Prof. Sthitadhi Roy from ICTS-TIFR has been selected as one of the associates for 2024 of the Indian Academy of Sciences (IASc). “It is a nice recognition of his work already at this early stage of his career and testimony to the excellent work he has been doing after joining ICTS,” said Prof. Rajesh Gopakumar, Centre Director, ICTS-TIFR.
Prof. Roy’s research focuses on the out-of-equilibrium dynamics of quantum many-body systems in the presence of randomness, with a focus on the physics of localisation and the dynamics of quantum entanglement. His scientific contributions in these fields can be broadly classified into three categories: (i) many-body localisation and dynamics in disordered quantum systems, (ii) measurement-unitary hybrid dynamics, and (iii) entanglement dynamics and their application to quantum information. The central question that underlies these different fields of research is: if and how does quantum information spread and scramble through a quantum system? In the context of disordered and hybrid quantum systems, there can be exotic dynamical quantum phase transitions between a phase which thermalises and scrambles information with entanglement spreading and another phase which does not. Understanding these different phases and the phase transitions between them forms the main theme of Prof. Roy’s scientific work.
“It feels nice to have my work recognised, and I owe it to the amazing scientific environment at ICTS, made possible in large part due to very supportive colleagues and excellent students,” said Prof. Roy. “I am looking forward to the IASc Associateship as a wonderful opportunity to engage with the broader scientific community in India and contribute to the discourse,” he added.
ICTS congratulates him and wishes for him to go on even further milestones in his career in the coming years.