Engineering Physics  (B. Tech.)

Bio-physics (M. Sc.)

Understanding diverse, complex systems in nature using computational and theoretical tools of statistical physics is my broad area of research. Here are the specific areas in which I worked in the past.

• "Genome replication in asynchronously growing microbial populations", Florian G Pflug, Deepak Bhat, Simone Pigolotti, PLOS Computational Biology 20 (1), e1011753 (2024).

• “Opposing Responses to Scarcity Emerge from Functionally Unique Sociality Drivers”, Albert B Kao, Amanda K Hund, Fernando P Santos, Jean-Gabriel Young, Deepak Bhat, Joshua Garland, Rebekah A Oomen, Helen F McCreery, Am. Nat., 202, 3 302 (2023) 

• “Speed variations of bacterial replisomes”, Deepak Bhat, Samuel Hauf, Charles Plessy, Yohei Yokobayashi, and Simone Pigolotti, eLife 11, e75884 (2022).

• “Temporal cooperativity of a group of elastically coupled motor proteins stalled in an optical trap”, B Srinivas, Deepak Bhat, and Manoj Gopalakrishnan, Indian Journal of Physics, 1-8 (2022).

• “Search and Localization Dynamics of the CRISPR-Cas9 System”, Qiao Lu, Deepak Bhat, Darya Stepanenko and Simone Pigolotti, Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 208102 (2021).

• “Polarization and consensus by opposing external sources”, Deepak Bhat and Sidney Redner, J. Stat. Mech. Theory Exp. 2020, 013402 (2020).

• “Nonuniversal opinion dynamics driven by opposing external influences", Deepak Bhat and Sidney Redner, Phys. Rev. E 100, 050301(R) (2019).

• “Reputation-driven voting dynamics”, Deepak Bhat and Sidney Redner, J. Stat. Mech. Theory Exp. 2019, 063208 (2019).

• “Fixation in fluctuating populations”, Deepak Bhat, Jordi Pinẽro, and Sidney Redner, J. Stat. Mech. Theory Exp. 2019, 063501 (2019).

•  “Non-equilibrium dynamics of the piston in Szilard engine”, Deepak Bhat, Abhishek Dhar, Anupam Kundu and Sanjib Sabhapandit, Europhys. Lett. 127, 10004 (2019).

• “Unusual equilibration of a particle in a potential with a thermal wall”, Deepak Bhat, Sanjib Sabhapandit, Anupam Kundu and Abhishek Dhar J. Stat. Mech. Theory Exp. 2017, 113210 (2017).

•  “Stall force of a cargo driven by N interacting motor proteins”, Deepak Bhat and Manoj Gopalakrishnan, Europhys. Lett. 117, 28004 (2017).

• “Transport of organelles by elastically coupled motor proteins”, Deepak Bhat and Manoj Gopalakrishnan Eur. Phys. J. E 39, 71 (2016).

• “Memory, bias and correlations in bidirectional transport of molecular motor-driven cargoes”, Deepak Bhat and Manoj Gopalakrishnan Phys. Rev. E 88, 042702 (2013).

• “Bidirectional transport of motor-driven cargoes in cell: a random walk with memory”, Deepak Bhat and Manoj Gopalakrishnan, AIP Conf. Proc. 1512, 140 (2012).

• “Effectiveness of a dynein team in tug-of-war helped by reduced load-sensitivity of detachment: evidence from study of bidirectional endosome transport in D. discoideum”, Deepak Bhat and Manoj Gopalakrishnan, Phys. Biol. 9, 046003 (2012).