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Welcome! I
am a doctoral student in the Physics
Department at Duke
University. Before coming to
Duke, I did B.Tech. in Engineering
Physics at the Indian
Institute of Technology, Bombay.
I
study
quantum critical behavior of strongly
correlated systems with Harold
Baranger
in the Theoretical
Nanophysics Group
and Shailesh
Chandrasekharan in Theoretical
Nuclear and
Particle Physics.
Compared to the big sound of
it, my work particularly
is modest. It involves some computation and lots of analyses for a given
system. The idea is to determine the onset of
different phases of a given substance as a function of parameters
such as temperature, magnetic field, disorder chemical potentials etc.
Once the onset is determined, it is possible to study low energy behaviors of
the system. Interestingly, a
family of systems
can exhibit a common universal behavior. Such common underpinning in our case allows
us to study transitions in
superfluids,
superconductors or quantum magnets using slight variations of a model.
Individual terms of the model-Hamiltonian is analytically understood; however, together they make the
system, complex. Complexity mainly comes from the presence of highly correlated
behavior of the
constituents, the hard-core bosons. The system requires a non-pertubative treatment
and today's computational technology offers here a much desired help.
My
interests include almost anything; from learning mechanism in pure
sciences to understanding of lesser predictable systems such as
financial markets. I find it fascinating that some of the
complexity in different domains, for instance in physics and financial
systems are universal and so are the tools to understand them.
Beside these, I also like to involve right portion of
my head sometimes. I mean, sporadically I do indulge in photography,
sketching, poetry-prose etcetera. Even mere
a
pure wonder at times, is
not boring
to me either. Thats
what physicists do. Except.. at the end of the day, they are supposed
to compute a number too. Nope.. the answer is not 42 ..at least not
always.
On
my whereabouts; I am from India, in particular, Nalanda.
Nalanda is known for hosting
the world's first international university. Ancient times. Her
contribution
to the modern world? -- try "Zero". The place also happens to be the
land of the Gautam.. as
well
as other learned ones, the
buddhas.
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