
Dawood Kothawala
Assistant Professor
Office: HSB 224D
Ph.D.: IUCAA Pune
044 - 2257 4848
- Classical and Quantum Gravity (see personal home page for more details)
- Mesoscopic domain of quantum spacetime.
- Gravitational quantum physics.
- Semiclassical Gravity and Black Hole physics.
- Statistical mechanics in curved spacetime. (see personal home page for more details)
- PH - Hari K
- PH - Raghvendra Singh (IMSc)
- PH - Mayank Vashishtha
- Limits of a non-local quantum spacetime . Dawood Kothawala. Honorable Mention in the Gravity Research Foundation Essay Competition, 2023 . arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.092652305.092652023.
- Effect of tidal curvature on dynamics of accelerated probes. Hari K, Dawood Kothawala. Phys. Rev. D. 104. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.104.064032. 2021.
- Geometric aspects of covariant Wick rotation. Raghvendra Singh, Dawood Kothawala. Eur. Phys. J. C 83, 194 (2023). DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-11340-1. arXiv:2010.018222021.
- Varying without varying: Reparameterisations, Diffeomorphisms, General Covariance, Lie derivatives, and all that.. Dawood Kothawala. Eur. J. Phys. 42, 055601 (2021). arXiv:2004.041782020.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Intrinsic and Extrinsic curvatures in Finsleresque spaces. Dawood Kothawala. General Relativity and Gravitation. 46. 1836 . DOI: 10.1007/s10714-014-1836-6. 2014.
- 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.
- Minimal Length and Small Scale Structure of Spacetime. Dawood Kothawala. Physical Review D. 88 . DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.88.104029. 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.
- Lanczos-Lovelock models of gravity. T. Padmanabhan, Dawood Kothawala. Physics Reports. 531 . 115. DOI: 10.1016/j.physrep.2013.05.007. 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Duality of force laws and Conformal transformations. Dawood Kothawala. American Journal of Physics. 79 . 624. DOI: 10.1119/1.3553231. 2011.
- The thermodynamic structure of Einstein tensor. Dawood Kothawala. Physical Review D. 83 . DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.83.024026. 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Generating dynamical black hole solutions. Dawood Kothawala, Sushant Ghosh . Physical Review D. 70 . DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.70.104010. 2004.
- 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