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Prime Minister's Research Fellow,
Department of Physics,
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.

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"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."

-Carl Sagan


Arpana Saboo is a research scholar in the Department of Physics, IIT Kharagpur, She is currently pursuing her doctoral research under the supervision of Prof. Sonjoy Majumder. Her broad area of research is the 'Light-matter interaction'.She is a recipient of the prestigious Prime Minister's Research fellowship for the May, 2021 cycle.Click here to check her CV.

Arpana aspires to become a successful Theoretical Physicist. Her aim is to contribute significantly to the scientific research, and hopes to inspire the coming generations to choose research as a career option. She is highly motivated to study the physical world more closely. Her interests lie in studying the quantum systems for they are simply beautiful, elegant and so much more fascinating. She is actively working in ultracold atoms and Bose-Einstein Condensation.

Research

Multi-Component Bose-Einstein condensates

Matter made of matter waves! This new state of matter is achieved by cooling a gas of non-interacting bosonic particles below a critical temperature, Tc. As we cool down the atoms, the de-Broglie wavelength associated with the matter waves becomes longer and longer, and beyond Tc , the matter waves overlap such that all the particles oscillate in concert, forming a giant wave. This is known as Bose-Einstein condensation.

A BEC with spin internal degrees of freedom is referred to as the spinor BEC. Once the atoms with the non-zero hyperfine quantum number f are optically trapped, their spin degrees of freedom can vary due to the inter-atomic interactions. This spin diversity leads to a criterion of having 2f + 1 spin-variations over space and time.

Education

  • Sept, 2020 - Present: PhD , IIT, Kharagpur, Kharagpur, West Bengal, India
    Gpa (coursework): 9.2/10

    • 2017 - 2019: M.Sc in Applied Physics, VSSUT, Sambalpur, India
    Gpa (coursework): 8.52/10

    2014 - 2017: B.Sc (Hons.) in Physics, Sambalpur University, India
    Total Aggregate Percentage: 78.17/100
    Percentage in Hons: 82.50/100

    May, 2014: DAV Public School (CBSE, 12th)
    Percentage: 91.2/100

    May, 2012: Siksha Niketan (ICSE, 10th)
    Percentage: 91.14/100

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    Awards & Honours


    • Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship (PMRF): May, 2021


    • NET-LS JUNE, 2020: AIR 52 in Physics


    • JEST 2020: AIR 372 in Physics


    • GATE 2020: AIR 338 in Physics


    • Kamala Shastri Memorial Award, 2015


    Conferences & Seminars


    June 2023: Young Atom Opticians Conference 2023, ICFO, Barcelona, Spain.
    (Upcoming)

    March 2023: 10th Research Scholars' Day, Oral Presentation on "Rayleigh-Taylor instability in a phase-separated three-component Bose-Einstein condensate.", Department of Physics, IIT Kharagpur.
    (Oral Presentation)

    December 2022: DAE-BRNS National Laser Symposium (NLS-31) IIT Kharagpur.
    (Attended)

    November 2022: Structured Light and Spin-Orbit Photonics, ICTS-TIFR, Bengaluru
    (Poster Presentation)

    September 2022: Cold atoms predoc school on Quantum Mixtures, School of Physics, Les Houches, France
    (Poster Presentation)

    June 2021: Online Workshop on simulation methods in Scientific Computing.
    (Online, attended)

    November 2020: Young Scientists’ Conference at Indian International Science Festival, 2020, Oral Presentation on “A study in fundamentals of Quantum Mechanics using a Quantum Computer.”
    (Online, presented)

    April 2019: Technical Writing and Seminar II on “The world of Fractals.”, VSSUT, Sambalpur
    (presented)

    November 2018: Technical Writing and Seminar I on “Ladder and Barn Problem: A relativity Paradox.”, VSSUT, Sambalpur
    (presented)

    February 2016: UGC Sponsored National Seminar on “Advances in Physics in the last half century and its applications to Society.”, Gangadhar Meher University, Sambalpur (Odisha)
    (attended)

    Teaching Experience


    • Internal TA Duties

      • B.Tech First Year Physics Lab (Spring, 2022-23) at IIT, Kharagpur, West Bengal

      • Quantum Optics (Autumn, 2022-23) at IIT, Kharagpur, West Bengal

      • B.Tech First Year Physics Lab (Autumn, 2022-23) at IIT, Kharagpur, West Bengal

      • Atomic, Molecular and Quantum Information Science (Spring, 2021-22) at IIT, Kharagpur, West Bengal

      • B.Tech First Year Physics Lab (Autumn, 2021-22) at IIT, Kharagpur, West Bengal


    • External TA Duties

      • Statistical Mechanics (Jan,2023 - Present) at HIJLI College, Kharagpur

      • Quantum Mechanics (Aug,2022 - Dec,2022) at HIJLI College, Kharagpur

      • Mathematical Physics (Apr,2022 - Present) at HIJLI College, Kharagpur

      • Statistical Mechanics (Jan, 2022-Apr, 2022) at EGRA SARADA SHASHI BHUSHAN COLLEGEl


    • C-136, Department of Physics
    • IIT Kharagpur, West Bengal.
    • arpana.saboo@gmail.com
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