Shailesh Chandrasekharan, Associate Professor  

Shailesh Chandrasekharan

Office Location: 253 Physics
Office Phone: 919-660-2462
Email Address: sch@phy.duke.edu
Web Page: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~sch/

Specialties:
Theoretical nuclear physics
Theoretical particle physics and string theory
Theoretical condensed matter physics

Education:
Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia, 1995
B. Tech, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, 1989

Research Categories: Theoretical Nuclear and Particle Physics

Current projects: Strongly Coupled Lattice QCD,, Fermion/Cluster algorithms,, One Dimensional Electron Gas, SU(4) Kondo Problem

Research Description: Prof. Chandrasekharan is interested in non-perturbative aspects of Quantum Field Theories. His research focuses on Lattice QCD and other strongly correlated fermionic systems. He develops novel Monte-Carlo algorithms to study these problems.

Areas of Interest:
Quantum Field Theories, Lattice formulations,
Critical Phenomena and Monte Carlo Algorithms.

Recent Publications   (More Publications)   (search)

  1. D.J. Cecile and S. Chandrasekharan, Absence of vortex condensation in a two dimensional fermionic XY model, Phys. Rev. D, vol. 77 (2008), pp. 054502 [e054502]  [abs].
  2. F.-J. Jiang, M. Nyfeler, S. Chandrasekharan, U.-J. Wiese, From an Antiferromagnet to a Valence Bond Solid: Evidence for a First Order Phase Transition, J. Stat. Mech. (2008), pp. P02009 (arXiv:0710.3926.) [available here]  [abs].
  3. S. Chandrasekharan and Abhijit C. Mehta, Effects of the anomaly on the two-flavor QCD chiral phase transition, Physical Review Letters, vol. 99 (2007), pp. 142004 [e142004]  [abs].
  4. D. Podolsky (UC, Berkeley) , S. Chandrasekharan, A. Vishwanath (UC, Berkeley & LBL, Berkeley), Novel transitions in S=1 spinor condensates and XY Ashkin-Teller universality, arXiv:0707.0695 [cond-mat.stat-mech] (Submitted, 2007) [0695]  [abs].
  5. S. Chandrasekharan, F.-J. Jiang (Bern U.) , M. Pepe (Milan Bicocca U. & INFN, Milan Bicocca) , U.-J. Wiese (Bern U.), Rotor Spectra, Berry Phases, and Monopole Fields: From Antiferromagnets to QCD., cond-mat/0612252 (Submitted, 2007) [0612252]  [abs].

Curriculum Vitae

Current Ph.D. Students   (Former Students)

  • Dong Liu  
  • Abhijit C Mehta  
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Postdocs Mentored

  • Ji-Woo Lee (2003/09-2005/08)  
  • Jaebeom Yoo (2003/09-2005/08)  
  • Costas Strouthos (2003/01-2004/01)  
  • David H. Adams (2001/12-2002/08)  
  • James C Osborn (1999/09-2001/08)