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Experience:

1. Kadanoff Center Fellow, Aug 2023 - Present
   University of Chicago

2. Postdoctoral Research Associate, Aug 2020 - Jul 2023
   Department of Physics, Princeton University
   Advisors:   Prof. Duncan Haldane, Prof. Ravindra 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

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

Professional Profiles:

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

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

Selected Publications:

A complete list of publications can be found on arxiv.

1. Scaling of entanglement entropy at quantum critical points in random spin chains
   Prashant Kumar, R. N. Bhatt
   arxiv:2307.00062

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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.

6. 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

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