Profile
Mr. S. Balakrishnan obtained his Masters in Physics from University of Madras in the year 2005. He is pursuing PhD under the guidance of Dr. R. Sankaranarayanan from January 2007. His research interest is in the field of Quantum Computation.
Paper Published
1. ”Entangling characterization of (SWAP)1/m and controlled unitary gates”,
S. Balakrishnan and R. Sankaranarayanan,
Physical Review A 78, 052305 (2008).
2. “Characterizing the geometrical edges of nonlocal two-qubit gates”,
S. Balakrishnan and R. Sankaranarayanan,
Physical Review A 79, 052339 (2009).
3. “Entangling power and local invariants of two-qubit gates”,
S. Balakrishnan and R. Sankaranarayanan,
Physical Review A 82, 034301 (2010).
Presentation
1. Oral presentation of the work entitled, “Not all (SWAP)1/m gates are
perfect entanglers”, S. Balakrishnan and R. Sankaranarayanan,
Frontiers In Optics (FIO - 2008), Rochester,
New York, USA, 19 - 23 October 2008.
2. Poster presentation of the work entitled, “Entangling characterization of
controlled unitary gates”, S. Balakrishnan and R. Sankaranarayanan,
International workshop on Entanglement in Condensed Matter Systems,
Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India, 17 – 29 November 2008.
3. Lecture on “Exploration of two-qubit quantum gates”, at Institute of
Physics, Bhubaneswar, India on 18 August 2009.
4. Seminar entitled “Entanglement- A queer in Quantum Mechanics” at
Department of Physics, National Institute of Technology,
Tiruchirappalli on 16 November 2009.
5. Poster presentation of the work entitled, “Optimal constructions of
CNOT gate”, S.Balakrishnan and R.Sankaranarayanan,
Annual Photonics Workshop, International School of Photonics, CUSAT, Cochin,
India, 27-28 February 2010.
6. Poster presentation of the work entitled, “Entangling power and local
invariants of two-qubit gates”, S.Balakrishnan and R.Sankaranarayanan,
Workshop on Quantum Chaos and Quantum Information (A part of PNLD),
Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India, 21-24 July 2010.
Conference Attended
1. Eleventh International workshop on Quantum Information Processing (QIP-08),
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India, 17 - 21 December 2007.
2. International School and Conference on Quantum Information (ISCQI),
Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India, 4 - 12 March 2008.
Visiting Scholar
Visiting Scholar of Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India during 07 August –
07 September 2009.
Award
CSIR-SRF is awarded for the period of 2010-2012.
Contact Address
Mr. S. Balakrishnan
CSIR – Senior Research Fellow
Department of Physics
National Institute of Technology
Tiruchirappalli 620 015.
Contact no.: 91 9944187604
email: phk0605@nitt.edu
physicsbalki@gmail.com
