Bikas Kanta Chakrabarti (born 14 December 1952 in

Kolkata Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary business, comme ...

(erstwhile

Calcutta Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , List of renamed places in India#West Bengal, the official name until 2001) is the Capital city, capital of the Indian States and union territories of India, state of West Bengal, on the eastern ba ...

) is an Indian

physicist A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe. Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate cau ...

. Since January 2018, he is emeritus professor of physics at the

Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics The Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP) is an institution of basic research and training in physical and biophysical sciences located in Bidhannagar, Kolkata, India. The institute is named after the famous Indian physicist Meghnad Saha. ...

, Kolkata, India.

Biography

Chakrabarti received his Ph.D. degree from

Calcutta University The University of Calcutta (informally known as Calcutta University; CU) is a Public university, public collegiate university, collegiate State university (India), state university in India, located in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Considered ...

in 1979. Following post-doctoral work at the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

and the

University of Cologne The University of Cologne (german: Universität zu Köln) is a university in Cologne, Germany. It was established in the year 1388 and is one of the most prestigious and research intensive universities in Germany. It was the sixth university to ...

, he joined the faculty of

(SINP) in 1983. He is S. S. Bhatnagar Prize awardee (1997) and J. C. Bose National Fellow (2011-2020). He is a former director of SINP. At present he is INSA Senior Scientist and Emeritus Professor at SINP, and also Honorary Visiting Professor of economics at the

Indian Statistical Institute Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) is a higher education and research institute which is recognized as an Institute of National Importance by the 1959 act of the Indian parliament. It grew out of the Statistical Laboratory set up by Prasanta ...

. He was Honorary Emeritus Professor (2018-2021) at

S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences (SNBNCBS) is an autonomous research institute dedicated to basic research in mathematics sciences under the Department of Science and Technology of Government of India. It is located in West Beng ...

. Much of Chakrabarti's research has centered around statistical physics & condensed matter physics (including Quantum computing &

Quantum annealing Quantum annealing (QA) is an optimization process for finding the global minimum of a given objective function over a given set of candidate solutions (candidate states), by a process using quantum fluctuations. Quantum annealing is used mainl ...

; see also

D-Wave Systems D-Wave Systems Inc. is a Canadian quantum computing company, based in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. D-Wave was the world's first company to sell computers to exploit quantum effects in their operation. D-Wave's early customers include Loc ...

Timeline of quantum computing This is a timeline of quantum computing. 1960s 1968 * Stephen Wiesner invents conjugate coding. (published in ACM SIGACT News 15(1):78–88) 1970s 1970 * James Park articulates the no-cloning theorem. 1973 * Alexander Holevo pu ...

) and their application to social sciences (see e.g.,

Econophysics Econophysics is a heterodox interdisciplinary research field, applying theories and methods originally developed by physicists in order to solve problems in economics, usually those including uncertainty or stochastic processes and nonlinear dynam ...

). He has authored several books and papers in the fields of physics and economics. Chakrabarti is (and was) member of the editorial boards of a number of physics and economics journals and book series.

Honors, Awards & Recognitions

Awards, Fellowships, etc

* Young Scientist Award of

Indian National Science Academy The Indian National Science Academy (INSA) is a national academy in New Delhi for Indian scientists in all branches of science and technology. In August 2019, Dr. Chandrima Shaha was appointed as the president of Indian National Science Acade ...

, New Delhi (1984) *

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology (SSB) is a science award in India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-la ...

of the

Council of Scientific and Industrial Research The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research ( IAST: ''vaigyanik tathā audyogik anusandhāna pariṣada''), abbreviated as CSIR, was established by the Government of India in September 1942 as an autonomous body that has emerged as the ...

, India (1997) * Fellow,

Indian Academy of Sciences The Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore was founded by Indian Physicist and Nobel Laureate C. V. Raman, and was registered as a society on 24 April 1934. Inaugurated on 31 July 1934, it began with 65 founding fellows. The first general meet ...

, Bangalore (1997) * Fellow,

, New Delhi (2003) * Honorary Visiting Professor,

, Kolkata (2007- ) * Outstanding Referee Award of the American Physical Society (2010) * J. C. Bose National Fellow,

Department of Science and Technology (India) The Department of Science and Technology (DST) is a department within the Ministry of Science and Technology in India. It was established in May 1971 to promote new areas of science and technology and to play the role of a nodal department fo ...

(2011-2020) * Honorary Emeritus Professor, S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences (2018-2021) * INSA Senior Scientist,

(2021- )

Peer Recognition/Appreciation

* "Father of

", Thesis, Dept. History and Philosophy of Science,

University of Cambridge The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209 and granted a royal charter by Henry III in 1231, Cambridge is the world's third oldest surviving university and one of its most pr ...

(2018) * "Earliest Work in Laying Foundation of

",see External Link on "Earliest Work in Laying Foundation of Quantum Annealing" Publication from Inst. Theor. Phys.,

University of Innsbruck The University of Innsbruck (german: Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck; la, Universitas Leopoldino Franciscea) is a public research university in Innsbruck, the capital of the Austrian federal state of Tyrol, founded on October 15, 1669. ...

(2022)

Publications

Books

* ''Quantum Ising Phases and Transitions in Transverse Ising Models'', Bikas K. Chakrabarti, Amit Dutta and Parangama Sen, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg (1996). * ''Statistical Physics of Fracture and Breakdown in Disordered Solids'', Bikas K. Chakrabarti and L. Gilles Benguigui, Oxford University Press, Oxford (1997). * ''Econophysics: An Introduction'', Sitabhra Sinha, Arnab Chatterjee, Anirban Chakraborti and Bikas K. Chakrabarti, Wiley-VCH, Berlin (2011) * ''Econophysics of Income & Wealth Distributions'', Bikas K. Chakrabarti, Anirban Chakraborti, Satya R. Chakravarty and Arnab Chatterjee, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2013). * ''Quantum Ising Phases and Transitions in Transverse Ising Models'', Sei Suzuki, Jun-ichi Inoue and Bikas K. Chakrabarti, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg (2013). * ''Sociophysics: An Introduction'', Parangama Sen and Bikas K. Chakrabarti, Oxford University Press, Oxford (2014). * ''Quantum Phase Transitions in Transverse Field Spin Models: From Statistical Physics to Quantum Information'', Amit Dutta,

Gabriel Aeppli Gabriel Aeppli, PhD FRS (born 25 November 1956 in Zurich) is a Swiss-American electrical engineer, co-founder of the London Centre for Nanotechnology and professor of physics at ETH Zürich and EPF Lausanne, and head of the Synchrotron and N ...

, Bikas K. Chakrabarti, Uma Divakaran,

Thomas Felix Rosenbaum Thomas Felix Rosenbaum (born February 20, 1955) is an American physicist and the current President of the California Institute of Technology. Earlier he served as Provost and on the faculty of the University of Chicago, and was the Vice Presiden ...

& Diptiman Sen, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2015). * ''Statistical Physics of Fracture, Breakdown & Earthquakes'', Soumyajyoti Biswas, Purusattam Ray & Bikas K. Chakrabarti, Wiley-VCH, Berlin (2015). * ''Quantum Spin Glasses, Annealing and Computation'', Shu Tanaka, Ryo Tamura & Bikas K. Chakrabarti, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2017). * ''Econophysics of the Kolkata Restaurant Problem and Related Games: Classical and Quantum Strategies for Multi-agent, Multi-choice Repetitive Games'', Bikas K Chakrabarti, Arnab Chatterjee, Asim Ghosh, Sudip Mukherjee & Boaz Tamir, Springer International Publishing, Switzerland (2017)

Reviews

* B. K. Chakrabarti and M. Acharyya, ''Dynamic Transitions and Hysteresis'', Rev. Mod. Phys. 71, 847 (1999) * A. Das and B. K. Chakrabarti, ''Quantum Annealing and Analog Quantum Computations'', Rev. Mod. Phys. 80, 1061 (2008) * S. Pradhan, A. Hansen, and B. K. Chakrabarti, ''Failure Processes in Elastic Fiber Bundles'', Rev. Mod. Phys. 82, 499 (2010). * H. Kawamura, T. Hatano, N. Kato, S. Biswas, and B. K. Chakrabarti, ''Statistical Physics of Fracture, Friction, and Earthquakes'', Rev. Mod. Phys. 84, 839 (2012). * A. Chakraborti, D. Challet, A. Chatterjee, M. Marsili, Y.-C. Zhang, and B. K. Chakrabarti, ''Statistical Mechanics of Competitive Resource Allocation using Agent-Based Models'', Phys. Rep. 552, 1 (2015).

References

External links

Google Sites Homepage

Profile in Vidwan Database

Outstanding Referees of the American Physical Society

Fathers of Econophysics: Cambridge University Thesis (Open Access, see pp. 15-16)

Earliest Work in Laying Foundation of Quantum Annealing (Open Access, see Introduction)
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