Research
I am a PhD student in theoretical condensed matter physics working at the intersection of mathematical physics, classical & quantum many-body phenomena and statistical physics. I am particularly intrigued by the idea of emergence:
Emergence (e·mer·gence) /ɪˈmɜːdʒəns/ noun is used to describe the qualitative property of a physical system that can only occur in the limit as the number of its microscopic constituents tends to infinity1.
Sometimes in nature, out in the real word, we discover that the collective is truly a different thing compared to the individual. This notion was spotlighted by the late P. W. Anderson in his seminal article More is different2 – an antithesis to reductionism – where he concluded that in many physical systems the sum is indeed greater than its parts. In physics, we identify collective organization not only in the complex many-body quantum systems, but also in remarkably simple toy models like the Ising model. This toy model was originally created to understand ferromagnetism butt has found applications in understanding the brain, social networks and recently, Machine Learning. I am interested in studying these systems using the language of phase transitions, universality theory and esoteric mathematics, and see how they fit into the notion of critical phenomena across different disciplines of science.
Below you can find summaries of papers I’ve worked on:
