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. Chandrasekharan, Shailesh, Fermion Bag Solutions to Sign Problems, Proceedings of Science, vol. Lattice2012 (December, 2012), pp. 224 .
  2. Chandrasekharan, Shailesh, Solutions to sign problems in lattice Yukawa models, Phys. Rev. D, vol. 86 (July, 2012), pp. 021701, American Physical Society [PhysRevD.86.021701], [doi] .
  3. Chandrasekharan, Shailesh and Li, Anyi, Fermion bag solutions to some sign problems in four-fermion field theories, Phys. Rev. D, vol. 85 (May, 2012), pp. 091502, American Physical Society [PhysRevD.85.091502], [doi] .
  4. Chandrasekharan, Shailesh and Li, Anyi, Fermion Bags, Duality, and the Three Dimensional Massless Lattice Thirring Model, Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 108 (April, 2012), pp. 140404, American Physical Society [PhysRevLett.108.140404], [doi] .
  5. S. Chandrasekharan and A. Li, The generalized fermion bag approach, Proceedings of Science, vol. Lattice 2011 (December, 2011), pp. 058 .

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)