India joins
quantum computing race
Keen to tap into the next
big advance in computing technology, the Department of Science and Technology
(DST) is planning to fund a project to develop quantum computers.
A quantum computer, still
largely a theoretical entity, employs the principles of quantum mechanics to
store information in ‘qubits’ instead of the typical ‘bits’ of 1 and 0. Qubits
work faster because of the way such circuits are designed, and their promise is
that they can do intensive number-crunching tasks much more efficiently than
the fastest comparable computers.
The Physics departments at
the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and the Harish Chandra Research
Institute, Allahabad, have only forayed into the theoretical aspects of quantum
computing.
Experts from across the country are expected to gather
this month in Allahabad for a workshop to develop such a computer.
Internationally, Canada’s D-Wave Systems, is a pioneer in developing quantum
computers and has sold machines to Lockheed Martin and Google.
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