Dr. Ranjan Modak

Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest

• Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics
• Non-equilibrium quantum dynamics
• Quantum chaos and Many-body localization
• Bethe Ansatz and Integrable systems
• Tensor Networks and Matrix product state (DMRG)
• Quantum thermodynamics and shortcut to adiabaticity

Education

• Ph.D, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore (2016)
• M.Sc, IIT Kharagpur, Kharagpur (2010)
• B.Sc, Jadavpur University, Kolkata (2008)

Latest Publications

• One-dimensional Levy quasicrystal; Pallabi Chatterjee and Ranjan Modak; J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 35, 505602 (2023).
• R Modak, and B P Mandal, Eigenstate entanglement entropy in PT invariant non-Hermitian system, Phys. Rev. A 103, 062416 (2021)
• R Modak, and D Rakshit, Many-body dynamical phase transition in quasi-periodic potential, Phys. Rev. B 103, 224310 (2021)
• R Modak, V Alba, and P Calabrese, Entanglement revivals as a probe of scrambling in finite quantum systems, J. Stat. Mech. (2020) 083110
• L Hackl, E Bianchi, R Modak, M Rigol, Entanglement production in bosonic systems: Linear and logarithmic growth, Phys. Rev. A 97, 032321 (2018)
• R Modak, and S Mukerjee, Many-body localization in the presence of a single particle mobility edge, Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 230401 (2015)