Vedika Khemani

Vedika Khemani (born 1988) is an Indian-American physicist and Assistant Professor at Stanford University. Her research considers many-body systems and condensed matter physics. She was awarded the 2021 American Physical Society George E. Valley Jr. Prize.

Vedika Khemani
Alma materPrinceton University
Harvey Mudd College
La Martiniere Calcutta
Scientific career
ThesisQuantum order, entanglement and localization in many body systems. (2016)
Doctoral advisorShivaji Sondhi

Early life and education

Khemani was born in India and education through high-school at La Martiniere Calcutta. She moved to the United States to study physics at Harvey Mudd College, where she completed a senior thesis on gravitational holography. Her undergraduate thesis was awarded the Thomas Benjamin Brown Memorial Award. Alongside her physics course, Khemani completed courses in economics, linguistics and creative writing.[1] She also took part in robotics programmes and competed at national robotics competitions. After completing her undergraduate degree in 2010 she moved to Princeton University as a graduate student.[1] Here she worked on non-equilibrium phases of matter in Floquet crystals.

Research and career

As part of her doctoral research, Khemani identified a novel phase of matter, which is now known as a Floquet time-crystal. Such crystals demonstrate spontaneous breaking of time translation symmetry.[2][3] In conventional crystals, atoms are arranged in regular and ordered patterns, whereas in time crystals they are arranged in both space and time.[3][4] In 2016 Khemani was made a Harvard Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows.[5][6]

Awards and honours

Select publications
  • Choi, Jae-yoon; Hild, Sebastian; Zeiher, Johannes; Schauß, Peter; Rubio-Abadal, Antonio; Yefsah, Tarik; Khemani, Vedika; Huse, David A.; Bloch, Immanuel; Gross, Christian (2016-06-24). "Exploring the many-body localization transition in two dimensions". Science. 352 (6293): 1547–1552. arXiv:1604.04178. Bibcode:2016Sci...352.1547C. doi:10.1126/science.aaf8834. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 27339981. S2CID 35012132.
  • Choi, Soonwon; Choi, Joonhee; Landig, Renate; Kucsko, Georg; Zhou, Hengyun; Isoya, Junichi; Jelezko, Fedor; Onoda, Shinobu; Sumiya, Hitoshi; Khemani, Vedika; von Keyserlingk, Curt (2017). "Observation of discrete time-crystalline order in a disordered dipolar many-body system". Nature. 543 (7644): 221–225. arXiv:1610.08057. Bibcode:2017Natur.543..221C. doi:10.1038/nature21426. ISSN 1476-4687. PMC 5349499. PMID 28277511.
  • Khemani, Vedika; Lazarides, Achilleas; Moessner, Roderich; Sondhi, S. L. (2016-06-21). "Phase Structure of Driven Quantum Systems". Physical Review Letters. 116 (25): 250401. arXiv:1508.03344. Bibcode:2016PhRvL.116y0401K. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.250401. PMID 27391704.

Personal life and education

In 2013 Khemani married David Coats, who she met at Harvey Mudd College.[12]

References
  1. Khemani, Vedika (2012-02-01). "Why a Liberal Arts Education Matters". India Ink. Retrieved 2020-08-20.
  2. "Creating time crystals: Physicists create new form of matter that may hold the key to developing quantum machines". ScienceDaily. Retrieved 2020-08-20.
  3. "Researchers create 'time crystals' envisioned by Princeton scientists". phys.org. Retrieved 2020-08-20.
  4. "Scientists confirm: Time crystals definitely exist". Christian Science Monitor. 2017-03-09. ISSN 0882-7729. Retrieved 2020-08-20.
  5. "LMG two blaze Harvard trail". www.telegraphindia.com. Retrieved 2020-08-20.
  6. "Senior & Junior Fellows (current academic year)". socfell.fas.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2020-08-20.
  7. "McMillan Award | ILLINOIS PHYSICS". physics.illinois.edu. Retrieved 2020-08-20.
  8. "2021 George E. Valley Jr. Prize Recipient". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2020-08-20.
  9. "Five Indian Americans Receive US DoE Early Career Award". The Indian Panorama. 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-08-20.
  10. Writer, a Staff. "Several Indian-Americans Among 2020 Sloan Research Fellows | News India Times". Retrieved 2020-08-20.
  11. "2020 Fellows". sloan.org. Retrieved 2020-08-20.
  12. "David Coats ('08) and Vedika Khemani ('10) Marry". physics.hmc.edu. Retrieved 2020-08-20.
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