Faculty at School of Natural Sciences

Subhajit Sarkar

Subhajit Sarkar

Assistant Professor

School of Natural Sciences


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  • Non-equilibrium quantum many-body dynamics: Time crystals, Periodically driven systems, Entanglement dynamics open quantum systems, Lindblad dynamics.
  • Quantum transport: Spin-selective transport, Chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS), Tensor networks (MPS, TTN) simulation of non-Markovian open systems.
  • Hot-electron dynamics and ultrafast optics: Epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) materials, Few-cycle laser pulses, High-energy electron dynamics, Non-linear optical response.

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  • Ph.D. in Physics (Theoretical), 2017
    S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata.
    Degree awarded by the University of Calcutta
    Thesis submitted: 27 July 2016| Degree awarded: 11 April 2017
  • M.Sc. in Physics, 2010
    Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur.
  • B.Sc. (Honours) in Physics, 2008
    Uluberia College, University of Calcutta.

  • Assistant Professor (Research Track)
    Department of Physics and Nanotechnology
    SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, Tamil Nadu, India
    December 18, 2023 – June 4, 2025
  • Adiunkt (Postdoctoral Fellow)
    Institute of Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Physics, Astronomy, and Applied Computer Science
    Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
    April 1, 2023 – December 16, 2023
  • Postdoctoral Fellow
    Department of Chemistry, and School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
    Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
    October 1, 2018 – December 31, 2022
  • Postdoctoral Fellow
    Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India
    August 29, 2016 – September 25, 2018

  • IIT-JAM 2008, All India Rank 72.
  • CSIR-NET 2010, All India Rank 97.
  • Kreitmann Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel (2018–2020)
  • J1 Exchange Visitor Fellowship, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST-Gaithersburg), United States Department of Commerce J1-Exchange visitor program, Government sponsored, 2023.

First prize in “Flash Talk” category at Israel Vacuum Society Students Conference (2021)

  1. Time crystals from single molecule magnet arrays, Subhajit Sarkar# and Yonatan Dubi; ACS Nano 18, 41, 27988–27996 (2024), DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.4c05817
  2. Protecting coherence from the environment via Stark many-body localization in a Quantum-Dot Simulator, Subhajit Sarkar and Berislav Buca#; Quantum 8, 1392 (2024), DOI: 10.22331/q-2024-07-02-1392
  3. Emergence and Dynamical Stability of a Charge Time-Crystal in a Current-Carrying Quantum Dot Simulator, Subhajit Sarkar# and Yonatan Dubi, Nano Letters. 22, 11, 4445–4451 (2022), DOI:10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c00976
  4. Signatures of discrete time-crystallinity in transport through an open Fermionic chain, Subhajit Sarkar# and Yonatan Dubi, Communications. Physics. 5, 155 (2022), DOI: 10.1038/s42005-022-00925-z

Full List in Google Scholar – Link https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=RMky1Z8AAAAJ&hl=en
# Corresponding Author

  • At the Department of Physics, IISER Pune on “Super-diffusive to Diffusive Transition in Quantum Transport Due to Long-Range Hopping in Non-Interacting Fermion Systems,” 13th June 2024.
  • At the Periodically and Quasi-Periodically Driven Complex Systems, ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore, India, 12-23 June 2023 on “Quantum Transport and Discrete Time Crystals,” 19th June 2023.
  • At the Marian Smoluchowski Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland on, “Quantum transport and discrete time crystals,” 13th September 2022.
  • At the Department of Physics, IISER Pune on, “Quantum transport and discrete time crystals,” 27th July 2022.

  • Contributed Talk delivered at the “NANOP-2022, Nanophotonics and micro/nano optics international conference, FIAP Jean Monet, Paris” on, “The nonlinear optical response and non-equilibrium electron dynamics in ITO” on 27th October 2022.
  • Contributed (online) Talk delivered at the “QMAT-2022 Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur” on, “Quantum transport and discrete time crystals” on 20th September 2022.
  • Contributed Talk delivered at the “Israel Vacuum Society Student Conference 2021” on, “Theory of Hot Carriers And Carrier Heating In Semiconductors.” Obtained first prize in the Flash talk category.
  • Poster presented in the “Conference on signatures of topology in condensed matter,” The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, ICTP, 20-27 October 2019.
  • Poster presented in the conference “From Quantum Computing to Quantum Chemistry: Theory, Platforms, and Practical Applications,” Sunday, 15 - 18 September 2019.

Reports on Progress in Physics, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review A, B, and E, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Scientific Reports, International Journal of Modelling and Simulation.