I am an Assistant Professor in the Physics department at Cornell University and currently hold the Joyce A.Yelencsics Rosevear '65 and Frederick M. Rosevear '64 Chair. Here is my official webpage. I am looking for motivated graduate students and postdocs to join my group. I also have projects available for undergraduate students.
I was a Moore fellow, supported by the EPiQS initiative of the Gordon and Betty Moore foundation, in the Physics department at MIT until June 2019. I completed my Ph.D. in Physics from Harvard University under the guidance of Prof. Subir Sachdev in 2016. Prior to that, I did my Masters (Integrated-5 year) in Physics from IIT Kanpur, India.
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I work in the branch of theoretical Physics, known as condensed matter Physics, and my aim is to understand the interesting properties of quantum materials, such as unconventional superconductors and quantum spin liquids, from a fundamental microscopic point of view. One of the problems that excites me the most these days is related to the Physics of moiré graphene and other related platforms. I spend a lot of time thinking about exotic forms of metallic quantum criticality, that lie beyond the conventional Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson paradigm. I am interested in fundamental aspects of thermalization and many-body quantum chaos, and its relation to transport. In the past, I have worked on many interesting problems in a number of different areas, with a major emphasis on non-equilibrium phenomena in biophysics, synchronization and integrable quantum spin systems.​
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[Aug. 2025] I co-organized a summer workshop at the Aspen Center for Physics on Ultra Quantum Matter: Synergy between Theory and Experiment.
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[July 2025] I am speaking at a Young Research Leaders workshop on Topological Materials & Beyond, held at the Rice Global Paris Center.
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[July 2025] Our paper on a new understanding of measurement-induced phase transitions in Clifford circuits appears in Physical Review Letters.
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[July 2025] I co-organized the Boulder Summer School for Condensed Matter and Materials Physics on Dynamics of Strongly Correlated Electrons. I also gave two lectures on bounds on transport and superconductivity in quantum matter.
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[June 2025] Our paper on dynamical freezing in driven chaotic quantum dots appears in Physical Review Letters.
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[Jan. 2025] Our theory proposal for the unconventional superconductor, and the continuous Mott-insulator to superconductor transition, in a twisted moire bilayer appears in Nature Communications.
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[Jan. 2025] Our theoretical study of Floquet transmons and dynamical freezing is now published in the first issue of Newton.
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[Dec. 2024] A numerical study of the continuous quantum phase transitions between a Wigner-Mott insulator and a metal at a fixed filling using matrix-product based methods.
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[Nov. 2024] Our collaboration with the Mak-Shan group on studying Kondo-breakdown transitions in moiré heterobilayers is published in the latest issue of Nature Physics.
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[Nov. 2024] Our exact results on the low-energy optical spectral weight and upper bound on superconducting transition temperature in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene appears in Physical Review Letters. Featured in Cornell Chronicle.
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[Sep. 2024] Our paper in Nature Communications reports on the observation of a large thermodynamic response in a strongly correlated insulator, and provides an understanding in terms of fractionalized emergent fermionic particles.
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[July 2024] Congratulations to Dr. Juan Felipe Mendez-Valderrama for successfully defending his thesis! Felipe has accepted a PCCM postdoctoral fellowship at Princeton.
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[July 2024] I have been appointed as the Joyce A.Yelencsics Rosevear '65 and Frederick M. Rosevear '64 Assistant Professor.
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[June 2024] I gave an invited talk at the Gordon Research Conference on Correlated electron systems.
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[June 2024] I am speaking at a Young Research Leaders workshop on Topological Materials & Beyond, organized by the IAS at HKUST, Hong Kong.
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[Apr. 2024] My student, Keiran Lewellen, received an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
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[Mar. 2024] I gave an invited talk at the APS March meeting in Minneapolis.
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[Jan. 2024] A theoretical framework to determine the low-energy effective “diamagnetic” response associated with superconductivity and excitonic superfluidity in interacting flat-band models.
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[Dec. 2023] I am speaking at a workshop on Correlation & Topology in Quantum Matter organized by KIAS, IBS and PCS in Seoul, Korea.
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[Dec. 2023] I am speaking at a workshop on Recent Advances in Superconductivity: Theory and Experiment, organized by the University of Florida, Simons Foundation and William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute.
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[Sep. 2023] I gave two talks at a workshop, Quantum materials with and without quasiparticles, and a conference, Electron Correlations beyond the Quasiparticle Paradigm: Theory and Experiment, at KITP, Santa Barbara.
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[Aug. 2023] A joint collaboration leads to a microscopic understanding for Planckian transport in a high conductivity oxide material. The theory and experiment papers have appeared in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences! Featured in Cornell Chronicle.
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[July 2023] Our paper pointing out surprising connections between the phenomenon of jamming and the unconventional dynamics of charge fluctuations in strange metals appears in Nature Communications.
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[May 2023] Paper addressing the non-perturbative regime of superconductivity in the flat-band limit using exact analytical and numerical methods appears in Physical Review Letters.
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[May 2023] I was awarded a New Frontier Grant at Cornell. See related story.
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[May 2023] Featured on The Academic Minute radio program. See related story.
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[Mar. 2023] A proof-of-principle theoretical demonstration for the unconventional decay of collective density fluctuations in a non-Fermi liquid with a sharp Fermi surface.
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[Mar. 2023] Paper addressing the fundamental question of how to compute the diamagnetic response for interacting flat-band systems (e.g. moiré materials) appears in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences!
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[Feb. 2023] I have been selected as a 2023 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Physics. These two-year fellowships are awarded annually to early career researchers "in recognition of distinguished performance and a unique potential to make substantial contributions to their field ". Featured in Cornell Chronicle.
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[Feb. 2023] Paper analyzing electrical transport near a continuous bandwidth-tuned Mott transition appears in Physical Review Letters. Featured in Cornell Chronicle.
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[Jan. 2023] I received the NSF-CAREER award! This grant will help fund my group's research on strongly correlated gapless phases of quantum matter, going beyond the quasiparticle paradigm. Featured in Cornell Chronicle.
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[Jan. 2023] Paper studying the emergence of correlated topological phases in amorphous solids appears in Physical Review Letters.