Dr. Pradyumna Kumar Pathak

Dr. Pradyumna Kumar Pathak
Phone : 01905-237981
EMail : ppathak[at]iitmandi[dot]ac[dot]in
Address : School of Basic Sciences
IIT Mandi, PWD Rest House 2nd floor,
near Bus Stand, Mandi - 175001
India

Research Interest

  • Quantum Optics
  • Quantum Information
  • Nanophotonics
  • Mesoscopic Physics

Education

  • PhD from Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India.
  • MSc (Physics) from Agra University, Agra, India.

Work Experience

  • 07/ 2008- 12/2010 Postdoctoral Fellow Queen’s University,Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
  • 06/ 2007 –07/ 2008 Postdoctoral Fellow Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South-Korea.
  • 12/ 2006- 06/ 2007 Postdoctoral Fellow Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.
  • 09/ 2004 – 12/ 2006 Research-Associate Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA.

List of Publications

  • Generation of time-bin entangled photon pairs using a quantum-dot cavity system, P. K. Pathak and S. Hughes, submitted, arXiv:1010.1713.
  • Coherently triggered single photons from a quantum-dot cavity system, P. K. Pathak and S. Hughes, Phys. Rev. B 82, 045308 (2010).
  • Nonlinear photoluminescence spectra from a quantum-dot cavity system: Interplay of pump-induced stimulated emission and anharmonic cavity QED, P. Yao, P. K. Pathak, E. Illes, S. Hughes, S. Munch, S. Reitzenstein, P. Franeck, A. Loffler, T. Heindel, S. Hofling, L. Worschech, and A. Forchel, Phys. Rev. B 81, 033309 (2010).
  • Cavity-QED assisted attraction between a cavity mode and an exciton mode in a planar photonic-crystal cavity, T. Tawara, H. Kamada, T. Tanabe, T. Sogawa, H. Okamoto, P. Yao, P. K. Pathak, and S. Hughes, Opt. Express 18, 2719 (2010).
  • High sensitivity charge detection and dephasing in edge state interferometer, P. K. Pathak, Youngnae Lee, and Kicheon Kang, Physica E 42, 1103 (2010).
  • Cavity-assisted fast generation of entangled photon pairs through the biexciton-exciton cascade, P. K. Pathak and S. Hughes, Phys. Rev. B 80, 155325 (2009).
  • Comment on "Entanglement on Demand through Time Reordering", P. K. Pathak and S. Hughes, Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 048901 (2009).
  • Generation of entangled photon-pairs from a single quantum dot embedded in a planar photonic-crystal cavity, P. K. Pathak and S. Hughes, Phys. Rev. B 79, 205416 (2009).
  • Edge-state Fabry-Perot interferometer as a high sensitivity charge detector, P. K. Pathak and Kicheon Kang, Phys. Rev. B 79, 233302 (2009).
  • The Quadratic Spin Squeezing Operators, P. K. Pathak, R. N. Deb, N. Nayak, and B. Dutta-Roy, J. Phys. A.41, 145302 (2008).
  • Realization of quantum mechanical weak values of observables using entangled photons, G. S. Agarwal and P. K. Pathak, Phys. Rev. A.75, 032108 (2007).
  • Quantum random walk of two photons in separable and entangled states, P. K. Pathak and G. S. Agarwal, Phys. Rev. A 75, 032351 (2007).
  • Quantum random walk of the field in an externally driven cavity, G. S. Agarwal and P. K. Pathak, Phys. Rev. A 72, 033815 (2005).
  • Generation of a superposition of multiple mesoscopic states of radiation in a resonant cavity, P. K. Pathak and G. S. Agarwal, Phys. Rev. A 71, 043823 (2005).
  • Dc-field-induced enhancement and inhibition of spontaneous emission in a cavity, G. S. Agarwal and P. K. Pathak, Phys. Rev. A 70, 025802 (2004).
  • Large two-atom two-photon vacuum Rabi oscillations in a high-quality cavity, P. K. Pathak and G. S. Agarwal, Phys. Rev. A 70, 043807 (2004).
  • Mesoscopic Superposition of States with Sub-Planck Structures in Phase Space, G. S. Agarwal and P. K. Pathak, Phys. Rev. A 70, 053813 (2004).
  • Single-atom and two-atom Ramsey interferometry with quantized fields, G. S. Agarwal, P. K. Pathak, and M. O. Scully, Phys. Rev. A 67, 043807 (2003).
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