Shailesh Chandrasekharan, Associate Professor and Director, Graduate Studies  

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: Quantum Critical Behavior in Fermion Systems, Using the generalized fermion bag algorithm, Applications to Graphene and Unitary Fermi Gas.

Research Description: Prof. Chandrasekharan is interested in non-perturbative aspects of Quantum Field Theories. His research focuses on Lattice Field Theories with emphasis on 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. S. Chandrasekharan and A. Li, The generalized fermion-bag approach, arXiv:1111.5276 [hep-lat] (conference proceedings) (Submitted, December, 2011) [5276]  [abs].
  2. S. Chandrasekharan and A. Li, Fermion bags, duality and the three dimensional massless lattice Thirring model, arXiv:1111.7204 (submitted to PRL) (Submitted, December, 2011) [7204]  [abs].
  3. S. Chandrasekharan and U.-J. Wiese, Partition Functions of Strongly Correlated Electron Systems as 'Fermionants'., arXiv:1108.2461 (submitted to Journal of Statistical Physics) (Submitted, July, 2011) [2461]  [abs].
  4. S. Chandrasekharan and A. Li, Fermion bag approach to the sign problem in strongly coupled lattice QED with Wilson fermions, Journal of High Energy Physics, vol. 018 (2011) [available here]  [abs].
  5. D. Banerjee and S. Chandrasekharan, Finite size effects in the presence of a chemical potential: A study in the classical non-linear O(2) sigma-model, Physical Review D, vol. 81 (2010), pp. 125007 [e125007] .

Curriculum Vitae

Current Ph.D. Students   (Former Students)

Postdocs Mentored

  • Anyi Li (2009 - 2011)  
  • Jose A. Hoyos Neto (2007 - 2009)  
  • 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)