Archan S Majumdar
   Professor









   archan@bose.res.in
   www.bose.res.in
   Telephone +91-33-2335 5706/07/08
 

Educational Background:

  • M.Sc Physics, 1989, University of Delhi
  • PhD 1994, University of Delhi
  • Professional Background:

  • 50 research publications and 2 review articles
  • Invited talks in 25 conferences
  • 2 PhDs produced
  • Regular Courses on Cosmology and Quantum theory for SNB students; and in Schools
  • 10 student projects supervised
  • Organized 3 international workshops
  • Main area of work

    Cosmology:
  • Dark energy problem from different approaches
  • Primordial black holes as dark matter in our universe
  • Observational signatures of higher dimensional and modified gravity theories

  • Quantum Information and Foundations:
  • Quantum entanglement in atom-photon interactions
  • Time of arrival in quantum mechanics and its empirical manifestations
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    • Quantum measurement problem, and decoherence through non-standard approaches

        Significant recent publications:

    • Domination of black hole accretion in brane cosmology, A. S. Majumdar, Phys. Rev. Lett 90, 031303 (2003).
    • Braneworld black holes in cosmology and astrophysics, A. S. Majumdar and N. Mukherjee, --- {invited review article}, Int. J. Mod. Phys. D14, 1095 (2005).
    • On the quantum analogue of Galileo's leaning tower experiment, Md. Manirul Ali, A. S. Majumdar, D. Home and A. K. Pan, Class. Quant. Grav. 23, 6493 (2006).
    • Environment assisted entanglement enhancement, B. Ghosh, A. S. Majumdar, N. Nayak, Phys. Rev. A 74, 052315 (2006). [Selected for publication also in Virtual Jour. Quant. Inf. V6, Issue 11 (2006)].
    • Quantum time of flight distribution for cold trapped atoms, Md. Manirul Ali, D. Home, A. S. Majumdar and A. K. Pan, Phys. Rev. A 75, 042110 (2007).
     
     
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