Faculty at School of Natural Sciences
Debarshi Das
Assistant Professor
School of Natural Sciences
Contact Information
- Email: [email protected]
Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information Theory, Quantum Communications, Testing Quantum Gravity.
- 2014-2021 : Ph.D. in Physics, Bose Institute, Kolkata (Degree awarded by University of Calcutta); Thesis submitted in 2019 (delay in Ph.D. defense caused due to Covid 19 Pandemic).
- 2012-2014: M.Sc. in Physics, Jadavpur University. Marks obtained: 83.6% (First Class First, Gold Medalist).
- 2009-2012: B.Sc. in Physics (Hons.), Jadavpur University. Marks obtained: 84.4% (First Class First with Distinction, Gold Medalist).
- July 2025-Present: Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, School of Natural Sciences, Shiv Nadar Institute of Eminence (SNIoE), Delhi – NCR, India
- June 2024-July 2025: Research Fellow, University College London, United Kingdom.
- May 2022-May 2024: Royal Society - Newton International Fellow & Honorary Research Fellow, University College London, United Kingdom.
- Jan. 2021-March 2022: SERB (Science and Engineering Research Board) National Post Doctoral Fellow, S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, India.
- Recipient of the prestigious “Newton International Fellowship” of the Royal Society, UK.
- Recipient of the “National Post Doctoral Fellowship”, funded by SERB (Science and Engineering Research Board), Government of India.
- Recipient of the “International Travel Support” (financial assistance), funded by SERB (Science and Engineering Research Board), Government of India for attending an international scientific event in Torino, Italy in May 2019.
- “1st class 1st” in Master of Science in Physics (2012-2014) at Jadavpur University; University Gold Medal for standing first in order of merit; Sushila Bala Memorial Silver Medal for standing first in Physics.
- Secured Rank in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) 2014, conducted jointly by the Indian Institute of Science and Indian Institutes of Technologies on behalf of the Ministry of Human Resources Development, Government of India.
- Secured Rank in Joint CSIR-UGC National Eligibility Test (NET), June, 2013; Recipient of UGC NET fellowship (Junior Research Fellowship 2014-2016; Senior Research Fellowship 2016-2019), funded by the University Grants Commission (UGC), Government of India.
- “1st class 1st” with distinction in Bachelor of Science with Honours in Physics (2009-2012) at Jadavpur University; University Gold Medal for standing first in order of merit; Dwarika Nath Dey Memorial Gold Centred Silver Medal for highest aggregate of marks in Physics; Sibapriya Chatterjee Memorial Bronze Medal for standing first in Physics.
- Recipient of undergraduate and postgraduate scholarship: ‘Scholarship for Higher Education’ (SHE) INSPIRE DST (2009-2014) from Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India.
(1) F. Hanif, D. Das (Joint First Author), J. Halliwell, D. Home, A. Mazumdar, H. Ulbricht, and S. Bose, Testing Whether Gravity Acts as a Quantum Entity When Measured, Physical Review Letters 133, 180201 (2024).
(2) D. Das, D. Home, H. Ulbricht, and S. Bose, Mass-Independent Scheme to Test the Quantumness of a Massive Object, Physical Review Letters 132, 030202 (2024).
(3) D. Das, A. G. Maity, D. Saha, and A. S. Majumdar, Robust certification of arbitrary outcome quantum measurements from temporal correlations, Quantum 6, 716 (2022).
(4) D. Das, A. Ghosal, A. G. Maity, S. Kanjilal, and A. Roy, Ability of unbounded pairs of observers to achieve quantum advantage in random access codes with a single pair of qubits, Physical Review A 104, L060602 (2021) [Letter].
(5) D. Das, S. Sasmal, and S. Roy, Detecting Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen steering through entanglement detection, Physical Review A 99, 052109 (2019).
(6) D. Das, A. Ghosal, S. Sasmal, S. Mal, and A. S. Majumdar, Facets of bipartite nonlocality sharing by multiple observers via sequential measurements, Physical Review A 99, 022305 (2019).
Total Number of Publications: 38.
Full list of publications can be found here: Debarshi Das - Google Scholar
- Nov. 2024: “Testing Quantumness of Large Masses and Gravity" at Baranagar Brahmananda Keshab Chandra College, West Bengal, India.
- July 2024: “Testing whether gravity acts as a quantum entity when measured" at San Vito di Cadore, Italy (Organized by University of Trieste, Italy).
- July 2023 “Mass-independent test of quantumness of a massive object" at University of Lisbon, Portugal.
Our Paper Physical Review Letters 133, 180201 (2024) was featured in the following: The Hindu (India); Nature: Nature 635, 261 (2024); Spektrum der Wissenschaft (German); Shaastra Magazine (published by Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India); Cikavosti (Ukrainian); Antyweb (Polish); Phys.org; Popular Mechanics; The Telegraph (India); Physics World; New Scientist.
Our Paper Physical Review Letters 132, 030202 (2024) was featured in the following: Press Information Bureau, Government of India; Scientific American; Youtube Channel by Sabine Hossenfelder; Deccan Herald (India); Espanol News (Spanish); The Telegraph (India); Science Alert; Phys.org; UCL Media; Physics World.
Reviewed thirty-six (36) manuscripts for “Physical Review Letters” (4); “Physical Review A” (15); “Physical Review Research” (1); “Physical Review Applied” (1); “Reports on Progress in Physics" (1); “New Journal of Physics” (1); “SciPost” (1); “Quantum” (1); “Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical” (1); “Entropy” (2); “Physica Scripta” (1); “Annals of Physics” (1); “Quantum Information Processing” (5); “Mathematics” (1).
Oral and Poster Presentations:
Delivered oral and poster presentations at various conferences and workshops in India, the UK, France, Sweden, Italy, Japan, the Czech Republic, Austria, Poland, and Spain.