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INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY PALAKKAD
Kanjikode | Palakkad | Kerala - 678623

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Dr. Amit Kumar Pal

Associate Professor

Physics

Research Area: Quantum Information Theory

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PhD, Bose Institute, Kolkata, India (2014)

Postdoctoral fellow, Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, India (Mar. 2014 - Oct. 2016)

Postdoctoral fellow, Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom (Oct. 2016 - Mar. 2019)

Postdoctoral fellow, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland (Mar. 2019 - Jul. 2019)

Assistant Professor, IIT Palakkad, Palakkad, India (Sept. 2019 - June 2023)

Associate Professor, IIT Palakkad, Palakkad, India (June 2023 - )
Research

Our research involves various aspects of quantum information science and quantum technologies. Some of the active research directions include measures of quantum correlations and entanglement theory, quantum many-body systems in quantum technology, topological quantum error correcting codes, quantum thermal machines and quantum thermodynamics, and open quantum systems. A detailed research overview can be found here.
Teaching

PH1010 Physics I (BTech) (3 credits)

PH3601 Quantum Mechanics for Engineers (BTech) (3 credits)

PH3602 Basics of Quantum Information, Communication, and Computation (BTech) (3 credits)

PH5007 Quantum Mechanics 1 (MSc) (4 credits)

PH5610 Quantum Information and Many-Body Systems (MSc) (3 credits)

PH5621 Quantum Optics (MSc) (3 credits)
Research Group

Our group currently consists of Jithin G. Krishnan (Ph.D Student, 2021 - ), Harikrishnan K. J. (Ph.D Student, 2022 - ), and Chandrima B. Pushpan (Ph.D Student, 2022 - ). More information about the group can be found here.
Publications

Estimating correlations and entanglement in the two-dimensional Heisenberg model in the strong rung-coupling limit
C. B. Pushpan, Harikrishnan K. J., P. Narayan, and A. K. Pal
Physical Review A 110 032408 (2024)

Quantum state transfer on 2D lattices: A low-energy eﬀective Hamiltonian approach
C. B. Pushpan, Harikrishnan K. J., and A. K. Pal
Physics Letters A 511 129543 (2024)

Localizing genuine multipartite entanglement in noisy stabilizer states
Harikrishnan K. J. and Amit Kumar Pal
Physical Review A 108 032404 (2023)

Controlling gain with loss: Bounds on localizable entanglement in multiqubit systems
Jithin G. Krishnan, Harikrishnan K. J., and Amit Kumar Pal
Phys. Rev. A 107 042411 (2023)

Designing refrigerators in higher dimensions using quantum spin models
Tanoy Kanti Konar, Srijon Ghosh, Amit Kumar Pal, and Aditi Sen(De)
Physical Review A 107 032602 (2023)

Circulating genuine multiparty entanglement in quantum network
Pritam Halder, Ratul Banerjee, Srijon Ghosh, Amit Kumar Pal, and Aditi Sen(De)
Physical Review A 106 032604 (2022)

Exactly solvable 1D quantum models with Gamma matrices
Yash Chugh, Kusum Dhochak, Uma Divakaran, Prithvi Narayan, and Amit Kumar Pal
Physical Review E 106 024114 (2022)

Distinguishing phases via non-Markovian dynamics of entanglement in topological quantum codes under parallel magnetic field
Harikrishnan K. J. and Amit Kumar Pal
Physical Review A 105 052421 (2022)

Hierarchies of localizable entanglement due to spatial distribution of local noise
Ratul Banerjee, Amit Kumar Pal, and Aditi Sen(De)
Physical Review Research 4 023035 (2022)

Designing robust quantum refrigerators in disordered spin models
Tanoy Kanti Konar, Srijon Ghosh, Amit Kumar Pal, Aditi Sen De
Physical Review A 105 022214 (2022)

Relaxation times do not capture logical qubit dynamics
Amit Kumar Pal, Philipp Schindler, Alexander Erhard, Ángel Rivas, Miguel-Angel Martin-Delgado, Rainer Blatt, Thomas Monz, Markus Müller
Quantum 6 632 (2022)

Three qubits in less than three baths: Beyond two-body system-bath interactions in quantum refrigerators
A. Ghoshal, S. Das, A. K. Pal, A. Sen(De), and U. Sen,
Physical Review A 104 042208 (2021)

Scalable characterization of localizable entanglement in noisy topological quantum codes
David Amaro, Markus Müller, and Amit Kumar Pal
New Journal of Physics 22 053038 (2020)

Uniform decoherence effect on localizable entanglement in random multiqubit pure states
Ratul Banerjee, Amit Kumar Pal, and Aditi Sen(De)
Physical Review A 101 042339 (2020)

Necessarily transient quantum refrigerator
S. Das, A. Misra, A. K. Pal, A. Sen(De), and U. Sen
Europhys. Lett. 125 20007 (2019)

Emergence of entanglement with temperature and time in factorization-surface states
T. Chanda, T. Das, D. Sadhukhan, A. K. Pal, A. Sen(De), and U. Sen
Phys. Rev. A 97 012316 (2018)

Scale-invariant freezing of entanglement
T. Chanda, T. Das, D. Sadhukhan, A. K. Pal, A. Sen(De), and U. Sen
Phys. Rev. A . 97 062324 (2018)

Estimating localizable entanglement from witnesses
D. Amaro, M. Mueller, and A. K. Pal
New. J. Phys. 20 063017 (2018)

Monogamy of quantum correlations - a review
H. S. Dhar, A. K. Pal, D. Rakshit, A. Sen(De), and U. Sen
Chapter in "Lectures on general quantum correlations and their applications" (2017)

Multipartite entanglement accumulation in quantum states: Localizable generalized geometric measure
D. Sadhukhan, S. Singha Roy, A. K. Pal, D. Rakshit, A. Sen(De), and U. Sen
Phys. Rev. A 95 022301 (2017)

Canonical distillation of entanglement
T. Das, A. Kumar, A. K. Pal, N. Shukla, A. Sen(De), and U. Sen
Phys. Lett. A 381 3529 (2017)

Statistics of leading digits leads to unification of quantum correlations
T. Chanda, T. Das, D. Sadhukhan, A. K. Pal, A. Sen(De), and U. Sen
Europhys. Lett. 114 30004 (2016)

Conclusive identification of quantum channels via monogamy of quantum correlations
A. Kumar, S. Singha Roy, A. K. Pal, R. Prabhu, A. Sen(De), and U. Sen
Phys. Lett. A 380 3588 (2016)

Static and dynamical quantum correlations in phases of an alternating-field XY model
T. Chanda, T. Das, D. Sadhukhan, A. K. Pal, A. Sen(De), and U. Sen
Phys. Rev. A 94 042310 (2016)

Freezing of quantum correlations under local decoherence
T. Chanda, A. K. Pal, A. Biswas, A. Sen(De), and U. Sen
Phys. Rev. A, 91, 062119 (2015) 91 062119 (2015)

Reducing computational complexity of quantum correlations
T. Chanda, T. Das, D. Sadhukhan, A. K. Pal, A. Sen(De), and U. Sen
Phys. Rev. A 92 062301 (2015)

Quantum discord, decoherence and quantum phase transition
I. Bose, and A. K. Pal
Int. J. Mod. Phys. B 27 1345042 (2013)

Noise-induced regime shifts: A quantitative characterization
S. Ghosh, A. K. Pal, and I. Bose
Eur. Phys. J. E 36 123 (2013)

Early signatures of regime shifts in gene expression dynamics
M. Pal, A. K. Pal, S. Ghosh, and I. Bose
Phys. Biol. 10 036010 (2013)

Transverse Ising Model: Markovian evolution of classical and quantum correlations under decoherence
A. K. Pal, and I. Bose
Eur. Phys. J. B 85 36 (2012)

Markovian evolution of classical and quantum correlations in transverse-field XY model
A. K. Pal, and I. Bose
Eur. Phys. J. B 85 277 (2012)

Quantum discord in the ground and thermal states of spin clusters
A. K. Pal, and I. Bose
J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 44, 045101 (2011) 44 045101 (2011)

Entanglement in a molecular three-qubit system
A. K. Pal, and I. Bose
J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 22 016004 (2010)

Motion of bound domain walls in a spin ladder
I. Bose, and A. K. Pal
Eur. Phys. J. B 77 139 (2010)