Publications

    Under Review/Submitted Preprints


  1. Tunable Yielding and Emergent Rheology in Amorphous Solids with Active Particle Doping - R Priya, J Horbach, Smarajit Karmakar, arXiv:2508.06260 (under review Nature Communications 2026).

  2. Study of flow of crystals and deformable particles in a channel and the effective segregation of soft and hard particles - P Bose, Smarajit Karmakar, arXiv:2603.04075 (under review Soft Matter 2026).

  3. Anomalous Dynamical Heterogeneity in Active Glasses as a Signature of Violation of Mermin-Wagner-Hohenberg Theorem - S Dey and S Karmakar, arXiv:2601.04481 (2026). (Under review Physical Review E).

  4. Growth of Dynamic and Static Correlations in the Aging Dynamics of a Glass-Forming Liquid - S Nath and S Karmakar, arXiv:2512.17168 (2026) (Under review Physical Review E).

  5. Understanding the Role of Particle Deformability on the Crystal and Glass formation using Two-dimensional Ring Polymer Model - P Bose and S Karmakar, arXiv:2512.00212 (2026) (Under review Physical Review E).

  6. Escape-Induced Temporally Correlated Noise Driven Crossover in Growth Kinetics and Universality Class - M Manna, S Mukherjee, S Giri, P Bhakuni, S Barman, A Pariari, A Gome, M Hücker, V Raghavendra Reddy, A Roy, S Roy Barman, Smarajit Karmakar, C Mondal, and R Batabyal, arXiv:2510.12593 (2025). (under revision Nature Communications 2026).

  7. Cavitation instabilities in amorphous solids via secondary mechanical perturbations – U.A. Dattani, R. Sharma, Smarajit Karmakar, and P. Chaudhuri, arxiv:2303.04529 (2023) (under revision JCP 2026).

  8. Non-trivial activity dependence of static length scale and critical tests of active random first-order transition theory - K Paul, SK Nandi and Smarajit Karmakar, arXiv:2111.09829 (2021).

    9. Peer-reviewed Publications


  9. Role of Fragility of the Glass Formers in the Yielding Transition under Oscillatory Shear - R Chatterjee, M Adhikari, and S Karmakar, Nature Communications 17, 4506 (2026).

  10. Yielding transition of amorphous solids in the presence of aspherical impurities - A Mutneja, BP Bhowmik, and Smarajit Karmakar, Communications Physics (2026), arXiv:2307.01002

  11. Soft Matrix: Probing local mechanical properties in amorphous solids - A Sreekumari, M Adhikari, P Chaudhuri, Smarajit Karmakar, VV Krishnan, N Pingua, S Sengupta, and VV Vasisht, Soft Matter (2026).

  12. Memory behavior of a randomly driven model glass - R Chatterjee, Smarajit Karmakar, M Mungan, and D Vandembroucq New Journal of Physics 28, 044401 (2026).

  13. Tuning fragility in sodium lead borate glasses: Unveiling the interplay between compositions, Stokes–Einstein breakdown, and dynamical heterogeneity - A U Mallick, R Chatterjee, J Gangareddy, Smarajit Karmakar, and I Tah - Journal of Chemical Physics 164, 124503 (2026).

  14. Inverse Bauschinger to Bauschinger Crossover under Steady Shear in Amorphous Solids - R Priya and S Karmakar - Physical Review Materials 10, 035604 (2026) Editor’s Suggestion.

  15. Influence of particle size polydispersity on dynamical heterogeneities in dense particle packings - R Biswas, A Mutneja, S Karmakar, and R Bandyopadhyay, ChemPhysChem 27, e202500010 (2026).

  16. Fluid to Solid Transition in Colloidal Suspensions of Thermo Responsive Core–Shell Soft Particles Interacting through Multi Hertzian Pair Potential: A Monte Carlo Study - S Vintha, A Mutneja, S Karmakar, and M P, BVR Tata, Theory and Simulations, e00080 (2026).

  17. Finite Disorder Critical Point in the Brittle-to-Ductile Transition of Amorphous Solids in the Presence of Particle Pinning - A Mutneja, BP Bhowmik, and S Karmakar Physical Review Letters 135, 198201 (2025).

  18. Scaling Description of the Relaxation Dynamics and Dynamical Heterogeneity of an Active Glass-forming Liquid - S Dey, and S Karmakar, arXiv:2412.17666, 2025 Physical Review E 112, 045420 (2025).

  19. Effect of Random Pinning on the Yielding Transition of Amorphous Solid under Oscillatory Shear - R Chatterjee, M Adhikari, and S Karmakar, Review E 112, 025427 (2025).

  20. Inverse Bauschinger effect in active ultrastable glasses - R Priya and Smarajit Karmakar, Review E 112 035414 (2025) Editor’s Choice.

  21. Enhanced Long Wavelength Mermin-Wagner Fluctuations in Two-Dimensional Active Crystals and Glasses – S Dey, A Bhattacharya and Smarajit Karmakar, Nature Communications 16 (1), 5498 (2025).

  22. Activity-Induced Annealing leads to Ductile-to-Brittle Transition in Amorphous Solids- R. Sharma and Smarajit Karmakar, Physics 21, 253-261 (2025).

  23. Encoding Fast and Fault-Tolerant Memories in Bulk and Nanoscale Amorphous Solids - M Adhikari, R Sharma, and S Karmakar, Physical Review Letters 134 (1), 018202 (2025).

  24. Instabilities govern the low-frequency vibrational spectrum of amorphous solids - S Chakraborty, R Maharana, S Karmakar, and K Ramola, The Journal of Chemical Physics 163 (2) (2025).

  25. Cascade at local yield strain for silica and metallic glass - N Pingua, H Rautela, R Chatterjee, S Karmakar, P Chaudhuri, and S Sengupta, The Journal of Chemical Physics 162 (21) (2025).

  26. Length-scale Dependence of Stokes-Einstein Breakdown in Active Glass- forming Liquids - A. Mutneja and Smarajit Karmakar, Physical Review E 111, 035409 (2025).

  27. Thermostatting of Active Hamiltonian Systems via Symplectic Algorithms - A Bhattacharya, J Horbach, and S Karmakar, Phys. Rev. E 111, 015429 (2025).

  28. A perspective on active glassy dynamics in biological systems - S Sadhukhan, S Dey, S Karmakar, and SK Nandi, The European Physical Journal Special Topics 233 (21), 3193-3224 (2024).

  29. Quantum fluctuations lead to glassy electron dynamics in a good metal – SK Ojha, S Hazra, S Bera, SK Gogoi, P Mandal, J Maity, A Gloskovskii, C Schlueter, Smarajit Karmakar, M Jain, S Banerjee, V Gopalan, S Middey, Nature Communications 15 (1), 3830 (2024).

  30. Soft-Pinning: Experimental Validation of Static Correlations in Supercooled Molecular Glass-forming Liquids - R Das, BP Bhowmik, AB Puthirath, TN Narayanan, and Smarajit Karmakar, Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences Nexus (USA) 2 (9) pgad277(2023).

  31. Dynamic Heterogeneity in active glass-forming liquids in qualitatively different compared to its equilibrium behaviour - K Paul, A Mutneja, SK Nandi and Smarajit Karmakar, Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences (USA) 120 (34), e2217073120 (2023).

  32. Enhanced Vibrational Stability in Glass Droplets – S Chakraborty, VV Krishnan, K Ramola and Smarajit Karmakar, Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences Nexus (USA) 2 (9) pgad289 (2023).

  33. A Novel Method to Probe the Pronounced Growth of Correlation Lengths in an Active Glass-forming Liquids using Elongated Probe - A Mutneja and S Karmakar, Physical Review E Letters 108 (2) L022601 (2023).

  34. Dependence of the glass transition and jamming densities on spatial dimension - M Adhikari, Smarajit Karmakar, and S Sastry, Physical Review Letters 131, 168202 (2023).

  35. Annealing effects of multidirectional oscillatory shear in model glass formers - VV Krishnan, K Ramola, and Smarajit Karmakar, Physical Review Applied 19, 024004 (2023).

  36. Quantifying Dynamical Heterogeneity Length Scales of Interface Water across Model Membrane Phase Transition - S Malik, Smarajit Karmakar, and A Debnath, Journal of Chemical Physics 158, 091103 (2023).

  37. Athermal quasistatic cavitation in amorphous solids: effect of random pinning - UA Dattani, Smarajit Karmakar, and P Chaudhuri, The Journal of Chemical Physics 159 (20) 2023.

  38. Relaxation time scales of interfacial water upon fluid to ripple to gel phase transitions of bilayers – S Malik, Smarajit Karmakar and A Debnath, The Journal of Chemical Physics 158, 114503 (2023).

  39. Giant electroviscous effects in a ferroelectric nematic liquid crystal - MP Kumar, J Karcz, P Kula, Smarajit Karmakar, and S Dhara, Physical Review Applied 19 (4) 044082 (2023)

  40. Kinetic Fragility Directly Correlates with the Many-body Static Amorphous Order in Glass-Forming Liquids - I Tah, Smarajit Karmakar, Physical Review Materials 6 (3) 035601 (2022)

  41. Universal mechanical instabilities in the energy landscape of amorphous solids: Evidence from athermal quasistatic expansion - UA Dattani, Smarajit Karmakar, and P Chaudhuri Physical Review E 106 (5), 055004 (2022)

  42. Thermodynamics and its correlation with dynamics in a mean-field model and pinned systems: A comparative study using two different methods of entropy calculation - UK Nandi, P Patel, M Moid, MK Nandi, S Sengupta, Smarajit Karmakar, PK Maiti, C Dasgupta, SM Bhattacharyya, The Journal of Chemical Physics, 156, 014503 (2022).

  43. Universal non-Debye low-frequency vibrations in sheared amorphous solids - VV Krishnan, K Ramola, and Smarajit Karmakar, Soft Matter 18, 3395 (2022)

  44. Enhanced Phonon Peak in Four-point Dynamic Susceptibility in the Supercooled active Glass-forming Liquids – S Dey, A Mutneja, and Smarajit Karmakar, Soft Matter 18, 7309 (2022).

  45. Probing Dynamic Heterogeneity and Amorphous Order Using Rotational Dynamics of Rodlike Particles in Supercooled Liquids – A Mutneja and Smarajit Karmakar, Physical Review Applied 16 (3), 034022 (2021).

  46. Translational dynamics of rod-like probe in supercooled liquids: an experimentally realisable method to study Stokes-Einstein breakdown, dynamic heterogeneity, and amorphous order, A Mutneja and Smarajit Karmakar, Soft Matter 17, 5738 (2021).

  47. Spatial Dimensionality Dependence of Heterogeneity, Breakdown of the Stokes–Einstein Relation, and Fragility of a Model Glass-Forming Liquid - M Adhikari, Smarajit Karmakar, and S Sastry, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 125, 10232 (2021).

  48. Understanding Slow and Heterogeneous Dynamics in Model Supercooled Glass- forming Liquids – I Tah, A Mutneja, and Smarajit Karmakar, ACS Omega 6(11), 7229 (2021) (Invited Review Article).

  49. Cavity formation in deformed amorphous solids on the nanoscale – K Paul, R Dasgupta, J Horbach and Smarajit Karmakar, Physical Review Research 2, 042012 (2020).

  50. Time Scales of Fickian Diffusion and Lifetime of Dynamic Heterogeneity – R Das, C. Dasgupta and Smarajit Karmakar, Frontiers in Physics 8, 210 (2020)

  51. Signature of Dynamical heterogeneity in Spatial correlations of particle displacement and its Temporal evolution in Supercooled liquids, I. Tah and Smarajit Karmakar*, Physical Review Research, 2, 022067 (2020).

  52. Singularities in Hessian element distributions of amorphous media - VV Krishnan, Smarajit Karmakar, and K Ramola, Physical Review Research 2, 042025 (2020)

  53. Dynamic coupling of hydration layer to a fluid phospholipid membrane: intermittency and multiple time-scale relaxations - A Srivastava, S Malik, Smarajit Karmakar, and A Debnath, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 22, 21158 (2020)

  54. Effect of pinning on the Yielding Transition of Amorphous Solids – BP Bhowmik, P Chaudhuri and Smarajit Karmakar, Physical Review Letters 123, 185501 (2019)

  55. Particle pinning suppresses spinodal criticality in the shear banding instability - BP. Bhowmik, Smarajit Karmakar, I Procaccia, and C Rainone - Physical Review E 100, 052110 (2019) .

  56. Quantification of patio-temporal scales of dynamical heterogeneity of water near lipid membranes above supercooling - A Srivastava, Smarajit Karmakar, and A Debnath. Soft Matter 15, 9805 (2019).

  57. Role of α and β Relaxation in Collapsing Dynamics of Polymer Chain in Supercooled Glass-forming Liquids – M Mukherjee, J Mondal and Smarajit Karmakar, The Journal of Chemical Physics 150, 114503 (2019).

  58. Non-Gaussianity of van Hove Function and Dynamic Heterogeneity Length Scale - BP Bhowmik, I Tah and Smarajit Karmakar, Physical Review E 98, 022122 (2018).

  59. Glass Transition in Supercooled Liquids with Medium Range Crystalline Order I Tah, S Sengupta, S Sastry, C Dasgupta and Smarajit Karmakar, Physical Review Letters 121, 085703 (2018).

  60. Possible Universal Relation Between Short time β Relaxation and Long time α Relaxation in Glass-forming Liquids- R Das, I Tah and Smarajit Karmakar, The Journal of Chemical Physics 149, 024501 (2018).

  61. Plastic deformation of a permanently bonded network: Stress relaxation by pleats- S Ganguly, D Das, J Horbach, P Sollich, Smarajit Karmakar and S Sengupta, The Journal of Chemical Physics 149, 184503 (2018).

  62. On the existence of thermodynamically stable rigid solids- P Nath, S Ganguly, J Horbach, P Sollich, Smarajit Karmakar and S Sengupta, Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences (USA) 115, E4322 (2018).

  63. Block Analysis for the Calculation of Dynamic and Static Length Scales in Glass- Forming Liquids - S Chakrabarty, I Tah, Smarajit Karmakar and C Dasgupta Physical Review Letters 119, 205502 (2017).

  64. Equilibrium and Dynamic Pleating of a Crystalline Bonded Network- S Ganguly, P Nath, J Horbach, P Sollich, Smarajit Karmakar and S Sengupta The Journal of Chemical Physics 146, 124501 (2017).

  65. Pinning Susceptibility: A Novel Method to Study Growth of Amorphous Order in Glass-forming Liquids - R Das, S Chakrabarty and Smarajit Karmakar, Soft Matter 13, 6929–6937 (2017).

  66. An Overview on Short and Long Time Relaxations in Glass-forming Supercooled Liquids - Smarajit Karmakar, Journal of Physics: Conference Series 759, 012008 (2016).

  67. Understanding the Dynamics of Supercooled Liquids with Random Pinning within RFOT Theory - S Chakrabarty, R Das, Smarajit Karmakar and C Dasgupta, The Journal of Chemical Physics 145, 034507 (2016)

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  68. Understanding Stokes–Einstein in Supercooled Liquids using Random Pinning - BP Bhowmik, R Das and Smarajit Karmakar, Journal of Statistical Mechanics 074003 (2016).

  69. Density of States and the Brittle to Ductile Transition in Crystalline and Amorphous Solids - JS Babu, C Mondal, S Sengupta and Smarajit Karmakar, Soft Matter 12, 1210 (2016) .

  70. Short-time β-relaxation in glass-forming liquids is cooperative in nature - Smarajit Karmakar, C Dasgupta and S Sastry, Physical Review Letters 116, 085701 (2016).

  71. The Static lengthscale characterizing the glass transition at lower temperatures - R Gutierrez, Smarajit Karmakar, YG Pollak and I Procaccia, Europhysics Letters 111, 56009 (2016).

  72. Length scales in glass forming liquids and related systems - Smarajit Karmakar, C Dasgupta and S Sastry, Reports on Progress in Physics 79, 016601 (2015).

  73. Vanishing of configurational entropy may not imply an ideal glass transition in randomly pinned liquids - S Chakrabarty, Smarajit Karmakar and C Dasgupta Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences (USA) (2015).

  74. Dynamics of glass forming liquids with randomly pinned particles - S Chakrabarty, Smarajit Karmakar and C Dasgupta, Scientific Reports 5 (2015).

  75. Glass-like slow dynamics in a colloidal solid with multiple ground states - C Mondal, Smarajit Karmakar and S Sengupta, Journal of Physical Chemistry B 119, 10902 (2015).

  76. Distribution of diffusion coefficients and connection to Stokes-Einstein Violation in Super cooled liquids - S Sengupta and Smarajit Karmakar, The Journal of Chemical Physics 140, 224505 (2014).

  77. Growing Length Scales at the Glass Transition - Smarajit Karmakar, C Dasgupta and S Sastry, Annual Review Condensed Matter Physics 5, 255 (2013).

  78. Comparison of Static Length Scales Characterizing the Glass Transition - G Biroli, Smarajit Karmakar and I Procaccia, Physical Review Letters 111, 165701 (2013).

  79. Breakdown of the Stokes-Einstein relation in two, three and four dimensions - S Sengupta, Smarajit Karmakar, C Dasgupta and S Sastry, The Journal of Chemical Physics 138, 12A548 (2013).

  80. Random Pinning Glass Model - Smarajit Karmakar and G Parisi, Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences (USA) 110, 2752 (2013).

  81. Finite Size Scaling for the Glass Transition: The Role of a Static Length Scale - Smarajit Karmakar and I. Procaccia, Physical Review E 86, 061502 (2012).

  82. The nature of the β-peak in the loss modulus of amorphous solids - Y Cohen, Smarajit Karmakar, I Procaccia and K Samwer, EuroPhysics Letters 100, 36003 (2012).

  83. Relaxation Mechanisms in Glassy Dynamics: the Arrhenius and Fragile Regimes - HGE Hentschel, Smarajit Karmakar, I Procaccia and J Zylberg, Physical Review E 85, 061501 (2012).

  84. Adam-Gibbs relation for glass-forming liquids in 2, 3 and 4 dimensions - S Sengupta, Smarajit Karmakar, C Dasgupta and S Sastry, Physical Review Letters 109, 095705 (2012).

  85. Universality of Plastic Instability in Strained Amorphous Solids - R Dasgupta, Smarajit Karmakar and I Procaccia, Physical Review Letters 108, 075701 (2012).

  86. An Athermal Brittle to Ductile Transition in Amorphous Solids - O Dauchot, Smarajit Karmakar, I Procaccia and J Zylberg, Physical Review E 84, 046105 (2011).

  87. Direct Estimate of the Static Length-Scale Accompanying the Glass Transition - Smarajit Karmakar, E Lerner and I Procaccia, Physica A 391, 1001 (2012).

  88. Do Athermal Amorphous Solids Exist? - HGE Hentschel, Smarajit Karmakar, E Lerner and I Procaccia, Physical Review E 83, 061101 (2011).

  89. Effect of the Inter-particle Potential on the Yield Stress of Amorphous Solid - Smarajit Karmakar, E Lerner, I Procaccia and J Zylberg, Physical Review E 83, 046106 (2011).

  90. Statistical Physics of the Yielding Transition in Amorphous Solids - Smarajit Karmakar, E Lerner and I Procaccia, Physical Review E 82, 055103(R) (2010).

  91. Statistical Physics of Elasto-Plastic Steady States in Amorphous Solids: Finite Temperatures and Strain Rates - Smarajit Karmakar, E Lerner, I Procaccia and J Zylberg, Physical Review E 82, 031301 (2010).

  92. Time Scales in the Theory of Elasto-Plasticity of Amorphous Solids - L Boué, P Harrowell, Smarajit Karmakar, E Lerner, I Procaccia, I Regev and J Zylberg, arXiv:0911.4646.

  93. Athermal Nonlinear Elastic Constants of Amorphous Solids - Smarajit Karmakar, E Lerner and I Procaccia, Physical Review E 82, 026115 (2010).

  94. Plasticity-Induced Anisotropy in Amorphous Solids: The Bauschinger Effect - Smarajit Karmakar, E Lerner and I Procaccia, Physical Review E 82, 026114 (2010).

  95. Comment on Scaling Analysis of Dynamic Liquid - Smarajit Karmakar, C Dasgupta and S Sastry, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 019801 (2010).

  96. Analysis of dynamic heterogeneity in a glass former from the spatial correlations of mobility - Smarajit Karmakar, C Dasgupta and S Sastry, Physical Review Letters 105, 015701 (2010).

  97. Predicting plastic flow events in athermal shear-strained amorphous solids - Smarajit Karmakar, A Lemaitre, E Lerner and I Procaccia, Physical Review Letters 104, 215502 (2010).

  98. Size of Plastic Events in Strained Amorphous Solids at Finite Temperatures - HGE Hentschel, Smarajit Karmakar, E Lerner and I Procaccia, Physical Review Letters 104, 025501 (2010).

  99. Growing length and time scales in glass forming liquids - Smarajit Karmakar, C Dasgupta and S Sastry, Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences (USA) 106, 3675 (2009).

  100. Signatures of Dynamical Heterogeneity in the Structure of Glassy Free-energy Minima - P Chaudhuri, Smarajit Karmakar and C Dasgupta, Physical Review Letters 100, 125701 (2008).

  101. Equilibrium Glassy Phase in a Polydisperse Hard-Sphere System - P Chaudhuri, Smarajit Karmakar, C Dasgupta, HR Krishnamurthy and AK Sood, Physical Review Letters 95, 248301 (2005).

    102. Popular Articles


    I wrote two popular invited articles on the Nobel Prize-winning work of Prof. Giorgio Parisi.

  102. Physics of Disordered Systems - Smarajit Karmakar, Resonance 27 (1), 19-38 (2022).

  103. Interplay of Disorder and Fluctuations in Physical Systems - Celebrating the Science of Giorgio Parisi, Physics Nobel laureate 2021 - SK Nandi and Smarajit Karmakar, Physics News 4 (2022)