Quantum Computing and its Applications to Atoms and Molecules

Bhanu Pratap Das

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.