Quantum Information

and Quantum Physics

Group leader

Dr. Manabendra Nath Bera

Office - AB1-3F2, Department of Physical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Mohali, Punjab - 140306, India

Email - mnbera [at] iisermohali.ac.in, Phone - 0172 2293146 (Office)

Website - https://web.iisermohali.ac.in/dept/physics/Manabendra_Nath_Bera.html

Education

  • Ph.D. (2011) - Laboratoire Aime Cotton, CNRS, and Universite Paris-Sud 11, Campus d'Orsay, Orsay, France

  • M.Sc. (2007) - Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India

  • B.Sc. (2005) - University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India

Employment

  • Assistant Professor (2019 - present) - Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Mohali, Punjab, India

  • Post-Doctoral Research Scientist (2017 - 2019) - Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Germany

  • Post-Doctoral Research Scientist (2015 - 2019) - ICFO, The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain

  • Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (2012 - 2015) - Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad

Post-doctoral researchers

Dr. Subhrajit Modak

modoksuvrojit [at] gmail.com

Ph.D. (2018) - Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata, India

Research interests

Non-classicality, weak-measurements, metrology, and quantum batteries.

PhD students

Rajeev Gangwar

rajeevgangwar [at] iisermohali.ac.in

M.Sc. (2018) - HNB Garhwal University, Srinagar, Uttarakhand

Research interests

Superposition of quantum evolutions, a-causality, and quantum communications

MS thesis students

Sourav Das

ms16015 [at] iisermohali.ac.in

BS-MS - IISER Mohali

Research interests

Non-classicality, weak-measurements, and quantum metrology

Samyak Pratyush Prasad

ms16044 [at] iisermohali.ac.in

BS-MS - IISER Mohali

Research interests

Quantum switch and quantum thermodynamics

Upayan Roy

ms16041 [at] iisermohali.ac.in

BS-MS - IISER Mohali

Research interests

Entanglement of quantum fields and superposition of temporal order

Anubhav Kumar Srivastava

ms16025 [at] iisermohali.ac.in

BS-MS - IISER Mohali

Research interests

Quantum resetting, quantum random walk, and tensor networks

Undergraduate students

Kaustav Chatterjee

Ved Kunte

Arpan Akash Ray

Aabhas Gulati

Dhruva Sambrani

Ritik Sareen

Previous group members

Pushpinder Singh (MS thesis, 2019 - 2020)

Mannathu Gopikrishnan (MS thesis, 2019 - 2020)

Tanmoy Pandit (Summer project, 2019)

Somnath Mandal (Summer project, 2019)

Suman Chatterjee (Summer project, 2019)

Kumar Tanay (from IISER Bhopal, summer project, 2019)