Publications

In journals

1. S. Senapati, A. Banerjee and R. Rajesh, From Brittle to Ductile and Back: Reentrant Fracture Transition in Disordered Two-Phase Solids, ArXiv:2506.13433

2. A. Kumar and R. Rajesh, Splash in an inhomogeneous gas in one dimension: Exact analysis and molecular dynamics simulations, Journal of Statistical Physics, 192, 119 (2025) 

3. A. Biswas and R. Rajesh, Mpemba effect in the relaxation of an active Brownian particle in a trap without metastable states,  Journal of Chemical Physics 162, 034115 (2025)

4. R. Rajesh, V. Subashri, and O. Zaboronski, Exact calculation of the large deviation function for k-nary coalescence, Journal of Statistical Physics, 192, 72 (2025) 

5. A. Kumar and R. Rajesh, Shock propagation following an intense explosion in an inhomogeneous gas: core scaling and hydrodynamics, Journal of Statistical Physics, 192, 17 (2025) 

6. A. Kumar and R. Rajesh, Shock Propagation in a Driven hard-sphere Gas: Molecular Dynamics Simulations and Hydrodynamics, Journal of Statistical Physics, 192, 121 (2025) 

7. R. Rajesh, V. Subashri, and O. Zaboronski, Exact calculation of the probabilities of rare events in cluster-cluster aggregation, Physical Review Letters 133, 097101 (2024)

8. S. Senapati, A. Banerjee and R. Rajesh, Acoustic emission data based modelling of fracture of glassy polymer, Engineering Fracture Mechanics 304, 110154 (2024)

9. S. Senapati, S.  Roy, A. Banerjee and R. Rajesh, Record statistics of fracture in the random spring network model, Physical Review E 110, 035004 (2024)

10. A. Suhail, A. Banerjee and  R. Rajesh, Dissipation and recovery in collagen fibrils under cyclic loading: A molecular dynamics study, Physical Review E 109, 024411 (2024)

11. K. Tripathi, H. Garg, R. Rajesh, and S. Vemparala, The conformational phase diagram of charged polymers in the presence of attractive bridging crowders,  Journal of Chemical Physics 159, 204903 (2023)

12. D. Dhar,  R. Rajesh and A. Kumar, Phase transitions in systems of particles with only hard-core interactions,  EPL, 143, 61001 (2023)

13. A. Biswas and R. Rajesh, Mpemba effect for a Brownian particle trapped in a single well potential,  Physical Review E 108, 024131 (2023)

14. S. Senapati, A. Banerjee and R. Rajesh, Role of composition in fracture behavior of two-phase solids, Physical Review  E 107, 055002 (2023)

15. A. Biswas, R. Rajesh and A. Pal, Mpemba effect in a Langevin system: population statistics, metastability, and other exact results, Journal of Chemical Physics 159, 044120 (2023)

16. A. Biswas, V. V. Prasad and R. Rajesh, Mpemba effect in driven granular gases: role of distance measures,  Physical Review E 108, 024902 (2023)

17. F. Puthalath, A. Biswas, V. V. Prasad, and R. Rajesh, Lattice models for ballistic aggregation: Cluster-shape-dependent exponents,   Physical Review E 108, 044127 (2023)

18. H. Garg, R. Rajesh, and S. Vemparala, The conformational phase diagram of neutral polymers in the presence of attractive crowders,   Journal of Chemical Physics 158, 114903 (2023)

19. R. Dandekar, R. Rajesh, V. Subashri, and O. Zaboronski, A Monte Carlo algorithm to measure probabilities of rare events in cluster-cluster aggregation,   Computer Physics Communications  288, 108727 (2023)

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

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

22. A. A. A. Jaleel, D. Mandal, J. E. Thomas, and R. Rajesh, The freezing phase transition in hard-core lattice gases on  the triangular lattice with exclusion up to seventh next-nearest neighbor,  Physical Review  E 106, 044136 (2022)

23. A. Suhail, A. Banerjee and  R. Rajesh, Kinetic model description of dissipation and recovery in collagen fibrils under cyclic loading, Physical Review  E 106, 044407 (2022)

24. D. Kumar, A. Banerjee and  R. Rajesh, Interplay between disorder and hardening during tensile fracture of a quasi-brittle solid, Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 478, 20210934 (2022) [journal link]

25. A. Kumar  and R. Rajesh, Blast waves in two and three dimensions: Euler versus Navier-Stokes equations, Journal of Statistical Physics, 188, 12 (2022) [journal link]

26. A. Shah, D. Dhar  and R. Rajesh, The phase transition from  nematic to  high-density disordered phase in a system  of hard rods on a lattice, Physical Review  E 105, 034103 (2022)

27. A. Biswas, V. V. Prasad and R. Rajesh, Mpemba effect in anisotropically driven inelastic Maxwell gases,  Journal of Statistical Physics 186, 45 (2022)

28. A. A. A. Jaleel, D. Mandal and R. Rajesh, Hard core lattice gas  with third next-nearest neighbor exclusion on  triangular lattice: one or two phase transitions?, Journal of Chemical Physics 155, 224101 (2021)

29. A. A. A. Jaleel, J. E. Thomas, D. Mandal, Sumedha and R. Rajesh, Rejection free cluster Wang Landau algorithm for hard core lattice gases,  Physical Review  E 104, 045310 (2021)

30. A. Biswas, V. V. Prasad and R. Rajesh, Mpemba effect in an anisotropically driven granular gas,  EPL, 136, 46001 (2021) 

31. D. Kumar, A. Banerjee and  R. Rajesh, Crushing of square honeycombs using disordered spring network model, Mechanics of Materials, 160, 103947 (2021) [journal link]

32. J. P. Joy and R. Rajesh, Shock propagation in the hard sphere gas in two dimensions: comparison between simulations and hydrodynamics,  Journal of Statistical Physics 184, 3 (2021)  [journal link]

33. D. Dhar and R. Rajesh, Entropy of fully packed hard rigid rods on d-dimensional hyper-cubic lattices, Physical Review  E 103, 042130 (2021)

34. J. P. Joy, S. N. Pathak and R. Rajesh, Shock propagation following an intense explosion: comparison between hydrodynamics and simulations,  Journal of Statistical Physics 182, 34 (2021) 

35. R. P. S. Parihar, D. V. Mani, A. Banerjee and  R. Rajesh, Role of spatial patterns in fracture of disordered multiphase materials, Physical Review E 102, 053002 (2020)

36. V. S. Akella,  R. Rajesh and M. V. Panchagnula, Levy walking droplets, Physical Review Fluids 5, 084002 (2020)

37. R. Dandekar, S. Chakraborti  and R. Rajesh, Hard core run and tumble particles on a one dimensional lattice, Physical Review E 102, 062111 (2020)

38. A. Biswas, V. V. Prasad, O. Raz and R. Rajesh, Mpemba effect in driven granular Maxwell gases, Physical Review E 102, 012906 (2020)

39. A. Biswas, V. V. Prasad and R. Rajesh, Asymptotic velocity distribution of a driven one dimensional binary granular Maxwell gas,  Journal of Statistical Mechanics  013202 (2020)

40. N. Vigneshwar, D. Mandal, K. Damle, D. Dhar and R. Rajesh, Phase diagram of a system of hard cubes on the cubic lattice, Physical Review E 99, 052129 (2019)

41. V. V. Prasad, D. Das, S. Sabhapandit and R. Rajesh, Steady state velocity distribution of driven granular gases, Journal of Statistical Mechanics 2019, 063201 (2019)

42. V. V. Prasad and R. Rajesh, Asymptotic Behavior of the Velocity Distribution of Driven Inelastic Gas with Scalar Velocities: Analytical Results, Journal of Statistical Physics  176, 1409 (2019)

43. A. A. A. Jaleel, M. Ponmurugan, R. Rajesh and S. V. M. Satyanarayana, Phase transitions in a linear self-interacting polymer on FCC lattice using flat energy interacting growth walk algorithm, Journal of Statistical Mechanics 2018, 113301 (2018)

44. A. Mayya, A. Banerjee and R. Rajesh, Role of porosity and matrix behavior on compressive fracture of Haversian bone using random spring network model, Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials 83, 108 (2018)

45. D. Mandal, T. Nath and R. Rajesh, Phase transitions in a system of hard Y-shaped particles on the triangular lattice, Physical Review E 97, 032131 (2018)

46. C. Connaughton, A. Dutta, R. Rajesh, N. Siddharth and O. Zaboronski, Stationary mass distribution and non-locality in models of coalescence and shattering, Physical Review E 97, 022137 (2018)

47. S. Patra, D. Das, R. Rajesh and M. K. Mitra, Diffusion dynamics and steady states of systems of hard rods on the square lattice, Physical Review E 97, 022108 (2018)

48. A. Mayya, A. Banerjee and R. Rajesh, On role of matrix behavior in compressive fracture of bovine cortical bone, Physical Review E 96, 053001 (2017)

49. N. Vigneshwar, D. Dhar and R. Rajesh, Different phases of a system of hard rods on three dimensional cubic lattice, Journal of Statistical Mechanics 2017, 113304 (2017)

50. A. M. Tom, R. Rajesh and S. Vemparala, Aggregation of flexible polyelectrolytes: Phase diagram and dynamics, Journal of Chemical Physics 147, 144903 (2017)

51. J. P. Joy, S. N. Pathak, D. Das and R. Rajesh, Shock propagation in locally driven granular systems, Physical Review E 96, 032908 (2017)

52. D. Mandal and R. Rajesh, The columnar-disorder phase boundary in a mixture of hard squares and dimers, Physical Review E 96, 012140 (2017)

53. D. Mandal, T. Nath and R. Rajesh, Estimating the Critical Parameters of the Hard Square Lattice Gas Model, Journal of Statistical Mechanics 2017, 043201 (2017)

54. V. V. Prasad, D. Das, S. Sabhapandit and R. Rajesh, Velocity distribution of driven inelastic one-component Maxwell gas, Physical Review E 93, 032909 (2017)

55. A. M. Tom, S. Vemparala, R. Rajesh and N. V. Brilliantov, Regimes of strong electrostatic collapse of a highly charged polyelectrolyte in a poor solvent, Soft Matter 13, 1862 (2017)

56. C. Connaughton, A. Dutta, R. Rajesh and O. Zaboronski, Universality properties of steady driven coagulation with collisional evaporation, Europhysics Letters 117, 10002 (2017)

57. A. Mayya, P. Praveen, A. Banerjee and R. Rajesh, Splitting fracture in bovine bone using a porosity based spring network model, Journal of The Royal Society Interface 13, 20160809 (2016)

58. A. M. Tom, S. Vemparala, R. Rajesh and N. V. Brilliantov, Mechanism of chain collapse of strongly charged polyelectrolytes, Physical Review Letters 117, 147801 (2016)

59. T. Nath and R. Rajesh, The High Density Phase of the k-NN Hard Core Lattice Gas Model, Journal of Statistical Mechanics 2016, 073203 (2016)

60. T. Nath, D. Dhar and R. Rajesh, Stability of columnar order in assemblies of hard rectangles or squares, Europhysics Letters 114, 10003 (2016)

61. J. Kundu, J. Stilck and R. Rajesh, Phase diagram of a bidispersed hard rod lattice gas in two dimensions, Europhysics Letters 112, 66002 (2016)

62. A. Mayya, A. Banerjee and R. Rajesh, Haversian microstructure in bovine femoral cortices: an adaptation for improved compressive strength, Material Science and Engineering C 59, 454 (2016)

63. A. M. Tom, R. Rajesh and S. Vemparala, Aggregation Dynamics of Rigid Polyelectrolytes, Journal of Chemical Physics 144, 034904 (2016)

64. J. Kundu and R. Rajesh, Phase transitions in systems of hard rectangles with non-integer aspect ratio, European Physical Journal B 88, 133 (2015)

65. T. Nath, J. Kundu and R. Rajesh, High-Activity Expansion for the Columnar Phase of the Hard Rectangle Gas, Journal of Statistical Physics 160, 1173 (2015)

66. J. Stilck and R. Rajesh, Polydispersed rods on the square lattice, Physical Review E 91, 012106 (2015)

67. J. Kundu and R. Rajesh, Asymptotic Behavior of the Isotropic-Nematic and Nematic-Columnar Phase Boundaries for the System of Hard Rectangles on a Square lattice, Physical Review E 91, 012105 (2015)

68. S. N. Pathak, D. Das and R. Rajesh, Inhomogeneous Cooling of the Rough Granular Gas in Two Dimensions, Europhysics Letters 107, 44001 (2014)

69. T. Nath and R. Rajesh, Multiple Phase Transitions in Extended Hard Core Lattice Gas Models in Two Dimensions, Physical Review E 90, 012120 (2014)

70. J. Kundu and R. Rajesh, Phase transitions in a system of hard rectangles on the square lattice, Physical Review E 89, 052124 (2014)

71. S. N. Pathak, Z. Jabeen, D. Das and R. Rajesh, Energy decay in three-dimensional freely cooling granular gas, Physical Review Letters 112, 038001 (2014)

72. A. Mayya, A. Banerjee and R. Rajesh, Mammalian cortical bone in tension is non-Haversian, Scientific Reports 3, 2533 (2013)

73. A. Varghese, S. Vemparala and R. Rajesh, Force fluctuations in stretching a tethered polymer, Physical Review E 88, 022134 (2013)

74. J. Kundu and R. Rajesh, Reentrant disordered phase in a system of repulsive rods on a Bethe-like lattice, Physical Review E 88, 012134 (2013)

75. C. Connaughton, R. Rajesh, R. Tribe and O. Zaboronski, Non-equilibrium phase diagram for a model with coalescence, evaporation and deposition, Journal of Statistical Physics 152, 1115 (2013)

76. J. Kundu, R. Rajesh, D. Dhar and J. Stilck, The nematic-disordered phase transition in systems of long rigid rods on two dimensional lattices, Physical Review E 87, 032103 (2013)

77. R. Singh and R. Rajesh, Comment on ``Growth Inside a Corner: The limiting Interface Shape'', Physical Review Letters 109, 259601 (2012)

78. R. C. Ball, C. Connaughton, P. P. Jones, R. Rajesh and O. Zaboronski, Collective Oscillations in Irreversible Coagulation Driven by Monomer Inputs and Large-Cluster Outputs, Physical Review Letters 109, 168304 (2012)

79. A. Varghese, R. Rajesh and S. Vemparala, Aggregation of rod-like polyelectrolyte chains in the presence of monovalent counterions, Journal of Chemical Physics 137, 234901 (2012)

80. S. Dey, D. Das and R. Rajesh, Spatial structures and giant number fluctuations in models of active matter, Physical Review Letters 108, 238001 (2012)

81. S. N. Pathak, Z. Jabeen, P. Ray and R. Rajesh, Shock propagation in granular flow subjected to an external impact, Physical Review E 85, 061301 (2012)

82. A. Varghese, S. Vemparala and R. Rajesh, Ensemble Equivalence for Counterion Condensation on a Two Dimensional Charged Disk, Physical Review E 85, 011119 (2012)

83. M. K. Mitra, G. I. Menon and R. Rajesh, Thermodynamic behaviour of two-dimensional vesicles revisited, European Physical Journal E 35, 30 (2012)

84. M. Shinde, D. Das and R. Rajesh, Coarse grained dynamics of the freely cooling granular gas in one dimension, Physical Review E 84, 031310 (2011)

85. D. Dhar, R. Rajesh and J. Stilck, Hard rigid rods on a Bethe-like lattice, Physical Review E 84, 011140 (2011)

86. S. Dey, D. Das and R. Rajesh, Lattice models for ballistic aggregation in one-dimension, Europhysics Letters 93, 44001 (2011)

87. A. Varghese, S. Vemparala and R. Rajesh, Phase transitions of a single polyelectrolyte in a poor solvent with explicit counterions, Journal of Chemical Physics 135, 154902 (2011)

88. C. Connaughton, R. Rajesh and O. Zaboronski, On the Non-equilibrium Phase Transition in Evaporation-Deposition Models, Journal of Statistical Mechanics P09016 (2010)

89. M. K. Mitra, G. I. Menon and R. Rajesh, Asymptotic behaviour of convex and column-convex lattice polygons with fixed area and varying perimeter, Journal of Statistical Mechanics P07029 (2010)

90. Z. Jabeen, R. Rajesh and P. Ray, Universal scaling dynamics in a perturbed granular gas, Europhysics Letters 89, 34001 (2010)

91. M. Shinde, D. Das and R. Rajesh, Equivalence of the freely cooling granular gas to the sticky gas, Physical Review E 79, 021303 (2009)

92. R. Rajesh, Multi-avalanche correlations in directed sandpile models, Europhysics Letters, 85, 10001 (2009)

93. C. Connaughton, R. Rajesh and O. Zaboronski, Constant flux relation for diffusion limited cluster-cluster aggregation, Physical Review E 78, 041403 (2008)

94. R. Rajesh, D. Giri, I. Jensen and S. Kumar, Role of pulling direction in understanding the energy landscape of proteins, Physical Review E 78, 021905 (2008)

95. M. K. Mitra, G. I. Menon and R. Rajesh, Asymptotic Behavior of Inflated Lattice Polygons, Journal of Statistical Physics 131, 393 (2008)

96. M. K. Mitra, G. I. Menon and R. Rajesh, Phase transitions in pressurised semiflexible polymer rings, Physical Review E 77, 041802 (2008)

97. M. Shinde, D. Das and R. Rajesh, Violation of Porod law in a freely cooling granular gas in one dimension, Physical Review Letters 99, 234505 (2007)

98. C. Connaughton, R. Rajesh and O. Zaboronski, Constant flux relation for aggregation models with desorption and fragmentation, Physica A 384, 108 (2007)

99. C. Connaughton, R. Rajesh and O. Zaboronski, Constant flux relation for driven dissipative systems, Physical Review Letters 98, 080601 (2007)

100. R. Munasinghe, R. Rajesh, R. Tribe and O. Zaboronski, Multi-scaling of the n-point density function for coalescing brownian motions, Communications in Mathematical Physics 268, 717 (2006)

101. C. Connaughton, R. Rajesh and O. Zaboronski, Cluster-Cluster Aggregation as an Analogue of a Turbulent Cascade: Kolmogorov Phenomenology, Scaling Laws and the Breakdown of self-similarity, Physica D 222, 97 (2006)

102. R. Munasinghe, R. Rajesh and O. Zaboronski, Multi-Scaling of Correlation Functions in Single Species Reaction-Diffusion Systems, Physical Review E 73, 051103 (2006)

103. A. Mahmood and R. Rajesh, Cosmological mass functions and moving barrier models, astro-ph/0502513

104. C. Connaughton, R. Rajesh and O. Zaboronski, Breakdown of Kolmogorov scaling in models of cluster aggregation, Physical Review Letters 94, 194503 (2005)

105. R. Rajesh and D. Dhar, Convex lattice polygons of fixed area with perimeter dependent weights, Physical Review E 71, 016130 (2005)

106. R. Rajesh and O. Zaboronski, Survival probability of a diffusing test particle in a system of coagulating and annihilating random walkers, Physical Review E 70, 036111 (2004)

107. R. Rajesh, Nonequilibirium phase transitions in models of adsorption and desorption, Physical Review E 69, 036128 (2004)

108. C. Connaughton, R. Rajesh and O. Zaboronski, Stationary kolmogorov solutions of the smoluchowski aggregation equation with a source term, Physical Review E 69, 061114 (2004)

109. S. Krishnamurthy, R. Rajesh and O. Zaboronski, Persistence properties of a system of coagulating and annihilating random walkers, Physical Review E 68, 046103 (2003)

110. V. Mustonen and R. Rajesh, Numerical estimation of the asymptotic behaviour of solid partitions of an integer, Journal of Physics A 36, 6651 (2003)

111. S. Krishnamurthy, R. Rajesh and O. Zaboronski, Kang-Redner small-mass anomaly in cluster-cluster aggregation, Physical Review E 66, 066118 (2002)

112. R. Rajesh, D. Das, B. Chakraborty and M. Barma, Aggregate formation in a system of coagulating and fragmenting particles with mass-dependent diffusion rates, Physical Review E 66, 056104 (2002)

113. R. Rajesh and S. Krishnamurthy, Effect of spatial bias on the nonequilibrium phase transition in a model of coagulating and fragmentating particles, Physical Review E 66, 046132 (2002)

114. R. Rajesh, D. Dhar, D. Giri, S. Kumar and Y. Singh, The adsorption and collapse transitions in a linear polymer chain near an attractive wall, Physical Review E 65, 056124 (2002)

115. R. Rajesh and S. N. Majumdar, Exact tagged particle correlations in the random average process, Physical Review E 64, 036103 (2001)

116. R. Rajesh and S. N. Majumdar, Exact phase diagram of a model with aggregation and chipping, Physical Review E 63, 036114 (2001)

117. R. Rajesh and S. N. Majumdar, Exact calculation of the spatiotemporal correlations in the Takayasu model and in the q model of force fluctuations in bead packs, Physical Review E 62, 3186 (2000)

118. R. Rajesh and S. N. Majumdar, Conserved mass models and particle systems in one dimension, Journal of Statistical Physics 99, 943 (2000)

119. R. Rajesh and D. Dhar, An exactly solvable anisotropic directed percolation model in three dimensions, Physical Review Letters 81, 1646 (1998)

In books

1. C. Connaughton, R. Rajesh and O. Zaboronski, Kinetics of Cluster-Cluster Aggregation, Chapter 16 of Handbook of Nanophysics: Clusters and Fullerenes, ed. K. D. Sattler (Taylor and Francis, 2010)

2. C. Connaughton, R. Rajesh and O. Zaboronski, Reaction-diffusion systems and turbulence, pg 132-142 in Non-equilibrium Statistical Mechanics and Turbulence (London Math. Society, Lecture Note series 355, 2008)

In conference proceedings

1. S. Senapati, A. Banerjee and R. Rajesh, Simulation of Mixed-Mode Fracture in a Single Phase and Two-Phase Composite Material, Recent Advances in Applied Mechanics: Proceedings of Virtual Seminar on Applied Mechanics (VSAM 2021),  pages 247-260

2. A. Mayya, A. Banerjee and R.  Rajesh, Role of porosity network in splitting fracture of bovine cortical bone. 14th International Conference on Fracture, Rhodes, Greece (2017)

3. A. Mayya, A. Banerjee and R.  Rajesh, Role of porosity network in anisotropy of compres- sive strength of cortical bone using random spring network model. International Conference On Composite Materials and Structures, Hyderabad, India (2017)

4. A. Mayya, A. Banerjee and R.  Rajesh, Stress-microstructure relationship in humerus of a goat. XXV Congress of the International Society of Biomechanics, Glasgow, UK (2015)

5. A. Mayya, P. Praveen, A. Banerjee and R.  Rajesh, Compressive failure of Haversian bone using spring network model. 6th International Conference on Mechanics of Biomaterials and Tissues, Hawaii, USA (2015)

6. A. Varghese, S. Vemparala and R. Rajesh, Phase transitions of a single polyelectrolyte chain in a poor solvent with multivalent counterions, AIP Conf. Proc. 1447, 129 (2012)

7. S. N. Pathak, Z. Jabeen, R. Rajesh and P. Ray, Shock propagation in a visco-elastic granular gas, AIP Conf. Proc. 1447, 193 (2012)

8. J. Kundu, R. Rajesh, D. Dhar and J. Stilck, A Monte Carlo algorithm for studying phase transition in systems of hard rigid rods, AIP Conf. Proc. 1447, 113 (2012)

9. C. Connaughton, R. Rajesh and O. Zaboronski, Is there an energy cascade in strong wave turbulence?, pg 39-41, Proceedings of EUROMECH Colloquium 512 -- Small scale turbulence and related gradient statistics, ed. D. Tordella and K. R. Sreenivasan (2009)

10. V. Amol, A. Banerjee and R. Rajesh, Simulation of mechanical response of ZrO2/NiCr FGM, pg 207 in Proceedings of the third international congress on computational mechanics and simulation (ICCMS 09, IIT Bombay)