Poornaprajna Institute of Scientific Research
Theoretical Sciences Division
PPISR Theoretical sciences: Areas of Research

  1. Kondo effect of quantum Dots coupled to the Luttinger liquid leads.
  2. Quantum Spin Pumping: of an antiferromagnetic spin-1/2 chain with competing exchange interactions, using spatially periodic potential modulated in space and time.
  3. Superconducting Qubits: Transport of quantum informa- tion through the lattice of superconducting qubits connected through different couplings studied through the Berry phase analysis.
  4. Mesoscopic SQUIDs (Superconducting quantum inter- ference devices): Dissipation physics of 1-D SQUID array by using the field-theoretical renormalization group method.
  5. Perfect Entanglement Transport in Quantum Spin Sys- tems: Berry phase analysis and Abelian bosonization meth- ods used to propose a mechanism for perfect entanglement transport in two anti-ferromagnetic (AFM) quantum spin chain systems.

  6. Entropic Uncertainty principle. Applied to study the com- plementarity in discrete-continuous variables such as number and phase. Student: Omkar S.
  7. Quantum walks. Quantum-classical transition in discrete- time quantum walks on a line and cycle subjected to dissipa- tive and non-dissipative noise; relativistic quantum walks.
  8. Quantum communication. Squeezed amplitude damping channel; derivation of Kraus operators for the noisy two-qubit system; approximate quantum error correcting codes. Student: Uday Bhanu Sharma
  9. Dynamics of entanglement. Of systems interacting dissi- patively and non-dissipatively with a common environment.
  10. Foundations of quantum mechanics. To derive quantum mechanics, resolve the quantum measurement problem, from computation/information theoretic axioms.
  11. Solar supergranular fractal dimension. As a function of surface features like magnetic activity, velocity flow fields and size.
  12. Bibliometrics. Quantifying degree of collaboration in a jour- nal, productivity of a researcher (beyond h-index), modifying h-index to account for multiple authorship.


    last updated: 12 April 2010.