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.]
- PHY528: Advanced Computational Physics [M.Sc.]
- CS109: Introduction to C Programming [B.Sc.]
- CS202: Data Science Foundation [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.
Elementary Physics Education.
Recent Publications
Critical analysis of multiple reentrant localization in an antiferromagnetic helix with transverse electric field: Hopping dimerization-free scenario, Sudin Ganguly, Sourav Chattopadhyay, Kallol Mondal, and Santanu K. Maiti, PsiPost Physics Core, Vol. 8, Page 12 , (2025).
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.
Chapter: Damped harmonic oscillator: Analytical and Numerical study, Sourav Chattopadhyay.
Chapter: Solution of Differential equations in Python., Sourav Chattopadhyay.
Invited Talks
Basics of Bose-Einstein Condensation, Workshop on Statistical Methods in Physics to celebrate Bose Statistics Centenary 2024, ICFAI University Tripura, Tripura.
Stochastic Experiments on Computer, Workshop on Statistical Methods in Physics to celebrate Bose Statistics Centenary 2024, ICFAI University Tripura, Tripura.
Hey π what are you doing in Basel Problem, Pi day 2024 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.
The Role of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Our Daily Life, National Science day 2022 Talk, ICFAI University Tripura, Tripura.
A fun way to find the value of π - a Monte Carlo Integration Approach, Pi day 2022 Talk, ICFAI University Tripura, Tripura.
Introduction to Python, Jagiroad College, Assam.
Numerical, graphical and exact solution of differential equations in Wolfram Mathematica, University of Science and Technology, Meghalaya.
Scientific writing in LATEX, University of Science and Technology, Meghalaya.
Introduction and some applications of machine learning and artificial intelligence, IIT Guwahati, Assam.
Electrodynamics and simple applications at Jawaharlal Nehru Leadership Institute, Rangia, Assam.
Implementation of the Django web framework at Jawaharlal Nehru Leadership Institute, Rangia, Assam.
M.Sc. Projects Supervised
Study of Bose-Einstein Condensation: A numerical Approach.
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
