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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

 

  • Condensed Matter Physics-1, 2015-16 Semester 2, CBS, Mumbai
  • Mechanics (B. Tech 1st Year)
  •  Electrodynamics (B.Tech 1st Year)
  • UG Lab (B. Tech 1st Year)
  • Statistical Mechanics (M.Sc.)
  • Quantum Mechanics for Engineers (B.Tech elective)
Research Group
  • Revathy B. S. (July 2017 onwards)
  • Manju C         (January 2020 onwards )
Research Area
Non-equilibrium dynamics
Quantum phase transitions
Quantum Information

Recent Publications

Universal finite-time thermodynamics of many-body quantum machines from Kibble-Zurek scaling
Revathy B. S., Victor Mukherjee, Uma Divakaran and Adolfo del Campo
Physical Review Research (Editors' Suggestion) 2 043247 (2020)
Adiabatic dynamics of quasiperiodic transverse Ising model
Revathy B.S. and Uma Divakaran
Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment 2020 023108 (2020)
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)
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Address

 

Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad,
Ahalia Integrated Campus,
Kozhippara P. O | Palakkad,
Kerala | Pin: 678557

Phone04923 226 300 (Office)

Phone04923 226 577 (Academic Section)

Email  netadmin@iitpkd.ac.in

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