Dr. Mahasweta Pandit

 

 

 

 

Personal Information:

 

Background and Research interests:

My current goal for research broadly includes investigating thermodynamically relevant protocols whose characteristics cannot entirely be understood classically. By investigating the thermodynamics of such systems, we aim to provide a much-needed conceptual bridge between non-classical advantages and fundamental quantum phenomena.

Quantum Thermodynamics and Open Quantum Systems – I am currently working on accurately describing the thermodynamics of nanoscale devices where quantum effects become relevant. I am focusing on a nanoelectromechanical device where currents and their fluctuations can encode essential information about the system. I am studying these current fluctuations and the ways to mitigate them from a thermodynamic point of view.

Foundations of Quantum Mechanics – My doctoral thesis was partly focused on taking novel directions towards understanding notions of strong non-classicality and utilising them as resources to gain advantages that serve as the backbone for current and future quantum technologies. In this regard, I investigated the role of resources such as entanglement and Bell nonlocality in ‘genuine multipartite’ scenarios as well as the dependencies between subsystems within such composite settings. 

Selected Publications:

  • Current fluctuations in nonequilibrium open quantum systems beyond weak coupling: a reaction coordinate approach, K. Mahadeviya, S. V. Moreira, S. P. Mandal, MP, J. Prior, M. T. Mitchison.  arXiv:2510.14926 (2025).
  • Heat operator approach to quantum stochastic thermodynamics in the strong-coupling regime, S. P. Mandal, MP, K. Mahadeviya, M. T. Mitchison, J. Prior.  arXiv:2504.10631 (2025).
  • Quantitative nonclassicality of mediated interactions, R. Ganardi, E. Panwar,   MP, B. Woloncewicz, T. Paterek.  PRX Quantum  5, 010318 (2024).
  • Exclusion principle for nonlocal advantage of quantum coherence, P. Ghosh, MP, C. Srivastava, U. Sen.  Phys. Rev. A 108, 022410 (2023).
  • Optimal tests of genuine multipartite nonlocality,  MP, A. Barasinski, I. Marton, T. Vertesi, W. Laskowski.  New Journal of Physics 24, 123017 (2022).
  • Recycled entanglement detection by arbitrarily many sequential and independent pairs of observers, MP, C. Srivastava, U. Sen. Phys. Rev. A 106, 032419 (2022).

Ph.D. thesis:

Characterization of quantum correlations with strong non-classical properties  (June 2022).

Talks:

  • Exact simulation of the dynamics of open quantum systems in the strong coupling regime, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom. (April 2025)
  • Fluctuations in the Anderson-Holstein-type model, University of Malta, Malta. (September 2024).
  • Tensor network simulation of the dynamics of an Anderson-Holstein-type model, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. (April 2024).
  • An ITensors implementation of a dissipative e-dot coupled to a HO, ASPECTS Scientific Meeting, Annecy, France. (December 2023).
  • Recyclability of genuine multipartite entanglement, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. (March 2023).
  • Characterization of strong non-classical correlations, Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics, Polish Academy of Sciences in Gliwice, Poland. (April 2022).

Hobbies: 

I enjoy photography as a creative outlet and a way to unwind outside of research. A few of my photos are on Flickr.