Shouvik Mukherjee
PhD candidate, Physics and Astronomy
University of Pittsburgh
About Me
I am a 6th year Ph.D. student majoring in experimental condensed matter physics at University of Pittsburgh. I am fortunate to be advised by Prof. David Snoke.
I joined Dr. Snoke's group in the spring of 2017 and since then I have been engaged in studying fascinating properties of liquid light created inside a III-V semiconductor microcavity using optical techniques. My research focuses on studying the dynamics of a polariton condensate in a ring geometry. Some questions partially addressed in my work are: 1. How
does a trapped one-dimensional nonequilibrium condensate thermalize following a quench? 2. How to apply drag force on
a superfluid of photons?
Earlier, I studied the relative phase dynamics of two coupled one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensates using theoretical techniques from quantum optics and many-body physics with Prof. David Pekker.
I graduated in 2014 with a Bachelors (Honours) and Masters in Physics from Indian Insititue of Technology Kharagpur. In my undergraduate research I investigated cascaded second-order processes for developing tunable optical parametric amplifiers and modelocked picosecond lasers. I was advised by Prof. Prasanta Kumar Datta.
Contact Details
Email: shouvik[dot]mukherjee(at)pitt{dot}edu
Address:
3941 O’Hara Street, Allen G12,
Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
Education
University of Pittsburgh
Ph.D. in Physics •Sept. 2014 - Present
University of Pittsburgh
MS in Physics •Sept. 2014 - April 2016
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
B.Sc. (Hons.) and M.Sc. in Physics•2009 - 2014
Work Experience
University of Pittsburgh
Research assistant • Sept. 2015 - Present
Institut national de la rescherche scientifique, Varennes
Research intern • May - July 2013
Time domain terahertz spectroscopy • Advisor: Prof. Tsuneyuki Ozaki.
Teaching
Digital and analog electronics
Teaching Assistant •Spring 2017, 2018 and 2019
Wave motion and optics
Teaching Assistant •Fall 2018
Quantum mechanics
Teaching Assistant •Fall 2016, 2017
Awards
Thomas Lain scholarship
Departmental essay writing competetion • 2019-2020
Dietrich school of Arts and Sciences fellowship
Outstanding academic excellence• 2014 - 2015, 2019
Pittsburgh Quantum Institute research award
Outstanding graduate research excellence • 2018
MITACS Globalink scholarship
12 week competetive internship in Canada• 2013
INSPIRE scholarship
Department of science and technology, India• 2009 - 2014
Working Papers
[W4]
Steady state theory of electron drag on polariton condensate
S. Mukherjee, A.S. Bradley and D.W. Snoke
[W3]
Pushing photons with electrons: observation of the polariton drag effect
D.M. Myers, Qi Yao, S. Mukherjee , B. Ozden, J. Beaumariage, L. Pfeiffer, K. West and D.W.Snoke
[W2]
Dynamics of spin polarization in tilted polariton rings
S. Mukherjee, V.K. Kozin, A.V. Nalitov, I.A. Sheylekh, Z. Sun, D.M. Myers, B. Ozden, J. Beaumariage, L. Pfeiffer, K. West and D.W. Snoke [presented at DAMOP meeting 2020]
[W1]
Experimental determinations of polariton-polariton interactions in microcavities
D.W. Snoke, V. Hartwell, J. Beaumariage, S. Mukherjee, Y. Yoon, D.M. Myers, M. Steger and K.A. Nelson
Publications
[ Google Scholar ][R7]
Observation of nonequilibrium motion and equilibration in polariton rings
S. Mukherjee, D.M. Myers, R. Lena, B. Ozden, J. Beaumariage, Z. Sun, M. Steger, L. Pfeiffer, K. West, A. Daley and D.W. Snoke, Phys. Rev. B 100, 245304 (2019) [Editor's suggestion]
[R6]
Polariton-enhanced exciton transport
D.M. Myers, S. Mukherjee, J Beaumariage, D.W. Snoke, M. Steger, L.N. Pfeiffer and K. West, Phys. Rev. B 98, 235302 (2018)
[R5]
Multiple-photon excitation of nitrogen vacancy center in diamond
P. Ji, R Balili, J. Beaumariage, S. Mukherjee, D.W. Snoke and M.V.G. Dutt, Phys. Rev. B 97, 134112 (2018)
[R4]
The dielectric response to the magnetic field of electromagnetic radiation
S. Mukherjee, S. Mukhopadhyay and P.K. Datta, J. of Optics 19 (4), 045401 (2017)
[R3]
Dynamic gain aperture modelocking in picosecond regime based on cascaded second-order nonlinearity
S. Mondal, S. Mukherjee, S. P. Singh, S.C. Rand, S. Bhattacharya, A.C. Das and P. K. Datta, Opt. Express 24, 15274-15288 (2016)
[R2]
Widely tunable intracavity phasematched cascaded second-order interaction for generation of multi-color radiation
S. Mondal, S.P. Singh, S. Mukherjee, S. Mukhopadhyay and P.K. Datta, IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics ( Volume: 51 , Issue: 1 , Jan. 2015 )
[R1]
A comparative study on dual colour soft aperture cascaded second-order modelocking with different nonlinear optical crystals
S. Mondal, S.P. Singh, S. Mukhopadhyay, A. Date, K. Hussain, S. Mukherjee and P.K. Datta, Pramana - J Phys 82, 313–319 (2014)