Love Grover

Love Grover

PhD researcher, Physics · IISER Mohali

PhD thesis submitted, under external review; viva voce forthcoming. Seeking a postdoctoral position.

I study nonequilibrium organization and fluctuations in active interfaces and polymers, with statistical mechanics and large-scale particle simulation.

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Membrane height against position on a fluctuating membrane. Orange type-1 particles stack into one tall cluster at a step in the membrane, marked with an arrow and speed v_c; green type-2 particles lie spread along the membrane.
A travelling giant cluster. Two species of active particles on a fluctuating membrane (black, height against position). Type-1 particles (orange) gather into one giant cluster that moves along the membrane with speed vc; type-2 particles (green) stay spread out. From my poster Spatial organisation of multiple species of active particles interacting with an interface (STATPHYS-Kolkata XIII, 2026).

Research

My work is in theoretical and computational soft matter, with a focus on active matter: systems whose constituents convert energy into motion. I combine statistical mechanics with large-scale particle simulation.

Active particles on a fluctuating interface. The particles deform the interface locally while its evolving shape steers their motion. When several species share one interface, some pushing it into valleys and others pulling it into hills, this two-way feedback produces activity-driven spatial organization (Phys. Rev. E 2025).

Active baths and semiflexible polymers. I implemented a discrete-time Ornstein–Uhlenbeck active-noise module for LAMMPS and showed that an active bath is not a uniform heat source: it couples selectively to the modes whose relaxation times match the bath correlation time, which makes the chain a mode-resolved probe of its environment (arXiv 2026).

Earlier work includes Monte Carlo studies of dynamic roughening in the KPZ and Edwards–Wilkinson classes, and a minimal statistical model of membranes with several protein species.

Publications

  1. Spectral Signatures of Active Fluctuations in Semiflexible PolymersPreprint
    L. Grover, A. K. Dasanna, A. Chaudhuri. arXiv:2604.10168 (2026).
    arXiv
  2. Spatial organization of multiple species of active particles interacting with an interface
    L. Grover, R. Kapri, A. Chaudhuri. Physical Review E 111, 045412 (2025).
    Journal (DOI)

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Love Grover

PhD researcher, Physics · IISER Mohali, active matter · statistical & computational physics

About

My work is in theoretical and computational soft matter, with a focus on active matter: systems whose constituents convert energy into motion. I combine statistical mechanics with large-scale particle simulation.

Active particles on a fluctuating interface. The particles deform the interface locally while its evolving shape steers their motion. When several species share one interface, some pushing it into valleys and others pulling it into hills, this two-way feedback produces activity-driven spatial organization (Phys. Rev. E 2025).

Active baths and semiflexible polymers. I implemented a discrete-time Ornstein–Uhlenbeck active-noise module for LAMMPS and showed that an active bath is not a uniform heat source: it couples selectively to the modes whose relaxation times match the bath correlation time, which makes the chain a mode-resolved probe of its environment (arXiv 2026).

Earlier work includes Monte Carlo studies of dynamic roughening in the KPZ and Edwards–Wilkinson classes, and a minimal statistical model of membranes with several protein species.

Research

  1. Spectral Signatures of Active Fluctuations in Semiflexible Polymers. L. Grover, A. K. Dasanna, A. Chaudhuri. arXiv:2604.10168 (2026).
  2. Spatial organization of multiple species of active particles interacting with an interface. L. Grover, R. Kapri, A. Chaudhuri. Physical Review E 111, 045412 (2025).

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Education

  • PhD, Physics, IISER Mohali expected 2026 Dec, Thesis: Nonequilibrium Organization and Fluctuations in Active Interfaces and Polymers. Advisor: Prof. Abhishek Chaudhuri. Status: thesis submitted, under external review; viva voce forthcoming.
  • BS-MS, Physics, IISER Mohali 2011–2016

Research interests

  • Active matter and self-propelled particles
  • Statistical mechanics of soft & biological matter
  • Semiflexible polymers and active fluctuations
  • Fluctuating interfaces (KPZ, Edwards–Wilkinson) and active forces

Research experience

  • Active baths and time-correlated noise, implemented a discrete-time Ornstein–Uhlenbeck active-noise module for LAMMPS; showed that an active bath couples selectively to the polymer modes whose relaxation times match the bath correlation time
  • Active particles on fluctuating interfaces, a two-way feedback in which particles deform the interface while its shape steers their motion, producing activity-driven spatial organization (Phys. Rev. E 2025)
  • Non-equilibrium interface growth, Monte Carlo studies of dynamic roughening in the KPZ and Edwards–Wilkinson classes
  • Biological membranes, a minimal statistical model of membranes with several protein species, studied by Monte Carlo

Publications

  • Spectral Signatures of Active Fluctuations in Semiflexible Polymers arXiv:2604.10168 (2026), L. Grover, A. K. Dasanna, A. Chaudhuri
  • Spatial organization of multiple species of active particles interacting with an interface Physical Review E 111, 045412 (2025), L. Grover, R. Kapri, A. Chaudhuri

Methods

  • Theory, statistical mechanics, stochastic processes (Itô calculus, Ornstein–Uhlenbeck and telegraphic noise), Langevin and Brownian dynamics
  • Simulation, LAMMPS (custom modules), Monte Carlo, molecular dynamics, HPC
  • Computing, Python, Fortran 90, Linux, Git

Teaching

  • Teaching assistant, IISER Mohali 2017–2020, Optics, Condensed Matter, Advanced Optics/Spectroscopy and Modern Physics laboratories
  • Undergraduate mentor, IISER Mohali 2019, summer students on Vicsek-model simulations of collective motion

Conferences & schools

  • Poster, 12th International Conference on Biological Physics (ICBP 2026) 2026, Genova, Italy
  • Poster, STATPHYS-Kolkata XIII 2026, IISER Kolkata
  • Bangalore School on Statistical Physics XVI 2025, ICTS Bengaluru

Fellowships

  • Institute Doctoral Fellowship, IISER Mohali 2017–2022
  • IISER BS-MS Fellowship 2011–2016

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