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Prasanna Venkatesh B

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Prasanna Venkatesh B

Associate Professor, Physics

  • BSc (Hons): Chennai Mathematical Institute, 2006
  • MSc: McMaster University, 2008
  • PhD: McMaster University, 2013

Email: prasanna.b -AT- iitgn.ac.in

Website : http://prasanna.people.iitgn.ac.in/

Office: AB 6/312
VOIP: 2546


  • Selected Publications

    1. Read-out of Quasi-periodic Systems using Qubits
      Madhumita Saha, Bijay Kumar Agarwalla, B. Prasanna Venkatesh
      Phys. Rev. A 103, 023330 (2021)

    2. Quantum Statistical Enhancement of the Collective Performance of Multiple Bosonic Engines
      Gentaro Watanabe, B. Prasanna Venkatesh, Peter Talkner, Myung-Joong Hwang, Adolfo del Campo
      Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 210603 (2020)

    3. Cooperative Effects in Closely Packed Quantum Emitters with Collective Dephasing. B. Prasanna Venkatesh, M. L. Juan, and O. Romero-Isart. Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 033602 (2018).

    4. Quantum Performance of Thermal Machines over Many Cycles. G. Watanabe, B. Prasanna Venkatesh, P. Talkner, and A. del Campo. Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 050601 (2017). Marked as Editors’ suggestion.
      Featured in: Physics, APA, derStandard.

    5. In situ observation of optomechanical Bloch oscillations in an optical cavity. H. Keßler, J. Klinder, B. Prasanna Venkatesh, C. Georges, and A. Hemmerich. New J. Phys. 18, 102001 (2016), Fast track communication. Commisioned perspective on the paper: Taking a peek at Bloch oscillations.

  • Work Experience

    • Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (Nov 2024 to present)
    • Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (Oct 2018 - Nov 2024)
    • Post-doctoral Fellow, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Innsbruck (Jun 2018 - Sep 2018)
    • Post-doctoral Fellow, Institute for Quantum Optics & Quantum Information (2015 - Apr 2018)
    • Research Fellow, Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics (2013 - 2015)