Research Projects

( 1) Mentoring Faculty and Students Deshmukh’s highest priority will be to interact strongly with each and every faculty member, one-on-one, and support his/her respective academic initiatives. Apart from guiding Ph.D. theses of many students, Deshmukh has mentored a large number of M.Sc./B.Tech./B.Sc./ students, some of whom have published noteworthy papers. Nurturing such a culture in each of the four Departments at the CUK with which Deshmukh will be associated will be his top priority. (2) Research in Ultrafast Atomic Wave-packet Dynamics on Attosecond Scale. Within the first three months, Deshmukh will identify faculty collaborators and research students to work on ultrafast atomic dynamics. The measurability of Wigner time delay in atomic photoionization has been challenged in the following publication: "Can we measure the Wigner time delay in a photoionization experiment?" by Benjamin Fetić, Wolfgang Becker, and D. B. Milošević [References: Can-we-measure-the-Wigner-time-delay-in-a-photoionization-experiment.pdf and [2210.05219] Can we measure the Wigner time delay in a photoionization experiment? ] . Deshmukh has countered the claim of Benjamin Fetić, Wolfgang Becker, and D. B. Milošević in his research publication Measurability of Wigner time delay in a photoionization experiment in the Canadian Journal of Physics, 10 April 2024, https://doi.org/10.1139/cjp-2023-0226. Deshmukh’s explanation is based on the application of the time reversal symmetry in quantum physics. (3) Establishment of Institute of Quantum Matter and Computing (IQMC) An Institute of Quantum Matter and Computing (IQMC) will be set up at CUK. MoUs for the IQMC will be set up with industries in quantum computing, along the lines of the tripartite MoU championed and set up by Deshmukh between IIT Tirupati, IISER Tirupati, and QpiAI ( QpiAI ). (4) AI-enhanced Computer Aided Education in Science & Technology (CAEST) Deshmukh will develop – with a few collaborators – a patentable studio for AI-enhanced Computer Aided Education in Science & Technology (CAEST). (5) Time-Domain Interferometry using Quantum Gate Operations on Qubits. Very little discussion on time domain interferometry is available. It is important in attosecond laser pulse generation using High Harmonic Generation (HHG). Recently, Deshmukh and coworkers have developed a computer simulation of the 3-step model using unitary quantum gate operations on qubits. It will be great to extend these studies in quantum information science. (6) Speed-limits on Quantum Information Processing in Quantum Computing. Along with a few collaborators, Deshmukh recently published an interesting study, ‘Temporal Response of Atoms Trapped in an Optical Dipole Trap: A Primer on Quantum Computing Speed’ [S. Baral, Raghavan K. Easwaran, J. Jose, Aarthi Ganesan and P. C. Deshmukh, Speed. Atoms 2023, 11, 72 https://doi.org/10.3390/atoms11040072]. It will be great if CUK faculty takes up further work in this field with Deshmukh.