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 on :  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 :  National Overseas Postdoctoral Incentive Program scholarship by Chinese government for 3 years. 

•   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. 

Communicated 

26. Li, CM, Minati, and Bayat, Quantum reservoir computing for predicting and characterizing chaotic maps, arXiv 2509.12071

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

24. Li, CM, Bayat, and Habibnia, Quantum reservoir computing for realized volatility forecasting, arXiv 2505.13933

Published

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

22. Montenegro, CM, Yousefjani, Sarkar, Mishra, Paris, and Bayat, Review: Quantum Metrology and Sensing with Many-Body Systems, Physics Reports 1134 (2025).

21. CM, Montenegro, and Bayat, Current Trends in Global Quantum Metrology, Journal of Physics A  58, 063001 (2025).

20. CM and Bayat, Modular Many-Body Quantum Sensors, Physical Review Letters 133, 120601 (2024).

19. Li, CM, and Bayat, Fermionic Simulations for Enhanced Scalability of Variational Quantum Simulation, Physical Review Research 5, 043175 (2023).

18. Sarkar, CM, Alase, and Bayat, Free-fermionic Topological Quantum Sensors, Physical Review Letters 129, 129503 (2022).

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

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

15. 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).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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).

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

Other Preprints 

4. Pati, Yang, CM, Fei and Wang, Coherence of Purification, arXiv 1907.13067.

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

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

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