Bikas Chakrabarti
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Bikas K. Chakrabarti | |
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| Born | 14 December 1952 Calcutta, India |
| Alma mater | Calcutta University |
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| Awards | Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award |
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| Fields | Physics, Economics |
| Institutions | Saha 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] Since January 2018, he is emeritus professor of physics at the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India.
Biography[]
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 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, Honorary Emeritus Professor at S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, and Honorary Visiting Professor of economics at the Indian Statistical Institute. 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 also member of the editorial boards of a number of physics and economics journals.
Honors and awards[]
- Young Scientist Award of Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi (1984)[2]
- Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India (1997)
- Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore (1997)
- Fellow, Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi (2003)
- Honorary Visiting Professor, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata (2007- )
- Outstanding Referee Award of the American Physical Society (2010)
- J. C. Bose National Fellow, Department of Science and Technology (India) (2011-2020)
- Honorary Emeritus Professor, S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences (2018- )
- Father of Econophysics, Thesis, Dept. History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge (2018)[3]
- INSA Senior Scientist, Indian National Science Academy (2021- )
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, 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).
- 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[]
- ^ "INSA". Insaindia.org. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
- ^ "Young Scientist Awardees". INSA. Archived from the original on 11 October 2013. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
- ^ see External Links on "Fathers of Econophysics"
External links[]
- Google Sites Homepage
- Profile in Vidwan Database
- Outstanding Referees of the American Physical Society
- Fathers of Econophysics: Cambridge University Thesis (see pp. 15-16)
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- Living people
- 1952 births
- Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Physical Science
- University of Calcutta alumni
- Scientists from Kolkata
- Indian condensed matter physicists
- Quantum information scientists