Quantum computing is one fast emerging technology with the potential to change the way humans live on this planet. Delving into high-end technologies like AI, deep learning, IoT, DevOps, NLP and cloud computing may be the need of the hour, but it is quantum computing that has the kind of sophistication and potential to rule the current technologies and the way they are going to work. Quantum computing is going to be the platform on which majority of the technologies may be working in near future. Considering the urgency, technology superpowers like Google, Microsoft, IBM and others are in the pursuit of exploring things on this line, and even Government agencies are also encouraging committing support to the startups for relevant research.
The Indian government has already set up the ground for collaborations and developments. The QSim by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology is one such opportunity. The Indian government announced Rs 8,000 crore for quantum computing in Union Budget 2020. The telecom industry has opened a myriad of opportunities for quantum computing through the quantum lab of the Military College of Telecommunication Engineering in MP. Medicine sector is also in research for the quantum algorithm to support it to give more intricate details like size, pattern, shape, and alignment to the researchers to come up with new drugs to deal with a situation created by Covid pandemic and others.
Quantum mechanics like any physical theory is based on experiments. While a large section of the scientific community is invested in building devices towards quantum computing applications, a separate community is invested in precision tests of fundamental aspects of quantum theory itself. A group of scientists from the Raman Research Institute (RRI), an autonomous institute of the Department of Science and Technology, in a collaborative research have used quantum computers to perform some precision tests of the fundamental aspects of the quantum theory. These are known as Sorkin and Peres tests, the two vital tests to calculate the chances of happening of an event and determination of potential to behave as waves, respectively. As quantum computers are scalable quantum systems, these fundamental experiments could provide a universal programmable setup for developing a quantum circuit, which could be a Rosetta stone that allows translation of experiments from one physical system to another.
Summing up these experiments, RRI’s Professor Urbasi Sinha says that, “Our method provides a nice way to create well defined benchmarks for quantum computers so that we know exactly how error prone they are, by using the very foundations of quantum theory as the benchmarking tool.” India at the helm of such fundamental work of cutting edge Quantum Computing bodes well for New India.
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