Latest News and Updates
latest news and happenings from our research group
latest news and happenings from our research group
16 September 2026 - My article titled "A Flaw with a Quantum Twist" about Nitrogen Vacancy Diamond Quantum Computing published today in the Indian Express Newspaper in the Explore Science section, you can view the article - click here (NEW)
09 September 2026 - My recent podcast in Indian Express on the contributions of "Jagdish Chandra Bose and Invention of Semiconductors" has now appeared as an article in the 'Ignited Minds' section of explore science page - to view the full article u can - click here (NEW)
03 September 2026 - Arnav Meshram (Third year B.Tech. UG student) has joined our group for his long term internship in the areas of quantum information and quantum entanglement in astrophysics and cosmology, welcome to the group! (NEW)
23 July 2026 - Aman Sikdar has joined as a PhD student in our group, welcome to the group!
30 June 2026 - My Recent Lectures on "The Quantum Theory of Orbital and Spin Angular Momentum - A Different Perspective" - click here for lecture notes.
22 July 2026 - My article titled "Quantum Batteries - Charging Into the Quantum Age" published today in the Indian Express Newspaper in the Explore Science section, you can view the article - click here
24 June 2026 - My article titled "A Crystal Brain for Quantum Computers" about "The Physics of TIme Crystals" published today in the Indian Express Newspaper in the Explore Science section, you can view the article - click here
May 2026 - Khushi Saini and Ankan Chanda have joined our group as new M.Sc. project students, welcome to the group.
28 January 2026 - My interview and opinions on the topic of quantum computing and future of quantum computers which was published in The Indian Express Newspaper - click here
January 2026 - Sujal Burade (Third year B.Tech. UG student) has joined our group for his long term internship in the areas of quantum mechanics and quantum information theory, welcome to the group!
05 December 2025 - Vedang Gotmare (Final year B.Tech. UG student) has joined our group for his internship on quantum computing and entanglement, welcome to the group!
New Paper Published: 6 October 2025 - "Convolutional and computer vision methods for accelerating partial tracing operation in quantum mechanics for general qudit systems" by Aaditya Rudra (B.Tech. EEE student VNIT Nagpur) and M. S. Ramkarthik, Quantum Information Processing, Springer - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11128-025-04938-9
New Paper Published April 2025: "Entanglement signatures of the small-world transition in Heisenberg-type models across network topologies" by Payal Solanki, M. S. Ramkarthik, Europhysics Letters (EPL), 150 (2), 28002 (2025)
24 March 2025 - Congratulations to Payal Solanki for succesfully defending her Ph.D Thesis. All the best Dr. Payal Solanki.
Congratulations to Payal Solanki for securing a job as a core quantum engineer at Deloitte, Hyderabad. All the best.
Durgesh Thail Vasant and Om Sanjay Shah have joined our group as new M.Sc. final year project students, Welcome to the group!
11 February 2025 - New paper from our group - "Entanglement Signatures of the Small World Transition in Heisenberg Type Models Across Network Topologies" by Payal Solanki and M. S. Ramkarthik accepted in EPL (Europhysics Physics Letters, IOP)
Divyani Bhagat has joined the group in January 2025 for pursuing her Ph.D. Welcome to the group!
October 2024 - Paperback edition of both my books have been published by CRC Press - Taylor and Francis due to public demand - you can see them at:
https://www.routledge.com/An-Object-Oriented-Python-Cookbook-in-Quantum-Information-Theory-and-Quantum-Computing/Ramkarthik-Barkataki/p/book/9781032258898
https://www.routledge.com/Numerical-Recipes-in-Quantum-Information-Theory-and-Quantum-Computing-An-Adventure-in-FORTRAN-90/Ramkarthik-Solanki/p/book/9780367759315
Aaditya Rudra, A B.Tech. Electrical and Electronics Engineering student from VNIT (graduated in 2024) and ex member of our group, has joined as a research associate at the University of Innsbruck, Vienna and working in cavity quantum mechanics.
Tamaghna Chaudhuri, A B.Tech. Metallurgy student from VNIT (graduated in 2024) and ex member of our group, has joined IIT Roorkee as a research assistant.
Atul, a B.Tech. third year Electrical and Electronics Engineering student at VNIT Nagpur has joined our group as an internship student, he will be working with me on neural networks, brain cognition and spin glasses, welcome you here!
M.Sc. final year students Ankan Bhattacharya and Kaushal Joshi have joined our group in August 2024 for their final year M.Sc. project - Welcome!
Congrats to Omkar Janardhan Vahile, MSc student of our group, he has written an excellent 374 page M.Sc. final year thesis on "Quantum Random Walks and Qudit State Entanglement" for his M.Sc. project !
Ph.D. student of our group - Payal Solanki has submitted her Ph.D. thesis - congratulations to her !
12 December 2023 - New paper published in Resonance, Indian Academy of Sciences - "Qudits and Generalized Bell States for Pedestrians: A Dive Into the World of Qudits and Quantum Teleportation: M S Ramkarthik, Elizabeth Louis Pereira" - https://www.ias.ac.in/describe/article/reso/028/12/1845-1863
28 November 2023 - Ex member of our group, Bhagyalakshmi has joined as a Scientist at BARC Mumbai. Congratulations to her for a great career ahead!
Payal Solanki, PhD student of our group gave her thesis presubmission seminar on 5 October 2023 - Congrats!
24 March 2025 - Congratulations to Payal Solanki for succesfully defending her Ph.D Thesis. All the best Dr. Payal Solanki. 24 March 2025 - Congratulations to Payal Solanki for succesfully defending her Ph.D Thesis. All the best Dr. Payal Solanki. New Paper Published - Payal D. Solanki and M. S. Ramkarthik: "Analysis of the three dimensional ferromagnetic J1 − J2 spin model using mean field and Monte Carlo techniques": Physics Letters A, Vol 484, 129079 (September 2023)
Omkar Vahile and Ankita Bera have joined the group in August 2023 for pursuing their final year M.Sc. projects. Welcome to the group!
New Paper published in Physica Scripta, IOP (23 February 2023), title: "A new general approach for obtaining matrix product operators for spin Hamiltonians with periodic boundary conditions" Authors: Payal D Solanki and M. S. Ramkarthik.
Obtained FIVE STAR Global rating and reviews in amazon for my book - "Numerical Recipes in Quantum Information Theory and Quantum Computing: An Adventure in Fortran 90" (CRC Press, UK) (22 February 2023)
LATEST NEWS - (8 December 2022) - New Publication - Paper Published in Resonance, Indian academy of sciences, title: "Airy Functions Demystified-III: A Fresh Look at the Relation Between Airy and Bessel Functions" Authors: M. S. Ramkarthik and Elizabeth Louis Pereira, Final part of our series of expositions on the Airy functions.
LATEST NEWS - (30 September 2022) - My new book (second book written by me) is published today by Routledge Books (in hardback and ebook format), Taylor and Francis UK - It is on OBJECT ORIENTED PYTHON PROGRAMMING IN QUANTUM INFORMATION THEORY AND QUANTUM COMPUTING.
Anom Ratnodaya and Nimmi Mangtani joined our group as new M.Sc. final year project students in July 2022. Also, Aaditya Rudra, a 3rd year B.Tech. student (ECE branch) joined our group for an internship in July 2022. I welcome all of them to our group.
New Publication - paper published (9 March 2022) in The European Physical Journal B titled "On Certain Classes of Exact Solutions of Two Magnon States in the Heisenberg Spin Chain" by M. S. Ramkarthik and Arijit Mandal (Ex MSc student of our group)
Indira Barros (Ex member of our group - MSc project student) has joined for her PhD in January 2022 at BITS Goa campus and will be working on biological soft matter physics, Congratulations to her !!
New Publication - paper accepted in Resonance, Indian Academy of Sciences (28 December 2021) title of the paper: "Airy Functions Demystified -III" by M. S. Ramkarthik and Elizabeth Pereira Louis. It is the third part of our series of papers on Airy functions.
Arijit Mandal (Ex member of our group - MSc project student) has joined for his PhD at IIT Madras on 11 December 2021. Congratulations to him! !! - He has also secured the Prime Ministers Research Fund (PMRF)
Dr. Pranay Barkataki (PhD graduate from our group) has joined as a research trainee at Skillmine Technology Consulting, Bengaluru on 11 December 2021, Congratulations to him !!!
New book chapter published (3 December 2021) titled "Special topics in quantum mechanics" in the prestigious and well known book "Quantum Mechanics: Concepts and Applications by N. Zettili" published by Wiley India as an Indian adaptation of this well known book and published by Wiley internationally. This chapter deals with latest developments which can be called "postmodern quantum mechanics" dealing with quantum information theory, quantum computing, Bell's inequalities, EPR paradox and a variety of things.
New book written by me and published by CRC Press, UK and Taylor and Francis USA is now available worldwide for purchase (from 13 September 2021) - title of the book "Numerical Recipes in Quantum Information Theory and Quantum Computing: An Adventure in FORTRAN 90 by M. S. Ramkarthik and Payal D. Solanki"
Mr. Arijit Mandal (former MSc student of our group) has joined as a project assistant in the quantum information research group at IISER Kolkata on 5 August 2021 - CONGRATULATIONS TO HIM.
Two new MSc project students - Bhagyalakshmi and Utkarsha have joined our group today (14 July 2021), I welcome them to our group.
Mr. Pranay Barkataki (Ph.D. student of our group) successfully defended his doctoral thesis today (25 June 2021) and has undergone a phase transition to Dr. Pranay Barkataki. CONGRATULATIONS FOR A BRIGHT FUTURE AHEAD.
New publication - paper published in Resonance, Indian Academy of Sciences - “Airy functions demystified – II, The Mathematical Physics of an Innocent Looking Differential Equation - Asymptotic Forms and Some Applications” authors: M. S. Ramkarthik and Elizabeth Louis Pereira (12 June 2021)
New publication - paper published in Physica Scripta, IOP - "Entanglement and Avoided Crossing Dynamics in the Disordered Majumdar-Ghosh model" authors: Pranay Barkataki and M. S. Ramkarthik (3 June 2021)
New publication - paper published in Resonance, Indian Academy of Sciences - “Airy functions demystified – I, The Mathematical Physics of an Innocent Looking Differential Equation - Basics and Numerical Solutions” authors: M. S. Ramkarthik and Elizabeth Louis Pereira (May 2021)
Two of our group M.Sc. project students - Arijit Mandal and Indira Barros successfully defended their project thesis and "post" graduated.
One of our former group members (MSc project student) Ms. Monika Angwani secured all India rank 100 in the CSIR-NET examination securing the junior research fellowship - she is currently doing her PhD from IIT Gandhinagar (March 2021) - Congrats to her !
New publication - paper published in International Journal of Theoretical Physics, Springer – “Quantum Discord and Logarithmic Negativity in the Generalized N-qubit Werner State” authors: M. S. Ramkarthik, Devvrat Tiwari, Pranay Barkataki (27 November 2020)
Our own in house GPU-CUDA supercomputer is now fully operational and is open for the group students !!!
One of our group’s M.Sc. project student, Mr. Devvrat Tiwari who passed out in July 2020, has joined for his Ph.D in theoretical physics at IIT Jodhpur. CONGRATS !!
Two MSc final year students, Indira Barros and Arijit Mandal have joined our group for their final year project. A HEARTY WELCOME TO THEM !!!
Two MSc final year students, Devvrat Tiwari and Elizabeth Louis successfully defended their MSc thesis and “post”graduated out. CONGRATS !!!
We have purchased a new GPU supercomputer with CUDA NVIDIA 2080 Ti Dual Graphics card in June 2020
New Publication - paper – April 2020 – Our work on Airy Functions has been accepted in Resonance (Journal of the Indian academy of sciences) – Authors are : M. S. Ramkarthik and Miss Elizabeth Louis (M.Sc. student 2019-2020).
Two of our group M.Sc. project students – Devvrat Tiwari (ex M.Sc. student) and Monika Narayan Angwani (ex M.Sc. student) have qualified with good ranks in the GATE 2020 – CONGRATULATIONS !!
Two new M.Sc. project students – Devvrat Tiwari and Elizabeth Louis and have joined our group today (25 July 2019) – a hearty welcome to them.
Mr. Aswin Paul (M.Sc. project student in our group) has been selected for doing Ph.D in the IIT Bombay-Monash Research Academy (Indo-Australian program) in the area of computational biophysics (July 2019 batch) – Hearty Congratulations to him.
Two of our group students (Aswin Paul and Monika Angwani) (M.Sc. FINAL YEAR – 2019) have successfully qualified the GATE 2019 examination - CONGRATULATIONS TO THEM !!
Miss. Payal Solanki (Ex – M.Sc. physics student VNIT) has joined our group as PhD student (January 2019).
Mr. Aswin Paul (M.Sc. second year, VNIT) has joined our group as an M.Sc. project student (July 2018).
Miss. Monika Narayan Angwani (M.Sc. second year, VNIT) has joined our group as an M.Sc. project student (September 2018).
Two of our group students (Payal Solanki and Naga Dileep) (M.Sc. FINAL YEAR – 2018) have successfully qualified the GATE 2018 examination - CONGRATULATIONS TO THEM !!
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