Krishnendu Sengupta
Professor
Theoretical Physics
Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
India
Biography
University of Maryland at College Park: January 1996 - August 2001, Doctor of Philosophy in Physics. September 2001 – August 2004: Postdoctoral Research with Professors Steven M. Girvin and Subir Sachdev at Yale University. Sept. 2004-July 2005: Postdoctoral Associate with Professor Yong Baek Kim at University of Toronto. Accolades: Institute Silver Medal in Physics from I.I.T Kharagpur in 1993. Indo-US research fellow in Physics, 2010. Member, Joint Indo-US Center for Ultracold atoms (2009-2011). Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences 2012. APS Outstanding referee, 2012, SSB award in Physical Sciences, 2012. Fellow, National Academy of Sciences, 2013. Indian Member in the Council of Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics (2014-Present). Editorial Board Member for JPCM from Jan. 2016 onwards.
Research Interest
Quantum Statistical Physics, Phase transitions, Topology in solid statesystems, Non-equilibrium dynamics of quantum many-body systems and field theory.
Publications
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T. Dutta, M. Mukherjee, and K. Sengupta, Ramp dynamics of phonons in an ion trap: entanglement generation and cooling, Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 170406 (2013).
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S. Modak, K. Sengupta and D. Sen, Spin injection into a metal from a topological Insulator, Phys. Rev. B 86, 205114 (2012)
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A. Dutta, C. Trefzger, and K. Sengupta, A projection operator approach to the Bose-Hubbard model, Phys. Rev. B 86, 085140 (2012).
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T. Grassï€¬ï€ ï€ K. Saha, K. Sengupta, and M. Lewenstein, Quantum phase transition of ultracold bosons in the presence of a non-Abelian synthetic gauge field, Phys. Rev. A 84, 053632 (2011).
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K. Sengupta and S. K. Ghatak, The effect of hybridization on superconductivity in quasi-two-dimensional systems, Physics Letters A 186, 419 (1994).
