Sachin Vaidya
Postdoctoral Associate
MIT
Hello!
I am currently a postdoctoral associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with Prof. Marin Soljačić. I received a PhD in Physics from Penn State in 2023, where I was a part of Prof. Mikael C. Rechtsman's research group.
My research is both theoretical and experimental in nature and focuses broadly on photonic realizations of topological phases of matter, such as Weyl semi-metals and higher-order topological insulators. I am also interested in all things nanophotonics, topological matter, and artifical intelligence (AI) for physics.
Learn more about my research here.
My CV can be found here. (updated: August 2023)
My contact information can be found here.
Recent Publications
Weyl points on non-orientable manifolds
André Grossi e Fonseca*, Sachin Vaidya*, Thomas Christensen, Mikael C. Rechtsman, Taylor L. Hughes and Marin Soljačić
arXiv:2310.18485 (2023)
Prevalence of two-dimensional photonic topology
Ali Ghorashi, Sachin Vaidya, Mikael Rechtsman, Wladimir Benalcazar, Marin Soljačić and Thomas Christensen
arXiv:2307.15701 (2023)
Direct observation of Landau levels in silicon photonic crystals
Maria Barsukova*, Fabien Grisé*, Zeyu Zhang*, Sachin Vaidya, Jonathan Guglielmon, Michael I. Weinstein, Li He, Bo Zhen, Randall McEntaffer and Mikael C. Rechtsman
arXiv:2306.04011 (2023)
Response to polarization and weak topology in Chern insulators
Sachin Vaidya, Mikael C. Rechtsman and Wladimir A. Benalcazar
arXiv:2304.13118 (2023)
Reentrant delocalization transition in one-dimensional photonic quasicrystals
Sachin Vaidya*, Christina Jörg*, Kyle Linn, Megan Goh and Mikael C. Rechtsman
Physical Review Research (2023)
Topological phases of photonic crystals under crystalline symmetries
Sachin Vaidya, Ali Ghorashi, Thomas Christensen, Mikael C. Rechtsman and Wladimir A. Benalcazar
Physical Review B (2023)
