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Shailesh Chandrasekharan, Associate Professor of Physics
| Office Location: | 253 Physics |
| Office Phone: | (919) 660-2462 |
| Email Address: |   |
| Web Page: | http://www.phy.duke.edu/~sch/ |
- Education:
Doctor of Philosophy Columbia 1995 B. Tech Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India 1989
- Specialties:
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Theoretical nuclear physics
Theoretical particle physics and string theory
Theoretical condensed matter physics
- Research Interests: Theoretical Nuclear and Particle Physics
Current projects: Strongly Coupled Lattice QCD,, Fermion/Cluster algorithms,, One Dimensional Electron Gas, SU(4) Kondo Problem
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.
- Current Ph.D. Students
(Former Students)
- Dong Liu
- Abhijit C Mehta
- 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)
- Recent Publications
(More Publications)
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- S. Chandrasekharan and A. Li, The generalized fermion-bag approach, arXiv:1111.5276 [hep-lat] (conference proceedings) (Submitted, December, 2011) [5276] [abs]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]