Room 101, School of Arts and Sciences
Central Campus
Quantum computing is currently one of the most important areas of science and technology. Research in this field is being performed in universities, research institutes and companies in many countries in the world. In India, the National Quantum Mission will soon get underway.
Quantum computing has the potential to create an unprecedented revolution in science and technology as it could have a very strong impact in many areas of science and society. It is based on the power and uniqueness of quantum mechanics. This talk will focus on the basics of this field and the current status of its applications to properties of atoms and molecules using digital quantum computers and quantum annealers.
Professor Bhanu Pratap Das received his PhD in Physics in 1981 from the State University of New York at Albany, USA. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Riverside, and the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Munich. He had held faculty positions at the Colorado State University, the Utah State University, the University of Oxford, and the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, before joining the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, where he spent 22 years as Professor, Senior Professor, and Distinguished Professor. He was a Professor of Physics at the Tokyo Institute of Technology from 2015 to 2021. He is currently the Director of the Center for Quantum Engineering Research and Education, TCG CREST, Kolkata, and Professor Emeritus at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. He has been a visiting professor at many leading universities and institutes in the USA, Europe, and Asia.
Professor Das' primary research interest is new physics beyond the Standard Model of elementary particles using atoms and molecules. He has applied state-of-the-art quantum many-body theories to problems in different areas of physics. He and his collaborators have recently performed the first calculations of the properties of atoms and new properties of molecules on a quantum computer and a quantum annealer. He is an elected Fellow of the American Physical Society for his contributions to fundamental physics.
