CQuERE
Centre for Quantum Engineering, Research and Education
CQuERE is a dedicated Centre to carry out cutting edge research in the emerging field of quantum engineering, and thereby train future researchers for academia as well as industry, keeping in mind the pressing need to foster strong national and international collaborations between the two domains. Our vision is to establish CQuERE as a world class research centre on quantum science and technology by creating a stimulating research environment involving experiment and theory, and bringing together researchers in this field from India and abroad.
Some of our
Spot Lights
May 3, 2023
If you are interested in an internship opportunity at our center, please choose a faculty member whom you want to work with, and contact him/her directly over email. Details about the faculty members of the center can be found on our website under “Team”.
Advertisement for faculty positions at CQuERE, TCG CREST, Kolkata (India)
April 28, 2023
CQuERE seeks to appoint faculty members at all levels – Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and Professor in the areas of quantum computing, quantum information and quantum communication (theory activities).
CQuERE: Lecture Series by Professor Sugisaki on Quantum Chemistry
October 28, 2021
An online lecture series on quantum chemistry on quantum computers, from 28th October to 23rd December to be given by Prof. Kenji Sugisaki from Osaka City University (and visiting Associate Professor at TCG CREST)
MoU between IIT Tirupati and TCG CREST
August 12, 2021
On the 12th of August, we signed an MoU with IIT Tirupati in online mode. The agreement includes a joint doctoral programme in quantum sciences and technologies. A special talk was given by Prof. Wolfgang Ketterle, a 2001 Nobel laureate in Physics.
Our Focus
Research Areas
At CQuERE, we carry out research in topical areas of quantum sciences and technologies, in both experiment and theory.
Quantum sensing and computing using cold atoms
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At CQuERE, we are developing a world class research facility for neutral atom based research activity towards emerging Quantum Technologies. At present we have two distinct research areas. One is cold atom-based quantum gravimeter for mapping the gravitational field locally. Parallelly, we are also working towards optical tweezer-based single atom...
Photonic Integrated Circuits for sensing and computing
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Building Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) research facilities from scratch, supported by highly trained researchers, and involving various lasers and characterization tools.
Quantum Computing using superconducting qubits: Experiment
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Quantum computing is based on three main properties of quantum mechanics: coherence, superposition and entanglement. The basic unit of information in a quantum computer is a quantum bit or qubit, which can be in two possible states. Many different technologies are currently being explored for the basic physical implementation of qubits. While qubits...
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Quantum computation/simulation of quantum many-body systems could enable us to reduce the time complexity of time-consuming calculations, thereby promising applications in topics such as drug design. It could also enable us to explore possibilities of quantum engineering using photons, as well as tackle issues related to climate modelling.
Publications
Our work opens up new frontiers in scientific research and the scientific publications are windows to our work.
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Read MoreWe currently have Post Doctoral Fellows, Research Scientists, and internship students in our vertical, to carry out research on topics of current interest in quantum simulation/computing as well as on the experimental front with trapped ions, including quantum sensing. A joint PhD programme with IIT Tirupati has now commenced from 2022.
Glimpse of our
Campus & Facilities
The Center has an extensive infrastructure for imparting academic classes and a state-of-the-art Quantum Lab for scientific research.
Bhanu Pratap Das
Director, CQuERE
Professor Bhanu Pratap Das carries out research in quantum many-body theory of atoms and molecules, and its applications to fundamental physics and quantum computing.
Read MoreDebashis Mukherjee
Distinguished Chair Professor
Prof. Debashis Mukherjee was previously the Director of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), and also the Chairman of its Raman Centre for Atomic Molecular and Optical Sciences. Professor Mukherjee was awarded the prestigious Humboldt Research Award for his pioneering research in many-body electronic structure.
Read MoreArtur Ekert
Scientific Advisory Board, CQuERE
Artur Ekert, a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of CQuERE, is Professor of Quantum Physics at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, UK, and Lee Kong Chian Centennial Professor at the National University of Singapore.
Read MoreYasunobu Nakamura
Honorary Member, Scientific Advisory Board-CQuERE
Yasunobu Nakamura Scientific Advisory Board, CQuERE Yasunobu Nakamura studied physical properties of high-temperature superconductors for his MSc in The University of Tokyo in 1992. He joined Fundamental Research Laboratories of NEC Corporation in 1992 and worked on mesoscopic electronic devices. In 1999 he demonstrated the first coherent control of a...
Read MoreBhupendra Nath Dev
Professor
Currently an Honorary Fellow of S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, Prof. Dev was a Visiting Professor in the Department of Physics and School of Nano Science and Technology in Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur till December 2020. Earlier he was a Senior Professor at Indian Association...
Read MoreHartmut Haeffner
Honorary Member, Scientific Advisory Board-CQuERE
Hartmutt Haeffner Scientific Advisory Board, CQuERE Hartmut Haeffner is a faculty member at University Berkeley, California, USA. He also is an APS fellow and a co-PI at the NSF Challenge Institute for Quantum Computation. He is well-known for his contributions to ion trap quantum computing, in particular, for his seminal...
Read MoreKenji Ohmori
Honorary Member, Scientific Advisory Board-CQuERE
Kenji Ohmori Kenji Ohmori is a Professor at the Institute for Molecular Science (IMS) of the National Institutes of Natural Sciences in Okazaki, Japan, where he is also the Chairman of the Department of Photo-Molecular Science. After receiving his Ph.D. from The University of Tokyo in 1992, he was a...
Read MoreOur Collaborations
View AllActive collaborations in science and technology have no boundaries. CQuERE actively pursues its objective of bringing together experts from Institutes in and outside India.
News & Events
View AllMoU between IIT Tirupati and TCG CREST
August 12, 2021
On the 12th of August, we signed an MoU with IIT Tirupati in online mode. The agreement includes a joint doctoral programme in quantum sciences and technologies. A special talk was given by Prof. Wolfgang Ketterle, a 2001 Nobel laureate in Physics.
Prof. Kenji Sugisaki from Osaka City University (and visiting Associate Professor at TCG CREST) will be giving an online lecture series on quantum chemistry on quantum computers, from 28th October to 23rd December.
Quantum Simulations and Computations with Cold Atoms-2022
January 26, 2022
QSCCA-2022 is a three-day webinar (26th to 28th of January, 2022) organised jointly by I-Hub Quantum Technology Foundation (IISER Pune), Pune, and CQuERE, and aims to cover some of the important developments that have taken place in the research area of cold atoms quantum computing.
TCG CREST – The Chatterjee Group Centres for Research and Education in Science and Technology – aspires to be a world-leading research institute in the area of science and technology. The objectives of TCG CREST are to conduct fundamental and translational research at the frontiers of both science and technology,...
May 2, 2023
If you are interested in an internship opportunity at our center, please choose a faculty member whom you want to work with, and contact him/her directly over email. Details about the faculty members of the center can be found on our website under "Team".
