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{{Infobox scientist<br />
|name = Bikas K. Chakrabarti<br />
|image =Bikas Chakrabarti.jpg<br />
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|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1952|12|14|df=y}}<br />
|birth_place = [[Kolkata|Calcutta]], India<br />
|field = [[Physics]], [[Economics]]<br />
|work_institution = [[Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics]], Kolkata<br>[[Indian Statistical Institute]], Kolkata<br>[[S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences]], Kolkata<br />
|alma_mater = [[Calcutta University]] <br />
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* [[Quantum annealing]]<br />
* [[Econophysics]]<br />
* [[Kinetic exchange models of markets]]<br />
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|prizes = [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award]]<br />
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'''Bikas Kanta Chakrabarti''' (born 14 December 1952 in [[Kolkata]] (erstwhile [[Calcutta]]) is an Indian [[physicist]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://insaindia.org/detail.php?id=P03-1330 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304051628/http://insaindia.org/detail.php?id=P03-1330 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2016-03-04 |title=INSA |publisher=Insaindia.org |access-date=2013-09-28 }}</ref> Since January 2018, he is emeritus professor of physics at the [[Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics]], Kolkata, India.<br />
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==Biography==<br />
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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 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.<br />
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==Honors and awards==<br />
* Young Scientist Award of [[Indian National Science Academy]], New Delhi (1984)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.insaindia.org/youngmedal.php|title=Young Scientist Awardees|publisher=INSA|access-date=2013-09-28|archive-url=https://archive.today/20131011230428/http://www.insaindia.org/youngmedal.php|archive-date=11 October 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref><br />
* [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award]] of the [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]], India (1997)<br />
* Fellow, [[Indian Academy of Sciences]], Bangalore (1997)<br />
* Fellow, [[Indian National Science Academy]], New Delhi (2003)<br />
* Honorary Visiting Professor, [[Indian Statistical Institute]], Kolkata (2007- )<br />
* Outstanding Referee Award of the [[American Physical Society]] (2010)<br />
* J. C. Bose National Fellow, [[Department of Science and Technology (India)]] (2011-2020)<br />
* Honorary Emeritus Professor, [[S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences]] (2018- )<br />
* Father of Econophysics, Thesis, Dept. History and Philosophy of Science, [[University of Cambridge]] (2018)<ref>see External Links on "Fathers of Econophysics"</ref><br />
* INSA Senior Scientist, [[Indian National Science Academy]] (2021- )<br />
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==Publications==<br />
===Books===<br />
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* ''Quantum Ising Phases and Transitions in Transverse Ising Models'', Bikas K. Chakrabarti, Amit Dutta and Parangama Sen, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg (1996).<br />
* ''Statistical Physics of Fracture and Breakdown in Disordered Solids'', Bikas K. Chakrabarti and L. Gilles Benguigui, Oxford University Press, Oxford (1997).<br />
* ''Econophysics: An Introduction'', Sitabhra Sinha, Arnab Chatterjee, Anirban Chakraborti and Bikas K. Chakrabarti, Wiley-VCH, Berlin (2011)<br />
* ''Econophysics of Income & Wealth Distributions'', Bikas K. Chakrabarti, Anirban Chakraborti, Satya R. Chakravarty and Arnab Chatterjee, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2013).<br />
* ''Quantum Ising Phases and Transitions in Transverse Ising Models'', Sei Suzuki, Jun-ichi Inoue and Bikas K. Chakrabarti, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg (2013).<br />
* ''Sociophysics: An Introduction'', Parangama Sen and Bikas K. Chakrabarti, Oxford University Press, Oxford (2014).<br />
* ''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).<br />
* ''Statistical Physics of Fracture, Breakdown & Earthquakes'', Soumyajyoti Biswas, Purusattam Ray & Bikas K. Chakrabarti, Wiley-VCH, Berlin (2015).<br />
* ''Quantum Spin Glasses, Annealing and Computation'', Shu Tanaka, Ryo Tamura & Bikas K. Chakrabarti, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2017).<br />
* ''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)<br />
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===Reviews===<br />
* B. K. Chakrabarti and M. Acharyya, ''Dynamic Transitions and Hysteresis'', Rev. Mod. Phys. '''71''', 847 (1999)<br />
* A. Das and B. K. Chakrabarti, ''Quantum Annealing and Analog Quantum Computations'', Rev. Mod. Phys. '''80''', 1061 (2008)<br />
* S. Pradhan, A. Hansen, and B. K. Chakrabarti, ''Failure Processes in Elastic Fiber Bundles'', Rev. Mod. Phys. '''82''', 499 (2010).<br />
* 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).<br />
* 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).<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [https://sites.google.com/site/bikaskchakrabarti/ Google Sites Homepage] <br />
* [https://vidwan.inflibnet.ac.in/profile/304 Profile in Vidwan Database ]<br />
* [https://journals.aps.org/OutstandingReferees/ Outstanding Referees of the American Physical Society]<br />
* [https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/1810/279683/Chris_Thesis_FINAL.pdf?sequence=5&isAllowed=y%22 Fathers of Econophysics: Cambridge University Thesis (see pp. 15-16)]<br />
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