Berea College - Physics - Dr. Kingshuk Majumdar

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Dr. Kingshuk Majumdar

Assistant Professor of Physics

Science, Room 111
CPO 1936

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At Berea College since 2000

Degrees

B.S., Presidency College, 1989
M.S., University of Calcutta, 1992
Ph.D., University of Florida, 1999

Courses

GST 232: Introduction to Natural Science
PHY 217: General Physics I
PHY 218: General Physics II
PHY 224: Introductory Mathematical Methods in Physics
PHY 315: Introductory Physics with Calculus
PHY 316: Introductory Physics with Calculus
PHY 329: Solving Problems with Maple
PHY 320: Modern Physics
PHY 325: Mathematical Methods in Physcs I
PHY 330: Mathematical Methods in Physics II
PHY 341: Advanced Lab
PHY 365: Thermal Physics
PHY 481: Classical Mechanics
PHY 482: Quantum Mechanics
PHY 485: Introduction to Solid State Physics
PHY 492: Physics Seminar

Affiliations

American Physical Society (APS)
Kentucky Academy of Science (KAS)
American Association of Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Papers and Publications

"Deconfinement and phase diagram of bosons in a linear optical lattice with a particle reservoir,"
Kingshuk Majumdar and H. A. Fertig .
Submitted for publication (2004). Preprint: cond-mat/0405114.
"Vortex Deconfinement in the XY Model with a Magnetic Field,"
H. A. Fertig and Kingshuk Majumdar.
Published in Ann. Phys. 305(2), pp 190 - 227 (2003).
"Logarithmic corrections to finite size spectrum of SU(N) symmetric quantum chains,"
Kingshuk Majumdar and Manash Mukherjee.
Published in J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 35, L543 - L549 (2002).
"Quantum critical point in a periodic Anderson model,"
Peter G. van Dongen, Kingshuk Majumdar, Carey Huscroft, and Fu-Chun Zhang.
Published in Phys. Rev. B 64, 195123 (2001).
"Study of transport properties in magnetic nanostructures,"
Kingshuk Majumdar.
PhD Thesis, University of Florida, Gainesville, pp 1-140, AAT 9935254, ISBN: 0-599-36170-0 (1999).
"Nonequilibrium Kondo impurity: Perturbation about an exactly solvable point,"
Kingshuk Majumdar, Avraham Schiller, and Selman Hershfield.
Published in Phys. Rev. B 57, 2991 (1998).
"Magnetoresistance of the double tunnel junction in the Coulomb blockade regime with magnetic metals,"
Kingshuk Majumdar and Selman Hershfield.
Published in Phys. Rev. B 57, 11521 (1998).
"Calculation of giant magnetoresistance in laterally confined multilayers in the current-in-plane geometry,"
Kingshuk Majumdar, Jian Chen, and Selman Hershfield.
Published in Phys. Rev. B 57, 2950 (1998).
"Dynamical symmetry breaking in four fermion theories in 2+1 dimensions,"
Kingshuk Majumdar, Pinaki Roy, and Rajkumar Roychoudhury.
Published in Phys. Rev. D 51, 3129 (1995).
"Sine-Gordon equation in curved space-time,"
Kingshuk Majumdar and Rajkumar Roychoudhury.
Published in Int. J. Theo. Phys 33, 2281 (1994).
"Electromagnetic field in two-dimensional locally flat space-time,"
Kingshuk Majumdar and Rajkumar Roychoudhury.
Published in Int. J. Theo. Phys 33, 1257 (1994).
"O(d,d) invariant solutions of space-time dependent string-vacuo,"
Kingshuk Majumdar, Shibaji Mukherjee, and Rajkumar Roychoudhury.
Published in Fizika B 2, 91 (1993).

Research Programs

Deconfined phases of utltacold atoms in optical lattices
Deconfined phases in two dimensional XY model
Quantum spin chains
Strongly correlated systems
Magnetic Nanostructures