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[Kartiek Agarwal] I am a condensed matter theorist working on strongly correlated quantum systems, with an emphasis on disorder and interaction driven physics, and non-equilibrium dynamics. I am also interested in quantum control and quantum information related problems. When possible, I find it very rewarding to collaborate with experimentalists; in the recent past, I have worked on a wide range of problems including uncovering the properties of topological defects in quantum Hall ferromagnets in Bismuth, phononic Cherenkov radiation in graphene, and understanding the phase dynamics of Bose gases on atom chips.
 

[McGill Downtown Campus] I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Prior to this, I was a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University in Ravindra Bhatt's group. I obtained my undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, and my PhD at Harvard University under the supervision of Eugene Demler.

 
 

NEWS

2019/2020

  • We have openings at the graduate level, and for postdoctoral research positions. Please look at academicjobsonline website to apply for the postdoctoral research position. Please contact me at [email protected] with your CV, and statement of interests if you are interested in working with us.
  • Our new work on making more robust majoranas in semiconductor wire setups using double braids or "draiding" is published in Phys. Rev. X Quantum: PRX Quantum 1 , 020324
  • I was awarded the Tomlinson Science Award to work on the proposal ``Engineering majorana fermions for quantum computing". See link
  • Our effort on resolving the black hole information paradox is accepted in Physical Review D. See link
  • Our work on "Polyfractal protocols" for the dynamical enhancement of symmetries in many-body systems is published in Phys. Rev. Lett. See Phys. Rev. Lett. 125 , 080602 (2020)
  • Our work on quantum Hall edge states on the surface of Bismuth is published in Nature. See Nature 566 , 363-367 (2019)
  • Our work on observing phononic Cerenkov radiation in graphene is published in Science. See Science 364 , 154-157 (2019)