Publications by the members of the Department of Physics, IIT Palakkad


The members of the Department regularly publish in international and national peer-reviewed journals. A complete list of the publications from the members of the Department is as follows.


2022

Bath Engineering Enhanced Quantum Critical Engines, Revathy B. S, Victor Mukherjee and Uma Divakaran, Entropy 24 (10), 1458 (2022)

Residual stress in athermal soft disordered solids: insights from microscopic and mesoscale models, Vishwas V. Vasisht, Pinaki Chaudhuri, and Kirsten Martens, Soft Matter 18, 6426-6436 (2022)

Sorting of proteins with shape and curvature anisotropy on a lipid bilayer tube, Pranav Vyas, P. B. Sunil Kumar, and Sovan Lal Das, Soft Matter 18, 1653-1665 (2022)

Active Remodeling of Chromatin and Implications for In Vivo Folding, Ramakrishnan Natesan, Kripa Gowrishankar, Lakshmi Kuttippurathu, P. B. Sunil Kumar, and Madan Rao, Journal of Physical Chemistry B 126, 100 (2022)

Collective motion of cells modeled as ring polymers, Haosheng Wen, Yu Zhu, Chenhui Peng, P. B. Sunil Kumar, and Mohamed Laradji, Soft Matter (2022)

Circulating genuine multiparty entanglement in a quantum network, Pritam Halder, Ratul Banerjee, Srijon Ghosh, Amit Kumar Pal, and Aditi Sen(De), Physical Review A 106, 032604 (2022)

Exactly solvable 1D quantum models with Gamma matrices, Yash Chugh, Kusum Dhochak, Uma Divakaran, Prithvi Narayan P, and Amit Kumar Pal, Physical Review E 106, 024114 (2022)

Distinguishing phases via non-Markovian dynamics of entanglement in topological quantum codes under parallel magnetic field, Harikrishnan K. J. and Amit Kumar Pal, Physical Review A 105, 052421 (2022)

Hierarchies of localizable entanglement due to spatial distribution of local noise, Ratul Banerjee, Amit Kumar Pal, and Aditi Sen(De), Physical Review Research 4, 023035 (2022)

Designing robust quantum refrigerators in disordered spin models, Tanoy Kanti Konar, Srijon Ghosh, Amit Kumar Pal, and Aditi Sen De, Physical Review A 105, 022214 (2022)

Investigating the thermal transport in gold decorated graphene by opto-thermal Raman technique, Ranjuna M K and Jayakumar Balakrishnan, Nanotechnology 33 (13) 135706 (2022)

Relaxation times do not capture logical qubit dynamics, Amit Kumar Pal, Philipp Schindler, Alexander Erhard, Ángel Rivas, Miguel-Angel Martin-Delgado, Rainer Blatt, Thomas Monz, and Markus Müller, Quantum 6, 632 (2022)

The production of actinides in neutron star mergers, M.- R. Wu and P. Banerjee, Association of Asia Pacific Physical Societies Bulletin 32 (19) (2022)

Constraints on r-process nucleosynthesis from 129I and 247Cm in the early Solar system, P. Banerjee, M.- R. Wu, and Jeena S. K, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 512 (4) 4948 (2022)

2021

Penetrant-Induced Glass-like Transition in Thin Chitosan Films, Aathira Murali, Manikandan Ganesan, Dillip K. Satapathy, and P. B. Sunil Kumar, J. Phys. Chem. B, 125, 45, 12617–12626 (2021)

Binding, unbinding and aggregation of crescent-shaped nanoparticles on nanoscale tubular membranes, Eric J. Spangler, Alexander D. Olinger, P. B. Sunil Kumar and Mohamed Laradji, Soft Matter 17, 1016 (2021)

Thermodynamics and kinetics of crystallisation in deeply supercooled Stillinger-Weber silicon, Yagyik Goswami, Vishwas V Vasisht, Daan Frenkel, and Pablo G Deb, J. Chem. Phys. 155, 194502 (2021)

Many-body quantum thermal machines, Victor Mukherjee and Uma Divakaran, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 33, 454001 (2021)

Three qubits in less than three baths: Beyond two-body system-bath interactions in quantum refrigerators, Ahana Ghoshal, Sreetama Das, Amit Kumar Pal, Aditi Sen(De), and Ujjwal Sen, Physical Review A 104, 042208 (2021)

The radioactive nuclei 26Al and 60Fe in the Cosmos and in the solar system, R. Diehl, M. Lugaro, A. Heger, A. Sieverding, X. Tang, K. A. Li, E. T. Li, C. L. Doherty, M. G. H. Krause, A. Wallner, N. Prantzos, H. E. Brinkman, J.W. den Hartogh , B.Wehmeyer, A. Yagüe López , M. M.M. Pleintinger, P.Banerjee, and W. Wang, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia 38 e062 (2021)

The chemical signature of jet-driven hypernovae, JJ Grimmett, Bernhard Muller, Alexander Heger, Projjwal Banerjee, and Martin Obergaulinger, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 501 (2) 2764 (2021)

Graphene oxide and its derivatives as potential Ovchinnikov ferromagnets, Apurva Sinha, Pranay Ranjan, Anzar Ali, Jayakumar Balakrishnan, and Ajay D Thakur, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 33, 375801 (2021)

2020

Modification of lipid membrane compressibility induced by an electric field, K. R. Prathyusha, Ignacio Pagonabarraga, and P. B. Sunil Kumar, Phys. Rev. E 102, 062413 (2020)

Models for membrane curvature sensing of curvature generating proteins, Sachin Krishnan T V, Sovan Lal Das and P. B. Sunil Kumar, Pramana 94, 47 (2020)

Coplanar cavity for strong coupling between photons and magnons in van der Waals antiferromagnet, Supriya Mandal, Lucky N. Kapoor, Sanat Ghosh, John Jesudasan, Soham Manni, A. Thamizhavel, Pratap Raychaudhuri, Vibhor Singh, and Mandar M. Deshmukh, Applied Physics Letters 117 263101 (2020)

Observation of Standing Spin Waves in a van der Waals Magnetic Material, Lucky N. Kapoor, Supriya Mandal, Pratap Chandra Adak, Meghan Patankar, Soham Manni, Arumugam Thamizhavel, Mandar M. Deshmukh, Advanced Materials (2020)

Phases and quantum phase transitions in an anisotropic ferromagnetic Kitaev-Heisenberg-Γ magnet, Animesh Nanda, Kusum Dhochak, and Subhro Bhattacharjee, Physical Review B 102, 235124 (2020)

Scalable characterization of localizable entanglement in noisy topological quantum codes, David Amaro, Markus Müller, and Amit Kumar Pal, New Journal of Physics 22, 053038 (2020)

Uniform decoherence effect on localizable entanglement in random multiqubit pure states, Ratul Banerjee, Amit Kumar Pal, and Aditi Sen(De), Physical Review A 101, 042339 (2020)

Universal finite-time thermodynamics of many-body quantum machines from Kibble-Zurek scaling, Revathy B. S., Victor Mukherjee, Uma Divakaran and Adolfo del Campo, Physical Review Research 2, 043247 (2020)

Adiabatic dynamics of quasiperiodic transverse Ising model, Revathy B.S. and Uma Divakaran, Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment 2020, 023108 (2020)

Astromers: Nuclear Isomers in Astrophysics, G. W. Misch, S. K. Ghorui, P. Banerjee, Y. Sun, and M. R. Mumpower, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 252 (1) 2 (2020)

Neutron Star Mergers as the Main Source of r-process: Natal Kicks and Inside-out Evolution to the Rescue, P. Banerjee, M.- R. Wu, and Z. Yuan, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 902 (2) L34 (2020)

Dynamical Relics of the Ancient Galactic Halo, Z. Yuan, G. C. Myeong, T. C. Beers, N. W. Evans, Y. S. Lee, P. Banerjee, D. Gudin, K. Hattori, H. Li, T. Matsuno, V. M. Placco, M. C. Smith, D. D. Whitten, and G. Zhao, The Astrophysical Journal 891, 39 (2020)

Structural and resistive switching behaviour in Lanthanum strontium manganite - Reduced graphene oxide nanocomposite system, Karuna Kumari, Ashutosh Kumar, Dinesh K Kotnees, Jayakumar Balakrishnan, Ajay D Thakur, and S J Ray, Journal of Alloys and Compounds 815, 152213 (2020)

Computational study of transient shear banding in soft jammed solids, Vishwas V Vasisht and Emanuela Del Gado, Physical Review E 102, 012603 (2020)

Emergence and persistence of flow inhomogeneities in the yielding and fluidization of dense soft solids, Vishwas V Vasisht, Gabrielle Roberts, and Emanuela Del Gado, Physical Review E 102, 010604(R) (2020)

2019

Emergent topological phenomena in active polymeric fluids, Raj Kumar Manna and P. B. Sunil Kumar, Soft Matter 15, 477 (2019)

Transition from curvature sensing to generation in a vesicle driven by protein binding strength and membrane tension, T. V. Sachin Krishnan, Sovan L. Das and P. B. Sunil Kumar, Soft Matter 15, 2071 (2019)

Spin dynamics and field-induced magnetic phase transition in the honeycomb Kitaev magnet α-Li2IrO3, S Choi, S Manni, J Singleton, CV Topping, T Lancaster, SJ Blundell, DT Adroja, V Zapf, P Gegenwart, and R Coldea, Physical Review B 99, 054426 (2019)

Investigation of structural and magnetic properties of PrIr3B2 single crystal, S. Manni, A. Thamizhavel, and S. K. Dhar, AIP Advances 9, 035021 (2019)

Graphene Oxide Based P-N Junctions, Pranay Ranjan, Atul Kumar, Jayakumar Balakrishnan, and Ajay D Thakur, Materials Today: Proceedings 11, 830-832 (2019)

Dye Adsorption Behavior of Graphene Oxide, Pranay Ranjan, Jayakumar Balakrishnan, and Ajay D Thakur, Materials Today: Proceedings 11, 833-836 (2019)

New s-process Mechanism in Rapidly Rotating Massive Population II Stars, P. Banerjee, A. Heger, and Y. -Z. Qian, The Astrophysical Journal 887, 187 (2019)

Three-Dimensional Simulations of Neutrino-Driven Core-Collapse Supernovae from Low-Mass Single and Binary Star Progenitors, B. Muller, T. M. Tauris, A. Heger, P. Banerjee, Y. -Z. Qian, J. Powell, C. Chan, D. W. Gay, and Norbert Langer, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 484, 3307 (2019)

Finding the Remnants of the Milky Way's Last Neutron Star Mergers, M. -R. Wu, P. Banerjee, B. D. Metzger, G. Martinez-Pinedo, T. Aramaki, E. Burns, C. J. Halye, J. Barnes, and G. Karagiorgi, The Astrophysical Journal 880, 23 (2019)

Chaos in Three-dimensional Higher Spin Gravity, Prithvi Narayan and Junggi Yoon, Journal of High Energy Physics 07, 46 (2019)

2018

Toward Transferable Coarse-Grained Potentials for Poly-Aromatic Hydrocarbons: A Force Matching Approach, Madhusmita Tripathy, Umang Agarwal and P. B. Sunil Kumar, Macromolecular Theory and Simulations 28 (1) 1800040 (2018)

Lipid-protein interaction induced domains: Kinetics and conformational changes in multicomponent vesicles, K. K. Sreeja, and P. B. Sunil Kumar, Journal of Chemical Physics 148, 134703 (2018)

Kosmotropic effect leads to LCST decrease in thermoresponsive polymer solutions, Swaminath Bharadwaj, P. B. Sunil Kumar, Shigeyuki Komura, and Abhijit P. Deshpande, Journal of Chemical Physics 148, 084903 (2018)

Sudden quenches in a quasiperiodic Ising model, Uma Divakaran, Physical Review E 98, 032110 (2018)

A Low-Cost Non-explosive Synthesis of Graphene Oxide for Scalable Applications, Pranay Ranjan, Shweta Agarwal, Apurva Sinha, T Rajagopala Rao, Jayakumar Balakrishnan and Ajay D Thakur, Scientific Reports 8, 12007 (2018)

Chord diagrams, exact correlators in spin glasses and black hole bulk reconstruction, Micha Berkooz, Prithvi Narayan, and Joan Simón, Journal of High Energy Physics 08, 192 (2018)