Apoorva D Patel

Research Interests: Lattice gauge theories Renormalisation group Light-front QCD Quark-gluon plasma Quantum computation Languages of genes and proteins Black hole thermodynamics

In case you want to get a better idea of what I do, have a look at my list of publications.

Here are my video lecture courses:

• Relativistic Quantum Mechanics, as part of the NPTEL programme
  Its PDF files are: Module1, Module2, Module3, Exercises.
• Introduction to Quantum Computation, as available on the IISc YouTube channel
  The lecture-wise contents of the course are here.
  The assignments for the course are here. The notes for some of the lectures are here.
• Advanced Quantum Computation, as available on the IISc YouTube channel
  The lecture-wise contents of the course are here.
  The assignments for the course are here.

My work on genetic languages has received wide publicity.

• First paper: "Quantum Algorithms and the Genetic Code"
• Cover story in New Scientist (15 April 2000): "Life Force"
• Review: "Towards Understanding the Origin of Genetic Languages"
  (Chapter 10 in the book "Quantum Aspects of Life")
• Demonstration: "A coupled oscillator model of Grover's algorithm" in action and in words
• Article in MIT Technology Review (12 September 2019): "An important quantum algorithm may actually be a property of nature"
• Latest papers: "Grover's Algorithm in Natural Settings", "Understanding Nature's Selection of Genetic Languages".

• Talk at Lattice 2012 (29 June 2012):
  Baryon Number Correlation Signals in Heavy Ion Collisions
• Talk at Strong Frontier 2009, PPISR (12-17 January 2009):
  Large-N QCD at Strong Transverse Gauge Coupling
• Lectures at the 9th SERC School on High Energy Physics, Guwahati (November 1993):
  Renormalisation Group

• I-HUB Quantum Technology Foundation Seminar, IISER Pune (27 Feburary 2025):
  Understanding Quantum Advantage in Machine Learning
• Invited talk at the Bangalore Neuromorphic Engineering Workshop, IISc, Bangalore (13 January 2025):
  Neural Networks: From Associative Memory to Boltzmann Machines
• Expert talk at the International Workshop on Engineering and Integration Challenges in Quantum Communication and Quantum Computing, C-DAC, Pune (21 March 2024):
  Quantum Technology: Directions and Prospects
• Interactive Session at the Q-Karyashala 2023 Workshop, IISc, Bengaluru (28 June 2023):
  video recording
• Talk at the Program on Horizons in Accelerators, Particle/Nuclear Physics and Laboratory-based Quantum Sensors for HEP/NP, ICTS, Bengaluru (16 November 2022):
  Sensing with Waves: Classical and Quantum (video of presentation)
• Tutorial at the Workshop on Quantum Information Science and Engineering (QISE 2021), colocated with FSTTCS 2021 (18 December 2021):
  Quantum Machine Learning: Kernel Methods
• Overview talk at the National Quantum Science and Technology Symposium, IIIT Hyderabad (28 July 2021):
  Quantum Algorithms
• Talk at BARC, Mumbai (26 September 2019):
  Quantum Technology: Concepts and Prospects (video of ICTS version)
• Institute Colloquium, IISc (20 September 2018):
  The Physics of Computation: Directions from the Quantum World (video)
• Talk at TIFR, Mumbai (20 April 2018):
  Quantum Computation: Concepts and Prospects
• Talk at the program Open Quantum Systems, ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore (31 July 2017):
  Understanding the Born rule in Weak Measurements
• Talk at International Conference on Quantum Foundations, NIT, Patna (19 October 2016):
  Weak Measurements, Quantum State Collapse and the Born Rule
• Talk at Institute for Quantum Computing, Waterloo (23 June 2016):
  Optimisation of Quantum Hamiltonian Evolution:
  From two projection operators to local Hamiltonians
• Talk at IISc-IEEE Advanced Information Theory Workshop
  commemorating the 100th birthday of Claude Shannon (30 April 2016):
  Information Theory Meets Quantum Physics
• Short introductory video (2013):
  Quantum Computation: A look ahead
• Talk at IEEE-IISc Information Theory Workshop (7 September 2012):
  Information Theory Meets Quantum Physics (video)
• Talk at TEDx-SJCE (15 April 2012):
  Quantum Computation: The Magic of Wave Dynamics
• Talk at Conscientia 2010, IIST-TVM (5 March 2010):
  Quantum Computation: Concepts and Prospects

• Poster at the Discussion Meeting "A Hundred Years of Quantum Mechanics", ICTS-TIFR (13-17 January 2025):
  Understanding Nature's Selection of Genetic Languages
• Talk at Workshop on Applications of Physics, Mathematics to Cognition and Consciousness, NIAS (11 March 2013):
  Knowledge, its Hierarchy and its Direction: Ancient and Modern
• Talk at Workshop on Quantum Biology, IIT-J (26 January 2013):
  Towards Understanding the Origin of Genetic Languages
• Talk at Quantum Physics of Living Matter, La Sapienza-Roma (12 July 2011):
  A Wave Model of Efficient Energy Transport in Photosynthesis
• Talk at NASA-AMES (1 October 2003):
  Languages of Genetic Information

• International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS-TIFR), Bangalore, India
  Visiting Professor: 2024 - present
• Centre for High Energy Physics (2004 onwards)
  and Centre for Theoretical Studies (till 2003)
  and Supercomputer Education and Research Centre (till 2015)
  Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
  Emeritus Professor: 2024 - present
  Professor: 2006 - 2024
  Associate Professor: 1995 - 2006
  Assistant Professor: 1989 - 1995
  Convener, IISc Quantum Technology Initiative: 2022 - 2024
• Theory Division, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
  Scientific Associate: 1987 - 1989
• Theoretical Physics, University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany
  Research Fellow: 1987
• Physics Department, University of California (San Diego), La Jolla, USA
  Post-Doctoral Research Fellow: 1984 - 1986
• California Insitute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
  Ph.D. in Theoretical High Energy Physics: 1980 - 1984
  Thesis: Monte-Carlo Renormalisation Group for Lattice QCD
• Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India
  M.Sc. in Physics (5-year integrated course): 1975-1980
  Project: Stark Effect (Advisor: Sharad H. Patil)

• Associate Member of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy: August 1996 - December 2003.
• "Rajiv Gandhi" research grant for innovative ideas in science and technology, 1997, awarded by Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore.
• Associate Member of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore: July 1990 - December 1995.
• "President of India" gold medal for topping the class of 1980 at Indian Insitute of Technology, Mumbai.

• A. Sarva Lakshmi Devi
  M.Tech. (Computational Science), 2003
  Project: Simulation of a Quantum Computer
• Raghunath A. Ratabole
  Ph.D. (High Energy Physics), 2004
  Thesis: A Transverse Lattice QCD Model for Mesons
• Tathagat Avatar Tulsi
  Ph.D. (Physics), 2009
  Thesis: Generalizations of the Quantum Search Algorithm
• Md. Aminoor Rahaman
  M.Sc.(Engg.) (Supercomputer Education and Research Centre), 2009
  Thesis: Search on a Hypercubic Lattice using Quantum Random Walk
• U. Satya Sainadh
  M.S. (Physics), 2014
  Thesis: An Efficient Quantum Algorithm and Circuit to Generate Eigenstates of SU(2) and SU(3) Representations
• Roopesh Mangal
  M.Tech. (Computational Science), 2015
  Project: Spectral Properties of Classical and Quantum Random Walk Operators on Ramanujan Graphs
• Pranav Mundada
  B.S. (Research), 2015
  Project: U-spin Symmetry in D_s^+ and D^+ Meson Decays
• Abhijith Jayakumar
  M.Tech. (Computational Science), 2016
  Project: Efficient Quantum Dynamics Simulations for Periodic Potentials
  Ph.D. (High Energy Physics), in progress
  
• V. Anjani Priyadarsini
  Ph.D. (High Energy Physics), 2018
  Thesis: Efficient Quantum Algorithms for Linear Algebra Problems
• Parveen Kumar
  Ph.D. (High Energy Physics), 2018
  Thesis: Quantum Dynamics of Weak Measurement: Understanding the Born rule and applying weak error correction
• Somasundaram Sankaranarayanan
  B.S. (Research), 2018
  Project: Quantum Trajectory Formalism for Weak Measurements
• Abhijith Jayakumar
  Ph.D. (High Energy Physics), 2022
  Thesis: Quantum Walks and Spatial Search on Regular Graphs
• Ankit Khandelwal
  M.S. (Physics), 2022
  Thesis: Explorations in Quantum Machine Learning
• Chaitali Shah
  M.Tech. (Quantum Technology), 2023
  Project: Quantum Correlations in Frustrated Three-body Systems
• Rajiv Ramesh Sangle
  M.Tech. (Quantum Technology), 2023
  Project: Ground State Preparation of the Antiferromagnetic Heisenberg Model on a Kagome Star using a 16-qubit Processor
• Manish Kumar
  M.Tech. (Quantum Technology), 2024
  Project: Two Quantum Algorithms for a Non-linear Reaction-Diffusion Equation Using Chebyshev Approximation Method

My Wikipedia page is here.
My page in the Silver Jubilee Reunion Book, Class of 1980, IIT Bombay, is here.

My visual evolution can be seen here.
You can inspect my personal book collection here.

Information to contact me at home is here.

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Last modified: 14 May 2025