Sanatan Digal

Sanatan Digal

Professor
Theoretical Physics
2254 3259
digal @ imsc . res . in
409 New Building
Research Interests: 
  • Statistical Mechanics of Quantum Fields, Lattice Field Theory
Education: 
  • B. Sc. (1990) Government College, Phulbani, Orissa
  • M. Sc. (1992) Utkal University, Bhubaneswar
  • Ph.D. (2000)  Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar
Career History: 
  • Faculty at IMSc, Chennai, India (2004 -  )
  • Post-doctoral Fellow at University of Tokyo, Japan (2004-2006)
  • Post-doctoral Fellow at University of Bielefeld, Germany (2000-2004)
Courses Taught: 
  • Statistical Mechanics
  • Quantum Field Theory
  • Quantum Mechanics
  • Electricity and Magnetism
Selected publications: 
  • Formation of Topological Defects with Explicit Symmetry Breaking, Sanatan Digal and Ajit. M. Srivastava, PRL 76 (1996) 583.
  • Observing Correlated Production of Defects and Antidefects in Liquid Crystals, Sanatan Digal, Rajarshi Ray and Ajit. M. Srivastava, PRL. 83 (1999) 5030.
  • Deconfinement Through Chiral Symmetry Restoration in 2-Flavor QCD, Sanatan Digal, Edwin Laermann and Helmut Satz, EPJ. C18 (2001) 583.
  • Quarkonium Feed Down and Sequential Suppression, Sanatan Digal, Peter Petreczky and Helmut Satz, PRD 64 (2001) 094015.
  • Non-Abelian Topological Strings and Metastable States in The Linear Sigma Model, A. P. Balachandran and Sanatan Digal, PRD 66 (2002) 034018.
  • Field excitation in fuzzy dark matter near a strong gravitational wave source, Shreyansh Dave, Sanatan Digal
  • Semi-Superfluid Strings in High Density QCD, A. P. Balachandran, Taeko Matsuura and Sanatan Digal, PRD  (2006) 074009.
  • Finite Temperature Phase Transition of a Single Scalar Field on a Fuzzy sphere, Chitarajan Das, Sanatan Digal, T. R. Govindarajan, MPLA (2009) 2693.
  • Meta-stable States in Quark Gluon Plasma, Mridupawan Deka, Sanatan Digal and Ananta P. Mishra, PRD 85 (2012) 114505.
  • Dynamical Restoration of Z_N Symmetry in SU(N) Higgs theories, Minati Biswal, Sanatan Digal, P. S. Saumia, NPB 910 (2016) 30.
  • Confinement-Deconfinement Transition in SU(2) Higgs Theory, Minati Biswal, Mridupawan Deka, Sanatan Digal, P. S. Saumia, PRD 96(2017) 014503
  • Field excitation in fuzzy dark matter near a strong gravitational wave source, Shreyansh Dave, Sanatan Digal, Phys.Rev.D 105 (2022) 2, 024039
  • New order parameter for the Higgs transition in SU(2) Higgs Theory, Mridupawan Deka, Sanatan Digal, Phys.Rev.D 107 (2023) 1, 014513
  • Confinement-deconfinement transition in SU(3) Higgs Theory, Sanatan Digal, Vinod Mamale, Sabiar Shaikh, Phys.Rev.D 108 (2023) 5, 054503 
  • Parametric resonance in Abelian and non-Abelian gauge fields via spacetime oscillations, Shreyansh Dave, Sanatan Digal, Vinod Mamale, Phys.Rev.D 109 (2024) 7, 076023