Indranil Halder is currently the Quantum Initiative Fellow at Harvard University. His primary academic advisor is Prof. Daniel Jafferis. Earlier he pursued graduate research under the guidance of Prof. Shiraz Minwalla.
Research Interest
His research interest includes understanding the quantum nature of entanglement in gravitational and non-gravitational systems and, the explanation of the constituent degrees of freedom of small and large black objects.
During his graduate studies, he worked extensively on theoretical developments of topological quantum computation, more precisely on Chern-Simons gauge theory coupled to matter. He discovered a Higgsed phase and pointed out an exact non-commutative structure in these theories in the presence of a background magnetic field.
During his early days at Harvard, he established a new strong-weak duality closely related to ER=EPR - the fascinating connection between entanglement and geometry. Using the duality he has made distinct progress on the long-standing issue of evaluation of thermal entropy of a black hole from a microscopic analysis in gravitational systems in recent times. Furthermore, this duality has enhanced the understanding of winding tachyon condensation near Hagedorn temperature and led to a conjecture about a new two-dimensional conformal field theory relevant to thermal microstates of a likely stringy black object.