My wave-function collapsed for the first time on 14 Dec 1992 in Serampore, a sleepy Bengali town that was once part of Danish India. After high school, I decided that since I was not good at much else, I would do physics, eternally disappointing my mother who wanted me to be a doctor - alas the useful kind, not PhD kind. Finishing my undergrad from Jadavpur University in Kolkata in 2013, I shifted to HRI Prayagraj for an integrated M.Sc-Ph.D. program. After reading Weinberg's quantum mechanics book; and breaking too many things in the lab during an optical tweezer project at IGCAR and a magnetostriction project at NISER, I realised which way my interests lie. I joined Arun Pati's group at HRI for PhD and defended my thesis in early 2020. Then Covid-19 struck and I remained jobless for six months before joining Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava as a postdoc. Thereafter I joined Abolfazl Bayat's UESTC group in 2022 in beautiful Chengdu, where I remain till now. 

•  2022-   Postdoc at Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Sciences and Technology of China, Chengdu.

•  2020-2022 :  Postdoc at Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia. 

•  2015-2020 :  Ph.D. student at Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Prayagraj, India thesis pdf

•  2013-2015 :  M.Sc. at Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Prayagraj, India

•  2010-2013 :  B.Sc. (Hons) at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India

•   2024 :  UESTC outstanding postdoctoral researcher award for the year. 

•   2023 :  Interational Postdoctoral Exchange Scholarship, China. 

•   2020 :  Stefan Schwarz support fund by Slovak Academy of Sciences. 

•   2018 :  Infosys prize for research excellence in quantum information. 

•   2016 :  Senior research fellowship from Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India.

•   2013 :  Junior research fellowship from Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India.

•   2010 :  INSPIRE scholarship for higher education from Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. 

• Papers :  21 published, 3 under review, 4 on arXiv

• Citations :  869 citations (h-index 14, i-10 index 19)

• Journals :  Phys Rep (1), Phys Rev Lett (2), Phys Rev A/E/Applied/Research (10), J Phys A/Comm (4) , New J Phys (1),  EPL (1), Pramana (1), IOP SciNotes (1)

• Ordering : Single (1), First (14), Second (11), Third (2) 

Communicated 

• Sarkar, CM, and Bayat, Modular non-Hermitian topology and its application to critical sensing, arXiv 2605.29173

• Gutierrez, CM, Montenegro, and Bayat, Quantum error correction for multiparameter metrology, arXiv 2511.04018

• CM, Bayat, Montenegro, and Paris, Beating joint quantum estimation limits with stepwise multiparameter metrology, arXiv 2506.06075

Published 

• Li, CM, Bayat, and Habibnia, Quantum reservoir computing for realized volatility forecasting, Physical Review Research 8,023028 (2026) 

• Li, CM, Minati, and Bayat, Quantum reservoir computing for predicting and characterizing chaotic maps, Physical Review Research 8, 013304 (2026)

• CM, Paris, and Bayat, Saturable global quantum sensing, Physical Review Applied 24, 014012 (2025).

• Montenegro, CM, Yousefjani, Sarkar, Mishra, Paris, and Bayat, Review: quantum metrology and sensing with many-body systems, Physics Reports 1134 (2025).

• CM, Montenegro, and Bayat, Current trends in global quantum metrology, Journal of Physics A  58, 063001 (2025).

• CM and Bayat, Modular many-body quantum sensors, Physical Review Letters 133, 120601 (2024).

• Li, CM, and Bayat, Fermionic simulations for enhanced scalability of variational quantum simulation, Physical Review Research 5, 043175 (2023).

• Sarkar, CM, Alase, and Bayat, Free-fermionic topological quantum sensors, Physical Review Letters 129, 129503 (2022).

• CM and Pati. Superposition of causal order enables quantum advantage in teleportation under very noisy channels, Journal of Physics Communications 4, 105003 (2020).

• Sarkar, CM and Bayat, Characterization of an operational quantum resource in a critical many-body system, New Journal of Physics 22, 083077 (2020).

• Das, CM, Singha Roy, Bhattacharya, Sen De and Ujjwal Sen, Wave-particle duality employing quantum coherence in superposition with non-orthogonal pointers, Journal of Physics A 53, 115301 (2020).

• CM, Pati and Sazim, Quantum addition imparts less disorder than mixing and commutes with incoherent channels, IOP SciNotes 1, 025212 (2020).

• Pati, CM, Chakraborty and Ghosh, Quantum precision thermometry with weak measurements, Physical Review A 102, 012204 (2020).

• CM, Sharma and Chakrabarty, Robustness of coherence for multipartite quantum states, Pramana 93, 69 (2019).

• CM, Generating steady quantum coherence and magic through an autonomous thermodynamic machine by utilizing a spin bath, Physical Review A 98, 012102 (2018).

• Sharma, CM, Sazim and Pati, Quantum uncertainty relation based on the mean deviation, Physical Review A 98, 032106 (2018).

• CM, Sazim and Pati, Coherence makes quantum systems magical, Journal of Physics A  51, 414006 (2018).

• CM, Misra, Bhattacharya and Pati, Quantum speed limit constraints on a nanoscale autonomous refrigerator, Physical Review E 97, 062116 (2018).

• CM, Bhattacharya, Misra and Pati, Dynamics and thermodynamics of a central spin immersed in a spin bath, Physical Review A 96, 052125 (2017).

• Bhattacharya, Misra, CM and Pati, Exact master equation for a spin interacting with a spin bath: Non-Markovianity and negative entropy production rate, Physical Review A 95, 012122 (2017).

• CM, Shukla and Pati, Stronger error disturbance relations for incompatible quantum measurements. Europhysics Letters 113, 50002 (2016).

arXiv

• Pati, Yang, CM, Fei and Wang, Coherence of purification, arXiv 1907.13067.

• CM, Gupta, and Pati, Superposition of causal order as a metrological resource for quantum thermometry, arXiv 1812.07508.

• CM and Pati, Stronger classes of sum uncertainty and reverse uncertainy relations, arXiv 1806.11347.

• Mondal and CM, Steerability of quantum coherence in accelerated frame. arXiv 1510.07556.