Position
Assistant Professor

Office Phone
609-258-9914

Email
sgopalakrishnan@princeton.edu

Assistant
Katie Gallagher

Office
B316 Engineering Quadrangle

Degrees
Ph.D., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2012
BA, Amherst College, 2006

Advisee(s):
Teerit Vongkovit




Bio/Description
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
I am interested broadly in the dynamics of quantum systems and devices, and particularly in the dynamics of quantum information — the ways in which the information encoded in quantum states scrambles and becomes inaccessible as time passes. How information gets scrambled in realistic physical systems, and how scrambling can either be mitigated or harnessed for useful tasks, are questions that motivate much of my research. The bulk of my work is at the interface between quantum statistical mechanics and quantum information theory; some of it reaches farther afield, to computer science, data compression, approximation theory, etc. In the course of my research I collaborate with experimentalists in photonics, atomic physics, and condensed matter physics.

Selected Publications
W. Kao, K. Li, K. Lin, S. Gopalakrishnan, and B. L. Lev, "Topological pumping of a 1D dipolar gas into strongly correlated prethermal states," Science 371, 296 (2021)
F. Mahmood, D. Chaudhuri, S. Gopalakrishnan, R. Nandkishore, and N. P. Armitage, "Observation of a marginal Fermi glass," Nature Physics 17, 627 (2021)
T. Can, V. Oganesyan, D. Orgad, and S. Gopalakrishnan, "Spectral gaps and midgap states in random quantum master equations," Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 234103 (2019)
S. Gopalakrishnan and R. Vasseur, "Kinetic theory of spin diffusion and superdiffusion in XXZ spin chains," Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 127202 (2019)
S. Gopalakrishnan, "Operator growth and eigenstate entanglement in an interacting integrable Floquet system," Phys. Rev. B 98, 220303 (2018)
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Honors and Awards:
NSF CAREER Award, 2017
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Research Areas
Applied Physics
Photonics
Quantum Engineering