Nitin Kaushal

Strongly correlated systems, Moiré materials, Altermagnetism, Quantum computation via quantum annealing, Topological phases of matter.

Aug 2023 – Postdoctoral Research Associate, Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute, UBC, Canada
Sep 2020 – Aug 2023 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Computational Science and Engineering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Aug 2013 – Aug 2020 Graduate Research/Teaching Assistant, University of Tennessee, USA

Ph.D., University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA, August 2020
Dissertation: “Numerical studies of multi-orbital Hubbard models”
Advisor: Prof. Elbio Dagotto

MS in theoretical condensed matter physics, IISER Kolkata, India, 2013
Thesis: “Effect of local magnetic moments on disordered superconductivity”
Advisor: Prof. Amit Ghosal

Integrated BS/MS in Physics, IISER Kolkata, India, 2008–2013

Peer Reviewer: Physical Review Letters, Physical Review B (APS), Frontiers In Electronic Materials.
Academic Honors:

• UTK Chancellor’s Citation Award-2020 for extraordinary professional promise in research
• All India Rank-24 in JEST 2012
• All India Rank-235 in CSIR-NET 2012; awarded JRF
• Selected in Extended merit list of IIT-JEE 2008 (IISER Kolkata)
• INSPIRE fellowship for BS-MS at IISER Kolkata

Invited Talks:

• Quantum Materials Spring 2025 Program Meeting, CIFAR, Banff, May 2025: Altermagnetism and Electronic correlations.
• University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Sept. 2025: Quantum annealing using tensor-network states and D-wave annealer.
• International Conference on Recent Progress in Many-Body Theories XXI, Chapel Hill, NC, USA, Sept. 2022: Magnetic ground states of honeycomb lattice Wigner crystals.
• University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Sept. 2022: Magnetic ground states of honeycomb lattice Wigner crystals.
• Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland, May-2021: Spin-orbit excitonic magnetism in multiorbital systems.
• IISER Kolkata, December 2018: Spin dynamics of the block orbital-selective Mott phase.

Conference Presentations:

• APS March Meeting 2024: Moiré Kanamori-Hubbard model for transition metal dichalcogenide homobilayer.
• APS March Meeting 2023: Magnetic Ground States of Honeycomb Lattice Wigner Crystals.
• APS March Meeting 2022: Magnetization dynamics fingerprints of an excitonic condensate (t2g )4 magnet.
• APS March Meeting 2021: BCS-BEC crossover in the (t2g)4 Excitonic magnet.
• APS March Meeting 2018: Quantum Phase Transitions in a Multi-orbital Hubbard Model with Spin-Orbit Coupling.
• APS March Meeting 2017: Study of a one-dimensional three-orbital Hubbard model and effect of spin orbit coupling using the Density Matrix Renormalization Group method.
• APS March Meeting 2016: Density Matrix Renormalization Group Study of a One Dimensional Three-Orbital Hubbard Model: The role of pair hopping and spin-flip interactions.

Tutorials:

• DMRG++ tutorial, December 2018
• Infinite-DMRG tutorial (with Hitesh J. Changlani), December 2019, IISER Kolkata