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Prof. Swastik Bhattacharya  

Assistant Professor,
Department of Physics

Aspects of Quantum Gravity, Classical and Semiclassical Theory of Black Holes, Gravitational wave emission from compact objects, Quantum Field Theories in Curved Space-Times
Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani
Hyderabad Campus
Jawahar Nagar, Kapra Mandal
Dist.-Medchal-500 078
Telangana, India

Selected List of Publications(Journals) 

  1. Effective Field Theory Description of Horizon-Fluid determines the Scrambling Time, Swastik Bhattacharya, S Shankaranarayanan, Open Questions in Black Hole Physics, Universe, 6(11), 603, 2022.   
  2. Is there an upper bound on the size of a Black Hole Swastik Bhattacharya, S Shankaranarayanan, Int. Joun. of Mod. Phys. D, 27, 14, 1847011, 2018. (Won honourable mention in the 2018 Gravity Essay Competition.)     
  3. Black hole event horizons- Teleology and Predictivity, Swastik Bhattacharya, S Shankaranarayanan, Mod. Phys. A, 32, 1750186(2017).  
  4. Negative specific heat of black-holes from Fluid Gravity Correspondence, Swastik Bhattacharya, S Shankaranarayanan, Class. Quant. Grav., 34, 7, 075005.
  5. Hints of quantum gravity from the horizon fluid, B. Cropp, Swastik Bhattacharya, S Shankaranarayanan, Phys Rev D 95, 02400
  6. Statistical modeling of the fluid dual to Boulware-Deser Black hole, J, L. L´opez, Swastik Bhattacharya, S Shankaranarayanan, Phys Rev D 94, 024029
  7. Fluctuations in horizon-fluid lead to negative bulk viscosity, Swastik Bhattacharya, S Shankaranarayanan, Phys Rev D 93, 064030 
  8. How emergent is gravity?, Swastik Bhattacharya, S Shankaranarayanan,  Int. Jon. of Mod. Phys. D, 24, 12, 1544005, 2015  (Won honourable mention in the 2015 Gravity Essay Competition.)
  9. The issue of zeroth law for Killing horizons in LanczosLovelock gravity, Sudipta Sarkar, Swastik Bhattacharya, Phys Rev D 87, 044023 
  10.  Static spherically symmetric scalar field spacetimes with C^0 matching, Swastik Bhattacharya, Pankaj S. Joshi, Modern physics letters A 26, 17, 1281 
  11. Collapse and dispersal in massless scalar ?eld models, Swastik Bhattacharya,  Rituparno Goswami, Pankaj S. Joshi, International Journal of Modern Physics D 20, 6, 1123 
  12. Accelerated cosmic expansion in a scalar-field universe, Swastik Bhattacharya, Pankaj S. Joshi, Ken-ichi Nakao, Phys.Rev.D 81,064032 
 

Recent Publication in Conference Proceedings 

A First Principle Based Investigation on the Effects of Stacking Configuration and Biaxial Strain on the Electronic Properties of Bilayer MoS2
Pranav Anand, Parshi Pradyumna, Vishesh Jain, Swastik Bhattacharya, Atrnab Mukhopadhyay, Sayan Kanungo, 
Conference Proceedings, ISDCS 2021, 4th International Conference on devices, circuits and systems, Hiroshima, Japan, 2021
 
Microscopic Modelling for Black Hole Membranes from constraints of Symmetry, 
Swastik Bhattacharya, S Shankaranarayanan, 
Proceedings of the MG16 Meeting on General Relativity, Rome, Italy, 2021