Research

• Barring transients, a complete list of publications is available on the arXiv. 

Preprints undergoing review/revision

• Gallai-Edmonds percolation of topologically protected collective Majorana excitations, Ritesh Bhola and Kedar Damle, version submitted on 23 October (2023) to arXiv. Held back for three weeks for moderator review. Finally appeared in the arXiv listing of Nov 13 as arxiv.org/abs/2311.05634. 

Only change made by moderator: primary classification changed from "strongly correlated electrons" to "disordered systems and neural networks". (Probable) reason for being flagged: Original submission omitted to cross-list and include multiple subject classification tags. (Perhaps) useful takeaway: Add every reasonable cross-listing when submitting.

• Flux fractionalization transition in two-dimensional dimer-loop models, S. Kundu, K. Damle, arXiv:2305.07012

• Melting of three-sublattice order in triangular lattice Ising antiferromagnets: Power-law order, Z6 parafermionic multicriticality, and weakly first order transitions, G. Rakala, N. Desai, S. Shivam, K. Damle, arXiv:2109.03178 (under revision)

• Efficient quantum cluster algorithms for frustrated transverse field Ising antiferromagnets and Ising gauge theories, S. Biswas, K. Damle, arXiv:1812.05326 (under revision)

Publications: Recent (2021-)

• Magnetic effects of non-magnetic impurities in gapped short-range resonating valence bond spin liquids, Md Zahid Ansari and Kedar Damle, Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 226504 (2024)

• Competition between Neel, Haldane nematic, plaquette valence bond solid, and (\pi, \pi) valence bond solid phases in SU(N) analogs of spin $S=1$ square lattice antiferromagnets, S. Kundu, N. Desai, K. Damle, Phys. Rev. B 109,  195146 (2024)

• Band-center metal-insulator transition in bond-disordered graphene, N. P. Nayak, S. Sarkar, K. Damle, S. Bera, Phys. Rev. B 109, 035109 (2024)

• Ashkin-Teller phase transition and multicritical behavior in a classical monomer-dimer model, S. Morita, H-Y. Lee, K. Damle, N. Kawashima, Phys. Rev. Res. 5, 043061 (2023)

• Spontaneous layering and power-law order in the three-dimensional fully-packed hard-plate lattice gas, G. Rakala, D. Mandal, S. Biswas, K. Damle, D. Dhar, R. Rajesh, Phys. Rev. E 107, 064137 (2023).

• Phases of the hard-plate lattice gas on a three-dimensional cubic lattice, D. Mandal, G. Rakala, K. Damle, D. Dhar, R. Rajesh,  Phys. Rev. E 107, 064136 (2023).

• Dulmage-Mendelsohn percolation: Geometry of maximally packed dimer models and topologically protected zero modes on site-diluted bipartite lattices, R. Bhola, S. Biswas, Md M. Islam, K. Damle,  Phys. Rev. X 12, 021058 (2022).

• Theory of collective topologically protected Majorana fermion excitations of networks of localized Majorana modes, K. Damle, Phys. Rev. B 105, 235118 (2022)

• Emergent moments and random singlet physics in a Majorana spin liquid, S. Sanyal, K. Damle, J. T. Chalker, R. Moessner, Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 127201 (2021).

• Statistical properties of worm algorithms for two dimensional frustrated Ising models, G. Rakala, K. Damle, D. Dhar, Phys. Rev. E 103, 062101 (2021)

• Bilayer Coulomb phase of two-dimensional dimer models: Absence of power-law columnar order, N. Desai, S. Pujari, and K. Damle, Phys. Rev. E 103, 042136 (2021)

Publications: Selected (2005-2020)

• Quantum half-orphans in kagome antiferromagnets,  P. Patil, F. Alet, S. Capponi, K. Damle, Phys. Rev. Research 2, 043425 (2020)

• Singular ferromagnetic susceptibility of the transverse-field Ising antiferromagnet on the triangular lattice, Sounak Biswas and Kedar Damle, Phys. Rev. B 97, 085114 (2018)

• Sign-Problem-Free Monte Carlo Simulation of Certain Frustrated Quantum Magnets, Fabien Alet, Kedar Damle, and Sumiran Pujari, Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 197203 (2016)

• Classical Spin Liquid on the Maximally Frustrated Honeycomb Lattice, J. Rehn, Arnab Sen, Kedar Damle, and R. Moessner, Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 167201 (2016)

• Vacancy-Induced Low-Energy States in Undoped Graphene, Sambuddha Sanyal, Kedar Damle, and Olexei I. Motrunich, Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 116806 (2016).

• Quantum cluster algorithm for frustrated Ising models in a transverse field, Sounak Biswas, Geet Rakala, and Kedar Damle, Phys. Rev. B 93, 235103 (2016)

• Melting of Three-Sublattice Order in Easy-Axis Antiferromagnets on Triangular and Kagome Lattices, Kedar Damle, Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 127204 (2015).

• Columnar Order and Ashkin-Teller Criticality in Mixtures of Hard Squares and Dimers, Kabir Ramola, Kedar Damle, and Deepak Dhar, Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 190601 (2015).

• Resonating valence bond wavefunctions and classical interacting dimer models, K. Damle, D. Dhar, K. Ramola, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 247216 (2012)

• Fractional spin textures in the frustrated magnet SrCr$_{9p}$Ga$_{12-9p}$O$_{19}$, A. Sen, K. Damle, R. Moessner,  Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 127203 (2011)

• Persistent supersolid phase of hard-core bosons on the triangular lattice, D. Heidarian, K. Damle, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 127206 (2005)

Full publication list (up to 2023)

Work @ TIFR 2005-2023

• Ashkin-Teller phase transition and multicritical behavior in a classical monomer-dimer model, S. Morita, H-Y. Lee, K. Damle, N. Kawashima, Phys. Rev. Res. 5, 043061 (2023)

• Spontaneous layering and power-law order in the three-dimensional fully-packed hard-plate lattice gas, G. Rakala, D. Mandal, S. Biswas, K. Damle, D. Dhar, R. Rajesh, Phys. Rev. E 107, 064137 (2023).

• Phases of the hard-plate lattice gas on a three-dimensional cubic lattice, D. Mandal, G. Rakala, K. Damle, D. Dhar, R. Rajesh,  Phys. Rev. E 107, 064136 (2023).

• Dulmage-Mendelsohn percolation: Geometry of maximally packed dimer models and topologically protected zero modes on site-diluted bipartite lattices, R. Bhola, S. Biswas, Md M. Islam, K. Damle,  Phys. Rev. X 12, 021058 (2022).

• Theory of collective topologically protected Majorana fermion excitations of networks of localized Majorana modes, K. Damle, Phys. Rev. B 105, 235118 (2022)

• Emergent moments and random singlet physics in a Majorana spin liquid, S. Sanyal, K. Damle, J. T. Chalker, R. Moessner, Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 127201 (2021).

• Statistical properties of worm algorithms for two dimensional frustrated Ising models, G. Rakala, K. Damle, D. Dhar, Phys. Rev. E 103, 062101 (2021)

• Bilayer Coulomb phase of two-dimensional dimer models: Absence of power-law columnar order, N. Desai, S. Pujari, and K. Damle, Phys. Rev. E 103, 042136 (2021)

• Quantum half-orphans in kagome antiferromagnets, P. Patil, F. Alet, S. Capponi, K. Damle, Phys. Rev. Research 2, 043425 (2020).

• Tracking the many-body localized to ergodic transition via extremal statistics of entanglement eigenvalues, A. Samanta, K. Damle, and R. Sensarma, Phys. Rev. B 102, 104201 (2020).

• Nonlinear Fluctuating Hydrodynamics for the Classical XXZ Spin Chain, A. Das, K. Damle, A. Dhar,  et al. J Stat Phys (2019), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10955-019-02397-y

• Phase diagram .of a system of hard cubes on the cubic lattice, N. Vigneshwar, Dipanjan Mandal, Kedar Damle, Deepak Dhar, and R. Rajesh, Phys. Rev. E 99, 052129 (2019).

• Multimode superconducting circuits for realizing strongly coupled multiqubit processor units, Tanay Roy, Madhavi Chand, Anirban Bhattacharjee, Sumeru Hazra, Suman Kundu, Kedar Damle, and R. Vijay, Phys. Rev. A 98, 052318 (2018).

• Metamagnetism and zero-scale-factor universality in the two-dimensional J−Q model, Adam Iaizzi, Kedar Damle, and Anders W. Sandvik, Phys. Rev. B 98, 064405 (2018).

• Semiclassical theory for liquidlike behavior of the frustrated magnet Ca10Cr7O28,, Sounak Biswas and Kedar Damle, Phys. Rev. B 97, 115102 (2018).

• Singular ferromagnetic susceptibility of the transverse-field Ising antiferromagnet on the triangular lattice, Sounak Biswas and Kedar Damle, Phys. Rev. B 97, 085114 (2018).

• Two-step melting of three-sublattice order in S=1 easy-axis triangular lattice antiferromagnets, D. Heidarian, K. Damle, Eur. Phys. J. B 91: 202 (2018)

• Cluster algorithms for frustrated two-dimensional Ising antiferromagnets via dual worm constructions, Geet Rakala and Kedar Damle, Phys. Rev. E 96, 023304 (2017).

• Field-driven quantum phase transitions in S=1/2 spin chains, A. Iaizzi, K. Damle, A. W. Sandvik, Phys. Rev. B 95, 174436 (2017) 

• Implementation of Pairwise Longitudinal Coupling in a Three-Qubit Superconducting Circuit, Tanay Roy, Suman Kundu, Madhavi Chand, Sumeru Hazra, N. Nehra, R. Cosmic, A. Ranadive, Meghan P. Patankar, Kedar Damle, and R. Vijay, Phys. Rev. Applied 7, 054025 (2017).

• Sign-Problem-Free Monte Carlo Simulation of Certain Frustrated Quantum Magnets, Fabien Alet, Kedar Damle, and Sumiran Pujari, Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 197203 (2016).

• Classical Spin Liquid on the Maximally Frustrated Honeycomb Lattice, J. Rehn, Arnab Sen, Kedar Damle, and R. Moessner, Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 167201 (2016).

• Vacancy-Induced Low-Energy States in Undoped Graphene, Sambuddha Sanyal, Kedar Damle, and Olexei I. Motrunich, Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 116806 (2016).

• Quantum cluster algorithm for frustrated Ising models in a transverse field, Sounak Biswas, Geet Rakala, and Kedar Damle, Phys. Rev. B 93, 235103 (2016)

• Melting of Three-Sublattice Order in Easy-Axis Antiferromagnets on Triangular and Kagome Lattices, Kedar Damle, Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 127204 (2015).

• Random Coulomb antiferromagnets: from diluted spin liquids to Euclidean random matrices, J. Rehn, A. Sen, A. Andreanov, K. Damle, R. Moessner, A. Scardicchio, Phys. Rev. B 92, 085144 (2015) 

• Transitions to valence-bond solid order in a honeycomb lattice antiferromagnet, S. Pujari, F. Alet, K. Damle, Phys. Rev B 91, 104411 (2015) 

• Columnar Order and Ashkin-Teller Criticality in Mixtures of Hard Squares and Dimers, Kabir Ramola, Kedar Damle, and Deepak Dhar, Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 190601 (2015).

• Resonating valence-bond physics on the honeycomb lattice, P. Patil, I. Dasgupta, K. Damle, Phys. Rev. B 90, 245121 (2014) 

• Néel-State to Valence-Bond-Solid Transition on the Honeycomb Lattice: Evidence for Deconfined Criticality, Sumiran Pujari, Kedar Damle, and Fabien Alet, Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 087203 (2013)

• Vacancy-induced spin textures and their interactions in a classical spin liquid, A. Sen, K. Damle, R. Moessner, Phys. Rev. B 86, 205134 (2012)  

• Antiferromagnetic order in systems with doublet $S_{\rm tot}=1/2$ ground states, S. Sanyal, A. Banerjee, K. Damle, A. W. Sandvik, Phys. Rev. B 86, 064418 (2012) 

• Resonating valence bond wavefunctions and classical interacting dimer models, K. Damle, D. Dhar, K. Ramola, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 247216 (2012)

• Vacancy-induced spin texture in a one-dimensional $S=1/2$ Heisenberg antiferromagnet, S. Sanyal, A. Banerjee, K. Damle, Phys. Rev. B 84, 235129 (2011)

• Phase transitions in the distribution of the Andreev Conductance of superconductor-metal juntions with many transverse modes, K. Damle, S. N. Majumdar, V. Tripathi, and P. Vivo, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 177206 (2011)

• Impurity spin texture at a N'eel-Valence Bond Solid critical point in $d=2$ SU(3) quantum antiferromagnets, A. Banerjee, K. Damle, and F. Alet, Phys. Rev. B 83, 235111 (2011) 

• Neel to staggered dimer order transition in a generalized honeycomb lattice Heisenberg model, A. Banerjee, K. Damle and A. Paramekanti, Phys. Rev. B 83, 134419 (2011)

• Fractional spin textures in the frustrated magnet SrCr$_{9p}$Ga$_{12-9p}$O$_{19}$, A. Sen, K. Damle, R. Moessner,  Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 127203 (2011)

• Impurity spin texture at a deconfined quantum critical point, A. Banerjee, K. Damle, F. Alet, Phys. Rev. B 82, 155139 (2010)

• Generalization of the singlet sector valence bond loop algorithm to antiferromagnetic ground states with total spin $S_{\rm tot}=1/2$, A. Banerjee, K. Damle, J. Stat. Mech. (2010) P08017

• Triangular and Kagome Antiferromagnets with a Strong Easy-Axis Anisotropy, A. Sen, F. Wang, K. Damle, R. Moessner, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 227001 (2009)

• Variational wavefunction study of the triangular lattice supersolid, A. Sen, P. Dutt, K. Damle,  R. Moessner, Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 100}, 147204 (2008)

• Magnetization plateaus and sublattice ordering in easy-axis Kagome lattice antiferromagnets, A. Sen, K. Damle, and A. Vishwanath, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 097202 (2008)

• Unusual liquid state of hard-core bosons on the pyrochlore lattice, A. Banerjee, S. V. Isakov, K. Damle, Y. B. Kim, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 047208 (2008)

• Superfluid Insulator transitions of hard-core bosons on the checkerboard lattice, A. Sen, K. Damle, T.~Senthil, Phys. Rev. B 76, 235107 (2007)

•  Spin nematics and magnetization plateau transition in anisotropic kagome magnets, K. Damle and T. Senthil, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 067202 (2006)

• Griffiths phase in the thermal quantum Hall effect,  A. Mildenberger, F. Evers, R. Narayanan, A. D. Mirlin, K. Damle, Phys. Rev. B 73, 121301 (2006)

• Universal Relaxational Dynamics of Gapped One-Dimensional Models in the Quantum Sine-Gordon Universality Class, K. Damle and S. Sachdev, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 187201 (2005)

• Persistent supersolid phase of hard-core bosons on the triangular lattice, D. Heidarian, K. Damle, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 127206 (2005)

• Disorder, spin-orbit, and interaction effects in dilute ${\rm Ga}_{1-x}{\rm Mn}_x{\rm As}$, G. Fiete, G. Zarand, K. Damle, C. Pascu Moca, Phys. Rev. B 72, 045212 (2005)

Work @ Rice (2002-04), Harvard (2000-02), Princeton (1998-2000), Yale (1992-1998)

• Effective hamiltonian for Ga$_{1-x}$Mn$_{x}$As in the dilute limit, G. Fiete, G. Zarand, K. Damle, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 097202 (2003) 

• A neutron scattering study of two-magnon states in the quantum magnet copper nitrate, D. Tennant, C. Broholm, D. Reich, S. Nagler, G. Granroth, T. Barnes, K. Damle, G. Xu, Y. Chen, B. Sales, Phys. Rev. B 67, 054414 (2003)

• Translational Symmetry Breaking in the Superconducting State of the Cuprates: Analysis of the Quasiparticle Density of States, D. Podolsky, E. Demler, K. Damle, B. I. Halperin, Phys. Rev. B 67, 094514 (2003)

• Permutation symmetric multicritical points in random antiferromagnetic spin chains, K. Damle, D. A. Huse, Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 277203 (2002)

• Griffiths Effects in Random Heisenberg Antiferromagnetic S=1 Chains, K. Damle, Phys. Rev. B 66, 104425 (2002)

• Particle-hole symmetric localization in two dimensions, O. Motrunich, K. Damle, D. A. Huse, Phys. Rev. B 65, 064206 (2002)

• Griffiths effects and quantum critical points in dirty superconductors without spin-rotation invariance: One-dimensional examples, O. Motrunich, K. Damle, D. A. Huse, Phys. Rev. B 63, 224204 (2001)

• Dynamics and transport in random quantum systems governed by strong-disorder fixed points, O. Motrunich, K. Damle, D. A. Huse, Phys. Rev. B 63, 134424 (2001)

• Dynamics and Transport in Random Antiferromagnetic Spin Chains, K. Damle, O. Motrunich, D. A. Huse, Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 3434 (2000)

• Comment on ``Spin Transport properties of the quantum one-dimensional non-linear sigma model'', S. Sachdev, K. Damle, J. Phys. Soc. Japan  69, 2712 (2000)

• The origin of extra modes in (VO)$_2$P$_2$O$_7$, K. Damle, S. E. Nagler, arXiv:cond-mat/9904438 (unpublished).

• Spin dynamics and transport in gapped one-dimensional Heisenberg antiferromagnets at non-zero temperatures, K. Damle, S. Sachdev, Phys. Rev. B 57, 8307 (1998)

• Non-zero temperature transport near quantum critical points, K. Damle, S. Sachdev, Phys. Rev. B 56, 8714 (1997)

• Low-temperature spin diffusion in the one-dimensional quantum O(3) nonlinear sigma-model, S. Sachdev, K. Damle, Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 943 (1997)

• Phase transition of a Bose gas in a harmonic potential, K. Damle, T. Senthil, S. N. Majumdar, S. Sachdev, Europhysics Letters, 36 (1), 7 (1996)

• Phase ordering kinetics of the Bose gas, K. Damle, S. N. Majumdar, S. Sachdev, Phys. Rev. A 54, 5037 (1996).

• Multicritical crossovers near the dilute Bose gas quantum critical point, K. Damle, S. Sachdev, Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 4412 (1996).

Pedagogical

• Ideas and Methods in Condensed Matter Theory, a book-length contribution to the National Program on Technology Enabled Learning (NPTEL).

• Surprise(s) in magnets without net moments, K. Damle, Physics News Vol. 39 No. 2, 26 (2009). 

• Low temperature ordering in easy-axis S=1 kagome and triangular lattice antiferromagnets, K. Damle, Physica A 384, 28 (2007)

• Far from equilibrium dynamics of the Bose gas, K. Damle, S.N.Majumdar, S. Sachdev, Condensed Matter Theories Vol. 12, Ed: J.~W.~Clark, Nova Science Publishing (1998)