About me

Hello! I’m Sachin Vaidya, a postdoctoral associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), working with Prof. Marin Soljačić. I am also a junior investigator at the NSF AI Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions (IAIFI). I earned my PhD in Physics from Penn State in 2023, where I was part of Prof. Mikael C. Rechtsman’s research group.

I use computational, theoretical, and experimental approaches to study photonic realizations of topological phases of matter, such as Weyl semi-metals and higher-order topological insulators. I am also broadly interested in nanophotonics, topological matter, and, more recently, artifical intelligence (AI) for physics. Read more about my research here.

Recent Publications

Prevalence of two-dimensional photonic topology
Ali Ghorashi, Sachin Vaidya, Mikael Rechtsman, Wladimir Benalcazar, Marin Soljačić and Thomas Christensen
Physical Review Letters (2024)

Weyl points on non-orientable manifolds
André Grossi e Fonseca*, Sachin Vaidya*, Thomas Christensen, Mikael C. Rechtsman, Taylor L. Hughes and Marin Soljačić
Physical Review Letters (2024)

Direct observation of Landau levels in silicon photonic crystals
Maria Barsukova*, Fabien Grisé*, Zeyu Zhang*, Sachin Vaidya, Jonathan Guglielmon, Michael I. Weinstein, Li He, Bo Zhen, Randall McEntaffer and Mikael C. Rechtsman
Nature Photonics (2024)

Response to polarization and weak topology in Chern insulators
Sachin Vaidya, Mikael C. Rechtsman and Wladimir A. Benalcazar
Physical Review Letters (2024)

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