Himadri Chakraborty

Professor

Education

• Ph.D
• M.S Physics
• B.S. Physics

Courses Taught

• 25-110/111 General Physics I and Lab
• 25-112/113 General Physics II and Lab
• 25-120/121 Fundamentals of Classical Physics I and Lab
• 25-230/231 Fundamentals of Classical Physics I and Lab
• 25-320/321 Classical Mechanics Lecture and Lab
• 25-322 Statics
• 25-330/331 Electricity & Magnetism and Lab
• 25-352 Modern Physics
• 25-450/451 Computational Physics and Lab
• 40-123 Descriptive Astronomy Lab
• 48-314 Nanoscience I

Academic Interests

Teaching Interests

• General physics and nanophysics
• Electromagnetic theory
• Quantum physics
• Atomic, molecular, optical, and surface physics

Research Interests (Theoretical/Computational)

• Photon and charged-particle impact spectroscopy of atoms, molecules, carbon-fullerene materials and metallic nanoparticles
• Ultrafast processes in atoms, molecules, and 2D materials
• Positronium formation from atoms and fullerene molecules
• Nonadiabatic molecular dynamis in materials using high-performance computing
• Machine learning and neural network AI approaches in molecular dynamics computer simulations

Scholarly Activity (Recent & Selected)

• “Fourier imaging of diffraction in elastic e-C₆₀ scattering: Effects of impact energy and high angular momentum”; R. Aiswarya, R. Shaik, J. Jose, H.R Varma, and H.S. Chakraborty, Journal of Physics B 59, 095201 (2026).
• “Imaging the atomic scattering potential in centroidal diffraction of elastic electrons”; R. Aiswarya, J. Jose, N. Simonovic , B.P. Marinkovic , and H.S. Chakraborty, Physical Review A Letters 113, L010801 (2026).
• “Hybridization and coherence in subshell differential intercluster plasmonic decay in Na₂₀@C₂₄₀”; R. Shaik, H.R. Varma, M.E. Madjet, F. Zheng, and H.S. Chakraborty, Journal of Chemical Physics 162, 244305 (2025).
• “Ultrafast nonadiabatic electron dynamics in photoexcited C₆₀: a comparative study among DFT exchange-correlation functionals”; E. Ali, M.E. Madjet, R. De, M.B. Wholey, T. Frauenheim, and H.S. Chakraborty, Journal of Physical Chemistry A 129, 2123 (2025).
• “Attosecond correlated electron dynamics at C₆₀ giant plasmon resonance”; S. Biswas, A. Trabattoni, P. Rupp, M. Magrakvelidze, M.E. Madjet, U. De Giovannini, M.C. Castrovilli, M. Galli, Q. Liu, E.P. Månsson, J. Schötz, V. Wanie, F. Légaré, P. Wnuk, M. Nisoli, A. Rubio, H.S. Chakraborty, M.F. Kling, F. Calegari, Science Advances 11, eads00494 (2025).
• “Heavy hole spins relaxations in quantum dots: Isotropic versus anisotropy effects”; D. Forbes, S. Prabhakar, R. De, H.S. Chakraborty, and R. Melnik, Physical Review B 110, 045422 (2024).
• “Simultaneous real and momentum space electron diffraction from fullerene molecules”; Aiswarya R., R. Shaik, J. Jose, H.R. Varma, and H.S. Chakraborty, Physical Review Letters 133, 033002 (2024).
• “Plasmonic resonant intercluster Coulombic decay”,  R. Shaik, H.R. Varma, M.E. Madjet, F. Zheng, T. Frauenheim, and H.S. Chakraborty, Physical Review Letters. 130, 233201 (2023).
• “Electron vacancy-level dependent hybrid photoionization of F⁻@C₆₀⁺ molecule; a novel effect”; E. Ali, T. O’Brien, A. Dennis, M.E Madjet, S.T. Manson, and H.S. Chakraborty, Journal of Physics B 55, 045101 (2022).
• “A dynamical (e,2e) investigation into the ionization of pyrazine”; D.B. Jones, E. Ali, H.S. Chakraborty, C.G. Ning, G. García, D.H. Madison, and M.J. Brunger, Chemical Physics Letters 781, 139000 (2021).
• “Density functional study of the variants of inter-Coulombic decay resonances in the photoionization of Cl@C₆₀”; R. De, E. Ali, S.T Manson, and H.S. Chakraborty, Physica Scripta 96, 104007 (2021).
• “Ultrafast transfer and transient entrapment of photoexcited Mg electron in Mg@C₆₀”; M.E. Madjet, E. Ali, M. Carignano, O. Vendrell , and H.S. Chakraborty, Physical Review Letters 126, 183002 (2021).

Student Group Advisement

Nanophysics research groups

Other Professional Experiences

• Winner of the US National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant in 2008, 2011, 2014, 2018, 2021, and 2025
• Member of American Physical Society
• Member of American Nano Society
• Member of Indian Society of Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics

Other

Personal Interests

• Creative literature
• Classical music
• Family