Rahul Nandkishore Portrait
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:

  1. 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)
  2. Orthogonal metals: the simplest non-Fermi liquids. Rahul Nandkishore, Max A. Metlitski and T. Senthil, Phys. Rev. B 86, 045128 (2012)
  3. Localization protected quantum order. David A. Huse, Rahul Nandkishore, Vadim Oganesyan, Arijeet Pal and S.L.Sondhi, Phys. Rev. B 88, 014206 (2013)
  4. 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)
  5. Rare region effects dominate weakly disordered 3D Dirac points. Rahul Nandkishore, David A. Huse and S.L. Sondhi, Phys. Rev. B 89, 245110 (2014)
  6. 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)
  7. 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)