National Institute of Technology Rourkela

राष्ट्रीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान राउरकेला

ଜାତୀୟ ପ୍ରଯୁକ୍ତି ପ୍ରତିଷ୍ଠାନ ରାଉରକେଲା

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BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Sharma's academic journey in physics began with a Bachelor's degree in Physics (Honors) from the University of Delhi, India in 2007. She continued her education at the University of Delhi, earning a Master's degree in Physics in 2009. Further, she pursued her Ph.D. in Physics at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India, under the supervision of the late Professor Amit Dutta. Her doctoral thesis titled "Fidelity and Loschmidt Echo: Quenches, Non-analyticities, and Emergent Thermodynamics" focused on exploring quantum information theoretic measures in quantum many-body systems. Following her Ph.D., from January 2016 to November 2016, she worked as a Project Scientist at IIT Kanpur, extending her Ph.D. research on quantum criticality, dynamics, and quantum information studies. From December 2016 to September 2019, she was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Saarland, Germany, working with Professor Giovanna Morigi. Her research involved studying cavity-induced long-range interacting Bose-Hubbard models and investigating phase transitions and entanglement entropy behavior in these systems. From September 2019 to April 2022, she continued her postdoctoral research at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy. Her work focused on the scaling behavior of quantum information theoretic measures like entanglement negativity, bipartite and tripartite mutual information, and von-Neumann entanglement entropy in long-ranged hybrid quantum circuits. These circuits examined the interplay between measurements and unitary evolution, contributing to the understanding of quantum phase transitions in long-ranged Ising models and Clifford unitaries. In 2023, she briefly worked on machine learning and data science during my tenure as a Data Science Fellow at Lead @ Machine Learning, Berlin. Presently She is working as a DST-Inspire Faculty in the physics department of NIT Rourkela, India.

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Research Group
  • Theoretical Physics
Areas of Interest
  • Theoretical condensed matter physics

Shraddha Sharma DST Inspire Faculty

Physics and Astronomy

sharmas@nitrkl.ac.in / shrdha1987@gmail.com

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Shraddha Sharma

DST Inspire Faculty

Physics and Astronomy

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Department of Physics and Astronomy, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Sundargarh, Odisha, India - 769008

2017

Ph.D.
Theoretical Condensed matter
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India

2009

M.Sc
Physics
University of Delhi, Delhi, India

2007

B.Sc (Hons)
Physics
University of Delhi, Delhi, India

Teaching Experience
  • Concepts of Modern Physics,  NIT Rourkela,   15 May 2024 - 23 Jun 2024
  • +2 Level Physics,  IIM Ranchi,   10 Dec 2023 - 30 Jan 2024
Post Doctoral Research Experience
  • Quantum information theory, quantum phase transitions,  The Abdus Salam ICTP, Italy,   01 Nov 2019 - 30 Apr 2021
  • Quantum optics, Condensed matter theory,  University of Saarland, Germany,   12 Dec 2017 - 31 Oct 2019
Industrial Experience
  • Data exploration and machine learning,  Lead@Machine Learning,   01 Apr 2023 - 31 Jul 2023
Laboratory Development
  • Quantum Computing Lab,  NIT Rourkela,   Theoretical Lab for "Quantum Computation and Machine Learning"

Exploring dynamical Criticality and emergent phases in strongly correlated quantum systems DST
  • Principal Investigator
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  • Running   Sponsored

  • PH6113 : Advanced Condensed Matter Physics {Theory}
  • PH1070 : Physics Laboratory {Practical}

Ph.D. Students [1]
Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics
Chitrangada Pradhan
Enrolled: Jan 2025
Continuing
Supervisor

Awards And Honours
  • Awarded DST- INSPIRE Faculty Fellowship research award,   2024
  • Awarded grant for short-term visit to CMSP, The Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, 11th June-12th July, 2015.,   2015
  • Awarded honorary grant for oral talk in group seminar at Quantum and Nano-science group, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, 16th May, 2014.,   2014
  • Awarded honorary grant for oral talk in Mini-workshop on the real-time dynamics of quantum many-body systems, Tokyo University, Japan, 20th May 2014,   2014
  • Awarded honorary grant for oral talk in Enreiso Lecture: Department of applied physics, Hokkaido University, Japan, 25th June, 2014.,   2014
  • Awarded grant for short-term visit to CMSP, The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy (17th June-21st July, 2013).,   2013
  • Awarded SRF, conducted by CSIR, HRD, Examination Unit, New Delhi (2012).,   2012
  • Awarded JRF, conducted by CSIR, HRD, Examination Unit, New Delhi (2010),   2010
  • Qualified Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE), conducted by Dept. of Ministry of Secondary and Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Gov. of India, with 92.88 percentile (2009).,   2009
  • Awarded lectureship (NET), conducted by CSIR, HRD, Examination Unit, New Delhi, India (2009).,   2009
Memberships / Fellowships
  • Indian Association of Physics Teachers,   2024
  • DST-INSPIRE Faculty Fellowship Award,   2024