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Amin A. Nizami

Assistant Professor of Physics, Ashoka University

Ph.D. University of Cambridge

Amin received his PhD in Theoretical Physics from the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge. His research interests include various aspects of quantum field theory, holography and quantum information with the main area of specialisation being conformal field theory.

After obtaining his BSc in Physics (with Mathematics and Statistics) from AMU, Aligarh, India, he completed a Masters in Theoretical Physics from the University of Cambridge. Prior to joining Ashoka, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS-TIFR).

An abiding research interest of mine has been Conformal Field Theory (CFT).Ā  CFTs are special quantum field theories (QFTs) possessing scale invariance. They arise as fixed points of Renormalisation Group flow in the space of general QFTs. Because of the enhanced symmetries, and the existence of structures like the Operator Product Expansion, itĀ  is possible to constrain/classify possible CFTs using consistency conditions such as crossing symmetry, unitarity and causality – this is the conformal bootstrap program. CFTs also find wide applicability in various areas of theoretical physics including cosmology, particle physics, holography, condensed matter and statistical physics.Ā 

I have recently been working on momentum space correlators in 3d CFTs. I am also interested in exploring its connections to cosmological correlators.

Recent publications

  • Higher spin 3-point functions in 3d CFT using spinor-helicity variables,Ā  with S. Jain, R. R. John, A. Mehta and A. Suresh, published in Journal of High Energy Physics, JHEP 09(2021)041.Ā 
  • Double Copy structure of parity-violating 3d CFT correlators, with S. Jain,R. R. John, A. Mehta and A. Suresh, JHEP 07(2021)033.
  • Momentum space parity-odd CFT 3-point functions, with S. Jain, R. R. John, A. Mehta and A. Suresh, JHEP 08(2021)089.
  • Superconformal invariants and spinning correlators in 3d N=2 SCFTs, with PhD student Aditya Jain. [EPJ C 82 (2022) 11, 1065]

I am also interested in topics in quantum many body theory such as quantum chaos. Recent work here includes:

  • Quantum chaos measures for Floquet dynamics, Amin A. Nizami [arXiv: quant-ph/2007.07283]

Publications (Inspire)

I intend to take a PhD student in summer 2023. Interested students can apply here.

Research Experience

  • Postdoctoral Researcher, (2014-2018) International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS-TIFR).
  • PhD (2010-2014), DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

Graduate (PhD) level

  • Symmetry in Physics: Lie algebras, groups and representations [designed and taught in 2021]
  • Quantum Field Theory 1: Introduction and FoundationsĀ  [designed and taught in 2022]

Undergraduate level

  • The Special Theory of Relativity [designed and taught in Spring 2023]
  • Quantum Mechanics [designed and taught in 2019, 2020 and 2021]
  • Classical Mechanics [designed and taught in 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021]
  • Mathematical Physics 2: Differential equations and dynamical systems [designed and taught in 2019, 2020 and 2021]
  • Mathematical Physics 1 [2019]
  • Physics Lab 1: Introduction to Physics through experiments [2020]
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