{"id":35048,"date":"2018-10-31T14:56:10","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T09:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=35048"},"modified":"2018-10-31T14:56:10","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T09:26:10","slug":"india-joins-quantum-computing-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-joins-quantum-computing-race\/","title":{"rendered":"India joins quantum computing race:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/india-joins-quantum-computing-race\/article19724585.ece\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India joins quantum computing race<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Context<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Department of Science and Technology (DST) is planning to fund a project to develop quantum computers.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What are quantum computers?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A quantum computer employs the principles of quantum mechanics to store information in \u2018qubits\u2019 instead of the typical \u2018bits\u2019 of 1 and 0.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Qubits work faster because of the way such circuits are designed, and their assurance is that they can do intensive number-crunching tasks much more efficiently than the fastest comparable computers.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Experts from across the country are estimated to gather this month in Allahabad for a workshop to develop such a computer, and to discuss the costs and the time it would take to build one.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The project was part of a forthcoming mission in the DST to fund research areas that would create the next generation of technology jobs in India.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India joins quantum computing race: Context The Department of Science and Technology (DST) is planning to fund a project to develop quantum computers. What are quantum computers? A quantum computer employs the principles of quantum mechanics to store information in \u2018qubits\u2019 instead of the typical \u2018bits\u2019 of 1 and 0. Qubits work faster because of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-joins-quantum-computing-race\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India joins quantum computing race:<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704811056},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}