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most citedThe Shear Viscosity in Anisotropic Phases

72 citations · 184 across the 26 of their papers we have counts for

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26 papers

math-ph2026

Co-rotating Vortices on Surfaces of Variable Negative Curvature: Hamiltonian Structure and Curvature-Induced Drift

Gaurang Mangesh Joshi, Rickmoy Samanta

Vortices in fluids and superfluids are fundamental to phenomena ranging from Bose-Einstein condensates and superfluid films to neutron stars and hydrodynamic micro-rotors, where ba…

cond-mat.soft2026

Quenched Dipole Pairs in Viscous Fluid Membranes across the Saffman Crossover: Integrable Hamiltonian Dynamics

Satyagni Bhattacharya, Debdatta Dey, Samyak Jain +7

We investigate an analytic theory of force-dipole hydrodynamics in a viscous membrane coupled to an infinite surrounding fluid, focusing on quenched (orientation-fixed) dipoles. Wh…

physics.flu-dyn2026

Dissipative Vortex Binaries in Compact Fluid Domains with Geometric Corrections

Aswathy K. R., Rickmoy Samanta

We study a dissipative extension of vortex-binary motion in a doubly periodic fluid domain. The underlying conservative system admits an exact integrable reduction to a single comp…

physics.flu-dyn2026

Collective Dynamics of Vortex Clusters in Compact Fluid Domains: From Pair Interactions to a Quadrupole Description

Aswathy KR, Rickmoy Samanta

Clusters of co-rotating vortices on compact fluid domains exhibit a simple collective dynamics, combining coherent global rotation with a slow breathing of the cluster size. In thi…

cond-mat.soft2026

Force Dipole Interactions in Membranes with Odd Viscosity

Sneha Krishnan, Udaya Maurya, Rickmoy Samanta

We develop a hydrodynamic framework for the interactions and collective dynamics of force dipoles embedded in a compressible fluid membrane supported by a shallow viscous subphase.…

gr-qc2025★ 1 cited

Post-Newtonian Dynamics of Radiating Charges: Canonical Formulation and Binary Inspiral Laws

Suhani Verma, Siddarth Mediratta, Nanditha Kilari +18

We revisit an explicit electromagnetic analogue of the Post Newtonian Hamiltonian framework widely used in gravitational wave physics. Starting from the Lorentz Dirac equation, we…

cond-mat.soft2025

Hamiltonian Active Particles in Incompressible Fluid Membranes

Sneha Krishnan, Rickmoy Samanta

Active proteins and membrane-bound motors exert force dipole flows along fluid interfaces and lipid bilayers. We develop a Hamiltonian framework for the interactions of pusher and…

math-ph2025★ 1 cited

A Self Propelled Vortex Dipole Model on Surfaces of Variable Negative Curvature

Khushi Banthia, Rickmoy Samanta

We investigate vortex dipoles on surfaces of variable negative curvature, focusing on a catenoid of arbitrary throat radius as a concrete example. We construct the effective dynami…

physics.flu-dyn2025★ 1 cited

Dynamics of Vortex Clusters on a Torus

Aswathy K R, Udaya Maurya, Surya Teja Gavva +1

We investigate the collective dynamics of multivortex assemblies in a two dimensional (2D) toroidal fluid film of distinct curvature and topology. The incompressible and inviscid n…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 2 cited

Redshift-space galaxy bispectrum in presence of massive neutrinos: A multipole expansion approach for Euclid

Sourav Pal, Debanjan Sarkar, Rickmoy Samanta +1

Massive neutrinos imprint distinctive signatures on the evolution of cosmic structures, notably suppressing small-scale clustering. We investigate the impact of massive neutrinos o…

physics.flu-dyn2025★ 2 cited

Vortex Dynamics in Tubular Fluid Membranes

Udaya Maurya, Surya Teja Gavva, Arpan Saha +1

Thin cylindrical membranes arise in a wide variety of biological systems ranging from tubular structures on and within cell membranes to in-vitro experiments on artificial vesicles…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 10 cited

Exploring neutrino interactions in light of present and upcoming galaxy surveys

Sourav Pal, Rickmoy Samanta, Supratik Pal

In the standard cosmological framework, neutrinos begin to free-stream after the weak interaction phase ends in the early universe, at a temperature of approximately $T \sim 1 \, {…

gr-qc2024★ 10 cited

Near-horizon chaos beyond Einstein gravity

Surajit Das, Surojit Dalui, Rickmoy Samanta

We investigate chaos in the dynamics of massless particles near the horizon of static spherically symmetric black holes in two well-motivated models of gravity. In both thes…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 5 cited

Revisiting coupled CDM-massive neutrino perturbations in diverse cosmological backgrounds

Sourav Pal, Rickmoy Samanta, Supratik Pal

Massive neutrinos are well-known to cause a characteristic suppression in the growth of structures at scales below the neutrino free-streaming length. A detailed understanding of t…

cond-mat.soft2023★ 5 cited

Force Dipole Interactions in Tubular Fluid Membranes

Samyak Jain, Rickmoy Samanta

We construct viscous fluid flow sourced by a force dipole embedded in a cylindrical fluid membrane, coupled to external embedding fluids. We find analytic expressions for the flow,…

gr-qc2022★ 4 cited

Closed-form solutions of spinning, eccentric binary black holes at 1.5 post-Newtonian order

Rickmoy Samanta, Sashwat Tanay, Leo C. Stein

The closed-form solution of the 1.5 post-Newtonian (PN) accurate binary black hole (BBH) Hamiltonian system has proven to be difficult to obtain for a long time since its introduct…

cond-mat.soft2021

Dynamics of Force Dipoles in Curved Biological Membranes

Sarthak Bagaria, Rickmoy Samanta

We construct a model to explore the hydrodynamic interactions of active inclusions in curved biological membranes. The curved membrane is modelled as a two dimensional layer of hig…

physics.flu-dyn2020★ 14 cited

Vortex Flows and Streamline Topology in Curved Biological Membranes

Rickmoy Samanta, Naomi Oppenheimer

When considering flows in biological membranes, they are usually treated as flat, though more often than not, they are curved surfaces, even extremely curved, as in the case of the…

hep-th2017★ 5 cited

Viscosity for Anisotropic Reissner Nordström Blackbranes

Soumangsu Chakraborty, Rickmoy Samanta

We investigate the behavior of shear viscosity in the presence of small anisotropy and a finite chemical potential. First, we construct an anisotropic Reissner Nordstr{ö}m blackbra…

cond-mat.quant-gas2016★ 3 cited

A Proposal for measuring Anisotropic Shear Viscosity in Unitary Fermi Gases

Rickmoy Samanta, Rishi Sharma, Sandip P. Trivedi

We present a proposal to measure anisotropic shear viscosity in a strongly interacting, ultra-cold, unitary Fermi gas confined in a harmonic trap. We introduce anisotropy in this s…

hep-th2016

On the Supersymmetry of Bianchi attractors in Gauged supergravity

Bidisha Chakrabarty, Karthik Inbasekar, Rickmoy Samanta

Bianchi attractors are near horizon geometries with homogeneous symmetries in the spatial directions. We construct supersymmetric Bianchi attractors in gauge…

cond-mat.quant-gas2016★ 17 cited

The Shear Viscosity in an Anisotropic Unitary Fermi Gas

Rickmoy Samanta, Rishi Sharma, Sandip P. Trivedi

We consider a system consisting of a strongly interacting, ultracold unitary Fermi gas under harmonic confinement. Our analysis suggests the possibility of experimentally studying,…

hep-ph2015★ 1 cited

Looking for lepton flavour violation in supersymmetry at the LHC

Monoranjan Guchait, Abhishek M. Iyer, Rickmoy Samanta

We consider models of supersymmetry which can incorporate sizeable mixing between different generations of sfermions. While the mixing is constrained by the non-observation of vari…

hep-th2015★ 72 cited

The Shear Viscosity in Anisotropic Phases

Sachin Jain, Rickmoy Samanta, Sandip P. Trivedi

We construct anisotropic black brane solutions and analyse the behaviour of some of their metric perturbations. These solutions correspond to field theory duals in which rotational…