Saikat Mondal
Prime Minister's Research Fellow
(PMRF ID - 2300591, Direct Entry, May 2020 cycle),
Ph.D. student (September 2020 - Present),
Ph.D. Roll No. : 20109282 ,
Department of Physics, IIT Kanpur
Research interests
I am doing research work in theoretical condensed matter Physics in Ph.D. programme. I work on topological phase transition in quantum systems, the dynamics of closed and open quantum systems.
Details of Ph.D. course work
Courses done : Advanced Statistical Mechanics, Quantum Field Theory, Quantum Many body Physics, Cooperative phenomena in classical and quantum systems
CPI in Ph.D. course work : 10.0 (out of 10.0)
Educational qualification
Master of Science (M.Sc. - 2 years) in Physics from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur (CPI-9.7 out of 10) (completed in 2020)
B.Sc.(Honours) in Physics from Jadavpur University (84.83%) (completed in 2018)
Awards and achievements
All India Rank 7 in JAM Physics,2018
All India Rank 47 in CSIR NET(JRF), Physical Science, December-2019
All India Rank 2 in JEST (For Ph.D.) Physics, 2020
All India Rank 80 in GATE Physics, 2020 (GATE score 739 out of 1000)
All India Rank 4 in GATE Physics, 2021 (GATE score 919 out of 1000)
Academic Excellence Award (for M.Sc. 1st year) of IIT Kanpur, 2018
Academic Excellence Award (for M.Sc. 2nd year) of IIT Kanpur, 2019
Previous Research Experience
M.Sc. project (Supervisor: Prof. Amit Dutta)
Title: Dynamics of open quantum systems and applications to quantum thermal machines and quantum thermometry
Publications
Participation in conference
Poster presentation on “Disconnected entanglement entropy as a marker of edge modes in a periodically driven Kitaev chain” in the “Conference on Quantum Condensed Matter” (QMAT-2022) held on 18-22 September, 2022.
Links
Google scholar profile : https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5G5SZJMAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra
ResearchGate profile : https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Saikat-Mondal-14
CV
cv_saikat.pdf