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Name: GAUTAM GANGOPADHYAY
 

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Present Status:

Working as an Associate Professor at the S N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences (SNBNCBS), Salt Lake City, Kolkata-98.
 

Research Experience:
 

i. Radiation matter interaction; linear and nonlinear spectroscopy; quantum optics.
ii. Activated barrier crossing problems; Reaction Rate theory; Ultrafast spectroscopy and Reaction Rates of Molecular system.
iii. Complex Dynamics of Chemical and Biological Systems.
 

List of Publications

1. A global stochasticity criteria for Maxwell-Bloch equation,
G Gangopadhyay and D S Ray, Phys. Rev. A 40 (1989) 3750

2. Spectra of four-wave mixing in a self-consistent field,
G Gangopadhyay and D S Ray, Phys. Rev. A 41 (1990) 3985

3 Power spectra of light scattered from a strongly driven Morse oscillator,
G Gangopadhyay and D S Ray, Phys. Rev. A 41 (1990) 6429

4. Quantum electrodynamics of a single Morse oscillator in a cavity; spectral aspects,
G Gangopadhyay and D S Ray, Phys. Rev. A 43 (1991) 6424

5. Master equation for dissipative dynamics of a two-level atom in a superintense field; field dependent relaxation,
G Gangopadhyay and D S Ray, Phys. Rev. A 44 (1991) 2206

6. Spectral modification of the Stokes line of a Raman-coupled three level system in a cavity,
G Gangopadhyay and D S Ray, Phys. Rev. A 45 (1992) 1843

7. Cavity QED with a single Morse oscillator, G Gangopadhyay and D S Ray, in Quantum Optics edited by R Inguva (PlenumPress, N. Y. 1992)

8. Master equation for nonlinear dissipative systems, G Gangopadhyay and D S Ray, J. Chem. Phys. 96 (1992) 4693

9. A master equation approach to multiphoton dissociation of Morse oscillator,
G Gangopadhyay and D S Ray, J. Chem. Phys. 97 (1992) 4104

10. Non-Markovian master equation for linear and nonlinear systems,
G Gangopadhyay and D S Ray, Phys. Rev. A 46 (1992) 1507

11. Cavity field-assisted atomic relaxation and suppression of resonance fluorescence at high intensities,
G Gangopadhyay, S Basu and D S Ray, Phys. Rev. A 47 (1993) 1314

12. A fluctuation-diffusion relation in chaotic dynamics,
S Chaudhuri,G Gangopadhyay and D S Ray, Phys.Rev.E 47 (1993)311

13. Population trapping in a Raman-coupled model interacting with a two-mode quantized cavity fields, B Deb, G Gangopadhyay and D S Ray, Phys. Rev. A 48 (1993) 1400.

14. Master equation in quantum optics; some generalizations, G Gangopadhyay and D S Ray, in Advances in Multiphoton Processes, edited by S H Lin, A A Villaeys and F Fujimura, World Scientific, Singapur, 1993.

15. Coherent phase state and displaced phase state in a finite dimensional basis and their light field limits,
G Gangopadhyay, J. Mod. Opt. Vol 41 (1994) 525.

16. Generation of a class of arbitrary two-mode field state in a cavity, B. Deb, G Gangopadhyay and D.S. Ray, Phys. Rev. A 51 (1995) 2651.

17. Fluctuation and decoherence in classical chaos: A model study of a Kubo oscillator generated by a chaotic system, S Chaudhuri, G Gangopadhyay and D S Ray, Phys. Rev. E52 (1995) 2262.

18. Population trapping in the Jaynes-Cummings model with a kerr nonlinear medium,
A Bandyopadhyay and G Gangopadhyay , J. Mod. Opt. 43 (1996) 487.

19. The non-Markovian master equation for stochastically perturbed systems; effect on spectral lineshape, G Gangopadhyay and D S Ray, J. Mol. Struc.(Theo Chem), 361 (1996) 49.

20. Signature of Classical chaos on field induced quantum barrier crossing, S Chaudhuri, G Gangopadhyay and D S Ray, Special issue on Complex systems, Indian Journal of Physics, 69B (1995)507.

21. Field induced quantum barrier crossing; classical chaos and weak localization, S Chaudhuri, G Gangopadhyay and D S Ray, Phys.Letts. A216 (1996) 53.

22. Theory of Quantum fluctuations in classically chaotic Hamiltonian systems, S Chaudhuri, G Gangopadhyay and D S Ray, Phys. Rev E54 (1996)53

23. The effect of environment induced pure dephasing in the Jaynes-Cummings model,
G Gangopadhyay and S H Lin, Physica Scripta 55 (1997) 425.

24. The effect of environment induced pure dephasing in the generalized Jaynes-Cummings model,
G Gangopadhyay and S H Lin, Pramana- J. Phys. 49 (1997) 399.

25. A thermal bath induced Rabi splitting on the profile of Mollow spectrum in single molecule spectroscopy,
G Gangopadhyay and S Ghoshal Chem. Phys. Letts 289 (1998) 287.

26. Absorption line shape of impurity molecule driven by a fractal noise,
G Gangopadhyay and Y Tanimura, Chem. Phys. Letts. 289 (1998) 97.

27. Quantum Theory of dissipation of a harmonic oscillator coupled to a non-equilibrium bath; Wigner-Weisskopf decay and Physical Spectra, J Ray Chaudhuri, B Deb, G Gangopadhyay and D S Ray, J. Phys. B 31 (1998) 3859.

28. Theory of non-stationary activated rate processes: non-exponential kinetics, J Ray Chaudhuri, G Gangopadhyay and D S Ray, J. Chem. Phys 109 (1998) 5565.

29. A generating function for the product of Laguerre polynomials: Franck-Condon factor for multiphoton processes,
G Gangopadhyay, J. Phys. A Math. & Gen. 31 (1998) L771.

30. A thermal bath induced new resonances in linear and nonlinear spectra of a two-level system,
G Gangopadhyay, S Ghoshal and Y Tanimura, Chem. Phys. 242 (1999) 367.

31. An operator approach to the construction of generating function for the product of Laguerre Polynomials: A thermal average bandshape function of a molecule,
G Gangopadhyay, J. Phys. A Math. & Gen. 32 (1999) L441.

32. Steady state spectral properties of dendrimer supermolecules as light harvesting system,
D. Rana and G. Gangopadhyay, Chem. Phys. Letts. 314 (2001) 324.

33. On dissipationless decoherence ,
G. Gangopadhyay, M. Sanjay Kumar and S. Dattagupta, J. Phys. A 34 (2001) 5485.

34. Spectra of displaced distorted oscillator molecular system ,
S. Banerjee and G. Gangopadhyay, Chem. Phys. Letts. 359 (2002) 295.

35. Studies on energy transfer in Dendrimer supermolecule using classical random walk model and Eyring model,
D. Rana and G. Gangopadhyay, J. Chem. Phys. 118 (2003) 434.

36. Power law relaxation kinetics in multistate reversible reaction,
S. Paul and G. Gangopadhyay, Chem. Phys. Letts. 369 (2003) 643.

37. Power law relaxation kinetics in reversible enzyme-catalyzed reaction due to diffusion,
S. Paul and G. Gangopadhyay, J. Chem. Phys. 119(2003) 3501.

38. Quantum beat in pump-probe signal of molecular system,
S. Banerjee and G. Gangopadhyay, J. Phys. B 36 (2003) 2967.

39. Dynamics of cascade three level system interacting with the classical and quantized field,
M R Nath,S Sen and G Gangopadhyay, Pramana-J. Phys. 61 (2003) 1089-1100.

40. Born-Oppenheimer approximation: A Toy version,
G Gangopadhyay and B. Dutta-Roy, Am. J. Phys. 72 (2004) 389.

41. Radiative Decay of Nonstationary System ,
S. Banerjee and G. Gangopadhyay, J. Chem. Phys. 120 (2004) 6152.

42. The absorption bandshape function of a molecule from a thermocoherent state and some associated multilinear generating-function relationships for Laguerre polynomials,
H. M. Srivastava and G. Gangopadhyay, Russ. J. Math. Phys. 11 (2004) 359-367.

43. Laser cooling of vibrational degrees of freedom of a molecular system,
S. Banerjee and G. Gangopadhyay, J. Chem. Phys. 123 (2005) 114304.

44. Theoretical studies of electron transfer through dendrimer architecture,
D. Rana and G. Gangopadhyay, J. Chem. Phys. 124 (2006) 044909.

45. On the quantum theory of electron transfer: effect of potential surfaces of the reactant and product,
S. Banerjee and G. Gangopadhyay, J. Chem. Phys. 126 (2007) 034102.

46. On the microscopic basis of Newton's law of cooling and beyond,
M R Nath, S Sen and G. Gangopadhyay, J. Chem. Phys. 127 (2007) 094505.

47. Quantum electron transfer processes induced by thermocoherent state,
S. Banerjee and G. Gangopadhyay, J. Chem. Sciences 119 (2007) 1-10.

48. Effect of field quantization on Rabi oscillation of equidistant cascade four-level system,
M R Nath, T K Dey, S Sen and G. Gangopadhyay,, Pramana- J. Phys.70 (2008) 141.

49. Dynamical symmetry breaking of lambda and vee-type three-level systems on quantization of the field modes,
M R Nath, S Sen, A K Sen and G. Gangopadhyay,, Pramana- J. Phys.71 (2008)77.

50. Spectra of conjugated polymer aggregates: Symmetry of the interchain dressed states,
K. Banerjee and G. Gangopadhyay, J. Chem. Phys. 130 (2009) 084705.

51. Aggregate of a network of conjugated polymer chains: Symmetry of the excitonic states and spectral features,
K. Banerjee and G. Gangopadhyay, J. Phys.B 42 (2009) 165106.

52. Effect of geometry of dipolar orientations on the spectra of di and trimer chain aggregates.
K. Banerjee and G. Gangopadhyay, Phys. Rev. B 81 (2010) 035307.

53. Master equation approach to single oligomeric enzyme catalysis: Mechanically controlled further catalysis,
B. Das and G. Gangopadhyay, J. Chem. Phys. 132 (2010) 135102.

54. Role of positional disorder in the spectra of conjugated polymer aggregates: conical intersection of potential energy surfaces
K. Banerjee and G. Gangopadhyay, J. Phys.B 43 (2010) 235104.

55. Bloch equation and atom-field entanglement scenario in three-level systems,
S. Sen, M. R. Nath, T. K. dey and G. Gangopadhyay, AIP Conf. Proc. 1384 (2011) 190.

56. Magnetically induced variation of tunneling current and nonclassicality in a coupled quantum dot system,
K. Banerjee and G. Gangopadhyay, AIP Conf. Proc. 1384 (2011) 137.

57. Bloch space structure, the qutrit wave function and atom-field entanglement in three-level systems,
S. Sen, M. R. Nath, T. K. dey and G. Gangopadhyay, Annals of Physics 327 (2012) 224.

58. Stochastic theory of interfacial enzyme kinetics: A kinetic Monte Carlo study,
B. Das and G. Gangopadhyay, Chem. Phys. 393 (2012) 58.

59. Electronic nuclear entanglement in a conjugated polymer aggregate with a conical intersection: spectral signatures
K. Banerjee and G. Gangopadhyay, J. Phys.B 45 (2012) 045102.

60. Decoherence without dissipation due to fermionic bath,
A. Karmakar and G. Gangopadhyay, Physica Scripta 85 (2012) 045008.

61. Entropic estimate of cooperative binding of substrate on a single oligomeric enzyme: An index of cooperativity,
K. Banerjee, B. Das and G. Gangopadhyay, J. Chem. Phys. 136 (2012) 154502.

62. Entropy hysteresis and nonequilibrium thermodynamic efficiency of ion conduction in a voltage-gated potassium ion-channel,
B. Das, K. Banerjee and G. Gangopadhyay, Phys. Rev. E 86, (2012) 061915.

63. Entropy production of a mechanically driven single oligomeric enzyme: a consequence of fluctuation theorem,
B. Das, K. Banerjee and G. Gangopadhyay, J. Math. Chem.51, (2013) 588.

64. On the estimation of cooperativity in ion channel kinetics: activation free energy and kinetic mechanism of potassium ion channel,
K Banerjee, B Das and G Gangopadhyay, J. Chem. Phys. (in Press).
 

Some recent research activities(2008-2012):
 

i. Quantum characterization of luminescence of conjugated polymer aggregates: We have studied on the characterization of luminescence properties of aggregates of polymeric chains in terms of the nonadiabatic molecular processes. The key ingredient is the fact that the potential energy surfaces of different electronic states are not mutually independent and thus gives rise to strange excited state static and dynamic properties.We have theoretically studied the nature of symmetry of the interchain excitonic states for a network of conjugated polymer aggregate system consisting of N equivalent polymer chains. For equivalent tetramer aggregates with square planar (2D) and tetrahedral (3D) structures, permutation symmetry approach is an appropriate general recipe to classify the symmetry of the eigenstates of both the tetramer systems. The absorption and emission spectra for different classes of aggregates, over a wide range of temperatures, are explained in terms of the symmetry properties of the coupled excitonic states. We have also studied the effect of geometry of dipolar orientations on the spectra of dimer and trimer chain aggregates in a different context. Using the dimer model we have explained the basic features of Lamellar and herringbone aggregate spectra. We have also explained the blue shift in absorption for the cyclic trimer compared to its linear counterpart for comparable interchain interactions for thiophene aggregates which was discussed earlier through Frenkel exciton theory with only electronic degrees of freedom.
ii. Stochastic theory of chemical reaction kinetics at the single molecule level: Motivated by the single molecule enzymatic experiments we have provided a master equation description of enzyme catalysis in a chemiostatic condition for an immobilized oligomeric molecule with many equivalent active sites. The random attachment and detachment of substrate molecules on the various active sites of the oligomeric enzyme is studied in terms of the classical parameters of the Michaelis-Menten type process. In the limit of single molecule process, the master equation approach gives the result of waiting time distribution. On the other hand, for a large number of equivalent active sites or a few number of active sites with large Michaelis constant the master equation gives a Poisson distribution in the nonequilibrium steady state. For the oligomeric enzyme, the net rate of the reaction in the nonequilibrium steady state is multiplied by the number of active sites which is further enhanced by more than two orders of magnitude with the application of external force of 10-100pN through the techniques of atomic force microscopy. Substrate flux and reaction rate constants have interesting consequences on the dynamics and at nonequilibrium steady state which can be the controlling factors for macroscopic biochemical processes. In the spirit of Gillespie's stochastic approach we have provided a stochastic simulation technique for the study of interfacial enzyme kinetics where deltailed kinetic steps are considered on the basis of a recent expeiment through wide field fluorescence microscopy. Here we have given a microscopic description of hopping and scooting mode motion at the single enzyme level to find the dependence of the macroscopic rate in the long time limit and the lag-burst phenomenon at early time dynamics. Hopping over the fluid and product region involves diffusion in two widely separated time scales and thereby a dynamic disorder is developed in the turnover time which discriminates from the scooting mode motion of the enzyme in the burst phase of kinetics. We have provided a master equation approach to study kinetics and nonequilibrium thermodynamics of single potassium ion channel. Recently we are working on the cooperativity of ligand binding and ion channel problems from the trajectory entropy estimation. This simulation technique can also be applicable to understand other complex biological activities where various mechano and electro chemical rate processes are involved.