About me

I am a final-year BS-MS student in the Department of Physical Sciences at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata. My research is in quantum foundations. My master's thesis, supervised remotely by Dr. Beata Zjawin at the International Centre For Theory Of Quantum Technologies (ICTQT), University of Gdańsk, asks which features of quantum theory are genuinely nonclassical, using generalized noncontextuality as the criterion.

I came to this from theoretical cosmology, where I worked with Prof. Koushik Dutta on the origin of cosmic magnetic fields from ultralight dark matter. A side project asks whether entanglement through gravity could be witnessed in the CMB. I am preparing PhD applications in quantum foundations, and the details are on my Research page.

Contact

Raj Gaurav Tripathi
BS-MS Student, Physics
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata
Mohanpur, Nadia, West Bengal 741246, India

E-mail: rajgauravmirp@gmail.com
GitHub: raj-gaurav-tripathi

Recent

August 2026. Started my MS thesis on quantum contextuality with Dr. Beata Zjawin at ICTQT. My focus is typicality: how often randomly chosen states and measurements produce nonclassical statistics. Details

August 2026. Began a side project on whether entanglement through gravity could be witnessed in the CMB, a question suggested by Marios Christodoulou. It is at the literature stage, and I am working toward a poster. Details

June 2026. Wrapped up a theoretical study of magnetic fields from ultralight dark matter, including how the finite conductivity of the post-recombination plasma suppresses the tachyonic resonance. Details

April 2026. Studied proposed workarounds to that damping: moving the resonance to a dark photon and transferring the field by kinetic mixing, and producing the field earlier with a delayed oscillation.

December 2025. Concluded my research project on inflationary cosmology under Prof. Koushik Dutta: scalar-field-driven models, slow-roll dynamics, and the large-scale homogeneity of the CMB. Notes

Electrons arrive one at a time, yet fringes build up.