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Bikas K. Chakrabarti
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Born (1952-12-14) 14 December 1952 (age 73)
Calcutta, India
EducationCalcutta University
Known for
AwardsShanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics, Economics
WorkplacesSaha 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 Visiting Professor of Economics at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India.

Biography

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Starting early 1900, the Institutions of Kolkata had many distinguished intellectual stalwarts of modern India, including physicists like Jagadish Chandra Bose, C. V. Raman, Satyendra Nath Bose, Meghnad Saha and Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis. During Chakrabarti's University days there were inspiring teachers and scientists like Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri (best known for Raychaudhuri equation) and Chanchal Kumar Majumdar (best known for Majumdar–Ghosh model).

Chakrabarti received his Ph.D. degree from Calcutta University in 1979 (for research in Statistical Physics). 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 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. He was INSA Scientist (physics) at SINP (2021-2025).

Much of Chakrabarti's research has centered around statistical condensed matter physics (including Quantum annealing; see also Timeline of quantum computing) and applications to social sciences (see e.g., Econophysics). On these and related topics, he coauthored four reviews in Reviews of Modern Physics, three books from Cambridge University Press and two books from Oxford University Press (mostly with his Ph. D. students).

He was Ph. D. thesis supervisor of Anirban Chakraborti.

Honors, awards & recognitions

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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) [2nd Ed., with Sei Suzuki & Jun-ichi Inoue (2013)]
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Quantum Spin Glasses, Annealing and Computation, Shu Tanaka, Ryo Tamura & Bikas K. Chakrabarti, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2017)

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. Retrieved 28 September 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
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