PEOPLE Faculty
Manas Kulkarni
ICTS-TIFR, Bengaluru
Area of Research:  Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics
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Academic Profile:

- Assistant Professor of Physics (Tenure-Track), City University of New York, USA, 2014-2016

- Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Princeton University, NJ, USA, 2012-2014

- Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Toronto, CANADA, 2011-2012

- Ph.D in Physics: State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA (co-advisor at Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA) , 2011

- Masters in Physics: State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA, 2007

- Bachelors Honors in Physics: St. Stephens College, University of Delhi, India, 2005

 

Curriculum Vitae (updated as of Feb 2026) : CV

Prospective Project/Summer students : Please apply for ICTS positions here : Summer Students, Project students
 
Postdoctoral Oppurtunities : Please apply for ICTS postdoctoral positions here: Postdoctoral Program 
 
Graduate Studies : Please apply for ICTS Graduate Studies here: Graduate Studies

Research Interests:

My current research interests include:
 
Open Quantum Systems / Non-Hermitian Systems
♦ Development of theoretical and computational techniques  ♦ Transport and correlations  ♦ Connections to non-Hermitian Random Matrix Theory  ♦ Quantum Resetting ♦ Hamiltonian and Bath Engineering  ♦ Localization, Chaos, Quantum State Transfer in Open Quantum Systems   
 
Low dimensional systems 
♦ Quasi-periodic and disordered systems  ♦ Nonlinear Hydrodynamics  ♦ Dynamical Critical Phenomenon  ♦ Connections to Random Matrix Theory  ♦ Many Body Localization  ♦ Spatio-temporal spread of perturbations  ♦ Large-N field theory of low dimensional systems  ♦ Fluctuations, Correlations and Large Deviations in interacting many particle systems  ♦ Cold Atomic Systems

Integrable systems, field theory and mathematical physics
♦  Discrete and continuum integrable systems  ♦ Solitons, Dualities  ♦ Generalised Hydrodynamics  ♦ Stochastic and Deterministic PDE’s  ♦ Reduction of complex dynamics to chiral field theories
 
Group Members:

1. Madhumita Saha, Postdoctoral Fellow
2. Rekha Kumari, Postdoctoral Fellow (and JST LOTUS Programme, Advanced Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Japan)
3. Indranil Mukherjee, Postdoctoral Fellow
4. Tamoghna Ray, Graduate Student
5. Atharva Naik, Graduate Student
6. Soumyadeep Sarma, Project Student
7. Sunidhi Sen, Visitor, Graduate Student, Co-advisor

Ex members [next affiliation]:
 
1. Manoj Kumar, Postdoctoral Fellow [Newton International Fellow, Coventry University, U.K.]
2. Jincheng Lu, Project Student [Graduate student, Soochow University, China]
3. Swetlana Swarup, Project Student [Graduate student, University of Minnesota, USA]
4. Sanaa Agarwal, Masters Student [Graduate student, University of Colorado, USA]
5. Sayantan Roy, Masters Student [Graduate student, Ohio State University, USA]
6. Aritra Kumar Gon, Project Student [Graduate Student, TIFR Mumbai, India]
7. Abhinav Sundar, IASc. Summer Fellow [Texas Instruments]
8. Anant Rastogi, Project Student [Graduate student, University of Minnesota, USA]
9. Archak Purkayashta, Graduate Student Co-advisor [Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellow, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland] 
10. Aman Agarwal, Masters Student [Graduate Student, Perimeter Institute and the University of Guelph, Canada]
11. Amit Dey, Postdoctoral Fellow [Assistant Professor, Ramananda College, Bankura University, India]
12. Avanish Kumar, Long Term Visitor [Postdoctoral Fellow, Weizmann Institute, Israel]
13. Devashish Tupkary, Project Student [Graduate Student, Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo, Canada]
14. Raghavendra Nimiwal, Masters Student [Graduate Student, Columbia University, USA]
15. Abhishodh Prakash, ICTS-Simons Postdoctoral Fellow [Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Oxford, U.K]
16. Urbashi Satpathi, Postdoctoral Fellow [Postdoctoral Fellow, Ben Gurion University, Israel]
17. Amit Kumar Chatterjee, Postdoctoral Fellow [Postdoctoral Fellow, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Japan]
18. Hari Kumar Yadalam, CEFIPRA Postdoctoral Fellow [Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Irvine, USA]
19. Debarshee Bagchi, Postdoctoral Fellow [Product Engineer, VLabs, Bangalore]
20. Bishal Ghosh, Masters student, thesis co-advisor [Graduate student, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA]
21. Shreyas Raman, Project Student [Graduate student, Boston University, USA]
22. Dipankar Roy, Postdoctoral Fellow [Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratoire Jean Alexandre Dieudonné, Université Côte d'Azur, France]
23. Soumi Ghosh, Postdoctoral Fellow [Postdoctoral Fellow, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden]
24. Jitendra Kethepalli, Graduate Student Co-advisor [Postdoctoral Fellow, LPTM - Cergy Paris Université, France]
25. Preethi Gopalakrishnan, Project Student [Graduate student, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg]
26. Saikat Santra, Graduate Student Co-advisor [Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Poland]
27. Mahaveer Prasad, Graduate Student [Postdoctoral Fellow, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore]
28. Debojyoti Kundu, Postdoctoral Fellow [Acquisitions Editor, Springer Nature]
29. Sparsh Gupta, Graduate Student [Postdoctoral Fellow, CODE Research Institute of University of Bundeshwehr, Munich, Germany]
 


Publications:

  1. R. Kumari, M. Kulkarni, A. Dhar, arXiv:2605.13066 (2026), "Quantized Transport in Floquet Topological Insulators", [13 May 2026]

  2. M. Prasad, A. Chakraborty, T. Iadecola, M. Kulkarni, J. H. Pixley, S. Ganeshan, J. H. Wilson, arXiv:2604.19874 (2026), "Measurement and feedback-driven adaptive dynamics in the classical and quantum kicked top", [21 Apr 2026]

  3. S. Ghosh, M. Kulkarni, K. Sengupta, S. N. Majumdar, arXiv:2604.19333 (2026), "Generating pairwise entanglement in periodically driven quantum spin chains with stochastic resetting",  [21 Apr 2026]

  4. G. Del Vecchio Del Vecchio, M. Kulkarni, S. N. Majumdar, S. Sabhapandit, arXiv:2604.11173 (2026), "Sluggish quantum mechanics of noninteracting fermions with spatially varying effective mass", [13 Apr 2026]

  5. L. Gotta, M. Kulkarni, G. Perfetto, arXiv:2603.13165 (2026), "Towers of quantum many-body scars under stochastic resetting" [13 March 2026]

  6. S. Sarma, M. Kulkarni, A. Purkayastha, D. Tupkary, arXiv:2602.01794 (2026), "Semidefinite programming for understanding limitations of Lindblad equations" [2 Feb 2026]

  7. H. Chen, W. Zhang, M. Kulkarni, A. Prem, arXiv:2601.20938 (2026), "Non-Equilibrium Phase Transition in a Boundary-Driven Dissipative Fermionic Chain"  [28 Jan 2026]

  8. S. Sen, S. Kumar, A. Sarkar, M. Kulkarni, arXiv:2407.17148v2  (2025) "Dissipative spectral form factor for elliptic Ginibre unitary ensemble and applications" [13 Dec 2025]

  9. M. Kulkarni, S. N. Majumdar, G. Schehr, arXiv:2511.12247 (2025) "The distribution of the moment of inertia for harmonically trapped noninteracting Bosons at finite temperature: large deviations" [15 Nov 2025]

  10. A. Naik, B. K. Agarwalla, M. Kulkarni, Phys. Rev. B 113, L161402 (2026), "Dynamics of number entropy for free fermionic systems in presence of defects and stochastic processes" [2 April 2026]

  11. T. Ray, K. Ganguly, D. Poletti, M. Kulkarni, B. K. Agarwalla, Phys. Rev. B 113, 054307  (2026), "Quantum dynamics in lattices in presence of bulk dephasing and a localized source" [17 Feb 2026]

  12. C. Aron, M. Kulkarni, Phys. Rev. E 113, L022101 (2026), "Localization of information driven by stochastic resetting" [23 Feb 2026]

  13. D. Charamis, M. Kulkarni, J. Kurchan, L. Foini, Phys. Rev. E 113, 014138 (2026), "Quenched properties of the Spectral Form Factor" [26 Jan 2026]

  14. R. Mukherjee, A. Dhar, M. Kulkarni, S. S. Ray, Phys. Rev. A 113, 043305 (2026), "Extreme dynamics and relaxation of quantum gases: A hydrodynamic approach" [6 April 2026]

  15. M. Biroli, S. Ciliberto, M. Kulkarni, S. N. Majumdar, A. Petrosyan, G. Schehr, arXiv:2508.07199 (2025), Experimental evidence for strong emergent correlations between particles in a switching trap [10 Aug 2025]

  16. G. Del Vecchio Del Vecchio, M. Kulkarni, S. N. Majumdar, S. Sabhapandit, Phys. Rev. E 113, L042101 (2026), Proxitaxis: an adaptive search strategy based on proximity and stochastic resetting [April 2, 2026]

  17. N. Mesquita, M. Kulkarni, S. N. Majumdar, S. Sabhapandit, J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 3152 012011 (2025), "Dynamically generated correlations in a trapped bosonic gas via frequency quenches" [5 Dec 2025]

  18. T. Ray, A. Dhar, M. Kulkarni, Phys. Rev. B 112, 174309 (2025), Page curve like dynamics in Interacting Quantum Systems [12 Nov 2025]

  19. D. Roy, A. Dhar, M. Kulkarni, H. Spohn, J. Stat. Mech. (2025) 073209 (2025), Fixed Points and Universality Classes in Coupled Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Equations [31 July 2025]

  20. M. Prasad, S. H. Tekur, B. K. Agarwalla, M. Kulkarni, Phys. Rev. B 111, L161408 (2025), "Assessment of spectral phases of non-Hermitian quantum systems through complex and singular values" [22 April 2025]

  21. S. Jose, M. Kulkarni, V. Vasan,  Stud Appl Math., 155: e70090 (2025), "Emergence of coupled Korteweg-de Vries equations in m fields" [6 August 2025]

  22. K. Ganguly, P. Gopalakrishnan, A. Naik, B. K. Agarwalla, M. Kulkarni, J. Stat. Mech. (2025) 123102 (2025), "Quantum trajectories and Page-curve entanglement dynamics" [5 Dec 2025]

  23. M. Saha, B. K. Agarwalla, M. Kulkarni, A. Purkayastha, Phys. Rev. B 111, L041405  (2025), "Arbitrary order transfer matrix exceptional points and van Hove singularities", [23 January 2025]

  24. J. Kethepalli, M. Kulkarni, A. Kundu, H. Spohn, J. Stat. Mech. (2025) 033101 (2025), "Lax random matrices from Calogero systems" [10 March 2025]

  25. M. Kulkarni, S. N. Majumdar, S. Sabhapandit, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 58 105003 (2025),  "Dynamically emergent correlations in bosons via quantum resetting", [10 March 2025]

  26. M. Saha, B. K. Agarwalla, M. Kulkarni, A. Purkayastha, Phys. Rev. B 111, 125412 (2025), "Effect of order of transfer matrix exceptional points on transport at band edges", [19 March 2025]

  27. C. Aron, M. Kulkarni, Phys. Rev. E 112, 014220 (2025), "Control of spatiotemporal chaos by stochastic resetting" [24 July 2025]

  28. A. Ghatak, D. H. Kaltsas, M. Kulkarni, K. G. Makris, Phys. Rev. E 110, 064228 (2024), "Diffraction and pseudospectra in non-Hermitian quasiperiodic lattices", [31 Dec 2024]

  29. S. H. Tekur, M. S. Santhanam, B. K. Agarwalla, M. Kulkarni, Phys. Rev. B 110, L241410 (2024), "Higher-order gap ratios of singular values in open quantum systems", [24 Dec 2024]

  30. K. Ganguly, M. Kulkarni, B. K. Agarwalla, Phys. Rev. B 110, 235425 (2024), "Transport in open quantum systems in presence of lossy channels", [24 Dec 2024]

  31. A. Dhawan, K. Ganguly, M. Kulkarni, B. K. Agarwalla, Phys. Rev. B 110, L081403 (2024), "Anomalous transport in long-ranged open quantum systems", [9 August 2024]

  32. T. Ray, M. Kulkarni, Phys. Rev. A 110, 032220 (2024), "Ergodic and chaotic properties in Tavis-Cummings dimer: quantum and classical limit", [26 September 2024]

  33. J. Kethepalli, M. Kulkarni, A. Kundu, S. N. Majumdar, D. Mukamel, G. Schehr, J. Stat. Mech. (2024) 083206 (2024), "Full counting statistics of 1d short-range Riesz gases in confinement", [15 August 2024]

  34. M. Saha, M. Kulkarni, A. Dhar, Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 230402 (2024), "Generalised Hydrodynamics description of the Page curve-like dynamics of a freely expanding fermionic gas", [04 Dec 2024],  See commentary on our work by Masaki Oshikawa (Tokyo), “Expanding Fermi Gas and Black Hole Information”, https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_January_2025_02.

  35. D. Roy, A. Dhar, K. Khanin, M. Kulkarni, H, Spohn, J. Stat. Mech. (2024) 033209 (2024), "Universality in coupled stochastic Burgers systems with degenerate flux Jacobian", [12 January 2024]

  36. S. Gupta, H. K. Yadalam, M. Kulkarni, C. Aron, Phys. Rev. A 109, L050201 (2024), "Quantum jumps in driven-dissipative disordered many-body systems", [6 May 2024]

  37. M. Biroli, M. Kulkarni, S. N. Majumdar, G. Schehr, Phys. Rev. E 109, L032106 (2024), "Dynamically emergent correlations between particles in a switching harmonic trap", [11 March 2024]

  38. B. Ghosh, S. Mohanta, M. Kulkarni, B. K. Agarwalla,  J. Stat. Mech. (2024) 063101 (2024), "Impact of dephasing probes on incommensurate lattices", [10 June 2024] 

  39. D. Roy, A. Dhar, H. Spohn, M. Kulkarni, Phys. Rev. E 110, 044110 (2024), "Nonequilibrium spin transport in integrable and non-integrable classical spin chains", [8 Oct 2024]

  40. M. Kulkarni, S. N. Majumdar, Phys. Rev. A 108, 062210 (2023), "Generating Entanglement by Quantum Resetting", [13 December 2023]

  41. D. Bagchi, J. Kethepalli, V. B. Bulchandani, A. Dhar, D. A. Huse, M. Kulkarni, A. Kundu, Phys. Rev. E 108, 064130 (2023), "Unusual ergodic and chaotic properties of trapped hard rods", [20 December 2023]

  42. M. Kulkarni, S. N. Majumdar, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 56, 385003 (2023), "First detection probability in quantum resetting via random projective measurements", [5 September 2023]

  43. S. Ghosh, M. Kulkarni, S. Roy, Phys. Rev. B 108, L060201 (2023), "Eigenvector Correlations Across the Localisation Transition in non-Hermitian Power-Law Banded Random Matrices", [19 Apr 2023]

  44. M. Saha, M. Kulkarni, B. K. Agarwalla, Phys. Rev. B 108, 075406  (2023), "Exceptional hyper-surfaces of transfer matrices of finite-range lattice models and their consequences on quantum transport properties", [6 April 2023]

  45. S. Pandey, J. M. Bhat, A. Dhar, S. Goldstein, D. A. Huse, M. Kulkarni, A. Kundu, J. L. Lebowitz, J. Stat. Phys. 190, 142 (2023), "Boltzmann entropy of a freely expanding quantum ideal gas", [22 March 2023]

  46. D. Roy, D. A. Huse, M. Kulkarni, Phys. Rev. E 108, 054112  (2023), "Out-of-time-ordered correlator in the one-dimensional Kuramoto-Sivashinsky and Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equations",  [8 November 2023]

  47. A. Agarwal, M. Kulkarni, D. H. J. O'Dell, Phys. Rev. A 108, 013312 (2023), "Caustics in the sine-Gordon model from quenches in coupled 1D Bose gases", [20 January 2023]

  48. D. Tupkary, A. Dhar, M. Kulkarni, A. Purkayastha, Phys. Rev. A 107, 062216 (2023), "Searching for Lindbladians obeying local conservation laws and showing thermalization", [5 January 2023]

  49. J. Kethepalli, D. Bagchi, A. Dhar, M. Kulkarni, A. Kundu, Phys. Rev. E 107, 044101 (2023), "Finite temperature equilibrium density profiles of integrable systems in confining potentials", [4 April 2023]

  50. A. Trivedi, S. Gupta, B. K. Agarwalla, A. Dhar, M. Kulkarni, A. Kundu, S. Sabhapandit, Phys. Rev. A 108, 052204 (2023), "Filling an empty lattice by local injection of quantum particles", [2 November 2023]

  51. M. Saha, B. K. Agarwalla, M. Kulkarni, A. Purkayastha, Phys. Rev. B 108, L161115 (2023), "Environment assisted superballistic scaling of conductance", [31 October 2023]

  52. M. Kulkarni, P. Le Doussal, S. N. Majumdar, G. Schehr, Phys. Rev. A 107, 023302 (2023), "Density profile of noninteracting fermions in a rotating 2d trap at finite temperature", [3 February 2023]

  53. S. Ghosh, S. Gupta, M. Kulkarni, Phys. Rev. B 106, 134202 (2022), "Spectral Properties of Disordered Interacting Non-Hermitian Systems", [6 October 2022]

  54. M. Prasad, A. Prakash, J. H. Pixley, M. Kulkarni, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 57 015003 (2023), "Long-ranged spectral correlations in eigenstate phases", [18 December 2023]

  55. D. Roy, A. Dhar, H. Spohn, M. Kulkarni, Phys. Rev. B 107, L100413 (2023), "Robustness of Kardar-Parisi-Zhang scaling in a classical integrable spin chain with broken integrability", [20 March 2023]

  56. M. Saha, B. K. Agarwalla, M. Kulkarni, A. Purkayastha, Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 187101 (2023), "Universal subdiffusive behavior at band edges from transfer matrix exceptional points", [2 May 2023]

  57. M. Prasad, H. K. Yadalam, M. Kulkarni, C. Aron, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 57 015308 (2023), "Transition to chaos in extended systems and their quantum impurity models", [15 December 2023]

  58. T. Ray, A. Dey, M. Kulkarni,  Phys. Rev. A 106, 042610 (2022), "Localization and delocalization in networks with varied connectivity", [17 October 2022]

  59. M. Prasad, H. K. Yadalam, C. Aron, M. Kulkarni, Phys. Rev. A 105, L050201 (2022), "Dissipative quantum dynamics, phase transitions and non-Hermitian random matrices", [11 May, 2022]

  60. J. Kethepalli, M. Kulkarni, A. Kundu, S. N. Majumdar, D. Mukamel, G. Schehr, J. Stat. Mech. (2022) 033203 (2022), "Edge fluctuations and third-order phase transition in harmonically confined long-range systems", [10 March 2022]

  61. D. Tupkary, A. Dhar, M. Kulkarni, A. Purkayastha, Phys. Rev. A 105, 032208 (2022), "Fundamental limitations in Lindblad descriptions of systems weakly coupled to baths", [16 March 2022]

  62. S. Santra, J. Kethepalli, S. Agarwal, A. Dhar, M. Kulkarni, A. Kundu, Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 170603 (2022), "Gap statistics for confined particles with power-law interactions", [29 April 2022]

  63. V. B. Bulchandani, M. Kulkarni, J. E. Moore, X. Cao, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 54, 474001 (2021), "Kinetic theory of Calogero particles", [01 November 2021] 
  64. J. Kethepalli, M. Kulkarni, A. Kundu, S. N. Majumdar, D. Mukamel, G. Schehr, J. Stat. Mech, 2021, 103209 (2021), "Harmonically confined long-ranged  interacting gas in the presence of a hard wall", [22 October 2021] 
  65. A. K. Chatterjee, M. Kulkarni, A. Kundu, Phys. Rev. E 104, 044136 (2021), "Dynamical regimes of finite temperature discrete nonlinear Schrödinger chain", [28 October 2021] 
  66. R. Nimiwal, U. Satpathi, V. Vasan, M. Kulkarni, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 54, 425701 (2021), "Soliton-like behaviour in non-integrable systems", [27 September 2021] 
  67. B. Kiran, D. A. Huse, M. Kulkarni, Phys. Rev. E 104, 044117 (2021), "Spatio-temporal spread of perturbations in power-law models at low temperatures: Exact results for OTOC", [18 October 2021] 
  68. S. Roy, S. Mukerjee, M. Kulkarni, Phys. Rev. B 103, 184203 (2021), "Imbalance for a family of one-dimensional incommensurate models with mobility edges",  [10 May 2021] 
  69. M. Kulkarni, S. N. Majumdar, G. Schehr, Phys. Rev. A 103, 033321 (2021), "Multilayered density profile for noninteracting fermions in a rotating two-dimensional trap", [22 March 2021] 
  70. A. Prakash, J. H. Pixley, M. Kulkarni, Phys. Rev. Research 3, L012019, Letters (2021), Editors' Suggestion, "The universal spectral form factor for many-body localization", [22 February 2021] 
  71. C. Aron, M. Kulkarni, Phys. Rev. Research 2, 043390 (2020), "Non-Analytic Non-Equilibrium Field Theory: Stochastic Reheating of the Ising Model", [18 December 2020] 
  72. A. Dey, M. Kulkarni, Phys. Rev. Research 2, 042004, Rapid Communications (2020), "Emergence of chaos and controlled photon transfer in a cavity-QED network", [09 October 2020] 
  73. A. Purkayastha, M. Kulkarni, Y. N. Joglekar, Phys. Rev. Research 2, 043075 (2020), "Emergent PT symmetry in a double-quantum-dot circuit QED set-up", [14 October 2020] 
  74. A. K. Chatterjee, A. Kundu, M. Kulkarni, Phys. Rev. E 102, 052103 (2020), Editors' Suggestion, "Spatio-temporal spread of perturbations in a driven dissipative Duffing chain: an OTOC approach", [02 November 2020] 
  75. A. Dey, M. Kulkarni, Phys. Rev. A 101, 043801 (2020), "Engineering indefinitely long-lived localization in cavity-QED arrays", [01 April 2020] 
  76. S. Swarup, V. Vasan, M. Kulkarni, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 53, 135206 (2020), "Provable bounds for the Korteweg-de Vries reduction in multi-component Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation", [12 March 2020]
  77. J. P. Deka, A. K. Sarma, A. Govindarajan, M. Kulkarni, Nonlinear Dynamics, 100 (2), 1629--1640 (2020), "Multifaceted nonlinear dynamics in PT-symmetric coupled Liénard oscillators", [10 April 2020] 
  78. A. Kumar, M. Kulkarni, A. Kundu, Phys. Rev. E 102, 032128 (2020), "Particles confined in arbitrary potentials with a class of finite-ranged interactions", [17 September 2020] 
  79. M. Kumar, A. Kundu, M. Kulkarni, D. A. Huse, A. Dhar, Phys. Rev. E 102, 022130 (2020), "Transport, correlations, and chaos in a classical disordered anharmonic chain", [20 August 2020] 
  80. S. Agarwal, A. Dhar, M. Kulkarni, A. Kundu, S. N. Majumdar, D. Mukamel, G. Schehr, Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 100603 (2019), Editors' Suggestion, "Harmonically confined particles with long-range repulsive interactions", [06 September 2019] 
  81. A. Das, M. Kulkarni, H. Spohn, A. Dhar, Phys. Rev. E 100, 042116 (2019), "Kardar-Parisi-Zhang scaling for an integrable lattice Landau-Lifshitz spin chain", [15 October 2019] 
  82. A. K. Gon, M. Kulkarni,  J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 52, 415201 (2019), "Duality in a hyperbolic interaction model integrable even in a strong confinement: Multi-soliton solutions and field theory", [16 September 2019] 
  83. S. Agarwal, M. Kulkarni, A. Dhar, J. Stat Phys, 176, 6, 1463 (2019),  "Some connections between the Classical Calogero-Moser model and the Log Gas", [19 July 2019] 
  84. B. K. Agarwalla, M. Kulkarni, D. Segal, Phys. Rev. B 100, 035412 (2019), "Photon statistics of a double quantum dot micromaser: Quantum treatment", [10 July 2019] 
  85. A. Das, K. Damle, A. Dhar, D. A. Huse, M. Kulkarni, C. B. Mendl, H. Spohn, J Stat Phys, 180(1), 238-262 (2019), "Nonlinear Fluctuating Hydrodynamics for the Classical XXZ Spin Chain", [22 October 2019] 
  86. J. Lu, R. Wang, J.Ren, M. Kulkarni, J-H. Jiang, Phys. Rev. B 99, 035129 (2019), "Quantum Dot circuit-QED thermoelectric diodes and transistors", [15 January 2019] 
  87. M. Kulkarni, G. Mandal, T. Morita, Phys. Rev. A 98, 043610 (2018), "Quantum quench and thermalization of one-dimensional Fermi gas via phase space hydrodynamics", [8 October 2018] 
  88. R. Härtle, C. Schinabeck, M. Kulkarni, D. Gelbwaser-Klimovsky, M. Thoss, U. Peskin, Phys. Rev. B 98, 081404 (2018), "Cooling by heating in nonequilibrium nanosystems", [10 August 2018] 
  89. A. Purkayastha,  S. Sanyal, A. Dhar, M. Kulkarni,  Phys. Rev. B 97, 174206 (2018), Editors' Suggestion, “Anomalous transport in the Aubry-André-Harper model in isolated and open systems”, [24 May 2018] 
  90. M. Kulkarni, S. M. Hein, E. Kapit, C. Aron, Phys. Rev. B 97, 064506 (2018), "Permanent spin currents in cavity-qubit systems", [12 February 2018]
  91. A. Purkayastha, A. Dhar, M. Kulkarni,  Phys. Rev. B, 96, 180204, Rapid Communications, (2017), “Non-equilibrium phase diagram of a 1D quasiperiodic system with a single-particle mobility edge”, [27 November 2017] 
  92. M. Kulkarni, A. P. Polychronakos, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 50 455202 (2017), "Emergence of Calogero family of models in external potentials: Duality, Solitons and Hydrodynamics", [10 October 2017] 
  93. A. Purkayastha, A. Dhar, M. Kulkarni,  Phys. Rev. A 94, 052134, (2016), “Non-linear transport in an out-of-equilibrium single-site Bose Hubbard model: scaling, rectification and time dynamics”, [28 November 2016] 
  94. B. K. Agarwalla, M. Kulkarni, S. Mukamel, D. Segal, Phys. Rev. B 94, 121305(R) (2016) , “Giant photon gain in large-scale quantum dot circuit-QED systems", [30 September 2016] 
  95. B. K. Agarwalla, M. Kulkarni, S. Mukamel, D. Segal, Phys. Rev. B 94, 035434 (2016)  “Tunable photonic cavity coupled to a voltage-biased double quantum dot system: Diagrammatic NEGF approach”, [21 July 2016] 
  96. F. Franchini, M. Kulkarni, A. Trombettoni, New J. Phys. 18, 115003, (2016), “Hydrodynamics of local excitations after an interaction quench in 1D cold atomic gases”, [24 November 2016] 
  97. C. Aron, M.Kulkarni and H. E. Tureci , Phys. Rev. X 6, 011032 (2016), “Photon-mediated interactions: a scalable tool to create and sustain entangled many-body states”, [23 March 2016] 
  98. A. Purkayastha, A. Dhar, M. Kulkarni, Phys. Rev. A 93, 062114, (2016), “Exact Redfield description for open non-interacting quantum systems and failure of the Lindblad approach”, [13 June 2016] 
  99. M. E. Schwartz, L. Martin, E. Flurin, C. Aron, M. Kulkarni, H. E. Tureci, I. Siddiqi, Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 240503 (2016), “Stabilizing entanglement via symmetry-selective bath engineering in superconducting qubits”, [16 June 2016] 
  100. JH. Jiang, M. Kulkarni, D. Segal, Y. Imry, Phys. Rev. B 92, 045309 (2015), “Phonon-thermoelectric transistors and rectifiers”, [29 July 2015] 
  101. R. Hartle, M. Kulkarni, Phys. Rev. B 91, 245429 (2015), “Effect of broadening in the weak coupling limit of vibrationally coupled electron transport through molecular junctions and the analogy to quantum dot circuit QED systems”, [22 June 2015] 
  102. M. Kulkarni, D. A. Huse, H. Spohn, Phys. Rev. A 92, 043612 (2015), “Fluctuating hydrodynamics for a discrete Gross-Pitaevskii equation: mapping to Kardar-Parisi-Zhang universality class”, [16 October 2015] 
  103. F. Franchini, A. Gromov, M. Kulkarni, A. Trombettoni, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 48 (2015) 28FT01 (Fast Track Communication) “Universal dynamics of a soliton after an interaction quench”, [24 June 2015] 
  104. C. Aron, M.Kulkarni and H. E. Tureci , Phys. Rev. A 90, 062305 (2014) “Steady-state entanglement of spatially separated qubits via quantum bath engineering”, [1 December 2014] 
  105. M.Kulkarni, O. Cotlet and H. E. Tureci, Phys. Rev. B, 90, 125402 (2014) “Cavity-coupled double-quantum dot at finite bias: analogy with lasers and beyond”, [3 September 2014] 
  106. M.Kulkarni, B. Oztop and H. E. Tureci, Phys. Rev. Lett, 111, 220408 (2013) “Cavity-mediated near-critical dissipative dynamics of a driven condensate”, [27 November 2013]
  107. M. Kulkarni, K. L. Tiwari and D. Segal, New Journal of Physics, 15, 013014 (2013)”Full density matrix dynamics for large quantum systems: interactions, decoherence and inelastic effects”, [9 January 2013] 
  108. M. Kulkarni and A. Lamacraft, Phys. Rev. A 88, 021603, Rapid Communications (2013) “Finite-temperature dynamical structure factor of the one-dimensional Bose gas: From the Gross-Pitaevskii equation to the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang universality class of dynamical critical phenomena”, [8 August 2013] 
  109. M. Kulkarni, K. L. Tiwari and D. Segal, Phys. Rev. B 86, 155424 (2012) “Towards equilibration and thermalization between finite quantum systems: Unitary emulation of dephasing effects and inelastic interactions”, [12 October 2012] 
  110. M. Kulkarni and A. G. Abanov, Phys. Rev. A, 86, 033614 (2012) “Hydrodynamics of cold atomic gases in the limit of weak nonlinearity, dispersion, and dissipation”, [13 September 2012] 
  111. M. Kulkarni and R. M. Konik, arXiv:1109.5731 (2011), “The Fermi liquid nature of the ground state of double quantum dots in parallel from a 1/N expansion”, [26 September 2011] 
  112. A. G. Abanov, A. Gromov, M. Kulkarni, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 44 ,295203 (2011) “Soliton solutions of Calogero model in harmonic potential”, [17 June 2011] 
  113. S. Ganeshan, M. Kulkarni and A. C. Durst, Phys. Rev. B 84, 064503 (2011) “Quasiparticle scattering from vortices in d-wave superconductors. II. Berry phase contribution”, [9 August 2011] 
  114. J. Joseph, J. E. Thomas, M. Kulkarni, A. G. Abanov, Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 150401 (2011) “Observation of shock waves in a strongly interacting Fermi gas”, [11 April 2011] 
  115. M. Kulkarni and A. G. Abanov, Nucl. Phys. B, 846, 122 (2011) “Cold Fermi gas with inverse square interaction in a harmonic trap”, [1 May 2011] 
  116. M. Kulkarni and R. M. Konik, Phys. Rev. B 83, 245121 (2011) “The RKKY Interaction and the Nature of the Ground State of Double Quantum Dots in Parallel”, [23 June 2011] 
  117. M. Kulkarni, S. Ganeshan and A. C. Durst, Phys. Rev. B 84, 064502 (2011) “Quasiparticle scattering from vortices in d-wave superconductors I: Superflow contribution”, [9 August 2011] 
  118. F. Franchini and M. Kulkarni, Nucl. Phys. B, 825, 320 (2010) “Emptiness and Depletion Formation Probability in spin models with inverse square interaction”, [1 February 2010] 
  119. M. Kulkarni. F. Franchini and A. G. Abanov, Phys. Rev. B 80, 165105 (2009) “Nonlinear dynamics of spin and charge in spin-Calogero model”, [2 October 2009] 
  120. M. Kulkarni, N. Seshadri, V. S. C. Manga Rao, S. Dutta Gupta, Journal of Modern Optics, 10, Volume 51 No. 4, 549-557 “Control of superluminal transit through a heterogeneous medium”, [03 Jul 2009]

 

Selected Awards/Credentials:
 
- Indo-Japan grant under the India-Japan Circulation of Talented Youths in Science Programme (LOTUS Programme), Indian PI: Manas Kulkarni (ICTS). Japan PI: Tomoki Ozawa (Tohoku University)
 
- CEFIPRA conference grant (2024),   Indian PI: Manas Kulkarni (ICTS). French PI: Gregory Schehr (LPTHE)
 
- Editorial Board of Journal of Statistical Mechanics 
 
- Institute of Physics CNRS Guest Researcher (2024)
 
- International Research Project (IRP) by CNRS. Lead coordinators: Satya Majumdar (LPTMS), Gregory Schehr (LPTHE), Gautam Mandal (TIFR), Manas Kulkarni (ICTS)
 
- Indian National Science Academy (INSA) Medal for Young Scientists 2022
 
- Featured in 75 Under 50: Scientists Shaping Today’s India, published by the Department of Science and Technology, Govt of India.
 
- VAJRA Grant with Herbert Spohn (Technical University Munich) and Abhishek Dhar (ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore), Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India
 
- Rutgers Global International Collaborative Research Grant with Prof. Jedediah Pixley, Rutgers University, USA. 
 
- SERB MATRICS Grant, Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India
 
- Selected as Prajawani Young Achiever (leading Kannada daily) for 2020, in the field of science.
 
- SERB Early Career Research Award (ECRA), Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India
 
- CEFIPRA Grant, Indo-French Centre for the Promotion of Advanced Research jointly with Prof. Camille Aron, École Normale Supérieure (ENS, Paris)
 
- Selected as an associate member of the Indian Academy of Sciences
 
- Ramanujan Fellowship, SERB, Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India
 
- City University of New York (PSC-CUNY) Research Grant