Currently the Trivedi group is doing research broadly in the three areas listed below:

Quantum Magnetism
My group is currently involved in research on quantum spin liquids (QSLs), that arise in magnetic insulators in which the constituent spins interact strongly, but are unable to order even down to the lowest temperatures because of quantum fluctuations and frustration. The challenge of identifying spin liquids in the laboratory arises because they are characterized by what they lack — conventional magnetic order. Instead, our main effort is to re-envision the understanding of exotic quantum liquids in terms of what they possess: the long-range patterns of entanglement characterizing topological order outside of the Landau framework, and how that leads to fractionalized excitations.

Quantum Information
Quantum systems show unusual non-classical properties, including quantum coherence, superposition and interference. But the most mind boggling and “weird” of all is quantum entanglement, most recently demonstrated between photons over 1200 km. The main questions my group is currently investigating are related to the physical nature of non-local correlations imprinted by many body entanglement, particularly in the context of quantum spin liquids.