Sarang Gopalakrishnan - Harvard University Department of Physics

Sarang GopalakrishnanContactInformationResearchInterestsEmploymentDepartment of PhysicsHarvard University17 Oxford Street Phone: (217) xxx-xxxxCambridge, MA 02138 USAE-mail:sarang@physics.harvard.eduCrystalline and liquid-crystalline phases of quantum matter; disordered, frustrated, andglassy systems; mesoscopic systems and ultracold gases — in particular, dispersionandinteraction-engineering (e.g., cavity-mediated interactions, synthetic gauge fieldsin atomic BECs and graphene), superconductor-insulator and superconductor-metaltransitions, quantum impurity problems.Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USAHarvard Quantum Optics Center Prize Postdoctoral Fellow, 2012-EducationUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USAPh.D., Physics, 2012 [M.S., 2009]Thesis: Crystalline and Glassy States of Ultracold Atomic SystemsAdvisor: Paul M. GoldbartAmherst College, Amherst, MA, USAB.A., Physics and Mathematics, 2006summa cum laude, Phi Beta KappaSenior thesis: Self-Adjointness and the Renormalization of Singular PotentialsThesis Advisor: William LoinazAwardsPrinceton Center for Theoretical Science, Princeton University• PCTS Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2012-2015 (declined)Department of Physics, California Institute of Technology• Caltech Prize Fellowship in Theoretical Physics, 2012-2015 (declined)Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara• KITP Graduate Fellowship, Fall 2010University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign• Illinois Distinguished Fellowship, 2007-2009Thomas J. Watson Foundation• Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, 2006 (resigned due to illness)Amherst College• Forris Jewett Moore Alumni Fellowship, 2007-2008• William Warren Stifler Prize in Physics, 2006• Woods-Travis Prize, 20061 of 4

• Addison-Brown Scholarship, 2006• Bertram Prize in Latin, 2006• Rolfe Humphries Poetry Prize, 2006• MacArthur-Leithauser Travel Award, 2005• Laura Ayres Snyder Poetry Prize, 2005• Elected to Phi Beta Kappa, 2005Publications S. Gopalakrishnan, B. L. Lev, and P. M. Goldbart, “Emergent crystallinity and frusandPreprints tration with Bose-Einstein condensates in multimode cavities,” Nature Physics 5, 845(2009).S. Lal, S. Gopalakrishnan, and P. M. Goldbart, “Approaching multichannel Kondophysics with correlated bosons: quantum phases and how to realize them,” Phys. Rev.B 81, 245314 (2010).S. Gopalakrishnan, B. L. Lev, and P. M. Goldbart, “Atom-light crystallization of Bose-Einstein condensates in multimode cavities: Nonequilibrium classical and quantumphase transitions, emergent lattices, supersolidity, and frustration,” Phys. Rev. A82, 043612 (2010) [selected for a Viewpoint in Physics 3, 88 (2010)].M. W. Brenner, S. Gopalakrishnan, J. Ku, T. J. McArdle, J. N. Eckstein, N. Shah,P. M. Goldbart, and A. Bezryadin, “Cratered Lorentzian response of driven microwavesuperconducting nanowire-bridged resonators: oscillatory and magnetic-field inducedstochastic states,” Phys. Rev. B 83, 184503 (2011).S. Gopalakrishnan, A. Lamacraft, and P. M. Goldbart, “Universal phase structure ofdilute Bose gases with Rashba spin-orbit coupling,” Phys. Rev. A 84, 061604(R) (2011).S. Gopalakrishnan, B. L. Lev, and P. M. Goldbart, “Frustration and glassiness in spinmodels with cavity-mediated interactions,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 277201 (2011).S. Eley, S. Gopalakrishnan, P. M. Goldbart, and N. Mason, “Approaching Zero-TemperatureMetallic States in Mesoscopic Superconductor-Normal-Superconductor Arrays,”Nature Physics 8, 69 (2012).S. Gopalakrishnan, B. L. Lev, and P. M. Goldbart, “Exploring models of associativememory via cavity quantum electrodynamics,” Phil. Mag. 92, 353 (2012).S. Gopalakrishnan, P. Ghaemi, and S. Ryu, “Non-Abelian SU(2) gauge fields throughdensity-wave order and strain in graphene,” Phys. Rev. B 86, 081403(R) (2012).P. Ghaemi, S. Gopalakrishnan, and T. L. Hughes, “Designer quantum spin Hall phasetransition in molecular graphene,” arXiv:1205.4728 (2012).S. Eley, S. Gopalakrishnan, P. M. Goldbart, and N. Mason, “Fate of global superconductivityin arrays of long SNS junctions,” arXiv:1206.5999 (2012).S. Gopalakrishnan, “Reentrant superfluidity in disordered Fermi gases near a Feshbachresonance,” in preparationPresentations2 of 4

Crystalline and glassy phases of ultracold atoms with cavity-mediated interactions.Condensed matter theory KIDS seminar, Harvard University (November 2011); condensedmatter theory seminar, Stanford University (December 2011).Emergent co-crystallization of atoms and light in multimode cavities.AMO/CM seminar, Georgia Institute of Technology (February 2011).Photons as phonons: from cavity QED to quantum crystallization.Condensed matter seminar, University of Virginia (February 2011).Informal discussion: quantum dynamics (discussion leader).Workshop on “Beyond Standard Optical Lattices,” Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics,Santa Barbara (October 2010).Photons as phonons: from cavity QED to quantum solids.Condensed matter seminar, University of California–Santa Barbara (September 2010).Ordering and frustration in multimode cavities: quantum criticality, super-stripes, andglasses. Invited talk presented at the CMMC Workshop on “Cavity Cooling of atoms,molecules and ions,” Obergurgl, Austria (February 2009).Contributed talks at APS March Meeting (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012); contributed talk atAPS Division of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA(2011).Point interactions and singular potentials. Thesis defense, Amherst College, Amherst,MA (May 2006)Workshops and Workshop on “Disentangling quantum many-body systems,” Kavli Institute for Theo-Conferences retical Physics, October-December 2010.Workshop on “Beyond standard optical lattices,” Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics,September-December 2010.Workshop on “Electron glasses,” Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, August-October2010.Conference on “Frontiers of ultracold atoms and molecules,” Kavli Institute for TheoreticalPhysics, October 2010.Conference on “Out-of-equilibrium quantum systems,” Kavli Institute for TheoreticalPhysics, August 2010.Workshop on “Quantum materials at the nanoscale,” University of Illinois, September2009Beg Rohu Summer School on “Quantum dynamics out of equilibrium,”St. PierreQuiberon, France, June 2009CMMC Workshop on “Cavity cooling of atoms, molecules and ions,” Obergurgl, Austria,Feb 2009APS March Meetings, 2009, 2010, 2011WorkExperienceUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignTeaching Assistant (discussion), Physics 436, Electromagnetism IIAmherst CollegeTeaching Assistant in Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy 2003-2006• Introductory mechanics (lab)• Introductory electromagnetism (grading and discussion)• Introduction to astronomy (grading)• Electrodynamics (grading)• Calculus I and II (grading)• Linear algebra (grading)• Complex analysis (grading)3 of 4

Mellon Intern, Physics Department Summer 2004, 2005• Supervisor: Prof. William LoinazStudent Encoding Assistant, Frost Library Archives 2002-2003Skills andExpertiseComputers. Experienced with Mathematica, LaTeX, Illustrator, and Photoshop. Basicknowledge of C++ and Java.Mathematics. Linear algebra, group theory, complex analysis, topology, differentialgeometry, functional analysis.Hobbies andInterestsWriting poetry and fiction, philosophy of language and mathematics, dialects, birdwatching,medieval literature. I blog about these things at http://glassbottomblog.blogspot.com/4 of 4