Lalit Kumar Saini
Assistant Professor
Applied Physics Department
Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology
India
Biography
Educational Qualifications : Sr. No. Degree University Year Subjects %age 1 PH. D. P. U. Chandigarh 2006 Condensed Matter Physics - 2 M. Sc. C C S University, Meerut 1998 Physics 70 3 B. Sc. C C S University, Meerut 1996 PHY,MATH, CHE 61 . Research Skills: Field Theories of Condensed Matter Systems (Chern Simons, NLSM etc.) (2) Bosonisation of 1D electronic and spin systems (3) Renormalisation Group methods (4) Strong Coupling Effective Hamiltonians (5) Random Phase Approximation calculations (6) Landauer-Buttiker formulations of transport in mesoscopic systems
Research Interest
(i) Low-dimensional Strongly Correlated Electron and Spin Systems: charge and spin ordering phenomena, effects of frustrating correlations, commensurate incommensurate transitions, quantum magnetism, spin chain/ladder systems (ii) Quantum Hall physics: Edge state transport in constricted quantum Hall systems, novel edge states arising from Chern Simons Ginzburg Landau theory of bulk with variable filling fraction, shot noise as indicator of quasiparticle statistics (iii) Low-dimensional non-Fermi liquids: Tomonaga-Luttinger liquids (TLLs), quantum impurity models, Kondo effect in low-dimensions, physics of carbon nanotubes. (iv) Critical Phenomena in low-dimensional systems: Quantum criticality, deconfinement transitions, dimensional crossover in coupled low-dimensional systems, novel gapless phases, boundary critical phenomena.
