Sudip Chakravarty

Sudip Chakravarty
Professor
Theoretical Condensed Matter

Office: 6-137A Knudsen
Phone: (310) 825-4974
E-Mail: [javascript protected email address]

Educational Background: 

Current Graduate Students:

  • Jonghyoun Eun
  • Arash Bellafard
  • Chen-Hsuan Hsu
  • Antonio Russo
  • Zhiqiang Wang

Current Postdocs:

  • Dr. Ipsita Mandal

Former Graduate Students:

  • Xun Jia
    Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Dept. of Radiation Oncology, UCSD
  • Angela Kopp
    Strategic Growth Associate,
    D. E. Shaw Group, New York
  • L.-D. Chang
    (Industry)
  • R.R.P. Singh
    (Professor, UC Davis)
  • P. Kopietz
    (C4 Professor, University of Frankfurt, Germany)
  • Shubha Tewari
    (Visiting Assistant Professor, Mount Holyoke College)
  • G. Castilla
    (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
  • O. Syljuasen
    (Associate Professor,University of Oslo)
  • L. Yin
    (Professor, University of Beijing)
  • K. Voelker
    (Google)
  • H. K. Nguyen
    (Finance, Wall Street)
  • Sumanta Tewari
    (Assistant Professor, Clemson University)
  • Pallab Goswami
    (Dirac Fellow, National High Field Magnet Laboratory, Tallahassee)

Former Post Doctoral Associates:

  • David Garcia-Aldea
    (Madrid, Spain)
  • D. Orgad
    (Professor, Hebrew University, Israel)
  • D. Waxman
    (Faculty, University of Sussex, U.K.)
  • G. I. Ingold
    (Professor, University of Augsburg, Germany)
  • A.D. Stone
    (Professor, Yale University)
  • G. Zimanyi
    (Professor, UC Davis)
  • M. Wollensak
    (Industry, Germany)
  • M.P. Gelfand
    (Professor, Colorado State)
  • A. Sudbo
    (Professor, Univesrity of Trondheim, Norway)
  • L. Pryadko
    (Associate Professor, UC Riverside)
  • H. Y. Kee
    (Professor, University of Toronto)
  • J. P. Hu
    (Associate Professor, Department of Physics, University of Purdue)
  • Cristina Bena
    (Faculty, LPS Orsay, France)
  • John Fjaerestad
    (Lecturer of theoretical physics, University of Queensland, Australia)
  • Amit Ghosal
    (Faculty, IISER, Kolkata, India)

Curriculum Vitae

Research Interest: 

Chakravarty's research interest involves quantum theory of collective behavior of electronic systems. He is interested in theories of high temperature superconductivity, dissipative quantum systems, quantum phase transition and criticality, localization transition in interacting systems, and the concept of von Neumann entropy in quantum phase transitions. He is currently actively interested in competing electronic states in high temperature superconductors, in particular in understanding the surprising magnetic quantum oscillations discovered recently in these superconductors. His past accomplishments include theories of quantum phase transition in double well and arrays of Josephson junction systems coupled to a dissipative bath, criticality of Ising spin glass through high-order series expansion, path-integral analysis of electronic weak localization in disordered electrons, quantum magnetism and criticality in Heisenberg magnets in relation to high temperature superconductors, electron-electron interaction based mechanism of superconductivity in doped fullerenes, frustrated kinetic energy driven superconductivity in multilayered high temperature superconductors, and the proposal of the hidden d-density wave order as an explanation of the enigmatic pseudogap phase in high temperature superconductors, which he is still vigorously pursuing.

Selected Publications: 

Selected Non-technical Publications

Recent Conferences:

  • Co-organizer, "Contrasting Superconductivity of Pnictides and Cuprates", Aspen Winter Conference (2011)
  • Organizer, "C60 and Superconductivity", UCLA (1991).
  • Co-organizer (S. Chakravarty and P. W. Anderson), Aspen Summer Workshop, "Correlations, Fullerenes and Molecular Superconductors'' (1992)
  • Co-organizer (S. Chakravarty, H. -W. Jiang, S. Kivelson) "Critical Problems in Disordered Metals'', UCLA (1998)
  • Co-organizer (S. Chakravarty and G. Aeppli), Aspen Winter Conference, "Quantum Criticality'' (1999)
  • Co-organizer (S. Chakravarty and E. Abrahams), Aspen Winter Conference, "High Temperature Superconductivity'' (2001)
  • Co-organizer (S. Chakravarty, S. Habib, A. Kapitulnik, and M. Troyer), Aspen Summer Workshop, "Coherence and Dissipation in Quantum Systems'' (2004)
  • Co-organizer (S. Chakravarty, Elihu Abrahams, Rutgers and Jenny Hoffman, Harvard), "2005 Aspen Winter Conference on High Temperature superconductivity" (2005)
    This conference is generously supported by the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
  • Co-Chair (w/ D. N. Basov), Gordon Research Conference on Correlated Electron Systems, Jun 13-18, 2010

Photo Credit: Klaus Schoenwiese, Discover, September 1995