Satrajit Adhikari
Senior Professor
Physical Chemistry
Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
India
Biography
Educational Qualifications 1987 B. Sc. (The University of Burdwan) Honours in Chemistry 1989 M. Sc. (The University of Burdwan) Special in Physical Chemistry 1996 Ph. D. (IACS, Kolkata) Physical Chemistry Fellowships 1990 JRF (UGC-CSIR) and GATE 1996 Post Doctoral Fellowship by an SNF-grant (The Danish Natural Science Research Council) 2000 Visiting Scientist (Hebrew University) supported by United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF) Academic Positions Held 1996-2000 Post Doctoral Research Associate (Copenhagen University, Denmark) 2000 Visiting Scientist (The Fritz Haber Research Center, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem) 2001 Lecturer (BITS Pilani, Rajasthan) 2001-2007 Assistant Professor (IIT Guwahati) 2007-2012 Associate Professor (IACS, Kolkata) 2012-2016 Professor (IACS, Kolkata) 2016-present Senior Professor (IACS. Kolkata) Visiting Professorship 2007 The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 2007 The University of Debrecen, Hungery 2010 University of Coimbra, Portugal 2011 University of Coimbra, Portugal 2015 Leiden University, Netherlands
Research Interest
Beyond Born-Oppenheimer theoretical development and its applications on spectroscopic and scattering processes Methodological development for following the dynamics of multi-electronic multi-mode molecular systems Thermal effects on molecule-surface scattering Reaction dynamics for triatomic systems on single (adiabatic) and multiple (diabatic) potential energy surface(s) Selective photodissociation dynamics of bonds in small molecules
Publications
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Time-dependent Fourier grid Hamiltonian method for modelling real-time quantum dynamics: Theoretical models and applications, S Adhikari and SP Bhattacharyya Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences-Chemical Sciences 106, 553-568 (1994).
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Fourier grid Hamiltonian method for bound states of multidimensional systems. Formulation and preliminary applications to model systems, P Dutta, S Adhikari and SP Bhattacharyya Chemical physics letters 212, 677-684 (1993).
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Decay dynamics of a metastable state in a time-varying electric field: A three-level prototypical system, S Adhikari, SP Bhattacharyya and DM Bhattacharyya International journal of quantum chemistry 47, 213-223 (1993).
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Dissociation dynamics of a model diatomic species in an intense pulsed laser field: a time dependent Fourier grid Hamiltonian approach, S Adhikari and S P Bhattacharyya Physics Letters A 172, 155-161 (1992).
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A time-dependent Fourier grid Hamiltonian method. Formulation and application to the multiphoton dissociation of a diatomic molecule in intense laser field, S Adhikari, P Dutta and SP Bhattacharyya Chemical physics letters 199, 574-579 (1992).
