Dipan Ghosh

Dipan Ghosh is an Indian theoretical physicist, best known for his exact enumeration of the ground state of a Heisenberg antiferromagnet, known in literature as the Majumdar–Ghosh model, which he developed with Chanchal Kumar Majumdar.[1]

Dipan Kumar Ghosh
NationalityIndia
Alma materTata Institute of Fundamental Research
Known forMajumdar–Ghosh model
Scientific career
FieldsCondensed matter theory
InstitutionsIndian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Doctoral advisorChanchal Kumar Majumdar

Education

Ghosh was awarded an M.Sc. in physics in 1966 from Ravenshaw College, Cuttack Utkal University, as that university's gold medalist. He would later receive his Ph.D. from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay, India in 1971 on the strength of his thesis, entitled "Study of Magnetic Hamiltonians", under Chanchal Kumar Majumdar. He did post-doctoral work at Bristol University with John Ziman from 1971 to 1972, and at Northwestern University with K. S. Singwi from 1972–73.

Occupation

References

  1. Sushanta Kumar Dattagupta (2000). "Chanchal Kumar Majumdar (1938–2000) – An obituary" (PDF). Current Science. 79 (1): 115–116. Retrieved 16 September 2010.
  2. "faculty:dkg:home · Department of Physics". Department of Physics, IITB. Archived from the original on 15 July 2010. Retrieved 16 September 2010.


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