Current StatusC.S.I.R. Senior Research Associate (Scientists' Pool)
Education:
Ph.D.
in Physics, May 2009
Center
for Complex Quantum Systems University
of Texas at Austin
Advisor:
Prof. Linda
E. Reichl Title:
"Dynamics
of Quantum Control in Cold-Atom Systems"
M.Sc.
in Physics, May 2002
Department
of Physics Indian
Institute of Technology, Kanpur (India)
B.Sc.
in Physics, July 2000 Department
of Physics Jadavpur
University, Calcutta (India)
Experience:
C.S.I.R. Senior Research Associate
Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics Division
Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics Nov. 2011 - Present
Postdoctoral
Research Fellow S.N.
Bose National Center for Basic Sciences Kolkata, India
Nov. 2009 - Nov 2011
Postdoctoral
Associate The
Center for Complex Quantum Systems The
University of Texas at Austin Jun. 2009 - Aug. 2009
Graduate
Research Assistant Center
for Complex Quantum Systems University
of Texas at Austin Summer
05-Fall 05, Summer 06-Summer 07
Graduate
Teaching Assistant
Department
of Physics /Astronomy
University
of Texas at Austin
Fall 02-Spring 05 & Spring 06 (TA),
Fall 07-Spring 08 (Grader)
Research interests (click on the links for subject overview and/or resources)
Papers and Publications
- A.Roy, A.Das, K. Sengupta, R. Dasgupta and S. Modak, "Periodically driven quanching in BCS systems", in progress
- A.Roy, "Dynamics of quantum quenching for BCS-BEC systems in the shallow BEC regime", sent to EPJ Plus, available as arXiv:1009:2125
- A.Roy and L.E. Reichl, "Quantum Control of Interacting Bosons in Periodic Optical Lattice", Physica E 42, 1627 (2010)
- A.Roy and L.E. Reichl, "Coherent Control of Trapped Bosons", Phys Rev A 77, 033418 (2008)
- A.Roy and J.K. Bhattacharjee, "Chaos in the Quantum Double Well Oscillator: The Ehrenfest View Revisited", Phys Lett A 288/1-3 (2001)
Conference
Presentation and Posters
2011 International School on topology in Quantum Matter,
International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
2010 STATPHYS-Kolkata VII,
Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, WB, India
BCS-BEC crossover in ultracold gases: A dynamical approach
Poster session
2009
A.P.S March Meeting,
David L. Lawrence Convention Center,
Pittsburgh, PA
Dynamics of Quantum Control for Bosons in
Optical Lattices
Session P17: Semiconducting Qbits I, Lec
P17, 15
2008
A.P.S March Meeting,
Morial Convention Center, New Orleans,
LA
Coherent Control of Trapped Bosons
Session D14:
Quantum Information Science in AMO, Lec D14 2
Fall 2007 Joint
Meeting, Tx Sect. A.P.S et al
Dept of Physics, Texas A & M
University
Coherent Control of Trapped Bosons
Session
B2 AMO1: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Lec B2.1
Useful Free Software:
Numerical libraries and APIs:
| Name and Link
|
Description
|
Supported Platforms
|
| GNU Scientific Library |
A powerful, free, open source and considerably less painful alternative to Numerical Recipes or NAG |
GNU/Linux, Windows (through Cygwin)
|
Glib
|
Cross-platform
software utility library that provides data structures, linked lists,
hash tables, dynamic strings , dynamic arrays, balanced binary trees,
N-ary trees, quarks, keyed data lists, relations and tuples.
Note: Another howto manual available here. |
GNU/Linux, Windows (through Cygwin) |
| OpenMPI |
MPI message passing in parallel computing environments, supports OpenMP, also see pthreads |
GNU/Linux, Windows |
| PetSc |
Portable Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation in parallel computing environments |
GNU/Linux, Windows (through Cygwin) |
| Slepc |
Parallel matrix diagonalization using MPI and PetSc. Contains parallel Lapack implementation
|
GNU/Linux, Windows (through Cygwin) |
Data storage, analysis and visualization software:
| Name and Link |
Description |
Supported Platforms |
| Heirarchical Data Format (HDF) |
HDF5 is a unique technology suite that makes possible the management of extremely large and complex data collections
|
All Major Platforms
|
| Network Common Data Form (NetCDF) |
A
set of software libraries and self-describing, machine-independent data
formats that support the creation, access, and sharing of
array-oriented scientific data. |
All Major Platforms |
| ParaView
|
Open Source data analysis and visualization in parallel computing environments |
GNU/Linux, Windows, Mac OS
|
| Mayavi
|
3D visualization of scientific data |
All Major Platforms |
| QtiPlot/SciDavis
|
Open Source clones of Origin |
GNU/Linux, Windows, Mac OS
|
| g3data
|
Extract data from images of plots |
GNU/Linux,Windows (through Cygwin) |
Computer Algebra Systems:
Integrated Development Environments:
LaTeX and BibTeX editors:
| Name and Link |
Description |
Supported Platforms |
| Kile |
LaTeX editor using KDE on Linux |
GNU/Linux |
| Texmaker |
Free crosspplatform LaTeX editor
|
GNU/Linux, Windows, Mac OS |
| Lyx |
Structured document processor
|
GNU/Linux, Windows, Mac OS |
| Texworks |
Qt toolkit based LaTeX editor
|
GNU/Linux, Windows, Mac OS |
| JabRef |
BibTeX editor written in java
|
GNU/Linux, Windows, Mac OS |
| Tellico |
BibTeX editor and general bibliography manager using KDE on Linux |
GNU/Linux |
arXiv tools:
Miscellaneous:
| Type:
|
Name and Link |
Description |
Supported Platforms |
| Uncategorized:
|
TunesViewer |
Open Source viewer for iTunesU |
GNU/Linux |
|
TrueCrypt |
Create encrypted filesystems for sensitive data, |
GNU/Linux, Windows, Mac OS |
|
Filling PDF forms in Office apps
|
Howto on filling PDF forms using OpenOffice/LibreOffice.
|
GNU/Linux, Windows, Mac OS |
|
|
|
|
| LaTeX tools:
|
LaTeX labs |
Online LaTeX editor. Links to Google docs |
All Major Platforms |
|
LaTeX equation editor |
Codecogs online LaTeX equation editor |
All Major Platforms |
|
Verbosus |
Online LaTeX and Octave service. |
All Major Platforms |
|
|
|
|
| Unix pseudoshells:
|
MinGW |
GNU shell environment for Windows |
Windows
|
|
Cygwin |
Software for imitating a Unix environment on Windows
|
Windows
|
|
|
|
|
| Image and document manipulation:
|
ImageMagick |
Powerful library for manipulating/compressing images |
GNU/Linux, Windows, Mac OS |
|
Kde Image Menu
|
KDE service menu which allows to resize, convert, and rotate images
|
GNU/Linux |
|
Pdftk: The PDF toolkit
|
Toolkit for hacking pdf files
|
GNU/Linux (GUI), Windows (GUI) (GUI), Mac OS |
|
Flpsed
|
Postscript and PDF annotator
|
GNU/Linux |
|
pdfedit
|
Free editor for PDF documents
|
GNU/Linux, Windows |
|
Kde pdf servicemenu
|
KDE service menu for manipulating/compressing pdf files, uses pdftk |
GNU/Linux |
|
Jpeg2eps |
Script for embedding jpegs into eps containers using ghostscript |
GNU/Linux |
|
|
|
|
| Website authoring
|
Kompozer |
Web page authoring software |
GNU/Linux, Windows, Mac OS |
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