Resume


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Experience:

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Aug 2020 - Present
Department of Physics, Princeton University
Advisors: Prof. F. Duncan M. Haldane (Nobel Laureate 2016),

Prof. Ravindra N. Bhatt
Prof. Shinsei Ryu

Education:

PhD, Sep 2014 - Jun 2020
Dissertation title: Aspects of the Half-Filled Landau Level
Department of Physics, Stanford University
Advisor: Prof. Srinivas Raghu

Undergraduate, Jul 2009 - Jun 2014
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
M.Sc. (Integrated), Physics

Professional Profiles:

  1. Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=G0iHuV0AAAAJ

  2. Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prashant-kumar-67b761150

Selected Publications:

A complete list of publications can be found on arXiv.

  1. Possible continuous transition from fractional quantum Hall to stripe phase at ν = 7/3
    Prashant Kumar, R. N. Bhatt
    Phys. Rev. B 106, 115101, 2022, arXiv:2205.06310

  2. Neutral Excitations of Quantum Hall States: a Density Matrix Renormalization Group Study
    Prashant Kumar, F. D. M. Haldane
    Phys. Rev. B 106, 075116, 2022, arXiv:2112.02113

  3. Anisotropic quantum Hall states in the presence of interactions with four-fold rotational symmetry
    Prashant Kumar, R. N. Bhatt
    Phys. Rev. B 104, 035147, 2021, arXiv:2104.09670

  4. Numerical Study of a Dual Representation of the Integer Quantum Hall Transition
    Kevin S. Huang, S. Raghu, and Prashant Kumar
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 056802, 2021, arXiv:2009.07871
    Featured as Editor’s Suggestion.

  5. Interaction effects on quantum Hall transitions: dynamical scaling laws and superuniversality
    Prashant Kumar, P. A. Nosov, S. Raghu
    Phys. Rev. Research 4, 033146, 2022, arXiv:2006.11862

  6. Self-duality of the integer quantum Hall to insulator transition: Composite fermion description
    Prashant Kumar, Yong Baek Kim and S. Raghu
    Phys. Rev. B 100, 235124, 2019, arXiv:1907.13141

  7. Topological phase transition underpinning the particle-hole symmetry in the Halperin-Lee-Read theory
    Prashant Kumar, Michael Mulligan and S. Raghu
    Phys. Rev. B 98, 115105, 2018, arXiv:1805.06462

  8. Composite fermion Hall conductivity and the half-filled Landau level
    Prashant Kumar, S. Raghu, Michael Mulligan.
    Phys. Rev. B 99, 235114, 2019, arXiv:1803.07767

  9. Geometric critical exponents in classical and quantum phase transitions
    Prashant Kumar, Subhash Mahapatra, Prabwal Phukon and Tapobrata Sarkar
    Phys. Rev. E 90, 042145, 2014, arXiv:1405.3212

  10. Geodesics in information geometry: classical and quantum phase transitions
    Prashant Kumar, Subhash Mahapatra, Prabwal Phukon and Tapobrata Sarkar
    Phys. Rev. E, 86, 051117, 2012, arXiv:1210.7135