennai, Now, Consultant

S. Aravinda

Ph. D. Poornapragnya Institute, Bangalore,

Now, Assistant Professor, IIT Tirupati

Sunil K. Mishra

Ph. D. IIT Kanpur,

Assistant Professor, IIT-BHU.

H. Ashwath

Ph. D. IIT Kanpur

Assistant Professor IIIT Dharwad

   Ravi Prakash

Ph. D. JNU., N. Delhi, 

Assistant Professor, MNNIT Allahabad.

N. Ramadas

Ph. D. Chennai Mathematical Institute

Current member

Former Project Students (M. Sc., B. Tech., BS-MS)


1. H. Naren                (2004) : Quantum bakers map  (Ph. D. from TIFR, Mumbai)

2. V. Sreekanth          (2005) : Geometry and Hamiltonian Dynamics (Ph. D. from PRL, Ahmedabad)

(Now, Asst. Professor, Sciences, School of Engineering, Amrita University, Coimbatore)

3. M. D. Prabha         (2005) : Quantum random walks (Ph. D. from Caltech)

(Now, Professor, Dept. of Physics, IIT Madras)

4. K. Maity               (2006) :  Quantum chaos in the Shor algorthm 

5. Auditya Sharma     (2006) : Entanglement in spin chains (Postdoc @ IIP Natal, Brazil; Ph. D from Santa Cruz)

(Now, Professor, IISER Bhopal)

6. J. Karthik              (2006) : Entanglement in spin chains  (Ph. D. from, UIUC, Material Science)

(Now, Microsoft Quantum)

7. Ranjini Vaidyanathan              (2009) : (Physics and Number Theory , Ph. D from Georgia Tech., Math.)

8. P. Ravi Kumar       (2009) : Quantum random walks and the quantum standard map (Ph. D. Georgia Tech. Physics.) 

9. S. Chakrabarti        (2010) :  Integrable Maps

10. Vikram Vijayaraghavan  (2010) : Entanglement transitions in random states (Ph. D. at Uni. Calif. Davis, Physics)

11. K. J. Arun              (2011) :  Entanglement and the quantum spin glass (Ph. D. CMU, Physics)

Now Postdoctoral Research Assocaite at Princeton University.

12. A. J. Nachikethas  (2011) :  Quantum discord in random states (USC, Los Angeles, Electrical Engg.)

13. Animesh Sinha      (2011) : The Riemann zeta function (Ph. D. at ISI Kolkata)

Now Postdoctoral fellow at RRI Bengaluru.

14. K. V. Shuddhodan (2012) : Local unitary invariants in quantum systems (Ph. D. TIFR School of Mathematics)

(Now, Golomb Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Mathematics, Purdue university. 

15. Lavisha Jindal       (2013): Extreme value statistics in dynamical systems (Ph. D. Simon Frasier Univ.)

16. Debika Chowdhury (2013): Optimal entanglement in three-qubit states (Ph. D. IIT Madras)

17. Soumik Bandyopadhyay (2014), Distributions of Genuine Multipartite Entanglement in Multiqubit States (Ph. D. PRL, Ahmedabad)

18. V. Madhav Krishnan (2014), Quantum communication over spin chains (Ph. D., Australia)

19. A. Barath (2014), On the eigenvalue and entropy distribution of random pure state reduced density matrices (Goldman Sachs, Bengaluru.)

20. L. Jayathi (2014), Extreme Value  Statistics (Ph. D. JNCASR, Bengaluru)

21. P. J. Jethin (2014), Quantum Thermodynamics (Ph. D. Washington State Univ. Pullman)

22. Sajna Hameed  (2014), Products of random matrices and the probability of real eigenvalues (Ph. D. Univ. of Minnesota)

23. J. Sai Bhargavi (2016), Entangling power of local operators (Ph. D. Univ. of Bristol U.K.)

24. Adithya Ramesh (2016), 

25. G. Aniruddhan (2017, IISER Pune), 

26. Surajit Kalita (2017), Product of Random Matrices (Ph. D. IISc., Bengaluru)

27. T. O. Sivaprasad (2017), Quantum Random Walk in Phase Space and OTOC (Ph. D. Univ. of New Mexico, Alburquerque)

28. Provakar Datta (2017), Floquet Anderson Localization (Ph. D., Univ. of Connecticut) 

29. Ritwika Mondal (2018), Quantum Opto-Mechanics 

30. Arnab Paul (2018), The Jordan Wigner Transform and entanglement in free fermions. 

31. Bishal Kumar Das (2019), The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev Model (Ph. D. IIT Madras)

32. Manish (2019), Leggett-Garg inequalities and quantum chaos (Ph. D. IMSc., Chennai)

33. Tuhinsubhra Jana (2019), Quantum Coherence (Ph, D. TIFR, Mumbai) 

34. Niharika Gunturu (EP 2020), OTOC in nonlinear oscillators (Ph. D. Stanford)

35, Rachana Yajur (DD-PH 2020), Floquet ising models and quantum iterated function systems (Ph. D. U. Chicago)

36. Rohan Srikumar (M.Sc. 2020), Entanglement and Kirkwood Representation ( IISER Mohali)

37. Tapesh Gautam (M. Sc. 2020), Classical and quantum nonlinear oscillators and MMTS (IISER Bhopal)

38. Lalit Singh Bhandari (M. Sc. 2020), Nonlinear resonances and quantum mechanics (IISER Pune)

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