Sanved Kolekar

Assistant Professor

Educational Qualifications:

  • Ph.D. In Physics, Inter University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune (2014)
  • M.Sc. In Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (2008)
  • B.Sc. In Physics, University of Mumbai (D. G. Ruparel College) (2006)

Positions:

  • Assistant Professor at the UM – DAE Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences, (2020 - ).
  • DST Inspire Faculty at UM – DAE Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences, Mumbai (2015 – 2020).
  • Visiting Researcher at the Centre de Physique Theorique (CPT), Marseille France (2017).
  • Academic Visitor – Researcher at Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham UK (2016 – 2017).
  • Post-Doctoral fellow at Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics China (KITPC)/ Institute of Theoretical Physics – Chinese Academy of Sciences (ITP - CAS) (2013 –  2014)

Current Research Interest:

  • Gravitation, Black hole physics, semi – classical gravity, BMS symmetries, quantum gravitational memory, gravity shock – waves, relativistic quantum information, curvature effects on quantum entanglement.
  • Quantum fluctuations in the Davies-Unruh bath, analogue gravity models, experimental proposals for Unruh effect and analogue Hawking radiation.
  • Modified theories of gravity, Higher curvature theories of gravity, gravitational waves.
  • Early Universe Cosmology.
  • Emergent gravity, thermodynamics of horizon, fluid-gravity correspondence.

Selected Publications:

  • Kajol Paithankar and Sanved Kolekar, The role of Unruh effect in Bremsstrahlung, Phys. Rev. D 101 no. 6, 065012 (2020).
  • Sanved Kolekar, S. Shankaranarayanan and S. M. Chitre, Generation of CMB and Cosmological constant via bulk viscosity, Gen. Rel. Grav. 52, 98 (2020).
  • Sanved Kolekar, Directional dependence of the Unruh effect for spatially extended detectors, Phys. Rev. D 101, 025002 (2020).
  • Kajol Paithankar and Sanved Kolekar, Rindler horizons in the Schwarzschild spacetime, Phys. Rev. D 100 no.8, 084029 (2019).
  • Kajol Paithankar and Sanved Kolekar, Bound on Rindler trajectories in a black hole spacetime, Phys. Rev. D 99 no.6, 064012 (2019).
  • Sanved Kolekar and Jorma Louko, Quantum memory for Rindler supertranslations, Phys. Rev. D 97 no.8, 085012 (2018).
  • Sanved Kolekar and Jorma Louko, Gravitational memory for uniformly acceler- ated observers, Phys. Rev. D 96, 024054 (2017).
  • Sanved Kolekar and T. Padmanabhan, Indistinguishability of thermal and quan- tum fluctuations, Class. Quant. Grav. 32 no. 20, 202001.
  • Sanved Kolekar and T. Padmanabhan, Quantum field theory in the Rindler- Rindler spacetime, Phys. Rev. D 89, 064055 (2014).
  • Sanved Kolekar, Uniformly accelerated observer in a thermal bath, Phys. Rev. D 89, 044036 (2014).
  • Sanved Kolekar, Kandaswamy Subramanian and S. Sridhar, Mean field dynamo action in renovating shearing flows, Phys. Rev. E 86, 026303 (2012).
  • Sanved Kolekar and T. Padmanabhan, Drift, Drag and Brownian motion in the Davies-Unruh bath, Phys. Rev. D 86, 104057 (2012).
  • Sanved Kolekar, T. Padmanabhan and Sudipta Sarkar, Entropy increase during physical processes for black holes in Lanczos-Lovelock gravity, Phys. Rev. D 86 Rapid Communication, 021501 (2012).
  • Sanved Kolekar, Dawood Kothawala and T. Padmanabhan, Two aspects of black hole entropy in Lanczos-Lovelock models of gravity, Phys. Rev. D 85, 064031 (2012).
  • Sanved Kolekar and Dawood Kothawala, Membrane Paradigm and Horizon Thermodynamics in Lanczos-Lovelock gravity, JHEP 1202, 006 (2012).
  • Sanved Kolekar and T. Padmanabhan, Action principle for the Fluid-Gravity cor- respondence and emergent gravity, Phys. Rev. D 85, 024004 (2011).
  • Sanved Kolekar and T. Padmanabhan, Ideal Gas in a strong Gravitational field: Area dependence of Entropy, Phys. Rev. D 83, 064034, (2011).
  • Sanved Kolekar and T. Padmanabhan, Holography in Action, Phys. Rev. D 82, 024036 (2010) [arXiv:1005.0619].
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