Dr. R. Sankaranarayanan

R. Sankaranarayanan received his Ph.D. from Gujarat University in the year 2002 for his doctoral work carried out in Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) Ahmedabad, India. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow in PRL and Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel till October 2003. Later on he worked as a research associate and scientist in Bharathidasan University from November 2003 to April 2006. He joined NIT in April 2006.

Employment Profile

Job Title Employer From To
Research Associate School of Physics, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli. Tamilnadu. November 2003 August 2005
Scientist School of Physics, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli. Tamilnadu. September 2005 April 2006
Assistant Professor National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, Tamilnadu. April 2006 March 2018
Associate Professor National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, Tamilnadu. March 2018 -

Academic Qualifications (From Highest Degree to High School):

Examination Board / University Year Division/ Grade Subjects
Ph.D. Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat. 2002 - Theoretical Physics
PGDCA St. Xavier’s College, Tirunelveli, Tamilnadu. 1995 77% I Class Computer Applications
M.Sc. (Physics) Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli, Tamilnadu. 1994 60.6% I Class Physics
B.Sc. (Physics) Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, Tamilnadu. 1992 85% I Class Physics, Chemistry Mathematics, English, and Tamil
HSCC Board of Higher Secondary Examination, Tamilnadu 1989 73.6% Tamil, English, Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Mathematics
SSLC Board of Secondary Education, Tamilnadu 1987 82.8% Tamil, English, Mathematics, Science, History & Geography

Academic/Administrative Responsibilities within the University

Position Faculty/Department/ Centre/Institution From To
Subject Coordinator for I B.Tech. (Physics I & II) Department of Physics April 2006 May 2009
Admission and Staff Coordinator for M.Sc. (Applied Physics) Department of Physics June 2009 June 2011
Admission and Staff Coordinator for M.Sc. (Physics) Department of Physics June 2011 June 2015
Warden (Amber-A) Hostel December 2010 June 2013
Warden (Agate) Hostel July 2013 November 2015

Fellowships

Year of Award Name of the Fellowship Awarding Organization From (Month/Year) To (Month/Year)
1995 Research Scholar Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, Gujarat. August 1995 July 2000
2002 Post-doctoral fellowship Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, Gujarat. January 2002 September 2002
2002 Post-doctoral fellowship Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. October 2002 October 2003

Details of Academic Work

  • Curriculum Development
  1. Staff coordinator in framing curriculum & syllabi for M.Sc. (Applied Physics) in the academic year 2007 - 08.
  2. Staff coordinator for minor revision of syllabi for M.Sc. (Physics) in the academic year 2010 - 11.
  3. Staff coordinator for major revision of curriculum & syllabi for M.Sc. (Physics) in the academic year 2014 -15.
  4. In-charge of preparing I B.Tech. (Physics) Lab Manual (2006 - 2009). I Tech. (Physics) Lab has been constantly expanded and upgraded to cater the need of 800 students.
  5. I B.Tech. (Physics) Lab Equipments worth of about Rs. 5 Lakhs have been purchased during 2006 - 2009.
  6. Active participation in revising the syllabi of Physics I & II courses (I B.Tech.) in the academic year 2010 - 11.
  • Courses taught at Postgraduate and Undergraduate levels

I B.Tech.

  1. Physics – I (Theory & Lab)
  2. Physics – II (Theory & Lab)

M.Sc. (Physics)

  1. Mathematical Physics
  2. Electromagnetic Theory
  3. Quantum Mechanics
  4. Statistical Mechanics
  5. Numerical and Computational Methods
  6. Quantum Computation and Quantum Information
  • Projects guided at Postgraduate level

M.Sc. (Physics) – 24, M.Tech. (NDT) – 21

  • Other contribution
  1. Prepared a standard steel (MS) block for M.Tech. (NDT) laboratory.
  2. Prepared few demonstration models for teaching physics at school level.

Number of PhDs guided

Name of the PhD Scholar Title of PhD Thesis Role (Supervisor/ Co-Supervisor) Year of Award
S. Balakrishnan Nonlocal characterization and applications of two-qubit gates Supervisor 2012
R. Muthuganesan Fidelity and measurement based quantum correlation measure for bipartite states Supervisor 2018

Workshops/ Symposia/ Conferences/ Colloquia/Seminars Organized (as Chairman/ Organizing Secretary/ Convenor / Co-Convenor)

Title of Activity Level of Event (International/ National/ Local) Date (s) Role Venue
Short-term course on Waves and Oscillations in Science & Technology Local 7 – 8 October, 2014. Coordinator Department of Physics, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, Tamilnadu.
Workshop on Statistical Physics and Material Science (Sponsored by TEQIP – II) National 21 – 23 July, 2016. Coordinator Department of Physics, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, Tamilnadu.

Invited Talks delivered

Topic Date Inviting Organization
Chaos in a well: Role of competing length scales April 2002 Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, Tamilnadu.
Non-KAM transition to chaos in simple dynamical model April 2002 Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, tamilnadu.
Nodal domain distribution of rectangular drums, National February 2005 Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttarpradesh.
Chaos in Generalized Standard Map December 2005 Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, Tamilnadu.
Measurements (in Tamil) August 2006 National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, Tamilnadu.
Anomalous Diffusion in Hamiltonian Systems June 2007 Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, Gurajat.
Quantum Computation – A New Paradigm February 2009 Chikkanna Government Arts College, Tiruppur, Tamilnadu.
Quantum Computation – A New Paradigm August 2009 PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu.
Characterization of two-qubit gates 20.02 2012 Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, Gujarat.
Thermodynamics 05.12.2012 Academic Staff College, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, Tamilnadu.
Free and forced oscillations including continuous systems 26.12.2013 PSGR Krishnammal College for Women, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu.
Electromagnetic Waves 18.11.2014 Academic Staff College, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, Tamilnadu.
Physics through Oscillations 7.10.2014 National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, Tamilnadu.
Maxwell and Polarization 22.02.2016 UGC-Human Resource Development Centre, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, Tamilnadu.
Thermodynamics and Partition Function 21.07.2016 National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, Tamilnadu.
The Classroom Experience 30.09.2016 M.D.T. Hindu College, Tirunelveli, Tamilnadu.
Quantum Mechanics 29.03.2017 Bishop Heber College, Tiruchirappalli, Tamilnadu.
En-light-enment from Maxwell 27.11.2018 Anjalai Ammal Mahalingam Engineering College, Kovilvenni, Thiruvarur District, Tamilnadu.
Rayleigh and Raman Scattering (Tamil) 28.02.2018 National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, Tamilnadu.
Electromagnetic Waves 27.11.2018 Bishop Heber College, Tiruchirappalli, Tamilnadu.
Quantum information and computation 11.01.2019 Sadakathullah Appa College, Tirunelveli, Tamilnadu.
Introduction to Quantum Mechanics 14.06.2019 Rabiammal Ahmed Maideen College for Women, Tiruvarur, Tamilnadu.
Formulation of Quantum Mechanics 04.10.2019 SASTRA University, Thanjavur, Tamilnadu.
Wave Mechanics, Tool for Quantum World, 14.05.2020 Sri Ramakrishna College of Art and Science, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu.
A Journey towards Wave Mechanics 12.06.2020 B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, Tamilnadu.
Postulates of Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Circuits 05.01.2021 K.S. Rangasamy College of Technology, Tiruchengode.
Thermodynamic Entropy 05.08.2021 UGC-HRDC, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry.
Thermodynamic Entropy 04.01.2022 National College, Tiruchirappalli, Tamilnadu.
Introduction to Quantum States 05.01.2022 National College, Tiruchirappalli, Tamilnadu.
Training Program on Quantum Mechanics 19.03.2022 Lady Doak College, Madurai, Tamilnadu.
Rolling Objects 02.07.2022 Sphics Science Centre, Thalassery, Kerala.

Academic Foreign Visits

Country Duration of Visit Programme
Singapore September 4 – 8, 2017. 17th Asian Quantum Information Science, National University of Singapore.

Publications

(A) Refereed Research Journals:

Author(s) Title of Paper Journal Volume (No.) Page numbers Year Impact Factor of the Journal (Optional)
R. Sankaranarayanan, A. Lakshminarayan and V.B. Sheorey Chaos in a well: Effects of Competing length scales Phys. Lett. A 279 313 2001 2.707
R. Sankaranarayanan, A. Lakshminarayan and V.B. Sheorey Quantum chaos of a particle in a square well: Competing length scales and dynamical localization Phys. Rev. E 64 046210 2001 2.707
R. Sankaranarayanan and A. Lakshminarayan Recurrence of fidelity in nearly integrable systems Phys. Rev. E 68 036216 2003 2.707
R. Sankaranarayanan Level velocity statistics of hyperbolic chaos Phys. Lett. A 325 57 2004 2.707
R. Sankaranarayanan and V.B. Sheorey Accelerator modes of square well system Phys. Lett. A 338 288 2005 2.707
R. Sankaranarayanan, Jane H. Sheeba and M. Lakshmanan Dynamical echo in two-state quantum systems Chaos, Solitons and Fractals 33 1618 2007 9.92
S. Balakrishnan and R. Sankaranarayanan Entangling characterization of SWAP1/m and controlled unitary gates Phys. Rev. A 78 052305 2008 2.971
S. Balakrishnan and R. Sankaranarayanan Characterizing the geometrical edges of nonlocal two-qubit gates Phys. Rev. A 79 052339 2009 2.971
S. Balakrishnan and R. Sankaranarayanan Entangling power and local invariants of two-qubit gates Phys. Rev. A 82 034301 2010 2.971
S. Balakrishnan and R. Sankaranarayanan Operator-Schmidt decomposition and the geometrical edges of two-qubit gates Quantum Inf. Process 10 449 2011 3.6
S. Balakrishnan and R. Sankaranarayanan Measures of operator entanglement of two-qubit gates Phys. Rev. A 83 062320 2011 2.971
S. Balakrishnan and R. Sankaranarayanan Classical rules and quantum strategies in penny flip game Quantum Info. Process 12 1261 2013 3.6
R. Muthuganesan and R. Sankaranarayanan Nonlocal correlation in Heisenberg spin models Int. J. Mod. Phys. B 13 1750166 2017 2.1
R. Muthuganesan and R. Sankaranarayanan Fidelity based measurement induced nonlocality Phys. Letts. A 381 3028 2017 2.707
R. Muthuganesan and R. Sankaranarayanan Fidelity based measurement induced nonlocality and its dynamics in quantum noisy channels Phys. Letts. A 381 3855 2017 2.707
R. Muthuganesan and R. Sankaranarayanan Dynamics of measurement-induced nonlolcality under decoherenece Quantum Inf. Process. 17 305 2018 3.6
R. Muthuganesan and R. Sankaranarayanan Fidelity-based measurement-induced nonlocality over two-sided measurements Int. J. Quan. Info. 16 (6) 1850054 2018 0.979
K. Manikandan, N. Vishnu Priya, M. Senthilvelan and R. Sankaranarayanan Deformation of dark solitons in a PT-invariant variable coeffecients nonlocal nonlinear Schrödinger equation Chaos 28 083103 2018 3.741
Indrajith V.S., R. Muthuganesan and R. Sankaranarayanan Entanglement and measurement induced quantum correlation in Heisenberg spin models Physica A 527 121325 2019 3.778
K. Hari, K. Manikandan and R. Sankaranarayanan Dissipative optical solitons in asymmetric Rosen-Morse potential Phys. Letts. A 384 126104 2020 2.707
Indrajith V.S., R. Muthuganesan and R. Sankaranarayanan Measurement-induced nonlocality quantified by Hellinger distance and weak measurements Physica A 566 125615 2021 3.778
R. Muthuganesan, V.K. Chandrasekar and R. Sankaranarayanan Quantum coherence measure based on affinity Phys. Lett. A 394 127205 2021 2.707
Venkat Abhignan and R. Sankaranarayanan Continued functions and perturbation series: simple tools for convergence of diverging series in O(n)-symmetric field theory at weak coupling limit J. Stat. Phys. 183 4 2021 1.762
Indrajith V.S. and R. Sankaranarayanan Effect of environment on quantum correlation in Heisenberg XYZ spin model Physica A 582 126250 2021 3.778
P. Vipin and R. Sankaranarayanan Role of virial coefficients in chemical reaction Pramana – J. Phys. 95 144 2021 2.699
Venkat Abhignan and R. Sankaranarayanan Continued functions and Borel-Leroy transformation: resummation of six-loop -expansions from different universality classes J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 54 425401 2021 2.331
Venkat Abhignan and R. Sankaranarayanan Casimir-like effect from thermal field fluctuations Braz. J. Phys. 51 1897 2021 1.364

(B) Conferences/Workshops/Symposia Proceedings

Author(s) Title of Abstract/ Paper Title of the Proceedings Page numbers Conference Theme Venue Year
U. Smilansky and R. Sankaranarayanan Nodal domain distribution of rectangular drums Proceedings of National Conference on Nonlinear Systems and Dynamics - - Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. Feb. 24-26, 2005.
S. Balakrishnan and R. Sankaranarayanan Schmidt strength of the geometrical edges of two-qubit gates 75 Years of Quantum Entanglement AIP Conf. Proc.1384, 120-124 (2011). - S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata Jan. 6-10, 2011.
S. Balakrishnan, R. Muthuganesan and R. Sankaranarayanan Study on isotropic Heisenberg interaction for the realization of SWAP ±α gates Quantum Information and Measurement OSA - - 2017
R. Muthuganesan and R. Sankaranarayanan Nonlocal effects of quantum state on fidelity induced metric Quantum Information and Measurement OSA - - 2017
R. Muthuganesan, S. Balakrishnan and R. Sankaranarayanan, Realization of SWAPa gates using pure DM interaction Quantum Information and Measurement OSA - - 2017
R. Muthuganesan and R. Sankaranarayanan Fidelity based measurement induced nonlocality 17th Asian Quantum Information Science - - National University of Singapore, Singapore. Sept. 4 – 8, 2017.
R. Muthuganesan and R. Sankaranarayanan Nonlocal correlation and entanglement in two-spin system 17th Asian Quantum Information Science - - National University of Singapore, Singapore. Sept. 4 – 8, 2017.
Venkat Abhignan and R. Sankaranarayanan Casimir effect and thermal field Recent Topics in Statistical Mechanics - - NISER, Bhubaneswar, Odissa. Dec. 11 – 13, 2019.
Vipin P and R. Sankaranarayanan Escape from Morse potential driven by Gaussian noise Recent Topics in Statistical Mechanics - - NISER, Bhubaneswar, Odissa. Dec. 11 – 13, 2019.
Indrajith V.S., R. Muthuganesan and R. Sankaranarayanan Dynamics of measurement induced nonlocality based on Hellinger distance National Conference on Quantum Information and Computation - - IIT Jodhpur Dec. 8 – 11, 2019.

Contact Address

Dr. R. Sankaranarayanan, Professor, Department of Physics,
National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli 620015, Tamilnadu, India.

Phone: +91-431- 2503609, Email: sankar@nitt.edu, Mobile: 94426-27604.