We are looking for motivated PhD students to work in computational many-body physics, with emphasis on quantum phase transitions. Please contact me.
Current Members
Arijit Maji (PhD candidate, 2025–)
Arijit is working on disordered non-interacting fermionic systems, with emphasis on low-dimensional topological phases.
His interests include infinite-randomness fixed points and their associated quantum geometry.
Anjali Nambudiripad (PhD candidate, 2025–)
Anjali is working in the field of classical Heisenberg spin chains, focusing on
disordered systems and understanding non-equilibrium dynamics, chaos, and transport in these models.
Ishita Modak (PhD candidate, 2021–)
Working in the field of many-body localization, focusing on the localized phase from Fock-space perspectives.
Further interests lie in understanding these using entanglement measures and non-equilibrium dynamics.
Soumya Bera (Principal Investigator)
Trajectory: (IIT Madras – KIT, Karlsruhe – Institute Neel, Grenoble – MPIPKS, Dresden- IITB)
My research interests lie in quantum-correlated matter, particularly disordered electron systems. I focus on the interplay of disorder and interactions using advanced numerical techniques across various condensed matter systems.
Graduated Ph.D. Students
Naba P. Nayak (PhD, 2019–2025)
Thesis: Critical properties of two-dimensional disordered Dirac fermions
Current Position: Langevin Institute, ESPCI Paris, France
Ruchira Bhat (PhD, 2018–2023)
Thesis: Investigation of nonequilibrium phases of quantum matter
Current Position: Quantum Research Lab, Fujitsu, Bangalore
Kuljeet Kaur (PhD, 2018–2024)
Thesis: Superconducting qubits – study of dynamical properties and quantum phase transition
Current Position: Postdoc, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
Project Students / Postdocs
Arnab Manna (EE, ’17 Spring) – Dynamical properties of the quantum Rabi model
Karthik Kannan (EP, ’17 Autumn) – Rabi lattices
Piyush Anand Jeena (MSc, ’18 Autumn) – Dynamics in classical spin chains
Pratik Brahma (’18 Autumn) – Dynamics in one-dimensional spin chains
Sanket Chirame (’18 Autumn) – Dynamical phase transition
Sarang Zambare (EP, ’18, DDP) – Reinforcement learning
Sourav Nandy (PD, ’18–’20) – Many-body localization
Surajit Sarkar (PD, ’19–’21) – Disorder-driven quantum phase transition
Karthik Kannan (EP, ’17 Autumn) – Rabi lattices
Piyush Anand Jeena (MSc, ’18 Autumn) – Dynamics in classical spin chains
Pratik Brahma (’18 Autumn) – Dynamics in one-dimensional spin chains
Sanket Chirame (’18 Autumn) – Dynamical phase transition
Sarang Zambare (EP, ’18, DDP) – Reinforcement learning
Sourav Nandy (PD, ’18–’20) – Many-body localization
Surajit Sarkar (PD, ’19–’21) – Disorder-driven quantum phase transition