Nonmonotonic skewness of currents in nonequilibrium steady states, Sreekanth K. Manikandan, Biswajit Das, Avijit Kundu, Raunak Dey, Ayan Banerjee, and Supriya Krishnamurthy #StatisticalPhysics go.aps.org/3DOdLMt

The second of our suite of three papers on non eq stat mech. Congrats to Raunak Dey, Avijit Kundu, and Biswajit Das-you have really grown this wing of the Light Matter lab, after Shuvojit Paul started things off! Phys. Rev. E 106, 054113 (2022)- journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/1…

Check out our work in Physical Review E where we have experimentally verified the arcsine behaviour of time-integrated thermodynamic observables of microscopic system in a non-equilibrium steady state in the long time limit. Raunak Avijit Kundu Ayan Banerjee journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/1…

80-year-old Physics laws rediscovered in mesoscopic systems!! Our paper on Arcsine laws has been published in Physical Review E Thanks to all our great team Avijit Kundu Biswajit Das and PI Ayan Banerjee Scroll through this thread to read more American Physical Society (1/n) journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/1…

And the third. Which happens to be Biswajit Das's first! Of many many more I believe. Congrats to him, and Sreekanth Manikandan - for the hand-holding. Phys. Rev. Research 4, 043080 (2022) - Inferring entropy production in anharmonic Brownian gyrators journals.aps.org/prresearch/abs…

Check out our recent work published in Physical Review Research where we describe the technique to infer dissipation in non-linear microscopic heat engines. Thankful to Sreekanth & Ayan Banerjee sir for their guidance ! link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/Ph…

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The first thing researchers need to learn is to be humble and not to assume or pretend for a single moment that they are superior to anyone else. The very starting point of research is that there is no incontrovertible knowledge or truth.

Kinetic energy dissipation rate in two-dimensional turbulence. Logarithmic contours. Plots with Matplotlib Data available here: dropbox.com/s/6olaesnuxjnj… #Python script to generate plots: import numpy as np import matplotlib as mpl import matplotlib.colors as colors import

Finally it’s arrived! Foldscope 2.0. We have been working on this for many years - so thrilled to see this out! Will write a longer thread on new features shortly - but finally we have swappable lenses (3!!). Your support allows us to bring microscopy to all corners of the world.

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Good to see this from ACS Photonics!

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BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Physics to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”

International referee's comment on my PhD student Ramnandan's thesis: 'Overall, I was extremely impressed by the thesis. In all my years in academia this is only one of the two thesis that I have seen where a student has mastered both rigorous theoretical concepts...1/n

...and carried out meticulous experiments.The thesis is very well written with a nice introduction to the topic as well as the theoretical concepts. Reading the theory parts showed the firm grasp the student has on fundamental concepts.' Proud moment for the Light Matter lab! 2/n

File this under "Events I have been waiting my whole life for."

At least two self-funded JRF positions are available in the Light Matter lab. One in the fascinating physics of particles trapped in air using photophoretic forces, and the other in sensor and device development using microbubble lithography. Apply at: apply.iiserkol.ac.in/phd/dps_applic…

Our first foray into active colloids - this paper gives a rather efficacious recipe to decode active forces just from particle trajectories in an optical trap. Great work by the team - now to extend this to viscoelastic media inside a cell! Physical Review E journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/1…

A Short Note on Experimental Physics: Experimental physics is one of the crucial ingredients of physics. There are at least two major tasks within its realm. The first is to examine nature through observation. These observations can then be extrapolated into systematic