Curriculum Vitae of Prof. N. Kumar
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Full Name
Narendra KUMAR
2
Date & Place of birth
1 February 1940
Bilaspur, Madhya Pradesh, India
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Present position
Emeritus Professor
Raman Research Institute
Bangalore 560 080, India
Phone: +91 80 2361 1016 (Off.)
2341 0549 (Res.)
Mobile: 944 84 95 421
Fax:
2361 0492
e-mail: nkumar@rri.res.in
Website: http://www.rri.res.in
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Academic
B.Tech. (Honours) – Electronics & Electrical
Communication Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur
(1962)
I Class and II Rank; Prize for best dissertation
M.Tech. – Electronics & Electrical Communication
engineering (Ultra High Frequency & Microwave
Engineering – IIT, Kharagpur (1963) – I Class & I
Rank
I Rank in All India Engineering (Electronics) Services
Examination (1962)
Ph.D. (Physics) – IIT, Bombay (1971)
Thesis: Theoretical Studies of Some Static and
Dynamical Interactions in Magnetic Solids
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Field of Research and
Specialization
Condensed Matter Physics: Quantum and Classical
Transport in Disordered Systems; Anderson-Mott
Localization; Magnetism; High-Tc Superconductivity;
Statistical Physics
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Other areas
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Scientific Publications
8
Books Published
General Relativity; Astrophysics; Complex Systems:
Associative Memory, Neural Network, Turbulence,
chaos
~200 original publications in International Journals –
See list attached
Invitation to contemporary Physics
Quang Ho-Kim, N. Kumar and C.S. Lam
Quantum Transport in Mesoscopic Systems:
Complexity and Statistical Fluctuations
Pier A. Mello and Narendra Kumar
(Oxford University Press, 2004)
Deterministic Chaos: Complex Chance out of
Simple Necessity (Universities Press, 1996)
Interactions in Magnetically Ordered Solids
K.P. Sinha and N. Kumar
(Oxford University Press, 1980)
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Professional Recognition
Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore
(1985)
Fellow, Indian National Science Academy, Delhi
(1987)
Fellow, American Physical Society (1994)
Fellow, Institute of Physics, UK
Associate & Senior Associate Member, ICTP,
Trieste
(1970 – 1992); Staff Associate (1993 –
)
Fellow, Third World Academy of Sciences, Trieste
(1995)
DAE-Homi Bhabha Chair for Distinguished
Professors
(2005 – 2010)
On the Advisory Board, Journal of Physics:
Condensed Matter (Institute of Physics, UK).
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Awards and Distinctions
Bhatnagar Prize (1985) for Physical Sciences for his
contributions to the Physics of Disordered systems
Gold Medal of the Sardar Patel University for
best published papers (1985-86)
TWAS Award in Physics (1992) of the
Third World Academy of Sciences, Trieste
Distinguished Alumnus Award (1996)
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Jawaharlal Birth Centenary Lecture (1996)
Indian National Science Academy
Mysore Sales International Ltd. MSIL Chair
(1990 – 1996) at IISc
Honorary Professor (1990 –
), Jawaharlal Nehru
Centre for Advanced Scientific Research Bangalore.
Visiting Professor, Raman Research Institute,
Bangalore
(1991-1994)
Mahendralal Sircar Prize in Physics (1997)
Goyal Award in Physics (1998)
President, Indian Academy of Sciences (1998 – 2000)
FICCI Award for Physical Sciences for 1998-99
C V Raman Birth Centenary Award for 1999-2000
Meghnad Saha Medal for 2000
Homi Bhabha Visiting Lecturer for 2001
(under bilateral exchange programme of lecturers
between Indian Physics Association and Institute of
Physics, UK)
Invited talk “Physics of the Future” at the TWAS Ninth
General Conference, Beijing, China, October 2003
Padma Shri 2006, Government of India
Distinguished Materials Scientist of the Year 2006
Award, Materials Research Society of India
R D Birla Award for Excellence in Physics – 2006,
Indian Physics Association
Delivered the 8th Sir JC BOSE Memorial Lecture (2008)
at the Royal Society, London
Adjunct Professor, International Centre for
Theoretical
Sciences (ICTS) of TIFR (2008 -
)
Distinguished Alumnus Award (2010) of IIT Kharagpur
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Other positions held
Director (1994 – 2005), Raman Research Institute,
Bangalore
Professor (1975 – 1994), Department of Physics,
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Assistant Professor (1971 – 75), Department of Physics,
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Scientist ‘B’ (1965-68), National Chemical Laboratory,
Poona
Senior Scientific Officer (SSO II) (1963 – 65)
Institute of Armament Technology, Poona
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Visiting positions
Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow with Prof. M H L Pryce, FRS
(1968 – 70), Department of Physics, University of British
Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Visiting Professor (1975 – 76) (Chef. de Travaux)
Institute de Physique, Universite de Liege, Liege, Belgium
Visiting Professor (1978 – 79), Department of Physics
University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
Visiting Professor (1984), Department of Physics
Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA
Visiting Professor (1985), Instituto de Fisica, UNAM, Mexico
Visiting Scientist (1988 – 89), ICTP, Trieste, Italy
Visiting Professor, Department of Physics,
McGill University, Canada (during 1987, 1988)
List of Publications of Prof. N. Kumar
(in anti-chronological order)
197
V Ranjith and N Kumar, 1D Tight-Binding Models Render Quantum First Passage
Time “Speakable”, Int. J. Theor. Phys. 53 (2014).
196
Santanu Das and N Kumar, The Discrete, the Continuous and the “Concrete”:
Classical Harmonic Dynamics, Resonance 19 (2014) 764.
195
V Ranjith and N Kumar, Light transmission through and its complete stoppage in
an ultra slow wave optical medium, Curr. Sci., 105 (2013) 962.
194
N Kumar, Rotational rectification of an alternating magnetic field, Resonance 18
(2013) 458.
193
Kamal Sharma and N Kumar, Getting Acquainted with Gears and Wheels –
Quantum Mechanically, Resonance 18 (2013) 67.
192
Kamal Sharma and N Kumar, First-passage time: Lattice versus continuum, Phys.
Rev. E 86 (2012) 032104; See also Phys. Rev. E 87 (2013) 019904(E).
191
N Kumar, Classical orbital magnetic moment in a dissipative stochastic system,
Phys. Rev. E, 85 (2012) 011114; See also, Phys. Rev. E, 86 (2012) 029902(E).
190
M Shalini, Divya Sharma, A A Deshpande, D Mathur, Hema Ramachandran and
N Kumar, Light scattering from a magnetically tunable dense random medium
with dissipation: ferrofluid, Eur. Phys. J. D (2012) 66: 30.
189
A A Deshpande, K V Kumar and N Kumar, Comment on “Classical Langevin
dynamics of charged particle moving on a sphere and diamagnetism: A surprise
by N. Kumar and K. Vijay Kumar”, Europhys. Lett. 97 (2012) 17003.
188
V Ranjith and N Kumar, Effect of injected noise on electromagnetically induced
transparency and slow light, Curr. Sci. 101 (2011) 653
187
N Kumar and K Vijaya Kumar, Classical Langevin dynamics of a charged particle
moving on a sphere and diamagnetism: A surprise, Europhys. Lett. 86 (2009)
17001.
186
Rakesh Voggu, N Kumar and C N R Rao, Dependence of the properties of
magnetic nanoparticles on the interparticle separation, J. Phys. Chem. C (Letters)
112 (2008) 17775.
185
Dibyendu Roy and N Kumar, Langevin dynamics in crossed magnetic and electric
fields: Hall fluctuations, cond-mat arXiv:0806.2153 (June 2008); Phys. Rev. E. 78
(2008) 052102.
184
J Chela-Flores and N Kumar, Returning to Europa: Can traces of surficial life be
detected? Int. J. Astrobiology, Cambridge Univ. Press 7 (2008) 263.
183
N Kumar and G S Sanyal, Characterization of radiation as an electromagnetic
wave or a particle – a criterion, Proc. Indian National Science Academy Part A:
Physical Sciences 74 (2008) 19.
182
Hema Ramachandran and N Kumar, Comment on ``Experimental evidence of zero
forward scattering by magnetic spheres'', Phys. Rev. Lett. 100 (2008) 229703
181
N Kumar, Fall of ultra slow light under gravity, arXiv:0710.0273
180
N Kumar, Resistance without Resistance: Anomaly, Curr. Sc. 93 (2007) 357.
179
Dibyendu Roy, N Kumar, Decohering d-dimensional quantum resistance, Phys.
Rev. B 77 (2008) 064201
178
N Kumar, Deflection of ultra slow light by Earth’s gravity on laboratory length
scale, Europhys. Lett. 82. (2008) 60002.
177
Dibyendu Roy and N Kumar, Random phase reservoir and quantum resistor: The
Lloyd model , Phys. Rev. B 76 (2007) 092202
176
V Venkataraman, Vasant Natarajan and N Kumar, Reply to Comments: Phys. Rev.
Lett. 98 (2007) 189803
175
Divya Sharma, Hema Ramachandran and N Kumar, Gaussian-to-Levy statistical
crossover in a random amplifying medium: Monte Carlo simulation, Optics
Comm., 273 (2007) 1.
174
N Kumar, Crossover from normal (N) Ohmic subdivision to superconducting (S)
equipartition of current in parallel conductors at the N-S transition: Theory,
Europhys. Lett. 78 (2007) 37001.
173
N Kumar, Bose-Einstein condensation: Where many become one and so there is
plenty of room at the bottom, 50th Golden Jubilee Solid State Physics
Symposium, Mumbai, December 2005.
172
N Kumar, Current division in parallel: A surprise, J. Phys. Conden. Matter, 18
(2006) L1.
171
Divya Sharma, Hema Ramachandran and N Kumar, Lévy statistics of emission
from a novel random amplifying medium: An optical realization of the Arrhenius
cascade, Opt. Lett., 31 (2006) 1806.
170
D Sharma, H Ramachandran and N Kumar, Lévy statistics of emission from a
novel random amplifying medium: an optical realization of the Arrhenius cascade
1., Fluct. Noise Lett. 6, L95 (2006).
169
S Sarangi, S P Chockalingam, Raghav G Mavinkurve, S V Bhat and N Kumar,
Equipartition of current in parallel conductors on cooling through the
superconducting transition, J. Phys. Condens. Matter., 18 (2006) L1-L5.
168
N Kumar, Bose-Einstein condensation: Where many become one and so there is
plenty of room at the bottom, Special Section: The Legacy of Albert Einstein in
Curr. Sci., 89 (2005) 2093.
167
Navinder Singh and N Kumar, Quantum diffusion on a dynamically disordered
and harmonically driven lattice with static bias: Decoherence, Mod. Phys. Lett.,
19 (2005) 379.
166
Navinder Singh and N Kumar, Dissipative electron-phonon photo-excited far from
equilibrium, J. Stat. Mech. (2005) L06001.
165
N Kumar, “Viscosity of suspensions and the glass: Turning power-law divergence
into essential singularity”, Curr. Sci. 88, 143 (2005)
164
A K Sood, S Ghosh and N Kumar, Flow driven electronic transport in carbon
nanotube, International Journal of Nanoscience, 4 (2005) 839.
163
S Ghosh, A K Sood, S R Ramaswamy and N Kumar, Flow-induced voltage and
current generation in carbon nanotubes, Phys. Rev. B., 70 (2004) 205423.
162
T Roopa, N Kumar, S Bhattacharya and G V Shivashankar, Dynamics of membrane
nanotubulation and DNA self-assembly, Biophys. J. 87 (2004) 974.
161
N Kumar, Left-handed medium is just right, in New Materials, Proceedings of Asia
Academic Seminar, eds. P. Rama Rao, M. Doyama, G. Sundararajan, Y.R. Mahajan
and K. Oda
(International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy
& New Materials (ARCI) and Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS),
2003), pp.33-39.
160
N Kumar, Normal-state c-axis resistivity of layered cuprates: Quantum Zeno
effect, Proceedings of the XXVI Workshop on Condensed Matter Theories, Luso,
Portugal, September 2002, Condensed Matter Theories, vol. 18, M. de Llano, C.
Fiolhais and J. da Providencia, (editors), Nova Science Publishers, Inc., N.Y.,
2004).
159
N Kumar and C N R Rao, Stripes and superconductivity in cuprates - Is there a
connection? Chemphyschem, 4 (2003) 439.
158
Shankar Ghosh, A K Sood and N Kumar, Carbon nanotube flow sensors, Science,
299 (2003) 1042.
157
S Anantha Ramakrishna and N Kumar, Correcting the quantum clock: Conditional
sojourn times, Europhysics Letters, 60 (2002) 491.
156
S Anantha Ramakrishna and N Kumar, Diffusion with constant speed in a model
phase space, Int. J. Mod. Phys. B 16 (2002) 3715.
155
M Sanjay Kumar, S Dattagupta and N Kumar, Zeno blocking of interplanar
tunneling by intraplanar inelastic scattering in oxide superconductors – a
generalized spin-Boson analysis, Phys. Rev. B 65 (2002) 134501-1.
154
S A Ramakrishna and N Kumar, Distribution of the delay time and the dwell time
for wave reflection from a long random potential, The European Physical Journal
B, Section Mesoscopic Physics, 23 (2001) 515.
153
S Dattagupta, A M Jayannavar and N Kumar, Landau diamagnetism revisited,
Curr. Sci., 8 (2001) 863.
152
Venkatesh Gopal, S Anantha Ramakrishna, A K Sood and N Kumar, Photon
transport in thin disordered slabs, Pramana, 56 (2001) 767.
151
M A H Ahsan and N Kumar, Rotating Bose gas with hard-core repulsion in a
quasi-2D harmonic trap: Vortices in BEC, Phys. Rev. A, 64 (2001) 13608
150
N Kumar, The Zeno effect and an inter-layer pairing mechanism for hightemperature superconductivity in layered materials, Proceedings of the Eighth
Asia-Pacific Physics Conference, eds. Yeong-Der Yao, Hai-Yang Cheng, Chia-Seng
Chang and Shang-Fan Lee (World Scientific Publishing Co., 2001), p. 24.
149
N Kumar, Random amplifying medium: Statistics of super-reflectance and timedelay fluctuations, Physica E, 9 (2001) 356.
148
S Anantha Ramakrishna, E Krishna Das, G V Vijayagovindan and N Kumar,
Reflection of light from a random amplifying medium with disorder in the
complex reflractive index: Statistics of fluctuations, Phys. Rev., B62 (2000) 256.
147
S Anantha Ramakrishna and N Kumar, Imaginary potential as a counter of delay
time for wave reflection from a one-dimensional random potential, Phys. Rev.,
B61 (2000) 3164.
146
C N R Rao, A R Raju, V Ponnambalam, S Parashar and N Kumar, Electric-field
induced melting of the randomly pinned charge-ordered states of rare earth
manganates and associated effects, Phys. Rev., B61 (2000) 594.
145
T P Pareek, A M Jayannavar and N Kumar, Blocking of inter-subspace tunneling
by intra sub-space inelastic scattering, Indian Journal of Physics, 23 (1998) 853
144
S Anantha Ramakrishna and N Kumar, Diffusion of particles moving with constant
speed, Phys. Rev., E60 (1999) 1381.
143
N Kumar, Life before mean free path, Current Science, 76 (1999) 1330.
142
Mulugeta Bekele, G Ananthakrishna and N Kumar, Mean first passage time
approach to the problem of optimal barrier subdivision for Kramers escape rate,
Physica A270, 149 (1999).
141
Mulugeta Bekele, S Rajesh, G Ananthakrishna and N Kumar, Effect of Landauer’s
blow-torch on the equilibration rate in a bistable potential, Phys. Rev., E59 (1999)
143.
140
N Kumar, Coherent wave transport in low dimensional random media, in
Proceedings of the Tenth Summer School on Physics of Novel Materials,
Australian National University, Canberra, January 1997 (World Scientific
Publishing, Singapore, 1999), pp.315-381
139
N Kumar, From kilo-ohms to kilo-bytes: Sequence dependent resistance and its
fluctuation in a disordered quantum resistor: Are we encoded resistively?
[Based on Acceptance Lecture: TWAS Award in Physics (1992) at ICTP,
Trieste (1992)], PINSA, 64, A (1998) 637.
138
Prabhakar Pradhan and N Kumar, Geometric phase for a dimerized disordered
continuum: Topological shot noise, Europhys. Lett., 44 (1998) 131.
137
A Arulraj, P N Santhosh, R S Gopalan, A Guha, A K Raychaudhuri, N Kumar and
C N R Rao, Charge-ordering in the rare earth manganates: Origin of the
extraordinary sensitivity to the average radius of the A-site cations, <rA>, J. Phys.
Condens. Matter, 10 (1998) 8497.
136
N Kumar, Prabhakar Pradhan and A M Jayannavar, Coherently amplifying random
medium: Statistics of super-reflection, Special Issue on the Rolf Landauer’s 70th
Birthday, Superlattice and Microstructures 23 (1998) 853.
135
N Kumar, Highly anisotropic layered systems: Intra-planar metallicity and interplanar non-metallicity, Proceedings of the Ciba Foundation/Royal Society
Discussion Meeting on “Metal-Non-Metal Transitions in Reduced Dimensions”,
March 1997, Eds. P P Edwards, R L Johnston, C N R Rao and D P Tunstall –
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, London, 356 (1998) 261.
134
N Kumar, T P Pareek and A M Jayannavar, c-Axis resistivity and high-Tc superconductivity, Phys. Rev., B57 (1998) 13399.
133
N Kumar, G V Vijayagovindan and Prabhakar Pradhan, Spin-valve effect in
Manganese-oxide perovskites: CMR, in Giant Magnetoresistance and related
properties of metal oxides, edited by C N R Rao and B Raveau (World Scientific
Publishing, Singapore 1998), pp.305-324.
132
N Kumar E S Raja Gopal, One hundred years of the electron, IETE Technical
Review, 14 (1997) 231.
131
B Raghavendra Prasad, Hema Ramachandran, A K Sood, C K Subramanian and N
Kumar, Lasing in active sub-meanfree path sized systems with dense random
weak scatterers, Applied Optics, 36 (1997) 7718.
130
N Kumar, T P Pareek and A M Jayannavar, Normal-state c-axis resistivity of the
high-Tc cuprate superconductors, Modern Phys. Lett., B11 (1997) 347.
129
N Kumar, Hall angle in high-Tc cuprates: Anomalous temperature dependence
and anisotropic scattering, Current Science, 73 (1997) 64.
128
N Kumar and A M Jayannavar, Statistics of mesoscopic fluctuations of quantum
capacitance, Mod. Phys. Lett. B11 (1997) 53.
127
N Kumar and C N R Rao, The nature of charge ordering in rare earth manganates
and its strong dependence on the size of the A-site cations, J. Solid State Chem.
129 (1997) 363.
126
Mulugeta Bekele, G Ananthakrishna and N Kumar, Optimal barrier subdivision for
Kramers' escape rate, Pramana, 46 (1996) 403.
125
V Ashvin, G V Vijayagovindan and N Kumar, Tunneling conductance of Luttinger
liquids: Resonances, Phys. Rev. B (Rapid Communications) 53 (1996) R13 239
124
N Kumar, Bose-Einstein condensation in a dilute atomic vapour , Current Science,
69 (1995) 492.
123
N Kumar and A M Jayannavar, On minimum metallic diffusivity in disordered
conductors, Current Science 69 (1995) 57.
122
N Kumar and A M Jayannavar, Quantum diffusion and decoherence, in 'The Metal
- Non-Metal Transition Revisited: A Tribute to Sir Nevill Mott', Ed. P.P.Edwards
and C.N.R.Rao (Taylor & Francis, London, 1995) p.309.
121
N Kumar, A calculable quantum capacitance, Current Science 68 (1995) 945.
120
Prabhakar Pradhan and N Kumar, Localization of light in coherently amplifying
random media, Phys. Rev. (Rapid Communications) B50 (1994) 9644.
119
S Sanyal, A K Sood, S Ramkumar, S Ramaswamy and N Kumar, Novel polarization
dependence in diffusing-wave spectroscopy of crystallizing colloidal suspensions,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 72 (1994) 2963.
118
S V Bhat, A Rastogi, N Kumar, R Nagarajan and C N R Rao, Paramagnetic
Meissner effect in YBa2Cu3O7-8: A non-resonant microwave absorption study,
Physica C: Superconductivity, C219 (1994) 87.
117
Nacir Tit, Prabhakar Pradhan and N Kumar, Length-scale-dependent ensemble
averaged conductance of a 1D disordered conductor: Conductance minimum,
Phys. Rev. B49 (1994) 14715.
116
M S Hegde, Bobin Thomas, N Y Vasanthacharya, S V Bhat, V V Srinivasu and N
Kumar, Critical current variation with Pr content in Y1-x Prx Ba2 ,Cu307 epitaxial
films, Phys. Rev. B48 (1993) 6465.
115
N Kumar, Two-Fermi-liquid model for high-Tc superconductivity involving
suppression of tunneling by decoherence, Curr. Sci. 64 (1993) 754.
114
P Prabhakar and N Kumar, Suppression of conductance fluctuations in a 1D
disordered system, Phys. Rev. B48 (1993) 5661.
113
A Rubio and N Kumar, Reflection effect of localized absorptive potential on nonresonant and resonant tunneling, Phys. Rev. B47 (1993) 2420.
112
Nacir Tit, N Kumar, J W Halley and H Shore, Possibility of two types of localized
states in a two-dimensional disordered lattice, Phys. Rev. B (Rapid Commns.) 47
(1993) 15988.
111
N Kumar, Looking through the ground glass, J. Indian Inst. Sci. 73 (1993) 171.
110
A K Sood, N. Chandrabhas, D Victor S Muthu, A Jayaraman, N Kumar, H R
Krishnamurthy, T Pradeep and C N R Rao, Pressure-induced shift of the
photoluminescence band in single crystals on Buckminster Fullerene C60 and its
implications for superconductivity in doped samples, Solid State Comm. 81 (1992)
89.
109
N Kumar, One-parameter scaling: some open questions, in Ordering Disorder:
Prospect and Retrospect in Condensed Matter Physics, Eds. V.Srivastava,
A.K.Bhatnagar, D.G. Naugle, Proceedings of the Indo-US Workshop, Hyderabad,
India 1992-93 (AIP Publication, New York, 1994), p.3.
108
N Kumar and A M Jayannavar, Temperature dependence of c-axis resistivity of
high–Tc layered oxides, Phys. Rev. B45 (1992) 5001.
107
S V Bhat, V V Srinivasu and N Kumar, Temperature dependent phase reversal of
non-resonant microwave and rf absorption in high-Tc superconductors, Phys.
Rev. B44 (1991) 10121.
106
A M Jayannavar and N Kumar, Generalization of Bruggeman's unsymmetrical
effective medium theory to a three-component composite, Phys. Rev. B44 (1991)
12014.
105
N Kumar, Localization of isolated holes in a Mott insulator and delocalization by
pairing, Phys. Rev. B42 (1990) 6138.
104
N Kumar, B Shapiro and P A Lee, Conduction in highly anisotropic metals,
Proceedings of III BAR-ILAN Conference on Frontiers in Condensed Matter
Physics, January 1990 – Physica A 168 (1990) 447.
103
C N R Rao, T V Ramakrishnan and N Kumar, Systematics in the thermopower
behaviour of several series of Bismuth and Thallium Cuprate Superconductors:
An interpretation, Physica C165 (1990) 183.
102
N Kumar, Magnetic pairing of charge carriers in doped Mott insulators, J. Solid
State Chemistry, 88 (1990) 207.
101
N Kumar, Temperature dependence of hole mobility in Mott insulators: Normalstate resistivity of high Tc superconductors, Phys. Rev. B40 (1989) 844.
100
AS G Rojo, N Kumar and C A Balseiro, Oscillatory magneto conductance of
quantum
double-well channels, Solid State Comm. 70 (1989) 485.
99
S C Chhajlany, V N Mal'nev and N Kumar, Coulomb-diamagnetic problem in two
dimensions, Phys. Rev. A 39 (1989).
98
N Kumar, Superconductivity: Introduction to Ginzburg-Landau phenomenology
and microscopic BCS theory, BCSPIN Kathmandu School, May-June 1989, (World
Scientific, Singapore).
97
G V Vijayagovindan, A M Jayannavar and N Kumar, Energy dispersive backscattering from a disordered medium and l/f noise, Z. Phys. B. Condensed Matter
75 (1989) 77.
96
N Kumar, Hole pairing in Antiferro-magnetically correlated background, Proc.
Interlaken Conf. on Superconductivity, 1988 - Physica C 153 (1988) 1227.
95
R Simon and N Kumar, A note on the Berry phase for systems having one degree
of freedom, J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 21 (1988) 1725.
94
N Kumar, A macroscopic approach to conductance fluctuation and universal
conductance fluctuation: N-Channel case, ICTP (Trieste) Lecture Notes SNR/35541 (1988). Also SMR/355-38 (1988) 2
93
N Kumar, Phenomenology and theory of superconductivity, ICTP (Trieste) Lecture
Notes SMR/384-(1-7): Experimental Workshop on High Temperature
Superconductivity, March-April 1989. Also, SMR/348-1 (April 1988).
92
N Kumar, Berry's phase and weak localization in the presence of spin-orbit
interaction, Current Science, 57 (1988) 761.
91
N Kumar, David V Baxter, R Richter and J O Strom-Olsen, Weak localization in
two and three dimensions: Dephasing by zero-point motion, Phys. Rev. Lett. 60
(1988) 1987.
90
A M Jayannavar and N Kumar, Mooij correlation in disordered metals, Phys. Rev.
B37 (1988) 573.
89
N. Kumar, David V Baxter, R Richter and J O Strom-Olsen, Weak localization in
two and three dimensions: Dephasing by zero-point motion, Phys. Rev. Lett. 59
(1987) 1853.
88
Mohan and N Kumar, Spin singlet d-wave hole pairing in the new high-Tc superconductors, J Phys. 20 (1987) C: L527.
87
P A Mello, P Pereyra and N Kumar, A macroscopic approach to resistance
fluctuation in disordered wires, Annals of Phys. 181 (1988) 290.
86
P A Mello, P Pereyra and N Kumar, A soluble random-matrix model for relaxation
in quantum systems, J. Stat. Phys. 51 (1988) 77
85
G Vijayagovindan, A M Jayannavar and N Kumar, Electric-field-dependent
average resistance and the resistance fluctuation in one-dimensional disordered
systems, Phys. Rev. B35 (1987) 2029.
84
N Kumar, Quantum Ohm’s law: Resistance fluctuation in disordered conductors,
Proceedings of the Second Asia Pacific Physics Conference, Bangalore, 1986, Vol.
II, Ed. S. Chandrasekhar (World Scientific, Singapore, 1987).
83
N Kumar, Quantum hall effect, Proc. National Symp. on Recent Developments in
Theoretical Physics, Kottayam, Sept. 1986 - World Scientific Inc.
82
N Kumar, Quantum ohmic resistance fluctuation in disordered conductors – An
invariant imbedding approach, Pramana 27 (1986) 33.
81
Pier A Mello and N Kumar, Information theory and one-dimensional disordered
conductors, J. Non-Cryst. Solids 75 (1985) 135.
80
N Kumar, Statistics of quantum fluctuation of resistance in a one-dimensional
disordered conductor, Hadronic Journal, Suppl. 1 (1985) 610.
79
N Kumar and A M Jayannavar, Resistance fluctuation at the mobility edge,
J. Phys. C 19 (1986) L85.
78
Mary Eileen Farrell, Marilyn F Bishop, N Kumar and W E Lawrence, Localization
effects in thin potassium wires, Phys. Rev. Lett. 55 (1985) 626.
77
N Kumar and A M Jayannavar, Quantum diffusion in thin disordered wires, Phys.
Rev. (Rapid Communications) B32 (1985) 3345.
76
N Kumar and P A Mello, Information theory and resistance fluctuation in 1-D
disordered conductors, Phys. Rev. B31 (1985) 3109.
75
N Kumar, Quantum first-passage problem, Pramana - J. Phys. 25 (1985) 363.
74
S Arumugam, S V Bhat, N Kumar, K V Ramanathan and R Srinivasan, NMR and
X-ray investigations of a plastic crystalline phase in MBBA, Mol.Cryst.Liq.Cryst.
104 (1984) 39.
73
N. Kumar, Resistance fluctuation in a one-dimensional conductor with static
disorder, Phys. Rev. B31 (1985) 5513.
72
J Heinrichs and N Kumar, Note on the physical interpretation of classical motion
induced by static randomness, J. Phys. C. 17 (1984) L741.
71
N Kumar, Invariant imbedding approach to the length-scale dependent
conductance of a one-dimensional disordered medium, Curr. Sci. 53 (1984) 358.
70
M E Farrell, M F Bishop, N Kumar and W E Lawrence, Localization effects in thin
potassium wires, Extended Abstract in LITPTM International Conference on
Localization, Interaction and Transport Phenomena in Impure Metals,
Brauchweig, FRG, August 1984.
69
J Heinrichs and N Kumar, Non-diffusive classical transport in a medium with
static randomness, J. Phys. C: Solid State 17 (1984) 769-774.
68
R B Pandey, N Kumar and D Stauffers, Speculations on self-avoiding surfaces in
fractals – a mean field treatment. J. Phys. A: Math. Ge. 17 (1984) L859-861.
67
N Kumar, Classical and quantum diffusion, Lecture Notes in Physics (SpringerVerlag, 1983) Volume 184, p. 166.
66
N Kumar, Is one-parameter scaling ansatz consistent? J. Phys. C 16 (1983) L745.
65
N Kumar, Note on the one-parameter scaling theory of localization, J. Phys. C:
Solid State 16 (1983) L109.
64
A M Jayannavar and N Kumar, Non-diffusive quantum transport in a dynamically
disordered medium, Phys. Rev. Lett. 48 (1982) 553.
63
N Kumar and A M Jayannavar, Frequency- and temperature-dependent mobility
of a charged carrier on randomly interrupted strand. Phys. Rev. B25 (1982) 4391.
62
N Kumar and A M Jayannavar, A note on the effective medium theory of random
resistive-reactive medium, J. Phys. C: Solid State 14 (1981) L785.
61
R E Amritkar, N Kumar and R Srinivasan, Observability of conduction electron spin
resonance (CESR) in superconductors, Solid State Comm. 38 (1981) 1095.
60
A M Jayannavar and N Kumar, Orbital diamagnetism of a charged Brownian
particle undergoing a birth-death process, J. Phys. A: General and Mathematical
Physics 14 (1981) 1399.
59
J Heinrichs and N Kumar, Spectral diffusion in random lattices, Phys. Rev. B20
(1979) 1377.
58
Deepak Dhar and N Kumar, An exactly soluble model of spin glasses,
DAE Symposium 22C (1979) 449.
57
N Kumar, On renormalization group theoretical approach to Anderson
localization, Curr. Sci., 47 (1978) 143.
56
V Krishnan and N Kumar, Upper mass-limit for neutron star stability against
black-hole formation, Astrophysics and Space Science 57 (1978) 241.
55
R F Amritkar and N Kumar, Coherence factors in excitonic insulators, Solid State
Comm. 20 (1978) 627.
54
N Kumar and J Heinrichs, Electron localization and statistical mechanics of a
zero-component classical field, Phys. Stat. Sol. (b) 85 (1978) 163.
53
N Kumar, J Heinrichs and P. Shukla, Localization in disordered systems and
statistical mechanics of a zero-component classical field, Seventh International
Conference on Amorphous and Liquid Semiconductors, Edinburgh (1977)
52
J Heinrichs, A Anil Kumar and N Kumar, Diffusion of localized optical excitations
and trap emission in Ruby, J. Phys. C10 (1977) 391.
51
J Heinrichs and N Kumar, Transient effects in low-temperature specific heat of
amorphous dielectrics, Phys. Rev. Lett. 36 (1976) 1406.
50
N Kumar and J Heinrichs, Stochastic treatment of ac hopping conduction in
granular metals, J. Phys. C9 (1976) 2331.
49
J Heinrichs, A Anil Kumar and N Kumar, Low-field hopping conduction in granular
metals, J. Phys. C9 (1976) 3249.
48
F Brouers, N Kumar and C Litt, Local spin-susceptibility in disordered alloys II,
J. de Physique (Paris) 37 (1976) 235.
47
J Heinrichs and N Kumar, Force between metallic films at small separation,
Solid State Comm. 18 (1976) 961.
46
J Heinrichs and N Kumar, Simple exact treatment of conductance in a random
Bethe lattice, J. Phys. C8 (1975) 541.
45
N Kumar, J Heinrichs and A Anil Kumar, Self-consistent theory of localization in
weakly disordered systems, Solid State Comm. 17 (1975) 541.
44
F Brouers and N Kumar, On the theory of localization in disordered systems, Solid
State Comm. 17 (1975) 1453.
43
J Heinrichs and N Kumar, Binding energy of Wannier excitons in polar crystals,
Solid State Comm. 16 (1975) 1035.
42
J Heinrichs and N Kumar, Exact result for bimetallic interfaces, Phys. Rev. B12
(1975) 802.
41
S C Chhajlany and N Kumar, Strong-gravity bound quark-antiquark pairs and
meson mass spectrum, Letters Nuovo Cimento 13 (1975) 649.
40
S C Chhajlany and N Kumar, Reinterpretation of the reciprocity theory of
elementary particles, Letters Nuovo Cimento 13 (1975) 364.
39
N Kumar and S C Chhajlany, Internal excitations of charged self-gravitating
matter, Letters Nuovo Cimento 12 (1975) 683.
38
R E Amritkar and N Kumar, Anomalous low temperature specific heat of solid
Helium, DAE Symposium, Calcutta 18C (1975) 329.
37
N Kumar and R R Subramanian, A probabilistic approach to the problem of
electron localization in disordered systems and sharpness of the mobility edge,
J. Phys. C7 (1974) 1817.
36
N Kumar, Intrinsic two-phonon exchange mechanism of superconductivity and
enhancement of Tc , Phys. Rev. B9 (1974) 4993.
35
N Kumar and A A Kumar, Infinite divisibility and critical phenomena,
Letters Nuovo Cimento 11 (1974) 39.
34
R E Amritkar and N Kumar, A semiphenomenological theory of the two phase
transitions in liquid He below 3 mK, Letters Nuovo Cimento 10 (1974) 81.
33
R Nandini and N Kumar, Resistance minimum in dilute magnetic alloys in the
absence of impurity moments, Phys. Stat. Sol. (b) 63 (1974) 377.
32
A K N Reddy and N Kumar, A dipole assisted mechanism of ion transport across
excitable cell membrane, Curr. Sci. 42 (1973) 337.
31
N Kumar and R Nandini, On a problem in random lattice statics, Progr. Theoret.
Phys. 49 (1973) 1420.
30
N Kumar and R Nandini, Magnetic field due to the self-gravity induced electric
dipole polarization of rotating massive body, Phys. Rev. D7 (1973) 3586.
29
N Kumar and K B Athreya, A three-dimensional Ising ‘fluid’ model, Pramana,
1 (1973) 98.
28
A R Prasanna and N Kumar, Spin-precession of a charged particle in a magnetic
field including the effects of general relativity, Progr. Theoret. Phys. 49 (1973)
1553.
27
K B Athreya, R B Subramanian and N Kumar, On the problem of non-transport of
electrons in disordered systems, Curr. Sci. 41 (1973) 867.
26
N Kumar, Exact solution of d-dimensional Ising model for finite continuous spins
(D) and non-zero external field (B), Curr. Sci. 41 (1972) 727.
25
L Krishnasamy and N Kumar, Brillouin scattering by phonons renormalized by
two-magnon excitations in ferromagnetic dielectrics, Phys. Stat. Sol. (b) ,
60 (1973) 539.
24
N Kumar, M Muthanna and K P Sinha, On mass quantization of elementary
particles, Proc. Ind. Acad.Sci. 125A (1972) 57.
23
G Baskaran and N Kumar, Exactly soluble one-dimensional anisotropic Heisenberg
Hamiltonian and phase transitions, Proc. Nucl. Phys. and Solid State Phys.
Symposium, Bangalore, 1973.
22
N Kumar and R. Nandini, Undamped Cooper pairs in a non-degenerate electron
system, Phys. Lett., 38A (1972) 425.
21
N Kumar and R. Sridhar, Exact energy eigenvalues for an attractive Coulomb
potential with zero-radius hard core, Phys. Lett., 39A (1972) 389.
20
L Krishnasamy and N Kumar, Phonon mediated two magnon scattering from
ferromagnetic insulators, Phys. Lett., 41A (1972) 445.
19
N Kumar and K P Sinha, Quantum theoretic explanation of Schwarz-Hora effect,
Proc. Ind. Acad. Sci. (1971) 91.
18
N Kumar and K P Sinha, Insulator metal transition, Proc. Ind. Acad. Sci.
123A (1971) 313.
17
N Kumar, Quantum kinematics of Fermi-Dirac Vacuum-plus-one-electron
problem, Proc. Ind. Acad. Sci., 124A (1971) 79.
16
N Kumar, Attractive electron-electron interaction induced by dynamical JahnTeller effect involving degenerate impurity orbitals: A theory of the impurity
enhancement of the superconductive transition temperature in dilute alloys,
Phys. Rev. B2 (1970) 2500.
15
N Kumar, A theoretical model of pulsating neutron stars (pulsars), Phys. Lett.
30A (1969) 199.
14
N Kumar, Note on the role of zero-point energy in evolutionary cosmology,
J. Phys., A2 (1969) 210.
13
N Kumar, Zero point energy and continuous creation of matter in an expanding
universe, Progr. Theor. Phys., 41 (1969) 382.
12
N Kumar and K P Sinha, Possibility of photo-induced superconductivity, Phys. Rev.
174 (1968) 482.
11
N Kumar and K P Sinha, A new mechanism of linewidth maxima in ferromagnetic
resonance, J. Appl. Phys. 39 (1968) 1073.
10
N Kumar and K P Sinha, On the giant magnetic moments, Phys. Lett., 24A (1967)
161.
9
N Kumar and K P Sinha, On the origin of giant magnetic moments,
Proc. Phys. Soc. (London), 92 (1967) 426.
8
N Kumar and K P Sinha, Spin-phonon relaxation due to transverse optical
phonons, Physica, 34 (1967) 387.
7
A W Joshi and N Kumar, Spin wave impurity states in antiferromagnets,
Nuovo Cimento, 51B (1967) 315.
6
N Kumar and K P Sinha, Path integral approach to interacting electron-phonon
system, Nuovo Cimento, 51B (1967) 547.
5
N Kumar and K P Sinha, A new mechanism for magnon-phonon relaxation
process in ferromagnetic insulators, Physica, 36 (1967) 655.
4
N Kumar and K P Sinha, A generalized direct exchange interaction: Application
to Heusler alloys, Ind. J. Phys., 15 (1966) 62.
3
N Kumar and K P Sinha, Temperature dependent exchange narrowing of
linewidth in EPR of interacting donors in Ge and Si, Zeit. f. Physik, 197 (1966) 26.
2
Premswarup and N Kumar, Microwave Faraday rotation in ferrite powders,
Nature 204 (1964) 947.
1
A Prabhakar and N Kumar, Infinite array of 1 Ohm resistors, Electronic Engg.
(November Issue) (1964) 783.
MISCELLANY*
5a*
SCIENCE DAY CELEBRATION, A TALK BY Prof. N. KUMAR on WHY?
University of Mysore, February 28, 2013
5b*
Refresher Course in Experimental Physics, SPECIAL LECTURE BY
Prof. N. KUMAR Raman Research Institute, Bangalore on WHY?
5c
N Kumar, Rotational rectification of an alternating magnetic field, Resonance 18
(2013) 458.
5d
Kamal Sharma and N Kumar, Getting Acquainted with Gears and Wheels –
Quantum Mechanically, Resonance 18 (2013) 67.
5e
V Ranjith and N Kumar, Light transmission through and its complete stoppage in
an ultra slow wave optical medium, Curr. Sci., 105 (2013) 962
BOOKS
4
Invitation to Contemporary Physics, Quang Ho-Kim, N Kumar and C S Lam
(World Scientific, 1991 & Second Edition, 2004).
3
Quantum Transport in Mesoscopic Systems: Complexity and Statistical
Flcutuations
Pier A Mello and Narendra Kumar (Oxford University Press, 2004).
2
Deterministic Chaos: Complex Chance out of Simple Necessity, (Universities
Press,. 1996).
1
Interactions in Magnetically Ordered Solids K P Sinha and N Kumar (Oxford Univ.
Press, 1980).