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Saikat Ghosh
PhD (Cornell University)
Associate Professor, Department of Physics
FB-475,
Department of Physics
IIT Kanpur,
Kanpur 208016
Specialization
Quantum Optics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, Laser Cooled Cold Atoms and Nano-photonics.
Education
PhD, Cornell University, USA, 2006
Master of Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, 2000.
Bachelor of Science, Presidency College, Kolkata, India, Department of Physics, June 1998
Selected Publications
"On precision limits and resource count in a general measurement" H. M.Bharath and Saikat Ghosh (in review) arxiv:1308.3833, 2013.
"Heralded Single-Magnon Quantum Memory for Photon Polarization States" Haruka Tanji, Saikat Ghosh, Jon Simon, and Vladan Vuletic, Phys. Rev. Lett., 103, 043601,2009. Selected as Editor's suggestion. See accompanying Viewpoint: Physics.
"Single-photon bus between spin-wave quantum memories" Jon Simon, Haruka Tanji, Saikat Ghosh, and Vladan Vuletic, Nature Physics3, 765 (2007).
"Low-light-level optical interactions with rubidium vapor in a photonic band-gap fiber" Saikat Ghosh, Amar R. Bhagwat, Chris K. Renshaw, Shireen Goh, Alex L. Gaeta,and Brian J.Kirby, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 023603 (2006).
Resonant optical interactions with molecules con_ned in photonic band-gap _bers" Saikat Ghosh, Jay E. Sharping, Demitre G. Ouzounov, and Alex L. Gaeta, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 093902 (2005).
Awards & Fellowships
"Information and the foundations of quantum theory" Angleo Bassi, Saikat Ghosh and T. P.Singh arxiv:1310.8600, 2nd Prize, FQXI and Templeton Foundation Essay Contest(2013).
Visiting Faculty, Physics Department, Cornell University, 2011.
Fellow, Physics Department, MIT, 2006-2008.
Cornell University Graduate Fellowship, 2000-2001
President's silver medal for "the most outstanding Masters student", IIT-Mumbai,