Dr. Sourav Chattopadhyay

Assistant Professor
B.Ed. Building (-1 Floor), Room No. 20

B.Sc. in Physics (Scottish Church College, Kolkata)
M.Sc. in Physics (IIT Guwahati)
Ph.D. in Physics (IIT Guwahati)

CSIR NET Physical Science JRF (2012), GATE in Physics (2012),
JAM in Physics (2010), JEST in Physics (2010, 2012)

Teachings

Present courses

• PHY612T: Statistical Mechanics [M.Sc.]
• PHY123T: Mathematical Physics II [B.Sc.]
• CS109: Introduction to C Programming [B.Sc.]
• CS102: Object Oriented Python Programming [B.Sc.]

Past courses

• Statistical Mechanics
• Condensed matter physics
• Modern Physics
• Phase Transition and Critical Phenomena
• Waves and Oscillations
• Mathematical Physics II
• Mathematical Physics I
• General Physics I
• Object Oriented Python Programming
• Python Programming Lab
• C Programming Lab
• Introduction to Computer
• Optics and Thermal Physics Lab
• Mechanics and GPM Lab

Research Interests

Phase transitions and Critical phenomena in equilibrium and out of equilibrium situations.

Computational Statistical Physics.

Quantum Computation.

Recent Publications

Critical Analysis of the reentrant localization transition in a One-Dimensional Dimerized Quasiperiodic lattice, Shilpi Roy, Sourav Chattopadhyay, Tapan Mishra and Saurabh Basu, Physical Review B 105, 214203, (2022).

Study of diluted kinetic Ising model under sinusoidal external field, Sourav Chattopadhyay and S. B. Santra, Journal of Physics: Conference Series 2207, 012005 (2022).

Kinetic Ising model under sinusoidal oscillating external magnetic field: hysteresis and dynamic phase transition, Sourav Chattopadhyay and S. B. Santra, Eur. Phys. J. B 94, 72 (2021).

Book Publication

Modern Perspectives in the Study of Electronic Systems, Saurabh Basu and Sourav Chattopadhyay, AIP Publishing, New York (2022).

Chapter: Visual understanding of series expansion of a function, Sourav Chattopadhyay.

Invited Talks

Implementation of the Django web framework at Jawaharlal Nehru Leadership Institute, Rangia, Assam.

Introduction and some applications of machine learning and artificial intelligence, IIT Guwahati, Assam.

Scientific writing in LATEX, University of Science and Technology, Meghalaya.

Numerical, graphical and exact solution of differential equations in Wolfram Mathematica, University of Science and Technology, Meghalaya.

Introduction to Python, Jagiroad College, Assam.

A fun way to find the value of π - a Monte Carlo Integration Approach, Pi day 2022 Talk, ICFAI University Tripura, Tripura.

The Role of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Our Daily Life, National Science day 2022 Talk, ICFAI University Tripura, Tripura.

Dynamic phase transition and hysteresis in Ising Model under external sinusoidal magnetic field, Research Conclave on Modern Physics: Frontier and Core Talk, 11 January 2023, ICFAI University Tripura, Tripura.

M.Sc. Projects Supervised

Study of a random walk in a plane.

Determination of the value of pi using a stochastic method.

A study on different motions in nature: analytical and computational approach.

Summer Internships

Solving scientific problems using Python