Bhaskar Shukla (भास्कर शुक्ला)

About Me

I am a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at NIT Rourkela, where I am about to complete my PhD in Theoretical Physics. My research blends string-theoretic holography, nonlinear dynamics, and black-hole thermodynamics to uncover signatures of chaos in strongly coupled systems. I have examined how magnetic fields and chemical potentials affect chaos in holographic QCD and used chaos-based diagnostics to probe phase transitions in AdS black holes. More recently, I developed a charged soliton-based approach to study both classical and quantum chaos in confined QCD, and I am beginning to investigate the subtle role of quantum scars in strongly interacting field theories.

Research Interests

• General Relativity: Black Hole Thermodynamics
• String Theory: AdS/CFT Correspondence
• Chaos: Holographic and Quantum Chaos
• Condensed Matter: Quantum Many Body Scars

News

• [Dec. 2025] I participated in the “Indian Strings Meeting, 2025” at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bhubaneswar and the National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), Bhubaneswar, India!
• [May. 2025] I participated in the “ALPSII Summer School 2025” at Les Diablerets, Switzerland!
• [May. 2025] Our paper about Holographic QCD chaos has been published in PRD.
• [Mar. 2025] Our paper about Classical and quantum chaos of closed strings has been published in PRD.
• [Jan. 2025] I participated in the “Strings Conference, 2025” at NYU Abu Dhabi, UAE!
• [Dec. 2024] I participated in the “National Strings Meeting, 2024” at IIT Ropar, India!
• [Jul. 2024] Our paper about Interplay of Lyapunov exponents and AdS Black hole phase transition has been published in PRD.
• [Jul. 2024] I participated in the “8th Edition of Student Talks on Trending Topics in Theory (ST4)” workshop at IIT Bombay, India!
• [Jun. 2024] I participated in the “Bridging Physics and Mathematics of Quantum Many-Body Chaos” workshop at the University of Helsinki, Finland!
• [Dec. 2023] I participated in the 18th Kavli Asian Winter School on Strings, Particles and Cosmology at Kyoto University, Japan!
• [Oct. 2023] I participated in the 2nd Workshop on dynamics of QCD Matter held at NISER, Bhubaneswar!
• [Jun. 2023] Our paper about QCD Chaos has been accepted by the Journal of High Energy Physics.
• [Feb. 2023] I presented a Parallel talk at IMHEP-II organised by IOP, Bhubaneswar.

Publications

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