Paulsamy MURUGANANDAM

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Contact

Address : Department of Physics

Bharathidasan University

Tiruchirappalli – 620 024

Tamil Nadu, INDIA

Employee Number : BDU1690744

Date of Birth : 29-05-1969

Contact Phone (Office) : +91 431 2407057

Contact Phone (Mobile) : +91 94877 06093

Contact e-mail(s) : anand@bdu.ac.in

Skype id : murganand

Academic Qualifications: M.Sc./M.Phil./Ph.D./

Ph.D. Physics, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, India (2000)

M.Phil. Physics, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, India (1993)

M. Sc. Physics, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, India (1991)

Teaching Experience: 13 Years

Research Experience: 18 Years

Additional Responsibilities

1. Head i/c, Department of Medical Physics

Areas of Research

Condensed Matter Physics (Quantum Gases); Nonlinear Dynamics and Complex

Systems; Computational Physics; Data analysis

Research Supervision / Guidance

Program of Study Completed Ongoing Research Ph.D. 4 2

M.Phil. 10 1 Project PG 33 6

UG / Others - -

Publications

International National Others Journals Conferences Journals Conferences Books /

Chapters / Monographs /

Manuals 66 3 2 3 2

Cumulative Impact Factor (as per JCR) : 145.150

h-index : 21

i10 index : 35

Total Citations : 1612

Funded Research Projects

Completed Projects

S.

No Agency

Period Project Title

Budget

(Rs. In

lakhs) From To

1 SERB 2015 2018

Matter Wave Bright and Vortex Solitons

in Spin-Orbit Coupled Bose-Einstein

Condensates

22.89

2 DST-

DAAD 2012 2014

Study on the Properties of Dipolar Bose-

Einstein Condensates Within and Beyond

Mean Field Description

07.49

3 CSIR 2010 2014

Study on the Dynamics of Dipolar

Condensates from the Numerical

Simulations of Gross-Pitaevskii Equation

10.98

4 DST 2010 2013 Matter Wave Solitons in Multicomponent

and Dipolar Bose-Einstein Condensates 10.29

5 DST 2006 2010 Chaos Synchronization in Spatially

Extended Systems 3.25

6 TWAS

CNPq 2006 2009

TWAS Associateship at the Centre of

Excellence in the South 11.90

Ongoing Projects

S.

No

Agency Period Project Title Budget (Rs. In lakhs) From To

1 CSIR 2018 2021

Study on the properties of Rashba spin-

orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensates

in two- and three-dimensions

23.06

2

Distinctive Achievements / Awards

1. Travel Grant (ITS) by DST-SERB, Govt. of India for attending 685. WE-Heraeus-Seminar on 'Research Frontiers in Ultracold Quantum Gases' at the Physikzentrum Bad Honnef, Germany held during Dec 17-21, 2018.

2. Travel Grant (ITS) by Department of Science & Technology, Govt. of India for attending International Seminar of Physics of Cold Atoms (Laser Physics 22) at Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic held during Jul 14-19, 2013.

3. Visiting Scientist Fellowship by Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP), São Paulo, Brazil (10 Nov 2010 – 9 Nov 2011).

4. TWAS-UNESCO Associateship at Centre of Excellence in the South (2006 – 2009)

5. Post-doctoral Fellowship (PDF) by Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP), São Paulo, Brazil (2001 – 2002).

6. Awarded Senior Research Fellowship (SRF) by the Council of Scientific and Industrial research (CSIR), India (1997).

Events organized in leading roles

Number of Seminars / Conferences / Workshops / Events organized: 05

1. Theme meeting on “Bifurcations, Chaos, Synchronization and its applications” at Department of Physics, Bharathidasan University during 6 – 7 Dec 2005.

2. Workshop on “High-Performance Computing” at Department of Physics, Bharathidasan University during 6 – 9, August 2007.

3. Workshop on “High-Performance Computing” at Department of Physics, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirapalli during 23-27, August 2010.

4. National Mathematical Initiative (NMI) Workshop on “Nonlinear Integrable Systems and Their Applications” at Department of Physics, Bharthidasan University & Bishop Heber College, Tiruchirappalli during 24 February – 1 March 2014.

5. Global Initiative of Academic Networks (GIAN) – Course “Complex Systems: Modeling and Analysis” at Department of Physics, Bharthidasan University, Tiruchirappalli during 11 – 15 December 2017.

Events Participated

Conferences / Seminars / Workshops: 19

1. 11 – 14 Oct 2018, Conference on Nonlinear Systems and Dynamics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.

2. 26 – 30 Jun 2018, Dynamics of Complex Systems: Workshop on Complex Systems, International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Bangaluru, India

3. 11 – 14 Mar 2015, 4th International Conference on Current Developments in Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Nano Physics with Applications (CDAMOP - 2015), University of Delhi, Delhi, India

4. 13 – 15 Mar 2015, Conference on Nonlinear Systems and Dynamics (CNSD 2015), Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (ISSER), Mohali, India

5. 14 – 19 Jul 2013, Laser Physics Workshop 2013: “Seminar on Physics of Cold Trapped Atoms”, Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic.

6. 30 Jan – 1 Feb 2012, Interdisciplinary workshop on High Performance Computing, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India

7. 14 – 16 Dec 2011, 3rd International Conference on “Current Developments in Atomic, Molecular, Optical & Nano Physics with Applications, Delhi University, Delhi, India

8. 29 – 31 Mar. 2010, National Level TPSC Workshop on Nonlinear Physics: Theory, Experiments and Applications, Nehru Memorial College (Autonomous), Puthanampatti, Tamilnadu, India

9. 16 – 18 Feb. 2010, TPSC Advance Research Workshop, University of Pune, Pune, India.

10. 12 – 16 Dec 2008, International Conference on Cold Atoms”, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (ISSER), Kolkata, India

11. 12 – 16 Nov 2007, Workshop on “Bose-Einstein condensation: modeling, analysis, computation and applications”, National University of Singapore, Singapore

12. 5 – 7 Feb 2006, 3rd National Conference on “Nonlinear Systems and Dynamics” (NCNSD), University of Madras, Chennai, India

13. 6 – 7 Dec 2004, Workshop on “The Economy as a Complex System”, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India

14. 12 – 15 Jul 2004, Perspectives in Nonlinear Dynamics (PNLD), Indian Institute of Technology & Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India

15. 5 – 10 Jan 2004, International Conference on “Nonlinear Phenomena”, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

16. 28 – 30 Dec 2003, First National Conference on “Nonlinear Systems and Dynamics” (NCNSD), Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India

17. 1 – 13 Dec 2003, Winter School on “Nonlinear Optics: Theory and Applications”, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirapalli, India

18. 12 – 16 Feb 1998, International Conference on Nonlinear Dynamics: Integrability and Chaos, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirapalli, India

19. 10 – 15 Jan 1997, International Conference on Dynamical Systems, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Other Training Programs

1. Orientation Course, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirapalli (2006)

2. Summer Internship Programme, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmadabad

(2010)

3. Refresher Course in Physics, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirapalli (2012)

4. Science Academies’ Refresher course in Quantum Mechanics, Bishop Moore

College, Mavelikara (2014)

Overseas Exposure / Visits

1. Instituto de Física Téorica, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Sao Paulo, Brazil during Jun 2001 – Feb 2003 as FAPESP Post-Doctoral Fellow.

2. Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste Italy as Visiting Scientist during 2 – 24 Aug 2004.

3. Department of Mathematics, University of Catania, Catania, Italy during 24 – 26 Aug 2004 and delivered a lecture on “Nonlinear Schrödinger family of equations”.

4. Instituto de Física Téorica, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Sao Paulo, Brazil during 11 May – 29 Jul 2006 and 10 Apr – 10 Jun 2007 as Visiting Associate under TWAS-UNESO Associateship program.

5. Department of Physics, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil during 18 – 20, June 2007 and delivered a lecture on “Analysis of certain nonlinear time series data using detrended fluctuation analysis”.

6. Institute for Mathematical Sciences National University of Singapore, Singapore and participated in the Program on Bose-Einstein Condensation and Quantized Vortices in Superfluidity and Superconductivity during 12 – 22, November 2007.

7. Instituto de Física Téorica, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Sao Paulo, Brazil during 30 Oct – 29 Dec 2009 under Indo-Brazil joint research programme.

8. Instituto de Física Téorica, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Sao Paulo, Brazil during 11 Nov. 2010 to 10 Nov. 2011 as Visiting Scientist.

9. Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany during 1-27 March 2013 for collaborative research under DST-DAAD Project based Personal Exchange Programme.

10. ICTP-South American Institute for Fundamental Research, IFT-UNESP, Sao Paulo, Brazil during 15 May – 3 July 2013 as Visiting Scientist.

11. Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic during 14-20 July 2013 for participation in the Laser Physics Workshop 2013: “Seminar on Physics of Cold Trapped Atoms”.

12. ICTP-South American Institute for Fundamental Research, IFT-UNESP and University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil during 10 April – 30 June 2016 as Visiting Scientist.

Membership in

Professional Bodies

1. Indian Physics Association

Academic Bodies (such as Board of Studies etc.,)

1. Board of Studies: M.Sc. and M. Phil. Physics (Bharathidasan University,

Tiruchirappalli)

2. Board of Studies (H. H. The Raja’s College, Pudukottai)

3. Member, Board of Studies (A N J A College, Sivakasi)

4. Member, Academic Council (Jamal Mohamed College, Tiruchirappalli)

Resource persons in various capacities

Number of Invited / Special Lectures delivered: 32

Recent Publications (last 5 years)

1. R. T. Thiruvalluvar, S. Sabari, K. Porsezian and P. Muruganandam, Vortex formation and vortex lattices in a Bose-Einstein condensate with Lee-Huang-Yang (LHY) correction, Physica E 107, 54-59 (2019).

2. S. Kundu, S. Majhi, P. Muruganandam, D. Ghosh, Diffusion induced spiral wave chimeras in ecological network, Eur. Phys. J. Special Topics 227, 983-993 (2018).

3. S. Majhi, P. Muruganandam, F. F. Ferreira, D. Ghosh, and S. K. Dana, Asymmetry in initial cluster size favors symmetry in a network of oscillators, CHAOS 28, 081101 (2018).

4. R. Bai, A. Roy, D. Angom and P. Muruganandam, Condensates in double-well potential with synthetic gauge potentials and vortex seeding, Phys. Lett. A 382, 2376 (2018).

5. P. Louodop, E. B. M. Ngouonkadi, P. Muruganandam, H. A. Cerdeira, Synchronization Dynamics of Modified Relay-coupled Chaotic Systems, J. App. Nonlin. Dyn. 7, 11-24 (2018)

6. S. Bhuvaneswari, K. Nithyanandan, and P Muruganandam, Spotlighting phase separation in Rashba spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensates in two dimensions, J. Phys. Commun. 2, 025008 (2018).

7. R. Kishor Kumar, P. Muruganandam, L. Tomio and A. Gammal, Miscibility in coupled dipolar and non-dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates, J. Phys. Commun. 1, 035012 (2017).

8. P. Louodop, S. Saha, R. Tchitnga, P. Muruganandam, S. K. Dana, and H. A. Cerdeira, Coherent motion of chaotic attractors, Phys. Rev. E 96, 042210 (2017).

9. L. E. Young-S., P. Muruganandam, S. K. Adhikari, V. Lončar, D. Vudragović, and A. Balaž, OpenMP GNU and Intel Fortran programs for solving the time-dependent Gross-Pitaevskii equation, Comput. Phys. Commun. 220, 503 (2017).

10. T. Sriraman, B. Chakrabarti, A. Trombettoni, and P. Muruganandam, Characteristic features of the Shannon information entropy of dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates, J. Chem. Phys. 147, 044304 (2017).

11. S. Sabari, K. Porsezian and P. Muruganandam, Dynamical stabilization of two-dimensional trapless Bose-Einstein condensates by three-body interaction and quantum fluctuations, Chaos, Solitons and Fractals 103, 232–237 (2017).

12. P. S. Vinayagam, S. Bhuvaneswari, R. Ravisankar, P. Muruganandam, and R. Radha, Bright soliton dynamics in spin orbit-Rabi coupled Bose-Einstein condensates, Commun. Nonlinear Sci. Num. Simu. 50, 68-76 (2017).

13. V. Lončar, S. Škrbič, L. E. Young-S., P. Muruganandam and S. K. Adhikari, and A. Balaž, OpenMP, OpenMP/MPI, and CUDA/MPI C programs for solving thetime-dependent dipolar Gross–Pitaevskii equation, Comput. Phys. Commun. 209, 190 (2016).

14. S. Bhuvaneswari, K. Nithyanandan, P Muruganandam, and K. Porsezian, Modulation instability in quasi-two-dimensional spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensates, J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 49, 245301 (2016).

15. S. Sabari, K. Porsezian and P. Muruganandam, Study on the stabilization of attractive Bose-Einstein condensates using projection operator method, Rom. Rep. Phys. 68, 990-1003 (2016).

16. R. Kishor Kumar, T. Sriraman, H. Fabrelli, P. Muruganandam, and A. Gammal, Three-dimensional vortex structures in a rotating dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate, J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 49 155301 (2016).

17. K. Nakamura, D. Babajanov, D. Matrasulov, M. Kobayashi, and P. Muruganandam, Dynamics of trapped interacting vortices in Bose-Einstein condensates: Role of breathing degree of freedom, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 49, 315102 (2016).

18. L. E. Young-S, D. Vudragović, P. Muruganandam, S. K. Adhikari, and A. Balaž, OpenMP Fortran and C programs for solving the time-dependent Gross–Pitaevskii equation in an anisotropic trap, Comput. Phys. Commun. 204, 209 (2016).

19. K. Manikandan, P. Muruganandam, M. Senthilvelan and M. Lakshmanan, Manipulating localized matter waves in multicomponent Bose-Einstein condensate, Phys. Rev. E 93, 032212 (2016).

20. B. Satarić, V. Slavnić, A. Belić, A. Balaž, P. Muruganandam, and S. K. Adhikari, Hybrid OpenMP/MPI programs for solving the time-dependent Gross-Pitaevskii equation in a fully anisotropic trap, Comput. Phys. Commun. 200, 411 (2016).

21. V. Lončar, A. Balaž, A. Bogojevič, S. Škrbič, P. Muruganandam and S. K. Adhikari, CUDA programs for solving the time-dependent dipolar Gross-Pitaevskii equation in an anisotropic trap, Comput. Phys. Commun. 200, 406 (2016).

22. R. Kishor Kumar, L. E. Young-S., D. Vudragović, A. Balaž, P. Muruganandam, S. K. Adhikari, Fortran and C programs for the solution of time-dependent Gross-Pitaevskii equation for dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates, Comput. Phys. Commun. 195, 117-128 (2015).

23. P. Muruganandam and M. Lakshmanan, “Matter wave solitons and other localized excitations in Bose-Einstein condensates in atom optics” in Odyssey of Light in Nonlinear Optical Fibers: Theory and Applications, Edited by K. Porsezian and R. Ganapathy (CRC Press, 2015) ISBN 9781482236132.

24. K. Manikandan, P. Muruganandam, M. Senthilvelan and M. Lakshmanan, Manipulating matter-rogue waves and breathers in Bose-Einstein condensates, Phys. Rev. E 90, 062905 (2014).

25. R. Kishor Kumar, P. Muruganandam, Effect of optical lattice potential on vortices in rotating dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates, Eur. Phys. J. D 68, 289 (2014).

26. V. Chithiika Ruby, P. Muruganandam, and M. Senthilvelan, Nonlinear time evolution of coherent states with observation of super revivals in a generalized isotonic oscillator, Int. J. Geom. Methods Mod. Phys. 11, 1450027 (2014).

27. R. Kishor Kumar and P. Muruganandam, Numerical studies on vortices in rotating dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates, J. Phys. Conf. Ser. 407, 012036 (2014).

28. R. Kishor Kumar, P. Muruganandam and B. A. Malomed, Vortical and fundamental solitons in dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates trapped in isotropic and anisotropic nonlinear potentials, J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 46, 175302 (2013).

29. J. B. Sudharsan, R. Radha and P. Muruganandam, Collisionally inhomogeneous Bose-Einstein condensates with binary and three-body interactions in a bichromatic optical lattice, J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 46, 155302 (2013).

30. B. Akila and P. Muruganandam, Observation of phase-flip transition in delay-coupled Nishio-Inaba circuits, Eur. Phys. J. Special Topics 222, 917-926 (2013).

31. E. L. Fonseca, F. F. Ferreira, P. Muruganandam, H. A. Cerdeira, Identifying financial crises in real time, Physica A 392, 1386-1392 (2013).

32. S. Gautam, P. Muruganandam and D. Angom, Formation and stability of coreless vortex dipoles in phase-separated binary condensates, Phys. Lett. A 377 (2013) 378–386.

Book Chapter(s):

1. P. Muruganandam and M. Lakshmanan, “Matter wave solitons and other localized excitations in Bose-Einstein condensates in atom optics” in Odyssey of Light in Nonlinear Optical Fibers: Theory and Applications, Edited by K. Porsezian and R. Ganapathy (CRC Press, 2015) ISBN 9781482236132.

Books/Proceedings:

1. M. Lakshmanan and P. Muruganandam (Eds.), “Proceedings of the National Mathematics Initiative Workshop on Nonlinear Integrable Systems and their Applications”, Pramana - J. Phys. 85, 753-1062 (2015).