Research Interests
Soft Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics, Physics of Disordered Complex Systems: Glass Transition, Jamming Transition, Yielding Transition, Amorphous Matter: Glass, Granular Matter and Supercooled Liquids, Application of Physics for Environmental Sustainibility
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Research
Soft matrix: probing local mechanical properties in amorphous solids
2026
Aparna Sreekumari, Monoj Adhikari, Nandlal Pingua, Vishnu V. Krishnan, Shilditya Sengupta, Pinaki Chaudhuri, Smarajit Karmakar, Vishwas V. Vasisht | RSC
Journal: Soft Matter Pages: 3380 , Volumes: 22 ,
Thermal fluctuation driven structural relaxation in undeformed glasses: Unraveling the evolution of mechanical stability
2026
Avinash Kumar Jha, Shiladitya Sengupta | APS
Journal: Physical Review E Pages: 015421 , Volumes: 113 ,
Cascade at local yield strain for silica and metallic glass
2025
Nandlal Pingua, Himani Rautela, Roni Chatterjee, Smarajit Karmakar, Pinaki Chaudhuri, Shiladitya Sengupta | AIP
Journal: J. Chem. Phys. Pages: 214504 , Volumes: 162 ,
Breakdown of the Stokes–Einstein relation in Stillinger–Weber silicon
2025
Himani Rautela, Shiladitya Sengupta, and Vishwas V Vasisht | AIP
Journal: J. Chem. Phys. Pages: 144502 , Volumes: 162 ,
Is the glassy dynamics same in 2D as in 3D? The Adam Gibbs relation test
2024
Santu Nath and Shiladitya Sengupta | AIP
Journal: J. Chem. Phys. Pages: 034504 , Volumes: 161 ,
Thermodynamics and its correlation with dynamics in a mean-field model and pinned systems: A comparative study using two different methods of entropy calculation
2022
Ujjwal Kumar Nandi, Palak Patel, Mohd Moid, Manoj Kumar Nandi, Shiladitya Sengupta, Smarajit Karmakar, Prabal K Maiti, Chandan Dasgupta, Sarika Maitra Bhattacharyya | AIP
Journal: J. Chem. Phys. Pages: 014503 , Volumes: 156 ,
Emergent solidity of amorphous materials as a consequence of mechanical self-organisation
2020
Hua Tong, Shiladitya Sengupta, and Hajime Tanaka | Nature Portfolio
Journal: N. Comm. Pages: 4863 , Volumes: 11 ,
Glass Transition in Supercooled Liquids with Medium-Range Crystalline Order
2018
Indrajit Tah, Shiladitya Sengupta, Srikanth Sastry, Chandan Dasgupta, and Smarajit Karmakar | APS
Journal: Phys. Rev. Lett. Pages: 085703 , Volumes: 121 ,
Power law relationship between diffusion coefficients in multi-component glass forming liquids
2018
Anshul D. S. Parmar, Shiladitya Sengupta, and Srikanth Sastry | Springer
Journal: Eur. Phys. J. E Pages: 90 , Volumes: 41 ,
Length scale dependence of the Stokes-Einstein and Adam-Gibbs relations in model glass formers
2017
Anshul D. S. Parmar, Shiladitya Sengupta and Srikanth Sastry | APS
Journal: Phys. Rev. Lett. Pages: 056001 , Volumes: 119 ,
What determines the static force chains in stressed granular media?
2016
Oleg Gendelman, Yoav G. Pollack, Itamar Procaccia, Shiladitya Sengupta and Jacques Zylberg | APS
Journal: Phys. Rev. Lett. Pages: 078001 , Volumes: 116 ,
Unravelling the success and failure of mode coupling theory from consideration of entropy
2015
Manoj Kumar Nandi, Atreyee Banerjee, Shiladitya Sengupta, Srikanth Sastry and Sarika Maitra Bhattacharyya | AIP
Journal: J. Chem. Phys. Pages: 174504 , Volumes: 143 ,
The role of structure and entropy in determining differences in dynamics for glass formers with different interaction potentials
2014
Atreyee Banerjee, Shiladitya Sengupta, Srikanth Sastry and Sarika Maitra Bhattacharyya | APS
Journal: Phys. Rev. Lett. Pages: 225701 , Volumes: 113 ,
Nesting of thermodynamic, structural, and dynamic anomalies in liquid silicon
2014
Vishwas V. Vasisht, John Mathew, Shiladitya Sengupta and Srikanth Sastry | AIP
Journal: J. Chem. Phys. Pages: 124501 , Volumes: 141 ,
Distribution of diffusion constants and Stokes-Einstein violation in supercooled liquids
2014
Shiladitya Sengupta and Smarajit Karmakar | AIP
Journal: J. Chem. Phys. Pages: 224505 , Volumes: 140 ,
Diffusivity anomaly in modified Stillinger-Weber liquids
2014
Shiladitya Sengupta, Vishwas V. Vasisht and Srikanth Sastry | AIP
Journal: J. Chem. Phys. Pages: 044503 , Volumes: 140 ,
Density-temperature scaling of the fragility in a model glass-former
2013
Shiladitya Sengupta, Thomas B. Schrøder and Srikanth Sastry | Springer
Journal: Eur. Phys. J. E Pages: 141 , Volumes: 36 ,
Breakdown of the Stokes-Einstein relation in two, three and four dimensions
2013
Shiladitya Sengupta, Smarajit Karmakar, Chandan Dasgupta and Srikanth Sastry | AIP
Journal: J. Chem. Phys. Pages: 12A548 , Volumes: 138 ,
Adam-Gibbs relation for Glass-Forming Liquids in Two, Three, and Four Dimensions
2012
Shiladitya Sengupta, Smarajit Karmakar, Chandan Dasgupta and Srikanth Sastry | APS
Journal: Phys. Rev. Lett. Pages: 095705 , Volumes: 109 ,
Dependence of the fragility of a glass former on the softness of interparticle interactions
2011
Shiladitya Sengupta, Filipe Vasconcelos, Frédéric Affouard and Srikanth Sastry | AIP
Journal: J. Chem. Phys. Pages: 194503 , Volumes: 135 ,
Honors And Awards
Teaching Engagements
Students
Dynamical and mechanical response study of self organization in silicon and silica, India
26 Dec 2019 - Present
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Himani Rautela
Plasticity in Amorphous Solids, India
26 Dec 2019 - Present
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Avinash Kumar Jha
Atomistic Study of Complex Systems using Machine Learning, India
26 Dec 2019 - Present
Other Supervisors: Prof. Abhishek Tewari, Dept. of Metallurgical and Materials Engg. and MFSDSAI, IIT Roorkee., Scholar: Ayush Kumar Pandey
Modelling Self Propagating Microgel Particle, India
12 Jan 2026 - 29 May 2026
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Dibyajyoti Behera
Modelling Thermal Avalanches in Glass, India
12 Jan 2026 - 29 May 2026
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Prem Chandra Pal
Topological data analysis for glasses using computational homology, India
16 Jul 2024 - 27 May 2025
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Rajib Das
Computational modelling of amorphous solids, India
16 Jul 2024 - 27 May 2025
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Adityan S
Comparison of VSP-BKS and Vashishta Potentials for Silica, India
18 Jul 2023 - 15 May 2024
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Abhay Kasturi
Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study of cavitation in Silica, India
26 Jul 2022 - 13 May 2023
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Mayank Sharma
Theoretical study of active matter systems, India
26 Jul 2022 - 13 May 2023
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Atharva Shukla
Glassy dynamics in Two dimension (2D), India
31 Jul 2021 - 14 May 2022
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Santu Nath
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