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Dr. Uma Divakaran
Asst. Professor
Physics
Email Me
https://udiva.github.io/
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PhD, IIT Kanpur (2010)

Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral fellow, Saarland University, Germany (2010)

INSPIRE Faculty, IIT Kanpur (2013)

UGC Assistant Professor, Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences  (2015)

Assistant Professor, IIT Palakkad, since June 2016

 

Teaching
  • Tutor, Physics I at IIT Kanpur and CBS (Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences), Mumbai involving Mechanics
  • Condensed Matter Physics-1, 2015-16 Semester 2, CBS, Mumbai
  • Ph1010 involving Mechanics  2016-17 and 2017-18, Semester 1, IIT Palakkad
  • PH1020 involving Electrostatics, Magnetostatics and Electrodynamics, 2016-17 and 2017-18, Semester II, IIT Palakkad
  • PH1030 Physics UG Lab, 2016-17 and 2017-18, Semester 1, IIT Palakkad
Research Group
  • Revathy B. S. (July 2017 onwards)
Research Area
Non-equilibrium dynamics
Quantum phase transitions
Quantum Information

Recent Publications

Sudden quenches in a quasiperiodic Ising model
Uma Divakaran
Physical Review E 98 032110 (2018)
Effect of double local quenches on Loschmidt echo and entanglement entropy of a one-dimensional quantum system
Atanu Rajak and Uma Divakaran
J. Stat. Mech. 043107 (2016) (2016)
Slow quenches in a quantum Ising chain; dynamical phase transitions and topology
Shraddha Sharma, Uma Divakaran, A. Polkovnikov and Amit Dutta
Phys. Rev. B 93 144306 (2016)
Tuning the presence of dynamical phase transitions in a generalized $XY$ spin chain
Uma Divakaran, Shraddha Sharma and Amit Dutta
Phys. Rev. E 93 052133 (2016)
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Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad,
Ahalia Integrated Campus,
Kozhippara P. O | Palakkad,
Kerala | Pin: 678557

Phone04923 226 300 (Office)

Phone04923 226 577 (Academic Section)

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