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Bikas K. Chakrabarti
Born (1952-12-14) 14 December 1952 (age 71)
Calcutta, India
Alma materCalcutta University
Known for
AwardsShanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics, Economics
InstitutionsSaha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata
Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata

Bikas Kanta Chakrabarti (born 14 December 1952 in Kolkata (erstwhile Calcutta) is an Indian physicist.[1] At present he is INSA Scientist (Physics) at the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics & Visiting Professor (Economics) at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India.

Biography

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Chakrabarti received his Ph.D. degree from Calcutta University in 1979. Following post-doctoral work at the University of Oxford and the University of Cologne, he joined the faculty of Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP) in 1983. He is S. S. Bhatnagar Prize awardee (1997) and former J. C. Bose National Fellow (2011-2020). He is a former director of SINP. At present he is INSA Scientist at SINP (2021-) and also Honorary Visiting Professor of economics (2007-) at the Indian Statistical Institute. Emeritus Professor of SINP and of S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences. Much of Chakrabarti's research has centered around statistical physics & condensed matter physics (including Quantum computing & Quantum annealing; see also D-Wave Systems & Timeline of quantum computing) and their application to social sciences (see e.g., Econophysics). 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 (from Springer & Cambridge University Press).

Honors, Awards & Recognitions

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Awards, Fellowships, etc

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Peer Recognition/Appreciation

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Topic: Quantum annealing

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  • "Idea of Quantum annealing” due to "tunnelling through infinitely high classical barriers separating infinitely many metastable states was indeed put forward even earlier, in Ray, Charabarti & Chakrabarti, Phys. Rev. B (1989)"(4th para, Introduction),[3] Journal of Physics A Topical Review by Erio Tosatti et al. from ICTP, Trieste (2008)
  • "Quantum annealing aims at finding low-energy configurations ... by a controlled quantum adiabatic evolution ... to escape local minima through multiple tunneling events (Ray, Charabarti & Chakrabarti, Phys. Rev. B (1989); ...; Das & Chakrabarti, Rev. Mod. Phys. (2008))" (1st sentence) ... [It can] lead to extremely powerful alternative computational devices (3rd sentence),[5] PNAS by Riccardo Zecchina et al., ICTP Trieste (2018)
  • “Adiabatic quantum computation (Farhi et al., Science, 2001; Das & Chakrabarti, Rev. Mod. Phys., 2008)” (Abstract) ...“has attracted intense interest (Das & Chakrabarti, Rev. Mod. Phys., 2008; Farhi et al., Science, 2001) owing to its potential speedup over classical algorithms” (Introduction),[7] PNAS by Frank Wilczek et al. from MIT & elsewhere (2023)

Topic: Econophysics

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  • "Historic conference in Kolkata (India, 1995)": One of the six landmark events in the last hundred and twenty years of physics applications "in economics and finance ... [since] appearance of the doctoral dissertation by Louis Bachelier in 1900" (Fig. 2 & caption),[10] Entropy (journal) Econophysics spl. issue editorial by Ryszard Kutner, Christophe Schinckus & H. Eugene Stanley (2022).
  • "During the 20th century, several mathematicians and economists have applied kinetic theory to economics: From Josef Steindl (1965) ..., to Benoit Mandelbrot (1960, 1963) ..., to Emmanuel Farjoun & Moshé Machover (1983) ..., to Chakrabarti et al. (2006) of the Calcutta Group, who applied kinetic model to income & wealth distribution.", writes Gianfranco Tusset, Economics, University of Padua in his paper (in sec. 2, para 2),[12] in European Journal of History of Economic Thought (2024)
  • “Econophysics: An Introduction (Sinha, Chatterjee, Chakraborti & Chakrabarti, Wiley, 2010)” has been the only suggested Textbook for the Econophysics course,[13] offered (Teacher: Diego Garlaschelli) for last one & half a decade by the Leiden University physics dept. (where the inaugural-year [1969] economics Nobel Laureate Jan Tinbergen did undergrad and Ph. D. in statistical physics of economy under Paul Ehrenfest) (course began 2012-2013 & is continued: 2024-2025)

Publications

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Books

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  • Quantum Ising Phases and Transitions in Transverse Ising Models, Bikas K. Chakrabarti, Amit Dutta and Parongama 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, Parongama 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, Bikas K. Chakrabarti, Uma Divakaran, Thomas Felix Rosenbaum & 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).

Reviews

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  • 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).
  • B. K. Chakrabarti and A. Sinha, Development of Econophysics: A Biased Account and Perspective from Kolkata, Entropy, 23, 254 (2021).
  • A. Rajak, S. Suzuki, A. Dutta and B. K. Chakrabarti, Quantum Annealing: An Overview, Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. A, 381, 20210417 (2023).

References

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  1. ^ "INSA". Insaindia.org. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
  2. ^ "Young Scientist Awardees". INSA. Archived from the original on 11 October 2013. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
  3. ^ see External Link below on "Idea of Quantum Annealing due to tunneling"
  4. ^ see External Link below on "Fast relaxation in Quantum Glasses"
  5. ^ see External Link below on "Quantum annealing through multiple tunneling events"
  6. ^ see External Link below on “Earliest work in laying foundation of Quantum Annealing”
  7. ^ see External Link below on “Potential speedup in Adiabatic Quantum Computation”
  8. ^ see External Link below on “Influential” & “Elegant” papers from “Kolkata School”
  9. ^ see External Link below on “Father of Econophysics”
  10. ^ see External Link below on "Historic conference in Kolkata (India, 1995)"
  11. ^ see External Link below on "Foundational paper: 25 years of asset exchange modeling"
  12. ^ see External Link below on "History of Kinetic Theory in Economics"
  13. ^ see External Link below on "Leiden Univ. Econophysics Prospectus (2012-2025)"
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