Faculty Details

Areas of Interest

• Quantum Field Theory and String Theory
• Black holes and other topics in classical and quantum gravity
• Quantum Many-Body Systems

Current Research

I work on various fundamental questions at the interface of quantum field theory, classical and quantum gravity, and quantum information theory. I am also very interested in applications to quantum many-body physics and quantum computation.

Students

Current PhD Students

• PH19F001    Alexander Soloviev (doctoral student at TU Wien, Vienna co-guided with Prof Anton Rebhan)
• PH19F001    Toshali Mitra (PhD student at IMSc co-guided with Prof V Ravindran)
• PH20D208    Priyanka
• PH17D047    MONDKAR SUKRUT DATTAPRASAD
• PH19D042    HARERAM SWAIN
• PH19D750    TANAY MILIND KIBE

Recent Publications

• Linear-in-T resistivity from semiholographic non-Fermi liquid models. Benoît Douçot, Ayan Mukhopadhyay, Giuseppe Policastro, and Sutapa Samanta. Phys. Rev. D. 104. L081901.
  DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.104.L081901. 2021.
• Hydrodynamic attractor and novel fixed points in superfluid Bjorken flow. Toshali Mitra, Ayan Mukhopadhyay, and Alexander Soloviev. Phys. Rev. D. 103. 076014.
  DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.103.076014. 2021.
• Quasinormal modes of a semi-holographic black brane and thermalization. Sukrut Mondkar, Ayan Mukhopadhyay, Anton Rebhan, and Alexander Soloviev. JHEP. 11. 080.
  DOI: 10.1007/JHEP11(2021)080. 2021.
• SL(2,R) lattices as information processors. Tanay Kibe, Ayan Mukhopadhyay, Alexander Soloviev and Hareram Swain. Physical Review , (2020) [arXiv:2006.08644]. D102. 086008.
  DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.102.086008. 2020.
• Hydrodynamic attractor of a hybrid viscous fluid in Bjorken flow. Toshali Mitra, Sukrut Mondkar, Ayan Mukhopadhyay, Anton Rebhan and Alexander Soloviev. Phys.Rev.Res. [arXiv:2006.09383]. 2 (2020) 4. 043320.
  DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.043320. 2020.
• Time-dependent NAdS2 holography with applications. Lata Kh Joshi, Ayan Mukhopadhyay and Alexander Soloviev. Physical Review D. 101. 066001.
  DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.101.066001. 2019.
• Hybrid fluid models from mutual effective metric couplings. Aleksi Kurkela, Ayan Mukhopadhyay, Florian Preis, Anton Rebhan and Alexander Soloviev. Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP). 08 . 054.
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2018)054 (ArXiv ePrint: 1805.05213). 2018.
• Time evolution of a toy semiholographic glasma. Christian Ecker, Ayan Mukhopadhyay, Florian Preis, Anton Rebhan and Alexander Soloviev. Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP). 08 . 074 .
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2018)074 (ArXiv ePrint: 1806.01850). 2018.

Teaching

• 2018 :  (Jul - Nov) - PH1010 Physics I/ PH5440 Self Study
• 2019 :  (Jan - May) - PH1020 Physics II/ PH5212 Self Study Elective; (Jul - Nov) - PH1020 Physics I/ PH5440 Self Study
• 2020 :  (Jan - May) - PH5120 Physics Lab II (PG)/ PH5212 Self Study Elective/ PH5480 Quantum Field Theory; (Jul - Nov) - PH1030 Physics Laboratory I/ PH5212 Self Study Elective/ PH
• 2021 :  (Jan - May) - PH5120 Physics Lab II (PG)/ PH5480 Quantum Field Theory; (Jul - Nov) - PH1030 Physics Laboratory I/ PH5480 Quantum Field Theory ; (Jul - Nov) - PH1030 Physics Laboratory I
• 2022 :  (Jan - May) - PH5120 Physics Lab II (PG) / PH5481 Quantum Field Theory 2 ; (Jul - Nov) - PH1010 Physics I