• Ph.D. (2001) Computaional Condensed Matter Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• M.Sc. (1992) Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India
• B.Sc. (1990) Physics, University of Calcutta, Calcutta, India
• Employment:
  • 2006-present Postdoctoral Associate, CNLS, T-11 and MST-NHMFL, LANL
  • 2005-2006 Postdoctoral Associate, Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles
  • 2003-2005 Postdoctoral Associate, Univ. of California, Riverside
  • 2001-2003 Postdoctoral Associate, Univ. of California, Davis

Research Interests:

• Strongly correlated electrons; Quantum magnetism; ultracold atoms on optical lattices; coherent control of quantum systems.

Selected Recent Publications:

1. Sengupta, P., and Batista, C. D., Field-induced supersolid phase in Spin-one Heisenberg models, to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett.  (2007).
2. Sengupta, P., and Haas, S., Quantum glass phases in the disordered Bose-Hubbard model, to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett.  (2007).
3. Sengupta, P., Pryadko, L. P., Alet, F., Troyer, M., and Schmid, G., Supersolid versus phase separation in two-dimensional lattice bosons, Phys. Rev. Lett.  94,207202 (2005).
4. >Sengupta, P., Rigol, M., Batrouni, G. G., Denteneer, P. J. H., and Scalettar, R. T., Phase coherence, visisbility, and the superfluid--Mott-insulator transition on one-dimensional optical lattices, Phys. Rev. Lett.  95,2204002 (2005).
5. Sengupta, P., and Pryadko, L. P.,Scalable design of tailored soft pulses for coherent control, Phys. Rev. Lett.  95,037202 (2005).