The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi has developed a Quantum Technology Center of Excellence (CoE). It will be possible to conduct research in a single area thanks to the Center of Excellence. In order to conduct quantum technology research, the Indian government has allocated Rs 8000 crores..
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- The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi has developed a Quantum Technology Center of Excellence.
- In order to conduct quantum technology research, the Indian government has allocated Rs 8000 crores.
- The focus areas will be “quantum computing, quantum communication, quantum sensing and metrology, and quantum materials and devices.” quantum secure communication in free space and optical, fiber, quantum imaging and sensing by means of quantum correlated photons.
There is now a Quantum Technologies Centre of Excellence at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, bringing together researchers working in different areas of Quantum Technologies under one roof. Using the CoE, the Institute’s operations will have greater synergy and coherence, allowing the Institute’s Principal Investigators to focus on larger DST and other funding agency initiatives.
Many countries, including the United States, China, Japan, the European Union, and the United Kingdom, have made significant investments in this technology. As a result of the lawsuit, the Indian government has allocated Rs 8000 crores to quantum technology development.
IIT Delhi’s Professor Rajendra Singh, Head of the School of Interdisciplinary Research (SIRe) and CoE’s lead principal investigator on quantum technologies, remarked, “Quantum Physics has had an unparalleled impact on society in the last 100 years or so.” Researchers invented the laser and transistor by taking advantage of quantum physics’ properties in light and materials. Computers, the internet, and much more were made possible thanks to such innovations, which have had a significant impact on our society today. The first quantum revolution has just occurred. Now that we can detect and manipulate single quantum objects like photons and atoms, we are on the verge of a second quantum revolution.”
Professor Singh stated that the focus areas for quantum technology research at IIT Delhi will be “quantum computing, quantum communication, quantum sensing and metrology, and quantum materials and devices.”
Apart from the design and development of new quantum materials, he said, “quantum processor and cryogenic controller, modeling and technology are all part of the research agenda.” semiconductor qubits development: CMOS and 2D materials, quantum sensing and metrology, quantum biophotonics, and development of single photon detectors and sources: As well as developing bright single and entangled photon sources based on superconductors, quantum secure communication in free space and optical, fiber, quantum imaging and sensing by means of quantum correlated photons will be carried out utilizing semiconductors (2D materials, III-V).
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