Carnegie Mellon University

Shubhayu Chatterjee

Assistant Professor

Condensed Matter Theory and Quantum Information Sciences
Wean Hall 6424

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Education & Professional Experience

PhD in Physics from Harvard University (2018)
Integrated MSc in Physics from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (2012)

Honors and Awards

PQI Community Collaboration Award (2023)
Harvard GSAS Merit Research Fellowship (2016-17)
President's Gold Medal (2012), IIT Kanpur
Assistant Professor of Physics at CMU (2023 - )
Postdoctoral Fellow in Physics at UC Berkeley (2018 - 2022)

Research Interests

Quantum many-body physics in strongly correlated electronic systems; quantum simulators and quantum sensing.

Recent Publications

From continuum neural quantum states to effective lattice models: Fluctuating Wigner molecules in moiré superlattices
Ahmed Khalifa and Shubhayu Chatterjee
Arxiv:2610.08955

In-plane anomalous Hall effect in a low-dimensional system
I-Hsuan Kao, Ravi Kumar Bandapelli, Zhenhong Cui, Shuchen Zhang, Jian Tang, Tiema Qian, Souvik Sasmal, Aalok Tiwari, Mei-Tung Chen, Raghvendra Posti, Rahul Rao, Jiahan Li, James H. Edgar, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Ni Ni, Su-Yang Xu, Qiong Ma, Shubhayu Chatterjee, Jyoti Katoch & Simranjeet Singh
Nature Materials (2026)

Linear Magnetoresistance in a Strange Metal
Jaewon Kim and Shubhayu Chatterjee
Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 186301

Spin-orbital magnetism in moiré Wigner molecules
Ahmed Khalifa, Rokas Veitas, Francisco Machado, Shubhayu Chatterjee
SciPost Phys. 20, 090 (2026)

Strong-interaction-driven quadrupolar-to-dipolar exciton transitions in a trilayer moiré superlattice
Yuze Meng, Lei Ma, Li Yan, Ahmed Khalifa, Dongxue Chen, Shuai Zhang, Rounak Banerjee, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Seth Ariel Tongay, Benjamin Hunt, Shi-Zeng Lin, Wang Yao, Yong-Tao Cui, Shubhayu Chatterjee & Su-Fei Shi
Nature Photonics volume 19, pages 1219–1224 (2025)

Linear magnetoresistance from glassy orders Jaewon Kim, Ehud Altman and Shubhayu Chatterjee
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121 (45) e2405720121

Electrical Control of Spin and Valley in Spin-Orbit Coupled Graphene Multilayers
Taige Wang, Marc Vila, Michael P. Zaletel, and Shubhayu Chatterjee
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 116504