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Chandrasekhar Ramanathan

Professor

Appointments

Professor of Physics and Astronomy

Adjunct Associate Professor of Chemistry

Area of Expertise

Experimental Quantum Control and Simulation,

Spins in Nanostructures,

Electron and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Imaging,

quantum devices,

dynamic nuclear polarization

Biography

Professor Ramanathan is an experimental physicist working at the interface of quantum information processing and condensed matter physics. He has a B. Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, an M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an S.M. in Technology and Policy and an Sc.D. in Nuclear Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Following postdoctoral training at Harvard Medical School, Nottingham University and MIT, he spent a number of years at MIT as a Research Scientist. He joined Dartmouth College in August 2010.

Education

B.Tech. Indian Institute of Technology

M.S. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

S.M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Sc.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Publications

Large Room Temperature Bulk DNP of 13C via P1 Centers in Diamond 
D. Shimon, K. Cantwell, L. Joseph, E. Q. Williams, Z. Peng, S. Takahashi, C. Ramanathan
Journal of Physical Chemistry C, (2022)  DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.2c06145
arXiv.org: cond-mat.mtrl-sci/2207.11961.

Deep reinforcement learning for quantum Hamiltonian engineering
P. Peng, X. Huang, C. Yin, L. Joseph, C. Ramanathan, P. Cappellaro
Physical Review Applied, 18, 024033 (2022)
arXiv.org: quant-ph/2102.13161

Floquet Graphene Antidot Lattices
A. Cupo, E. Cobanera, J. D. Whitfield, C. Ramanathan, L. Viola
Physical Review B, 104, 174304 (2021)
arXiv.org: quant-ph/2108.06472

Floquet prethermalization in dipolar spin chains
P. Peng, C. Yin, X. Huang, C. Ramanathan, P. Cappellaro
Nature Physics, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-020-01120-z
arXiv.org:quant-ph/1912.05799.

Emergent prethermalization signatures in out-of-time ordered correlations
K. X. Wei, P. Peng, O. Shtanko, I. Marvian, S. L. Lloyd, C. Ramanathan and P. Cappellaro
Physical Review Letters, 123, 090605, 2019.
www.arXiv.org:quant-ph/1812.04776.

Enhanced dynamic nuclear polarization via swept microwave frequency combs
A. Ajoy, R. Nazaryan, K. Liu, X. Lv, B. Safvati, G. Wang, E. Druga, J. A. Reimer, D. Suter, C. Ramanathan, C. A. Meriles, A. Pines
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA)115, 10576-10581, 2018.  
www.arXiv.org: app-ph/1806.08746.

Exploring Localization in Nuclear Spin Chains
K. X. Wei, C. Ramanathan and P. Cappallaro
Physical Review Letters, 120, 070501, 2018
arXiv.org: cond-mat.dis-nn/1612.05249

Chemisorption of water on the surface of silicon microparticles measured by DNP-enhanced NMR,
M. L. Guy, K. J. van Schooten, L. Zhu and C. Ramanathan
Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 121, 2748–2754, 2017. 
www.arXiv.org:cond-mat.mtrl-sci/1610.06544

Contact

Chandrasekhar.Ramanathan@dartmouth.edu
603-646-9780
Wilder, Room 238
HB 6127

Departments

Physics and Astronomy

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