Publications by authors named "Anupam Kundu"

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  • The Zn(II)-supramolecular metallogel (Zn-Py), created using 2,6-pyridinedicarboxylic acid, effectively encapsulated the solvent dimethylformamide and exhibited unique mechanical properties, including thixotropy.
  • Characterizations through imaging techniques like FESEM and TEM confirmed the gel's microscopic characteristics, while EDS analysis verified the composition of its gel-building components.
  • The Zn-Py metallogel demonstrated significant antimicrobial activity against both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, and was successfully used in fabricating photodetectors that performed well, with notable electrical parameters indicating high efficiency in optoelectronic applications.
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We study the nonequilibrium stationary state of a one-dimensional inertial run-and-tumble particle (IRTP) trapped in a harmonic potential. We find that the presence of inertia leads to two distinct dynamical scenarios, namely, overdamped and underdamped, characterized by the relative strength of the viscous and the trap timescales. We also find that inertial nature of the active dynamics leads to the particle being confined in specific regions of the phase plane in the overdamped and underdamped cases, which we compute analytically.

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Classical first passage under resetting is a paradigm in the search process. Despite its multitude of applications across interdisciplinary sciences, experimental realizations of such resetting processes posit practical challenges in calibrating these zero time irreversible transitions. Here, we consider a strategy in which resetting is performed using finite-time return protocols in lieu of instantaneous returns.

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  • The study determines the exact distribution of local minima in one-dimensional landscapes created by random walks and Lévy flights, revealing different behaviors depending on the ensemble used.
  • In landscapes with a fixed number of steps, the local minima distribution follows a Gaussian pattern, while in landscapes until the first-passage to the origin, it shows a power-law tail of m^{-3/2}.
  • A key finding is that the distribution of local minima is universal across all values of m, meaning it remains consistent regardless of the specific jump distribution used in the random walk.
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α-Ketoglutaric acid-based supramolecular Zn(II) metallogels in ,'-dimethylformamide (DMF) and dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) solvent (i.e., Zn-α-Glu-DMF and Zn-α-Glu-DMSO) were successfully achieved.

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We consider a Klein-Gordon chain that is periodically driven at one end and has dissipation at one or both boundaries. An interesting numerical observation in a recent study [Prem et al., Phys.

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  • * The OVER trial analyzed data from 881 participants to identify risk factors for incisional hernias following AAA repair and highlighted that 5.2% developed this complication within an average of 3.5 years after surgery.
  • * Key technical details examined included the type of repair performed, suture methods used, and patient demographics, ultimately contributing to understanding hernia development risks post-surgery.
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We investigate ergodicity, chaos, and thermalization for a one-dimensional classical gas of hard rods confined to an external quadratic or quartic trap, which breaks microscopic integrability. To quantify the strength of chaos in this system, we compute its maximal Lyapunov exponent numerically. The approach to thermal equilibrium is studied by considering the time evolution of particle position and velocity distributions and comparing the late-time profiles with the Gibbs state.

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Levofloxacin (HLVX), a quinolone antimicrobial agent, when deprotonated (LVX) behaves as a bidentate ligand, and it coordinates to Co through the pyridone oxygen and the carboxylate oxygen. Along with two imidazole (ImH) ligands, levofloxacin forms a Co(II)-Levofloxacin-imidazole complex, [CoCl(LVX)(ImH)(HO)]·3HO (abbreviated henceforth as CoLevim) which was isolated and characterized by H and C NMR spectroscopy, UV-visible and FT-IR spectroscopy, powder X-ray diffraction and thermal analysis methods. CoLevim shows promise in its antimicrobial activities when tested against microorganisms (Bacillus cereus, Bacillus subtilis, Listeria monocytogenes, Staphylococcus aureus, Salmonella typhimurium and Escherichia coli).

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Introduction: The objective of this study was to describe the correlation between the commercially available assay for anti-S1/RBD IgG and protective serum neutralizing antibodies (nAb) against SARS-CoV-2 in an adult population after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination, and determine if clinical variables impact this correlation.

Methods: We measured IgG anti-S1/RBD using the IgG-II CMIA assay and nAb IC50 values against SARS-CoV-2 WA-1 in sera serially collected post-mRNA vaccination in veterans and healthcare workers of the Veterans Affairs Connecticut Healthcare System (VACHS) between December 2020 and January 2022. The correlation between IgG and IC50 was measured using Pearson correlation.

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We study the equilibrium density profile of particles in two one-dimensional classical integrable models, namely hard rods and the hyperbolic Calogero model, placed in confining potentials. For both of these models the interparticle repulsion is strong enough to prevent particle trajectories from intersecting. We use field theoretic techniques to compute the density profile and their scaling with system size and temperature, and we compare them with results from Monte Carlo simulations.

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We show that the one-dimensional discrete nonlinear Schrödinger chain (DNLS) at finite temperature has three different dynamical regimes (ultralow-, low-, and high-temperature regimes). This has been established via (i) one-point macroscopic thermodynamic observables (temperature T, energy density ε, and the relationship between them), (ii) emergence and disappearance of an additional almost conserved quantity (total phase difference), and (iii) classical out-of-time-ordered correlators and related quantities (butterfly speed and Lyapunov exponents). The crossover temperatures T_{l-ul} (between low- and ultra-low-temperature regimes) and T_{h-l} (between the high- and low-temperature regimes) extracted from these three different approaches are consistent with each other.

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We investigate the local time T_{loc} statistics for a run and tumble particle (RTP) in one dimension, which is the quintessential model for the motion of bacteria. In random walk literature, the RTP dynamics is studied as the persistent Brownian motion. We consider the inhomogeneous version of this model where the inhomogeneity is introduced by considering the position-dependent rate of the form R(x)=γ|x|^{α}/l^{α} with α≥0.

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The Susceptible-Exposed-Infected-Recovered (SEIR) epidemiological model is one of the standard models of disease spreading. Here we analyse an extended SEIR model that accounts for asymptomatic carriers, believed to play an important role in COVID-19 transmission. For this model we derive a number of analytic results for important quantities such as the peak number of infections, the time taken to reach the peak and the size of the final affected population.

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Out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs) have been extensively used as a major tool for exploring quantum chaos, and recently there has been a classical analog. Studies have been limited to closed systems. In this work, we probe an open classical many-body system, more specifically, a spatially extended driven dissipative chain of coupled Duffing oscillators using the classical OTOC to investigate the spread and growth (decay) of an initially localized perturbation in the chain.

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In this paper, we develop a large N field theory for a system of N classical particles in one dimension at thermal equilibrium. The particles are confined by an arbitrary external potential, V_{ex}(x), and repel each other via a class of pairwise interaction potentials V_{int}(r) (where r is distance between a pair of particles) such that V_{int}∼|r|^{-k} when r→0. We consider the case where every particle is interacting with d (finite-range parameter) number of particles to its left and right.

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We explore transport properties in a disordered nonlinear chain of classical harmonic oscillators, and thereby identify a regime exhibiting behavior analogous to that seen in quantum many-body-localized systems. Through extensive numerical simulations of this system connected at its ends to heat baths at different temperatures, we computed the heat current and the temperature profile in the nonequilibrium steady state as a function of system size N, disorder strength Δ, and temperature T. The conductivity κ_{N}, obtained for finite length (N), saturates to a value κ_{∞}>0 in the large N limit, for all values of disorder strength Δ and temperature T>0.

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We study the single-file dynamics of three classes of active particles: run-and-tumble particles, active Brownian particles and active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particles. At high activity values, the particles, interacting via purely repulsive and short-ranged forces, aggregate into several motile and dynamical clusters of comparable size, and do not display bulk phase-segregation. In this dynamical steady-state, we find that the cluster size distribution of these aggregates is a scaled function of the density and activity parameters across the three models of active particles with the same scaling function.

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We find an exact series solution for the steady-state probability distribution of a harmonically trapped active Brownian particle in two dimensions in the presence of translational diffusion. This series solution allows us to efficiently explore the behavior of the system in different parameter regimes. Identifying "active" and "passive" regimes, we predict a surprising re-entrant active-to-passive transition with increasing trap stiffness.

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We study the one-dimensional motion of a Brownian particle inside a confinement described by two reactive boundaries which can partially reflect or absorb the particle. Understanding the effects of such boundaries is important in physics, chemistry, and biology. We compute the probability density of the particle displacement exactly, from which we derive expressions for the survival probability and the mean absorption time as a function of the reactive coefficients.

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We study the behavior of a symmetric exclusion process (SEP) in the presence of stochastic resetting where the configuration of the system is reset to a steplike profile with a fixed rate r. We show that the presence of resetting affects both the stationary and dynamical properties of SEPs strongly. We compute the exact time-dependent density profile and show that the stationary state is characterized by a nontrivial inhomogeneous profile in contrast to the flat one for r=0.

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We study the Ginibre ensemble of N×N complex random matrices and compute exactly, for any finite N, the full distribution as well as all the cumulants of the number N_{r} of eigenvalues within a disk of radius r centered at the origin. In the limit of large N, when the average density of eigenvalues becomes uniform over the unit disk, we show that for 0 View Article and Find Full Text PDF

We study the dynamics of a one-dimensional run-and-tumble particle subjected to confining potentials of the type V(x)=α|x|^{p}, with p>0. The noise that drives the particle dynamics is telegraphic and alternates between ±1 values. We show that the stationary probability density P(x) has a rich behavior in the (p,α) plane.

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A recently developed nonlinear fluctuating hydrodynamics theory has been quite successful in describing various features of anomalous energy transport. However, the diffusion and the noise terms present in this theory are not derived from microscopic descriptions but rather added phenomenologically. We here derive these hydrodynamic equations with explicit calculation of the diffusion and noise terms in a one-dimensional model.

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We find that the effects of a localized perturbation in a chaotic classical many-body system-the classical Heisenberg chain at infinite temperature-spread ballistically with a finite speed even when the local spin dynamics is diffusive. We study two complementary aspects of this butterfly effect: the rapid growth of the perturbation, and its simultaneous ballistic (light-cone) spread, as characterized by the Lyapunov exponents and the butterfly speed, respectively. We connect this to recent studies of the out-of-time-ordered commutators (OTOC), which have been proposed as an indicator of chaos in a quantum system.

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