"Idea of Quantum annealing” due to "tunnelling through infinitely high classical barriers separating infinitely many metastable states was indeed put forward even earlier, in Ray, Charabarti & Chakrabarti, Phys. Rev. B (1989)"(4th para, Introduction),[3]Journal of Physics A Topical Review by Erio Tosatti et al. from ICTP, Trieste (2008)
In "Quantum Glasses", "where barriers to relaxation are tall and narrow, quantum mechanics can enhance the ability to traverse the free energy surface (Ray, Charabarti & Chakrabarti, Phys. Rev. B (1989))” (3rd sentence),[4]Physical Review Letters by Gabriel Aeppli (ETH Zurich), Thomas Felix Rosenbaum (Caltech) et al. (2008)
"Quantum annealing [Finnila et al. Chem. Phys. Letts. (1994); Kadowaki & Nishimori, Phys. Rev. E (1998); Farhi et al., arXiv (2002); Brooke et al., Science (1999); Santoro et al., Science (2002)] is a technique inspired by classical simulated annealing [Ray, Chakrabarti & Chakrabarti, Phys. Rev. B (1989)] that aims to take advantage of quantum tunnelling." [1st sentence],[5]Nature Communications by Sergio Boixo, Hartmut Neven (Google California) et al. (2016)
"Quantum annealing aims at finding low-energy configurations ... by a controlled quantum adiabatic evolution ... to escape local minima through multiple tunneling events (Ray, Charabarti & Chakrabarti, Phys. Rev. B (1989); ...; Das & Chakrabarti, Rev. Mod. Phys. (2008))" (1st sentence) ... [It can] lead to extremely powerful alternative computational devices (3rd sentence),[6]PNAS by Riccardo Zecchina et al., ICTP Trieste (2018)
“Earliest work in laying foundation of Quantum annealing was done in 1989 (Ray, Chakrabarti & Chakrabarti, Phys. Rev. B) ... Das & Chakrabarti (Rev. Mod. Phys., 2008) gives clear picture of fundamental physical properties and mechanism” (Introduction),[7]Journal of Physics B by Helmut Ritsch et al. from Inst. Theor. Phys., University of Innsbruck (2022)
“Adiabatic quantum computation (Farhi et al., Science, 2001; Das & Chakrabarti, Rev. Mod. Phys., 2008)” (Abstract) ...“has attracted intense interest (Das & Chakrabarti, Rev. Mod. Phys., 2008; Farhi et al., Science, 2001) owing to its potential speedup over classical algorithms” (Introduction),[8]PNAS by Frank Wilczek et al. from MIT & elsewhere (2023)
"Quantum annealing ... garnered increasing interest because of their quantum attributes that could offer potential solutions to the challenges inherent in combinatorial optimization problems [Ray, Chakrabarti & Chakrabarti, Phys. Rev. B (1989); Finnila et al., Chem. Phys. Lett. (1994); Kadowaki & Nishimori, Phys. Rev. E (1998); Farhi et al., Science (2001); ...] ... D-wave systems [Johnson, et al., Nature (2011); King et al., Nature (2018)] ... utilize superconducting quantum interferometers [Kadowaki & Nishimori, Phys. Rev. E (1998); Brooke et al., Science (1999), Das & Chakrabarti, Rev. Mod. Phys, (2008)] to execute quantum annealing ..." [Introduction, 1st & 2nd para],[9] write Yoshihisa Yamamoto (Stanford University) et al., in their IEEE Access (2024)
"Historic conference in Kolkata (India, 1995)": One of the six major events in the last hundred and twenty years of physics applications "in economics and finance ... [since] appearance of the doctoral dissertation by Louis Bachelier in 1900" (Fig. 2 caption),[12]Entropy (journal) Econophysics spl. issue editorial by Ryszard Kutner, Christophe Schinckus & H. Eugene Stanley (2022)
“Econophysics: An Introduction (Sinha, Chatterjee, Chakraborti & Chakrabarti, Wiley, 2010)” has been the only suggested Textbook for the Econophysics course,[14] offered (Teacher: Diego Garlaschelli) for last one & half a decade by the Leiden University physics dept. (where the inaugural-year [1969] economics Nobel Laureate Jan Tinbergen did undergrad and Ph. D. in statistical physics of economy under Paul Ehrenfest) (course began 2012-2013 & is continued: 2024-2025)
Publications
Books
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)
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).
B. K. Chakrabarti and A. Sinha, Development of Econophysics: A Biased Account and Perspective from Kolkata, Entropy, 23, 254 (2021).
A. Rajak, S. Suzuki, A. Dutta and B. K. Chakrabarti, Quantum Annealing: An Overview, Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. A, 381, 20210417 (2023).
References
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