Bulbul Chakraborty

Enid and Nate Ancell Professor of Physics

Departments/Programs

Physics

Degrees

SUNY at Stony Brook, Ph.D.
SUNY at Stony Brook, M.S.
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, B.S.

Expertise

Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics

Profile

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Professor Bulbul Chakraborty is a condensed matter theorist who is interested in systems far from equilibrium. Her recent research has been focused on a) exploring emergence in the macroworld where thermal fluctuations are irrelevant, and specifically how shearing leads to solidification in the natural world, b) analyzing the origin of glassy dynamics in supercooled liquids with a specific focus on the question of an underlying critical point, c) the collective behavior of active matter, which consists of individual entities that can produce and dissipate energy.

Courses Taught

PHYS	91g	Introduction to Research Practice
PHYS	100a	Classical Mechanics
PHYS	110a	Mathematical Physics
PHYS	162a	Quantum Mechanics I

Awards and Honors

Fellow of the American Association of the Advancement of Science (2020)

Simons Fellow in Theoretical Physics (2018 - 2019)

Elected Chair of the Advisory Board of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (2014)

Elected General Member of the Aspen Center for Physics (2009)

Enid and Nate Ancell Chair of Physics (2009)

Fellow, American Physical Society (2009)

NSF Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (2008)

Scholarship

Bedi, Desh, Mondal, Rituparno, Chaudhuri, Pinaki, Rao, Madan, Dasgupta Chandan, Chakraborty, Bulbul. "Active Jammed States in the Infinite Persistence Limit." To be Submitted to Physical Review Letters (2021). (forthcoming)

Ramaswamy, Meera, Cohen, Itai, Chakraborty, Bulbul. "Scaling theory of the Shear Jamming Transition in Dense Suspensions." To be Submitted to Science (2021). (forthcoming)

V. Babu, D. Pan, Y. Jin, B. Chakraborty, and S. Sastry. "Is friction essential for dilatancy and shear jamming in granular matter ?." Soft Matter 17. (2021): 3121.

J. E. Thomas, A. Goyal, D. S. Bedi, A. Singh, E. Del Gado, and Chakraborty, Bulbul. "Investigating the Nature of Discontinuous Shear Thickening: Beyond a Mean-Field Description." Journal of rheology PDS2019. (2020): 329.

J. Nampoothiri, Y. Wang, K. Ramola, J. Zhang, S. Bhattacharya, and B. Chakraborty,. "Emergent Elasticity in Athermal Amorphous Solids." Physical Review Letters 125. (2020): 11802.

P. Acharya, S. Sengupta, B. Chakraborty, and K. Ramola. "Athermal fluctuations in disordered crystals." Phys. Rev. Letters 124. (2020): 168004.

Behringer, R. P., Chakraborty, Bulbul. "The physics of jamming of granular materials: a review." Reports on Progress in Physics 82. (2019): 012601.

C. Merrigan, K. Ramola, R. Chatterjee, N. Segall, Y. Shokef, and B. Chakraborty. "Arrested states in persistent active matter: Gelation without attraction." Physical Review Research 2. (2019): 013260.

Chatterjee, R., Segall, N., Merrigan, C.,Ramola, K., Chakraborty, Bulbul. "Motion of active tracer in a lattice gas with cross-shaped particles." Journal of Chemical Physics 150. (2019): 144508.

Goldstein, Daniel, Ramaswamy, Sriram, Chakraborty, Bulbul. "Stress Fluctuations in Transient Active Networks." Soft Matter 15. (2019): 3520.

Guerrero, B.V., Chakraborty, B.,Zuriguel, I., and Garcimartin, A.. "Nonergodicity in silo unclogging: Broken and unbroken arches." Physical Review E 100. (2019): 032901.

H. Vinutha, Kabir Ramola, Bullbul Chakraborty and Srikanth Sastry. "Timescale divergence at the shear jamming transition'." Granular Matter 22. (2019): 16.

Ryohei Seto, Abhinendra Singh, Bulbul Chakraborty, Morton M. Denn, and Jeffrey F. Morris. "Shear jamming and fragility in dense suspensions." Granular Matter 21. (2019): 82.

Merrigan, Carl, Birwa, Sumit, Tewari, Shubha, and Chakraborty, Bulbul. "Ergodicity breaking dynamics of arch collapse." Physical Review E 97. (2018): 040901(R).

Sakhardande, R, Stanojeviea, S., Baskaran, Ar., Baskaran, A., Hagan, M., and Chakraborty, Bulbul. "Theory of microphase separation in bidisperse chiral membranes." Physical Review E 96. (2018): 012704.

Thomas, Jetin, Ramola, Kabir, Singh, Abhinendra, Mari, Romian, Morris, Jeffrey F., and Chakraborty, Bulbul. "Microscopic Origin of Frictional Rheology in Dense Suspensions: Correlations in Force Space." Physical Review Letters 121. (2018): 128002.

Martiniani, Stefano, Shrenck, K. Julian, Ramola, Kabir, Chakraborty, Bulbul, and Frenkel, Daan. "Numerical test of the Edwards conjecture shows that all packings are equally probable at jamming." Nature Physics 13. (2017): 848.

Nampoothiri, Jishnu, Ramola, Kabir, Sabhapandit Sanjib, and Chakraborty, Bulbul. "Gaps between avalanches in one-dimensional random-field Ising models." Physical Review E 96. (2017): 032107.

Ramola, Kabir and Chakraborty, Bulbul. "Scaling Theory for the Frictionless Unjamming Transition." Physical Review Letters 118. 138001 (2017).

Ramola, Kabir and Chakraborty, Bulbul. "Stress Response of Granular Systems." Journal of Statistical Physics 169. (2017): 1-17.

Sarkar, Sumantra , Shatoff, Elan, Ramola, Kabir , Mari, Romain , Morris, Jeffrey, Chakraborty, Bulbul. "Shear-induced organization of forces in dense suspensions: signatures of discontinuous shear thickening." EPJ Web Conference 140. (2017): 09045.

Ramola, Kabir and Chakraborty, Bulbul. "Disordered contact networks in jammed packings of frictionless disks." JSTAT 2016. 11 (2016): 114002.

Sumantra Sarkar, Dapeng Bi, Jie Zhang, Jie Ren, R. P. Behringer, and Bulbul Chakraborty. "Shear-induced rigidity of frictional particles: Analysis of emergent order in stress space." Phys. Rev. E. 93. (2016): 042901.

Thibault Bertrand, Robert P. Behringer, Bulbul Chakraborty, Corey S. O'Hern, and Mark D. Shattuck. "Protocol dependence of the jamming transition." Phys. Rev. E 93. (2016): 012901.

Chakraborty, Bulbul. "Statistical Mechanics of Dry Granular Materials: Statics and Slow Dynamics." Handbook of Granular Materials. Ed. S. Franklin and M. Shattuck. New York: Taylor and Francis, 2015. 187-213.

D. Bi, S. Henkes, K. Daniels, Chakraborty, Bulbul. "The Statistical Physics of Athemal Materials." Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics 6. (2015): 63-83.

Danny Goldstein, Michael Giver, Chakraborty, Bulbul. "Synchronization Patterns in Frustrated Turing Rings." Chaos 25. (2015): 123109.

R. P. Behringer, D. Bi, B. Chakraborty, A. Clark, J. Dijksman, J. Ren and J. Zhang. "Statistical properties of granular materials near jamming." Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment 2014. (2015): P06004.

Sarkar, Sumantra and Chakraborty, Bulbul. "Shear-induced rigidity in athermal materials: a unified statistical framework." Physical Review E 91. (2015): 042201.

C. Michael Giver, and Bulbul Chakraborty. "Effects of Intrinsic Fluctuations in a prototypical chemical oscillator: metastability and switching." arXiv: 1303.3048 (2013)

Dapeng Bi, Jie Zhang, R. P. Behringer, Bulbul Chakraborty. "Fluctuations in Shear-Jammed States: A Statistical Ensemble Approach." Europhysics Letter 102. (2013): 34002.

R. P. Behringer, J. Dijksman, J. Ren, J. Zhang, T. Majmudar, B. Chakraborty, D. Bi and A. Tordesillas,. Jamming and shear for granular materials. Proc. of Powders and Grains 2013: International Conference on Micromechanics of Granular Media. Sydney, Australia: 2013.

S. K. Nandi, B. Chakraborty, A. K. Sood and S. Ramaswamy. "Yielding and large deviations in micellar gels: a model." Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Exper-iment 2013. 02 (2013): P02027.

Sarkar, Sumantra, Bi, Dapeng, Zhang Jie, Behringer, R. P. , and Chakraborty, Bulbul. "Origin of Rigidity of Granular Solids." Physical Review Letters 111. (2013): 068301.

Tewari, Shubha, Dichter Michal, and Chakraborty, Bulbul. "Signatures of incipient jamming in collsional hopper flows." Soft Matter 9. (2013): 5016.

C. F. Schreck, M. Mailman, B. Chakraborty and C. S. OHern. "Constraints and vibrations in static packings of ellipsoidal particles." Phys. Rev. E 85. (2012): 061305.

Giomi, L.,Mahadevan, L., Chakraborty, Bulbul and Hagan, M. F. "Excitable Patterns in Active Nematics." Physical Review Letters 106. (2012): 218101.

L. Giomi, L. Mahadevan, B. Chakraborty and M. F. Hagan. "Banding, excitability and chaos in active nematic suspensions." Nonlinearilty 25. (2012): 2245.

Mitch Mailman and Bubul Chakraborty. "Using point-to-set correlations to probe unjamming of frictionless grains." Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment 05. (2012): P05001.

Shubha Tewari, Michal Dichter, Bulbul Chakraborty. "Signatures of Incipient Jamming in Collisional Hopper Flows." Soft Matter 9. (2012): 5026.

Sumedha, Hagan, M. F., Chakraborty, Bulbul. "Prolonging assembly through dissociation: A self-assembly paradigm in microtubules." Physical Review E 83. (2012): 051904.

T. Shen, C. Schreck, B. Chakraborty, D. E. Freed and C. S. OHern. "Structural relaxation in dense liquids composed of anisotropic particles." Phys. Rev. E 86. (2012): 041303.

Ya Liu, and Chakraborty, Bulbul. "Segregation of polymers in confined Spaces." Physical Biology 9. (2012): 066005.

Bi, Dapeng, Zhang, Jie, Behringer, R. P. and Chakraborty, Bulbul. "Jamming by Shear." Nature 480. (2011): 355.

Mailman Mitch, and Chakraborty, Bulbul. "A signature of a thermodynamic phase transition in jammed granular packings: growing correlations in force space." J. Statistical Mechanics (2011): L07002.

Michael Giver, Zahera Jabeen and Bulbul Chakraborty. "Phase and frequency entrainment in locally coupled phase oscillators with repulsive interactions." Physical Review E 83. (2011): 046206.

Nandi, Saroj, Chakraborty, Bulbul, Sood, Ajay, and Ramaswamy, Sriram,. "Yielding and Large Deviations in Micellar Gels: A model." Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment 2013. 2 (2011): P02027.

Chakraborty, Bulbul. "Statistical ensemble approach to stress transmission in granular packings." Soft Matter 6. (2010): 2884.

Chakraborty, Bulbul and Behringer R. P. "Jamming of Granular Matter." Springer Encyclopedia of Complexity and System Science. Ed. Robert A. Meyers. Springer-Verlag, 2009. 4997-5021.

Dapeng Bi and Bulbul Chakraborty. "Rheology of Granular Materials: Dynamics in a Stress Landscape." Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 367. (2009): 50735090.

G. Lois, J. Zhang, T. S. Majmudar, S. Henkes, B. Chakraborty, C. S. OHern, and R. P. Behringer. "Stress correlations in granular materials: An entropic formulation." Phys. Rev. E 80. (2009): 060303 (R).

Henkes, Silke and Chakraborty, Bulbul. "A statistical mechanics framework for static granular matter." Phys Rev E 79. (2009): 061301.

Kalb, Joshua and Chakraborty, Bulbul. "Single Polymer Confinement in a Slit: Correlation between structure and dynamics." J. Chem. Phys 130. 025103 (2009).

Mailman, Mitch, Schreck, Carl, O'Hern, Corey S. and Chakraborty, Bulbul. "Jamming in Systems Composed of Frictionless Ellipse-Shaped Particles." Physical Review Letters 102. 255501 (2009).

Tewari, Shubha, Tithi, Bidita, Ferguson, Allison and Chakraborty, Bulbul. "Growing length scale in gravity-driven dense granular flow." Phys. Rev. E 79. (2009): 011303.

Yang, Yasheng and Chakraborty, Bulbul. "Dynamics in the Metabasin Space of a Lennard-Jones Glass Former: Connectivity and." Phys Rev E 80. 011501 (2009).

Behringer, R. P, Dapeng Bi, Chakraborty, Bulbul, Henkes, S and Hartley, R. R. "Why Do Granular Materials Stiffen with Shear Rate? A Test of Novel Stress-Based Statistics." Physical Review Letters 101. (2008): 268301.

Liu Ya and Chakraborty, Bulbul. "Shape of Semiflexible Polymers in Confined Spaces." Physical Biology 5. (2008): 026004.

Antal, T, Krapivsky, P, Redner, S, Mailman, M and Chakraborty, B. "Dynamics of an idealized model of microtubule growth and catastrophe." Physical Review E 76. (2007): 041907.

Chakraborty, Bulbul and Ferguson, Allison. "Spatially heterogenous dynamics in dense, driven granular flows." Europhysics Letters 78. (2007): 28003.

Henkes, Silke, O'Hern, Corey S. and Chakraborty, Bulbul. "Entropy and Temperature of a Static Granular Assembly: An Ab Initio Approach." Physical Review Letters 99. (2007): 038002.

Ferguson, A., Chakraborty, B.. "Stress and large-scale spatial structures in dense, driven granular flows." Physical Review E 73. 1 (2006).

Marshall, A. H., Chakraborty, B., Nagel, S.. "Numerical studies of the compressible Ising spin glass." Europhysics Letters 74. 4 (2006).

Das, D., Farrell, G., Kondev, J., Chakraborty, B.. "Critical dynamics of dimers: Implications for the glass transition." Journal of Physical Chemistry B 109. 45 (2005).

Henkes, S., Chakraborty, B.. "Jamming as a critical phenomenon: A field theory of zero-temperature grain packings." Physical Review Letters 95. 19 (2005).

Ferguson, A., Fisher, B., Chakraborty, B.. "Impulse distributions in dense granular flows: Signatures of large-scale spatial structures." Europhysics Letters 66. 2 (2004).

Majumdar, S. N., Das, D., Kondev, J., Chakraborty, B.. "Landau-like theory of glassy dynamics." Physical Review E 70. 6 (2004).