Faculty Details

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Dawood Kothawala

Associate Professor

HSB 224D

Ph.D. IUCAA Pune

Areas of Interest

  • Classical and Quantum Gravity

Current Research

Students

Current PhD Students

  • PH18D009    HARI K

Recent Publications

  • Effect of tidal curvature on dynamics of accelerated probes. Hari K, Dawood Kothawala. Phys. Rev. D. 104.
    DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.104.064032. 2021.
  • Varying without varying: Reparameterisations, Diffeomorphisms, General Covariance, Lie derivatives, and all that.. Dawood Kothawala. submitted. 2020.
  • BGV theorem, geodesic deviation, and quantum fluctuations. Dawood Kothawala. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 38 . 045006.
    DOI: 10.1088/1361-6382/abd146. 2020.
  • Normal coordinates based on curved tangent space. Hari K, Dawood Kothawala. Phys. Rev. D. 101. 124066. 2020.
  • Raychaudhuri equation with zero point length. Sumanta Chakraborty, Dawood Kothawala, Alessandro Pesci. Physics Letters B. 797 . 134877.
    DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2019.134877. 2019.
  • Action and Observer dependence in Euclidean quantum gravity. Dawood Kothawala. Classical and Quantum Gravity (Letter). 35 . 03LT01.
    DOI: 10.1088/1361-6382/aa9fdf. 2018.
  • Euclidean Action and the Einstein tensor. Dawood Kothawala. Physical Review D. 97 . 124062.
    DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.97.124062. 2018.
  • Hawking radiation in Non local field theories. Nirmalya Kajuri, Dawood Kothawala. preprint: arXiv:1806.10345. 2018.
  • Moving mirrors and the fluctuation-dissipation theorem. D. Jaffino Stargen, Dawood Kothawala, L. Sriramkumar. Physical Review D. 94 . 025040.
    DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.94.025040. 2016.
  • Spacetime with zero point length is two-dimensional at the Planck scale. T. Padmanabhan, Sumanta Chakraborty, Dawood Kothawala . General Relativity and Gravitation (Letter). 48 . 55.
    DOI: 10.1007/s10714-016-2053-2. 2016.
  • Accelerated Observers, Thermal Entropy, and Spacetime Curvature. Dawood Kothawala. Gravity and the Quantum. Fundamental Theories of Physics.. 187 . 145.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-51700-1_12. 2016.
  • Vacuum energy in freely falling frames and spacetime curvature. Dawood Kothawala. preprint: arXiv:1612.08148. 2016.
  • Small scale structure of spacetime: van Vleck determinant and equi-geodesic surfaces. D. Jaffino Stargen, Dawood Kothawala. Physical Review D. 92 . 024046.
    DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.92.024046. 2015.
  • Entropy density of spacetime from the zero point length. Dawood Kothawala, T. Padmanabhan. Physics Letters B. 748 . 67-69.
    DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2015.06.066. 2015.
  • Entropy density of spacetime as a relic from quantum gravity. Dawood Kothawala, T. Padmanabhan. Physical Review D. 90 .
    DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.90.124060. 2014.
  • Intrinsic and Extrinsic curvatures in Finsleresque spaces. Dawood Kothawala. General Relativity and Gravitation. 46. 1836 .
    DOI: 10.1007/s10714-014-1836-6. 2014.
  • Minimal Length and Small Scale Structure of Spacetime. Dawood Kothawala. Physical Review D. 88 .
    DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.88.104029. 2013.
  • Generalized uncertainty principles and quantum field theory. Viqar Husain, Dawood Kothawala, Sanjeev S. Seahra. Physical Review D. 87 .
    DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.87.025014. 2013.
  • Holographic repulsion and confinement in gauge theory. Viqar Husain, Dawood Kothawala. Classical and Quantum Gravity [Fast Track Communication]. 30 .
    DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/30/3/032001. 2013.
  • Lanczos-Lovelock models of gravity. T. Padmanabhan, Dawood Kothawala. Physics Reports. 531 . 115.
    DOI: 10.1016/j.physrep.2013.05.007. 2013.
  • Box of Ideal Gas in Free Fall. Dawood Kothawala. Physics Letters B. 720 . 410-413.
    DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2013.02.035. 2013.
  • Membrane Paradigm and Horizon Thermodynamics in Lanczos-Lovelock gravity. Sanved Kolekar, Dawood Kothawala. Journal of High Energy Physics.
    DOI: 10.1007/JHEP02(2012)006. 2012.
  • Two Aspects of Black hole entropy in Lanczos-Lovelock models of gravity. Sanved Kolekar, Dawood Kothawala, T. Padmanabhan. Physical Review D. 85 .
    DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.85.064031. 2012.
  • The thermodynamic structure of Einstein tensor. Dawood Kothawala. Physical Review D. 83 .
    DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.83.024026. 2011.
  • Duality of force laws and Conformal transformations. Dawood Kothawala. American Journal of Physics. 79 . 624.
    DOI: 10.1119/1.3553231. 2011.
  • Response of Unruh-DeWitt detector with time-dependent acceleration. Dawood Kothawala, T. Padmanabhan. Physics Letters B. 690 . 201.
    DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2010.05.026. 2010.
  • Thermodynamic structure of Lanczos-Lovelock field equations from near-horizon symmetries. Dawood Kothawala, T. Padmanabhan. Physical Review D. 79 .
    DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.79.104020. 2009.
  • Path integral duality modified propagators in spacetimes with constant curvature. Dawood Kothawala, L. Sriramkumar, S. Shankaranarayanan, T. Padmanabhan. Physical Review D. 80 .
    DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.80.044005. 2009.
  • Is gravitational entropy quantized ?. Dawood Kothawala, T. Padmanabhan, Sudipta Sarkar. Physical Review D. 78 .
    DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.78.104018. 2008.
  • Radiating black hole solutions in arbitrary dimensions. Sushant Ghosh, Dawood Kothawala. General Relativity and Gravitation. 40 . 9-21.
    DOI: 10.1007/s10714-007-0511-6. 2008.
  • Quantum gravitational corrections to the stress-energy tensor around the rotating BTZ black hole. Dawood Kothawala, S. Shankaranarayanan, L. Sriramkumar. Journal of High Energy Physics.
    DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/09/095. 2008.
  • Hawking radiation as tunneling for spherically symmetric black holes: A generalized treatment. Sudipta Sarkar, Dawood Kothawala. Physcis Letters B. 659 . 683-687.
    DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2007.11.056. 2007.
  • Einstein's equations as a thermodynamic identity: The cases of stationary axisymmetric horizons and evolving spherically symmetric horizons. Dawood Kothawala, Sudipta Sarkar, T. Padmanabhan . Physics Letters B. 652 . 338-342.
    DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2007.07.021. 2007.
  • Generating dynamical black hole solutions. Dawood Kothawala, Sushant Ghosh . Physical Review D. 70 .
    DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.70.104010. 2004.

Teaching

  • 2017 :  (Jan - May) - PH1020 Physics II; (Jul - Nov) - PH1010 Physics I
  • 2018 :  (Jan - May) - PH5870 General Relativity and Cosmology; (Jul - Nov) - PH5460 Classical Field Theory
  • 2019 :  (Jan - May) - PH1030 Physics Laboratory I/ EP2210 Principles of Quantum Mechanics; (Jul - Nov) - EP2110 Introduction to Mathematical Physics
  • 2020 :  (Jan - May) - PH1020 Physics II; (Jul - Nov) - PH1030 Physics Laboratory I/ PH5870 General Relativity and Cosmology
  • 2021 :  (Jan - May) - PH5120 Physics Lab II (PG)/PH5875 Advanced General Relativity; (Jul - Nov) - PH1010 Physics I
  • 2022 :  (Jan - May) - PH3520 Quantum Physics
  • 2023 :  (Jan - May) - PH5120 Physics Lab II (PG) / PH5825 Quantum Physics