Books By S. Lakshmibala, V. Balakrishnan - Author

S. Lakshmibala earned her Ph. D. degree in theoretical high energy physics from the University of Madras in 1987 and joined the Department of Physics, IIT Madras, as a postdoctoral fellow. She became a faculty member in 1991 and is currently a professor there. Her research has ranged over particle physics, nonlinear dynamics, and the interface between quantum mechanics and quantum optics. For the past two decades, her research has focused on the general theme of the ergodic properties of the expectation values of observables in quantum mechanical systems, particularly in the context of paradigmatic atom-field interaction models in quantum optics. In addition to significant work in this area, she has also pioneered the application of time series and network analysis to quantum dynamics. She has taught a variety of courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels and has also given an NPTEL-sponsored video course on quantum mechanics (available on YouTube) that has been very well received. Among her c