Sriram Shastry

Professor
Department of Physics
University of California
Santa Cruz , CA 95064
(831) 459 5849 (O)

(831) 459 3043 (F)
sriram@physics.ucsc.edu

· UCSC Courses Link: 

· Classical Mechanics Course_:some student seminars.

· "60 Seconds With the Author'': An interview with IOP

· Research Material Link:

· Recent Publications:

· Recent Talks 

Current Research Interests:

• Physics of Strongly Correlated Matter: Superconductivity, Hall effect, Thermo-power and Thermal transport in Sodium Cobaltate and other triangular lattice systems.
• Statistical mechanics of spin ice and other geometrically frustrated systems with ground state entropy, slow approach to equilibrium.
• Quantum Chaos: Universalities in energy level spectral correlations of mesoscopic systems.
• Quantum Integrability through star triangle relations and Exactly Solvable Model Systems.
• 1-d Hubbard model, its conservation laws, the 1/r² Model of interacting spins and s=1/2 quantum spin models in 2-d with simple ground states, studies of excitation spectra. Transport in integrable systems: driven steady states, Kohn type stiffness and twisted boundary conditions.
• Theory of Raman scattering for interacting electrons on a lattice.
• Theory of NMR relaxation rates in correlated electronic systems.
• Novel material realizations of frustrated quantum systems in low dimensions e.g. two dimensional Mott Insulating dimer system SrCu₂(BO₃)₂, and their unusual properties. [For a fascinating connection with Archimedian lattices and other topics in 2-d magnetism see preprint by J Richter, J Schulenburg and A Honecker.]
• Mechanisms for superconductivity on lattices from repulsion: Superconductivity from uncertainty principle type squeezed degrees of freedom, Gutzwiller type variational wave functions, RVB and flux phases.

Some Inspiring Pictures of Santa Cruz :

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