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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences

Overview

Thanu Padmanabhan is affiliated with the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics in India. The scientist's research primarily spans the field of Physics and Astronomy, with a focus on several subfields including Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, as well as Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Algebra and Number Theory.

Their main topics of research include:

  • Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
  • Black Holes and Theoretical Physics
  • Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect
  • Relativity and Gravitational Theory
  • Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories
  • Advanced Differential Geometry Research
  • Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics

Thanu Padmanabhan has published extensively in a variety of scientific journals. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • Physics Letters B
  • Physical review. D/Physical review. D.
  • International Journal of Modern Physics D
  • Journal of Mathematical Physics
  • General Relativity and Gravitation

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Thanu Padmanabhan are:

  • "Boundary term in the gravitational action is the heat content of the null surfaces" (2020), published in Physical review. D/Physical review. D.
  • "Exploring the Rindler vacuum and the Euclidean plane" (2020), published in Journal of Mathematical Physics
  • "Planck length: Lost + found" (2020), published in Physics Letters B
  • "Eddington gravity with matter: An emergent perspective" (2021), published in Physical review. D/Physical review. D.
  • "Principle of equivalence at Planck scales, QG in locally inertial frames and the zero-point-length of spacetime" (2020), published in General Relativity and Gravitation

Co-authorship collaborations include frequent work with:

  • Sumanta Chakraborty
  • Kinjalk Lochan
  • Karthik Rajeev
  • Surojit Dalui
  • Bibhas Ranjan Majhi

Thanu Padmanabhan was recognized as a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences in 2012.

Best Publications

  • Cosmological constant—the weight of the vacuum

    T. Padmanabhan

  • Structure formation in the universe

    Thanu Padmanabhan

  • ACCELERATED EXPANSION OF THE UNIVERSE DRIVEN BY TACHYONIC MATTER

    T. Padmanabhan

  • Thermodynamical aspects of gravity: new insights

    T. Padmanabhan

  • Particle production and complex path analysis

    K. Srinivasan;T. Padmanabhan

  • Statistical mechanics of gravitating systems

    T. Padmanabhan

  • Cosmology with tachyon field as dark energy

    J.S. Bagla;Harvinder Kaur Jassal;T. Padmanabhan

  • Can the clustered dark matter and the smooth dark energy arise from the same scalar field

    T. Padmanabhan;T.Roy Choudhury

  • Gravitation: Foundations and Frontiers

    Thanu Padmanabhan

  • Classical and quantum thermodynamics of horizons in spherically symmetric spacetimes

    T. Padmanabhan

  • Gravity and the thermodynamics of horizons

    T. Padmanabhan

  • WMAP constraints on low redshift evolution of dark energy

    H. K. Jassal;H. K. Jassal;J. S. Bagla;T. Padmanabhan

  • Theoretical Astrophysics, Volume III: Galaxies and Cosmology

    T. Padmanabhan

  • Dark energy and gravity

    T. Padmanabhan

  • Thermodynamic route to field equations in Lanczos-Lovelock gravity

    Aseem Paranjape;Sudipta Sarkar;T. Padmanabhan

  • A theoretician's analysis of the supernova data and the limitations in determining the nature of dark energy

    T. Padmanabhan;T. Roy Choudhury

  • Equipartition of energy in the horizon degrees of freedom and the emergence of gravity

    T. Padmanabhan

  • Cosmological parameters from supernova observations: A critical comparison of three data sets

    T. Roy Choudhury;T. Padmanabhan

  • Hawking radiation in different coordinate settings: Complex paths approach

    S Shankaranarayanan;T Padmanabhan;K Srinivasan

  • Stars and stellar systems

    T. Padmanabhan

Frequent Co-Authors

Raghunathan Srianand
Raghunathan Srianand Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics
Jeremiah P. Ostriker
Jeremiah P. Ostriker Columbia University
Renyue Cen
Renyue Cen Princeton University
Ofer Lahav
Ofer Lahav University College London
S. V. Dhurandhar
S. V. Dhurandhar Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics
Brian P. Schmidt
Brian P. Schmidt Australian National University
Benedetta Ciardi
Benedetta Ciardi Max Planck Society
Anton M. Koekemoer
Anton M. Koekemoer Space Telescope Science Institute
Douglas Scott
Douglas Scott University of British Columbia
Rafael Rebolo
Rafael Rebolo Spanish National Research Council

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