Debashish Chowdhury
Debashish Chowdhury is a Theoretical Physicist. He works on a wide variety of topics in statistical and biological physics. After getting his doctoral degree from IIT, Kanpur, in 1984, for his thesis on “Spin Glass Transition,” he carried out postdoctoral research as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow in Cologne, Germany, and, then, as a Senior Research Associate in Philadelphia, USA. He was an Assistant Professor in the School of Physical Sciences of Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 1987–1992, and an Associate Professor in the Physics Department of IIT, Kanpur, 1993–1997. Dr. Chowdhury became a Full Professor in May, 1997. Dr. Chowdhury is a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, elected in January, 2004, and recipient of the Young Scientist Medal of the Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi, 1989. He is a former Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany, and a former Associate Member of ICTP, Italy. He is also a Member of the Board of Editors of European Physical Journal B which is copublished by Springer, Germany, EDP Sciences (jointly owned by the French Physical Society, French Chemical Society, and French Society of Applied and Industrial Mathematics) and the Italian Physical Society. His current research topics include molecular machines and intracellular molecular motor traffic.
Biography Updated on 11 June 2007
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Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]
- Natural nano-machines
Resonance, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 4–14, 2007 - Natural nano-machines
Resonance, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 39–58, 2007 - Traffic of interacting ribosomes: Effects of single-machine mechanochemistry on protein synthesis
Physical Review E, vol. 75, no. 2, 2007 - Intracellular transport by single-headed kinesin KIF1A: Effects of single-motor mechanochemistry and steric interactions
Physical Review E, vol. 75, no. 4, 2007 - Competition of coarsening and shredding of clusters in a driven diffusive lattice gas
Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, vol. 2006, no. 06, pp. P06012–P06012, 2006 - Collective effects in intra-cellular molecular motor transport: Coordination, cooperation and competition
Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, vol. 372, no. 1, pp. 84–95, 2006 - Modelling of self-driven particles: Foraging ants and pedestrians
Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, vol. 372, no. 1, pp. 132–141, 2006 - From aggressive driving to molecular motor traffic
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, vol. 39, no. 46, pp. 14263–14287, 2006 - Physics of transport and traffic phenomena in biology: from molecular motors and cells to organisms
Physics of Life Reviews, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 318–352, 2005 - Evolving eco-system: a network of networks
Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, vol. 346, no. 1-2, pp. 68–74, 2005 - Evolutionary ecology in silico: evolving food webs, migrating population and speciation
Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, vol. 352, no. 1, pp. 202–215, 2005 - Dynamic instability of microtubules: Effect of catastrophe-suppressing drugs
Physical Review E, vol. 72, no. 5, 2005 - Intracellular Transport of Single-Headed Molecular Motors KIF1A
Physical Review Letters, vol. 95, no. 11, 2005 -
Collective Traffic-like Movement of Ants on a Trail: Dynamical Phases and Phase Transitions
Journal of the Physics Society Japan, vol. 73, no. 11, pp. 2979–2985, 2004 - Self-organized patterns and traffic flow in Colonies of organisms: from bacteria and social insects to vertebrates
Phase Transitions: A Multinational Journal, vol. 77, no. 5-7, pp. 601–624, 2004 - Collective effects in traffic on bi-directional ant trails
Journal of Theoretical Biology, vol. 231, no. 2, pp. 279–285, 2004 - Unified “micro”- and “macro-” evolution of eco-systems: self-organization of a dynamic network
Physica A: Statistical and Theoretical Physics, vol. 336, no. 1-2, pp. 102–111, 2004 - Computer simulations of history of life: speciation, emergence of complex species from simpler organisms, and extinctions
Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, vol. 340, no. 4, pp. 685–696, 2004 - Sole–Manrubia model of biological evolutions: some new insights
Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, vol. 318, no. 3-4, pp. 461–468, 2003 - Dietrich Stauffer: Unconventional in Science and Life
Physica Scripta, vol. T106, no. 1, p. 7, 2003 - Traffic Flow of Interacting Self-Driven Particles: Rails and Trails, Vehicles and Vesicles
Physica Scripta, vol. T106, no. 1, p. 13, 2003 - Unification of Small and Large Time Scales for Biological Evolution: Deviations from Power Law
Physical Review Letters, vol. 90, no. 6, 2003 - Cluster formation and anomalous fundamental diagram in an ant-trail model
Physical Review E, vol. 67, no. 3, 2003 - Food-web based unified model of macro- and microevolution
Physical Review E, vol. 68, no. 4, 2003 - Flow properties of driven-diffusive lattice gases: Theory and computer simulation
Physical Review E, vol. 65, no. 4, 2002 - A cellular-automata model of flow in ant trails: non-monotonic variation of speed with density
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, vol. 35, no. 41, pp. L573–L577, 2002 - Statistical physics of vehicular traffic and some related systems
Physics Reports, vol. 329, no. 4-6, pp. 199–329, 2000 - Dynamical mean-field theory of realistic spin glasses beyond the independent-mode approximation
Journal of Physics C: Solid State Physics, vol. 17, no. 28, pp. 5049–5054, 2000 - Steady-states and kinetics of ordering in bus-route models: connection with the Nagel-Schreckenberg model
The European Physical Journal B, vol. 15, no. 2, p. 375, 2000 - Simulation of vehicular traffic: a statistical physics perspective
Computing in Science & Engineering, vol. 2, no. 5, pp. 80–87, 2000 - Comment on â??Critical behavior of a traffic flow modelâ?
Physical Review E, vol. 61, no. 3, pp. 3270–3271, 2000 - Self-organization of traffic jams in cities: Effects of stochastic dynamics and signal periods
Physical Review E, vol. 59, no. 2, pp. R1311–R1314, 1999 - Periodicity-dependent stiffness of periodic hydrophilic-hydrophobic heteropolymers
Physical Review E, vol. 60, no. 2, pp. R1158–R1161, 1999 - A generalized spin model of financial markets
The European Physical Journal B - Condensed Matter, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 477–482, 1999 - Random walk on self-avoiding walk in external bias: diffusion, drift and trapping
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, vol. 18, no. 13, pp. L761–L766, 1999 - Real-space renormalisation group approach to random walks on self-avoiding walks
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, vol. 18, no. 17, pp. 3471–3473, 1999 - Dynamical mean-field theory of realistic spin glasses beyond independent-mode approximation. II. Effect of reaction field
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. L95–L97, 1999 - Spiral growing self-avoiding walk: a new universality class
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, vol. 18, no. 6, pp. L289–L292, 1999 - Random walk on self-avoiding walk: a model for conductivity of linear polymers
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, vol. 18, no. 7, pp. L377–L382, 1999 - Dilution dependence of the relaxation time in the dilute Ising model
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. L19–L22, 1999 - Domain growth in the dilute random-field Ising model and the breakdown of self-similar dynamical scaling
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, vol. 19, no. 17, pp. L1105–L1108, 1999 - Relaxation of an isolated droplet in pure and random Ising magnets: Monte Carlo simulation
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, vol. 20, no. 17, pp. L1171–L1175, 1999 - Morphology of the interfacial patterns growing from unstable initial states in crystal growth models
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. L141–L146, 1999 - Boundary effects on a spin-model: microemulsions in a confined geometry
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, vol. 24, no. 12, pp. L677–L683, 1999 - Non-algebraic domain growth in random magnets: a cell dynamical approach
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, vol. 24, no. 18, pp. L1087–L1097, 1999 - Dynamics of crumpling of fluid-like amphiphilic membranes
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 257–262, 1999 - Stochastic traffic model with random deceleration probabilities: queueing and power-law gap distribution
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, vol. 30, no. 8, pp. L221–L227, 1999 - Spatio-temporal organization of vehicles in a cellular automata model of traffic with `slow-to-start' rule
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, vol. 32, no. 18, pp. 3229–3252, 1999 - The kinetics of phase ordering in complex fluids: pattern formation in microemulsions and micellar solutions
Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, vol. 6, no. 13, pp. 2435–2450, 1999 - A microscopic model of gemini surfactants: Self-assemblies in water and at air–water interface
The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 109, no. 12, p. 5126, 1998 - Distributions of time- and distance-headways in the Nagel-Schreckenberg model of vehicular traffic: effects of hindrances
The European Physical Journal B - Condensed Matter, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 781–786, 1998 - Distribution of time-headways in a particle-hopping model of vehicular traffic
Physical Review E, vol. 58, no. 3, pp. 4012–4015, 1998 - Micellar aggregates of gemini surfactants: Monte Carlo
simulation of a microscopic model
Europhysics Letters, vol. 41, no. 2, pp. 183–188, 1998 - Discrete Solid-On-Solid Model of Interface with Bending Rigidity: Restricted and Unrestricted Step Sizes
International Journal of Modern Physics B [Condensed Matter Physics; Statistical Physics; Applied Physics], vol. 12, no. 14, p. 1531, 1998 - Numerical Approach to Statistical Mechanics of Surfactants in Porous Media: A Coarse Grained Description
International Journal of Modern Physics C [Computational Physics and Physical Computation], vol. 8, no. 6, p. 1335, 1997 - Out-of-plane phase segregation and in-plane clustering in a binary mixture of amphiphiles at the air-water interface
Physical Review E, vol. 56, no. 1, pp. 667–679, 1997 - Particle hopping models for two-lane traffic with two kinds of vehicles: Effects of lane-changing rules
Physica A: Statistical and Theoretical Physics, vol. 235, no. 3-4, pp. 417–439, 1997 - Particle-hopping models of vehicular traffic: Distributions of distance headways and distance between jams
Physica A: Statistical and Theoretical Physics, vol. 246, no. 3-4, pp. 471–486, 1997 - Domain growth in weakly disordered magnets
Physica A: Statistical and Theoretical Physics, vol. 229, no. 1, pp. 72–92, 1996 - Discrete solid-on-solid model of interface with bending rigidity: Roughening versus crumpling
Physical Review E, vol. 54, no. 3, pp. 2670–2676, 1996 - Conformation of amphiphilic molecules grafted or adsorbed on a solid
International Journal of Modern Physics C [Computational Physics and Physical Computation], vol. 7, no. 1, p. 73, 1996 - Flory approximant for the fractal dimension of the viscous-finger pattern: Transient and asymptotic behaviors
Physical Review E, vol. 51, no. 1, pp. 407–410, 1995 - Oil-Water Interface in the Widom Model: Is It Smooth, Rough or Crumpled?
Journal de Physique I, vol. 5, no. 6, pp. 671–674, 1995 - Monte Carlo Simulation of Spatio-Temporal Organization of Amphiphiles in Water and Air-Water Interface
Journal de Physique II, vol. 5, no. 10, pp. 1469–1489, 1995 - Modeling immune network through cellular automata: a unified mechanism
International Journal of Modern Physics C [Computational Physics and Physical Computation], vol. 5, no. 6, p. 1049, 1994 - A Unified Model of Immune Response II: Continuum Approach
Journal of Theoretical Biology, vol. 165, no. 2, pp. 135–159, 1993 - Nucleation and size-distribution of holes in a microscopic model of Newton black films
Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, vol. 189, no. 1-2, pp. 70–80, 1992 - Statistical physics of immune networks
Physica A Statistical and Theoretical Physics, vol. 186, no. 1-2, pp. 61–81, 1992 - Bursting of soap films
Physica A Statistical and Theoretical Physics, vol. 186, no. 1-2, pp. 237–249, 1992 - Novel domain growth law in random magnets
Physica A Statistical and Theoretical Physics, vol. 180, no. 3-4, pp. 253–262, 1992 - Simulation of Widom model kinetics for microemulsions
Physica A Statistical and Theoretical Physics, vol. 187, no. 1-2, pp. 126–132, 1992 - Amphiphilic membranes in thin films of a complex fluid: Statics and dynamics in lattice models
The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 95, no. 10, p. 7664, 1991 - A discrete model for immune surveillance, tumor immunity and cancer
Journal of Theoretical Biology, vol. 152, no. 2, pp. 263–270, 1991 - Dimensionality dependence in the singular dynamic scaling in the dilute Ising model
Physical Review A, vol. 43, no. 8, pp. 4179–4181, 1991 - Lifetime of unstable bilayers: A lattice model for amphiphilic membranes
Physical Review A, vol. 44, no. 4, pp. R2247–R2250, 1991 - A unified discrete model of immune response
Journal of Theoretical Biology, vol. 145, no. 2, pp. 207–215, 1990 - The three-dimensional dilute Ising magnet
Physica A Statistical and Theoretical Physics, vol. 166, no. 2, pp. 173–179, 1990 - Robustness of the network models of immune response
Physica A Statistical and Theoretical Physics, vol. 167, no. 3, pp. 635–640, 1990 - Systematics of the models of immune response and autoimmune disease
Journal of Statistical Physics, vol. 59, no. 3-4, pp. 1019–1042, 1990 - Morphology of growing interfacial patterns
Journal of Statistical Physics, vol. 50, no. 5-6, pp. 1111–1130, 1988 - Growth of nematic droplets from the supercooled isotropic phase of a liquid crystal
Solid State Communications, vol. 67, no. 7, pp. 697–699, 1988 - Monte Carlo simulation of very large dilute random-field Ising models using multi-spin coding
Computer Physics Communications, vol. 43, no. 3, pp. 329–337, 1987 - Domain growth in the three-dimensional dilute Ising model
Journal of Statistical Physics, vol. 49, no. 3-4, pp. 855–858, 1987 - Interfacial structure and kinetics of ordering in weak ferromagnets
Physical Review B, vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 1807–1813, 1987 - Interface roughening and domain growth in the dilute Ising model
Physical Review B, vol. 35, no. 13, pp. 6792–6795, 1987 - Models of hopping-controlled reactions with variable hopping range
Physical Review A, vol. 34, no. 5, pp. 4251–4255, 1986 - Monte Carlo simulation of three-dimensional dilute Ising model
Journal of Statistical Physics, vol. 44, no. 1-2, pp. 203–210, 1986 - Molecular dynamic study of fracture in 2D disordered elastic Lennard-Jones solids
Zeitschrift für Physik B Condensed Matter, vol. 62, no. 3, pp. 343–347, 1986 - Theoretical justification of the magnetic phase diagram of CuMn alloys
Solid State Communications, vol. 57, no. 8, pp. 603–605, 1986 - Two mutually-repelling self-avoiding walks: A Monte Carlo study
Physics Letters A, vol. 110, no. 6, pp. 286–288, 1985 - Size-dependence of relaxation in random-field Ising model
Zeitschrift für Physik B Condensed Matter, vol. 60, no. 2-4, pp. 249–253, 1985 - Random walk and magnetization of spin clusters in spin glasses
American Journal of Physics, vol. 53, no. 3, p. 261, 1985 - Diffusion on Self-Avoiding Walks with Bridges
Physical Review Letters, vol. 55, no. 22, pp. 2508–2508, 1985 - Mean-field theories of spin glasses
Physics Reports, vol. 114, no. 1, pp. 1–98, 1984 - Distribution of blocking temperatures in spin glass transition: Percolation model
Physica B+C, vol. 124, no. 2, pp. 255–258, 1984 - Limit cycles in a forced Lorenz system
Physics Letters A, vol. 104, no. 1, pp. 33–35, 1984 - Percolation model, Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model and localization-delocalization model of spin glass transition: A comparative study
Physics Letters A, vol. 100, no. 9, pp. 513–515, 1984 - On Parisi and Jonsson order parameters for spin glasses
Physics Letters A, vol. 101, no. 5-6, pp. 273–274, 1984 - Critical exponents and fractal dimension of realistic spin glasses
Physics Letters A, vol. 104, no. 2, pp. 100–102, 1984 - Comment on “Speckle picture of spin glasses and inhomogeneous mean-field theory”
Physics Letters A, vol. 100, no. 7, pp. 370–371, 1984 - Spin dynamics in vector spin glasses in an external magnetic field
Physics Letters A, vol. 99, no. 2-3, pp. 111–113, 1983 - 1 / ƒ noise in semiconductors and spin glasses
Solid State Communications, vol. 48, no. 10, pp. 887–888, 1983 - Singly refracting biaxial crystals: A curiosity in Maxwell’s electrodynamics
American Journal of Physics, vol. 49, no. 8, p. 773, 1981 - Cherenkov Radiation in Spatially Dispersive Media
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences (1934-1990), vol. 374, no. 1759, pp. 531–541, 1981