He mentioned the matter will likely be introduced up formally by the Russian authorities as a part of the Brics (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) discussion board.
“We’ve got not signed any official contracts and partnerships up to now. Nevertheless, subsequent yr, we’ll be discussing this on the platform of Brics. We’ve held and mentioned potential concepts for mutual collaboration amongst scientists, and there’s big mutual curiosity amongst our nations,” Yunusov mentioned.
He was talking on the sidelines of a plenary session on the Future Applied sciences Discussion board on 13 July attended by Russian president Vladimir Putin.
“With Russia holding the Brics Presidency subsequent yr, we anticipate to debate particular tasks like this in a number of vital areas with our companions, together with cutting-edge computing expertise, in addition to knowledge processing, storage and transmission applied sciences,” Putin mentioned. He additionally proposed a “nationwide expertise undertaking” for 2030, which incorporates establishing a roadmap for Russian quantum expertise improvement.
Nevertheless, prospects of such partnerships presently stay doubtful, amid heightened geopolitical tensions. A senior official within the union authorities of India mentioned that whereas there have been a number of delegations from Russia which have visited quite a few institutes and government-affiliated departments to India up to now six months, nothing concrete has been signed.
A senior member of a high Indian analysis physique concurred, stating that whereas a number of discussions on potential collaborations came about previous to final yr, no official announcement has been made up to now.
A 3rd official from a high educational institute additionally affirmed approaches by Russia, however said that no agreements of any kind have been reached upon.
All of the officers requested anonymity as talks of collaborative contracts between India and Russia haven’t reached any conclusion as but.
Aleksey Akimov, principal investigator at RQC, mentioned there are a number of collaborative areas that Russia is eager to deal with with India in constructing quantum computing capabilities.
“We’ve got constructed a 32-qubit quantum pc, and we’re presently experimenting methods to implement them in public service areas. With India, we have now been in discussions for technical experience on creating frequent requirements in numerous areas of quantum computing,” Akimov mentioned. He mentioned it’s attainable for nations to collaborate on areas of quantum computing regardless of it involving problems with nationwide safety.
“We will construct our personal options and requirements above a standard secure expertise platform, which is able to nonetheless take years to develop,” he mentioned.
For example, we’re but to create capabilities in providing quantum computing service by way of the cloud to varied organizations—in an effort to commercialize companies. These are amongst areas that we are able to collaborate on with different nations, however they may take time to be constructed,” he mentioned.
“It is very important be aware that these discussions inside the scientific group and analysis institutes should not unusual—India presently has a number of such proposals with nations all over the world, together with the European Union. Whether or not any of this interprets to any official collaborative undertaking will rely on a number of components, which embody geopolitical considerations, worldwide relations and extra,” the second official from India added.
On 9 February, Mint reported that Finland’s IQM Quantum Computer systems and India’s Centre for Improvement of Superior Computing (C-DAC) are set to develop bilateral collaboration on area of interest areas of applied sciences, together with numerous purposes of quantum computing.
Talks with Russia, nevertheless, stay on the back-burner for now.
“It is very important be aware that we (India) have a large quantity of functionality in numerous areas, together with the primary model of our personal practical quantum pc as effectively. Consequently, we have now attracted curiosity from quite a few nations to faucet into our expertise—one thing that can develop additional with the Nationwide Quantum Mission introduced earlier this yr,” he additional said.
Russia, nevertheless, claimed that it’s in search of not simply governmental, however a wider set of collaborative agreements with India.
“We’ll search for each governmental and institutional collaborations. We’re presently talking with universities in India, to grasp how we are able to collaborate. We’ll subsequently communicate on the right way to collaborate and collectively develop applied sciences. A number of teams in India, as we all know, have already got robust capabilities in numerous quantum computing areas, and we’ll have a look at methods to learn the way we are able to establish mutual strengths and develop areas of partnerships accordingly,” RQC’s Yunusov mentioned.
The creator was in Moscow on invitation of The Roscongress Basis to attend Future Applied sciences Discussion board 2023.
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