QUANTUM OPTICS AND FOUNDATIONS
OF QUANTUM MECHANICS GROUP


 
 
The areas of interest of the group includes classical
and quantum optics, lasers
and non-linear optics and mesoscopic systems.
 
 
Specific areas of interest include :
 
  • The phenomena of squeezing dealing with the reducing of quantum mechanical uncertainty than that of a minimum uncertainty state. Its study in atomic system known as spin squeezing.
  • The physics of micromaser and microlaser, the one-atom laser. Study of possibilities of generating Fock states of radiation fields.
  • Slow light using multiwave mixing and self induced transperancy.
  • The role of quantum mechanics in the conventional thermodynamics. Its demonstration by adding a one-atom laser to an Otto cycle engine.
  • Nonlocality, measurement problem, macroscopic limit, decoherence, Bohmian mechanics micromaser, cavity-QED, tests of foundational issues through quantum optical experiments.
  • Gauge field theories in 2+1 dimensions with Hopf and Chern-Simons terms, solitonic configurations and fractional spin.
  • Higher dimensional theories of gravity, inflation, brane cosmology. ~
  • Tissue characterization using light scattering methods, in particular, studies relating to phase function dependence of light propagation in biotissues, Monte Carlo simulation etc.
  • Tissue characterization using ultrasound back scattering. The aim here is to characterize the tissue in terms of properties like density and compressibility, from the iultrasound backscattering by the tissue constituents
  • Light scattering from a random dispersion of absorbing/nonabsorbing particles in an absorbing medium. The particular context here is the scattering of electromagnetic radiation from coal-water slurries.
     

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    The Faculty


     
     

    Nilkantha Nayak
    Associate Professor
    Quantum Optics
     

    Subodh K Sharma
    Associate Professor
    Classical and Quantum Optics
     

    P. Singha Deo 
    Reader 
    Mesoscopic Systems
     

    M. Sanjay Kumar 
    Reader
    Quantum Optics
     

    Archan S Majumdar 
    Faculty Fellow 
    Foundations of Quantum
    Mechanics

     

     
     
     
     
    RESEARCH FELLOWS

     
     
     
     

    Swarnali Bandopadhyay

    Mesoscopic Systems
    SRF
     

    Ram Narayan Deb

    Mesoscopic Systems
    SRF
     

    Manirul Ali

    Foundations of
    Quantum Mechanics
     

     
     

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