Research Activities

• Areas of Research

  Condensed Matter and Optics

  • Photo-thermal imaging of nuclear transport
  • Ultra fast laser spectroscopy and microscopy
  • Nonlinear optical properties of materials
  • Metal and semiconductor spintronics
  • Wide band gap oxide nano particles and dilute magnetic semiconductors
  • Biomolecular transport through nuclear membrane
    

  Theoretical Physics

  • Nonlinear dynamics of ferromagnetic spin-chains
  • Hamiltonian Chaos
  • Nonlinear dynamics of neuron networks
  • Brain science
  • Modeling homing mechanism in ants
  • Geometric Phase and Quantum Computation
  • Model independent theoretical approach to spin dependence of nuclear reaction
  • Pi Nucleus Physics
  • Bethe Salpeter equation
  • Vortex lattice in type- II superconductors

  Theoretical High Energy Physics

  • Collider Searches of non-commutative geometry and extra dimension
  • CP violation in B mesons
  • Dark matter and super symmetry
  • Composition, structure and dynamics of neutron stars
  • Non-perturbative quantum chromodynamics
  • Finite temperature quantum field theory
  • Bose-Einstein condensation

  
  
  

   

   

   

   

• Funded Projects

  Ongoing:

   

   1.Project Title: Aspects of some astrophysical systems like supernovae and neutron stars in the light of new physics       Principal Investigator : Prasanta Kumar Das,

        Co-PI:   Dr. Tarun Kumar Jha and Dr. Chandradew Sharma

        Funding agency:  DAE, BRNS,  Govt. of India 

        Outlay(Rs. amount in lakh):  19.5 

   

    2. Project Title: Probing Space-Time Noncommutativity at High Energy Experiments
        Principal Investigator : Prasanta Kumar Das,

        Funding agency:  BITS-Pilani  

        Outlay(Rs. amount in lakh):  3.8

   

    2. Project Title: Probing new physics at high energy colliders

        Principal Investigator : Prasanta Kumar Das,

        Funding agency:  CSIR, Govt. of India   

        Outlay(Rs. amount in lakh):  13.5

  •  Photothermal Imaging of Nuclear Transport: P. Nandakumar
    Co-PI: Meenal Kaoushik, Geetha K. Varier
    Funding agency:  Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India
  • Studies on the optical nonlinearity of gold nanoparticle embedded      BaTiO3 thin films : P. Nandakumar
    Funding agency:  DRDO, Govt. of India
  • Photoluminescence Studies on Undoped and transition Metal Doped ZnO Nanoparticles
    Principal Investigator : Teny Theresa John
    Funding Agency: Department of Science & Technology, Govt. of India
    
    

• Publications

  Publications
  

  (For the complete list of the publications please visit the faculty webpage) 

• Research collaboration

• Consultancy Expertise

  
  

  Design and Implementation of Confocal and Multiphoton Microscopy for Biomolecular Imaging

  Material Characterization by Optical and Photo Thermal Spectroscopy

  X Ray material Characterization for Drug Industry and Geology:

  Signal/Image Processing, Image Compression, Image Recovery

  Mathematical Modelling and Computational Simulation:

  Scientific and Literary Word Processing

  Linux OS, Software and Server Maintenance

  Communication Skills, Slide presentations, Animations