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Dr. Jaffino Stargen D

Faculty - School of Engg. & Science

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Educational Qualifications

PostDoc. Associate in Quantum & Precision Measurements Group 2023

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

PhD 2018

Physics

IIT Madras

MSc 2011

Physics

Scott Christian College, Kanyakumari

BSc (Hons) 2009

Mathematics

Scott Christian College, Kanyakumari

Awards

  • Reviewer for Physical Review D

    American Physical Society

  • Reviewer for Mathematical Reviews

    American Mathematical Society

  • Software skills

    Mathematica

  • Received Senior Research Fellowship (2013 - 2016)

    Ministry of Human Resources and Development (MHRD), India

  • Received Junior Research Fellowship (2011 - 2013)

    Ministry of Human Resources and Development (MHRD), India

  • National Level Competitive Exams Qualified

    CSIR-NET (Physical Sciences), GATE (Physics), and JEST (Physics)

  • Secured First Rank (Gold Medal)

    B.Sc. Examinations

Research Interests

  • Quantum mechanics in nontrivial settings
  • Quantum field theoretic effects in non-inertial frames, and their relevance to near-horizon black hole physics
  • Quantum aspects of gravity: Bridging theory and experiment

Selected Papers

2026

Finite-time Unruh effect: Waiting for the transient effects to fade off

D. Jaffino Stargen

Phys. Rev. D 113, 065007

2025

Magnetic flux and its topological effects in Aharonov-Bohm effect

Manvendra Somvanshi

D. Jaffino Stargen

arXiv:2511.11120

2025

Group theoretic quantization of punc-tured plane

Manvendra Somvanshi

D. Jaffino Stargen

arXiv:2511.11120

2025

Thermality and athermality in the Unruh effect

D. Jaffino Stargen

Vivishek Sudhir

Phys. Rev. D 112, 105014

2024

Lorenz gauge and the Poisson bracket in canonical electromagnetism

D. Jaffino Stargen

arXiv:2412.05350

2024

Strong Noninertial Radiative Shifts in Atomic Spectra at Low Accelerations

N. Arya

D. Jaffino Stargen

K. Lochan

S. K. Goyal

Phys. Rev. D 110, 085007

2022

Cavity optimization for Unruh effect at small accelerations

D. Jaffino Stargen

K. Lochan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 111303

2021

Quantum-to-classical transition and imprints of wavefunction collapse in bouncing universes

D. Jaffino Stargen

V. Sreenath

L. Sriramkumar

International Journal of Modern Physics D 30, 2150049

2019

Polymer quantization and advanced gravitational wave detector

D. Jaffino Stargen

S. Shankaranarayanan

S. Das

Phys. Rev. D 100, 086007

2017

Response of a rotating detector coupled to a polymer quantized field

D. Jaffino Stargen

N. Kajuri

L. Sriramkumar

Phys. Rev. D 96, 066002

2016

Moving mirrors and the fluctuation-dissipation theorem

D. Jaffino Stargen

D. Kothawala

L. Sriramkumar

Phys. Rev. D 94, 025040

2015

Small scale structure of spacetime: The van Vleck determinant and equigeodesic surfaces

D. Jaffino Stargen

D. Kothawala

Phys. Rev. D 92, 024046

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