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.

Teaching (Fall 2009):

  • physics 41l.001, Fundamentals of physics Synopsis
    Physics 154, MWF 08:45 AM-09:35 AM
  • physics 41l.01r, Fundamentals of physics Synopsis
    Physics 154, W 01:15 PM-03:15 PM
  • Physics 351.01, Physics research seminar
    Physics 227, W 07:30 PM-09:30 PM

Recent Publications   (More Publications)   (search)

  1. R.K.Kaul, D.Ullmo, G. Zarand, S. Chandrasekharan and H.U.Baranger, Ground state and excitations of quantum dots with magnetic impurities, Phys. Rev. B, vol. 80 no. 3 (2009), pp. 035318 [e035318]  [abs].
  2. D. Podolski, S. Chandrasekharan and A.Vishwanath, Phase Transitions of S=1 Spinor Condensates in an optical lattice, Phys. Rev. Lett. (Submitted, 2008)  [abs].
  3. D.J. Cecile, Shailesh Chandrasekharan, Role of the sigma-resonance in determining the convergence of chiral perturbation theory, Phys. Rev. D (Rapid Communications), vol. 77 (2008), pp. 091501 [PhysRevD.77.091501]  [abs].
  4. Chandrasekharan, Shailesh, {A new computational approach to lattice quantum field theories}, PoS, vol. LATTICE2008 (2008), pp. 003 [pdf]  [abs].
  5. Cecile, D. J. and Chandrasekharan, Shailesh, {Sigma-resonance and convergence of chiral perturbation theory}, PoS, vol. LATTICE2008 (2008), pp. 071 [pdf]  [abs].

Curriculum Vitae

Current Ph.D. Students   (Former Students)

Postdocs Mentored

  • Jose A. Hoyos Neto (December (2007) - present)  
  • 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)