
Associate Professor
Physics
Office: DUAN F619
Office Hours: TBA • Office: DUAN F619 •
Research Interests:
Complex many-body systems can display qualitatively new physics. The search for such emergent phenomena is a central goal of condensed matter physics. My research is focused on the search for new emergent phenomena in quantum many body systems with strong interactions and/or strong randomness. I work on systems both in and out of equilbrium. Particular topics of interest include (but are not limited to): non-equilibrium quantum statistical mechanics, many body localization and thermalization, field theory of correlated systems, Dirac fermions, unconventional superconductors, and the interplay of disorder and interactions.
Selected Publications:
- Chiral superconductivity from repulsive interactions in doped graphene. Rahul Nandkishore, L.S. Levitov and A.V. Chubukov, Nature Physics 8, 158-163 (2012) (Cover article)
- Orthogonal metals: the simplest non-Fermi liquids. Rahul Nandkishore, Max A. Metlitski and T. Senthil, Phys. Rev. B 86, 045128 (2012)
- Localization protected quantum order. David A. Huse, Rahul Nandkishore, Vadim Oganesyan, Arijeet Pal and S.L.Sondhi, Phys. Rev. B 88, 014206 (2013)
- Spectral features of a many body localized system weakly coupled to a heat bath. Rahul Nandkishore, Sarang Gopalakrishnan and David A. Huse. Phys. Rev. B, 90, 064203 (2014)
- Rare region effects dominate weakly disordered 3D Dirac points. Rahul Nandkishore, David A. Huse and S.L. Sondhi, Phys. Rev. B 89, 245110 (2014)
- Many body localization and thermalization in quantum statistical mechanics. Rahul Nandkishore and David A. Huse, Annual Reviews of Condensed Matter Physics, 6, pp 15-38 (2015)
- Non-local adiabatic response of a localized system to local manipulations. Vedika Khemani, Rahul Nandkishore and S.L. Sondhi, Nature Physics 11, 560-565 (2015)