Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko held a meeting on the development of the high-tech industry "Quantum Computing".The main report at the meeting was delivered by Academician, Chairman of the Scientific Council of the Russian Academy of Sciences "Quantum Technologies", Director General of JSC "NIIME" Gennady Krasnikov.
The event, which was held at the Government Coordination Center, was also attended by representatives of the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Education and Science, Rosatom State Corporation and research institutes dealing with quantum computing.
"The government pays great attention to the development of the high-tech quantum computing industry. This is one of the most promising areas of the coming years and an integral part of our joint work with the Russian Academy of Sciences, universities and state corporations to achieve technological sovereignty – this is the task set for us by the President. One of the key results of the implementation of the roadmap for the development of the high-tech industry “Quantum Computing” is the creation of a prototype of a 4-qubit ion quantum processor, which has already demonstrated operations using a unique domestic technology – kudits – multi-level data carriers. This is a unique technology that three countries in the world possess, including Russia. This year we expect that a 16-qubit processor will also be achieved. We are systematically moving towards the goal set by the roadmap – the achievement of 100 qubits by 2025. A unique team has been formed in terms of competence – more than 300 scientists, 18 research groups that are working on the development of quantum technologies in our country. What is very important, the world-renowned quantum computing researchers, who have the highest citation index, are also involved in the work on the project. And I am glad that all this is marked by a Decade of science and Technology," Dmitry Chernyshenko said.
"The government, the Russian Academy of Sciences and universities should work as a single mechanism for import substitution and achieving technological sovereignty, which the President of the country has repeatedly spoken about. Quantum technologies are designed to provide Russia with technological independence and leadership. Having achieved superiority in this direction, we will be able to bring many areas of the economy to a qualitatively new level. This applies to medicine, security, logistics and many other industries. We will be able to carry out full–fledged modeling of arbitrary quantum systems, we will have new opportunities for creating materials, modeling a wide range of biological, social and economic processes," Gennady Krasnikov emphasized in his report.
It is planned to allocate at least 100 billion rubles from the federal budget for the implementation of all agreements and roadmaps until 2025. At the same time, organizations that have concluded agreements co-finance developments in no less volume than the state.
"Together, we will have to reduce the development time in many areas of applied research by an order of magnitude due to those technologies that are being created, primarily in medicine, the creation of new materials, weather forecasting," Dmitry Chernyshenko said.
He also added that despite Russia's high position in the development of quantum computing, much remains to be done to ensure world leadership in this area.
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| Dmitry Chernyshenko held a meeting on the development of the high-tech industry "Quantum Computing". |
| Source: Russian Government |
The development of quantum computing in Russia is carried out within the framework of the agreement of intent between the Government and Rosatom State Corporation. Together with the state Corporation, 14 leading Russian research centers are working on the project: RCC, MSU, FIAN, Skoltech, MISIS, MIPT, HSE, Lobachevsky National Research University, Institute of Microstructure Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ioffe Institute of Physics of Semiconductors named after Rzhanov, Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Chemistry of High-Purity Substances named after the Ninth RAS, MPGU. According to the results of last year, the roadmap implementation plan was exceeded by 7%.
On behalf of President Vladimir Putin, the Government should update key indicators and roadmaps for the implementation of agreements concluded with state corporations and state-owned companies by November 1, taking into account the need to achieve technological leadership in the medium term, including quantum computing. In this work, it is important to ensure that interested organizations can join the agreements in an open format.
Following the meeting, Dmitry Chernyshenko instructed to work out the issue of involving the Bauman Moscow State Technical University in the implementation of the "roadmap" for quantum computing. By the beginning of October, the university must submit project proposals to the Ministry of Finance and Rosatom State Corporation, after interdepartmental coordination and upon receipt of positive conclusions, the updated roadmap will be submitted to the presidium of the Legal Commission for digital development.
MOSCOW, press service of the Russian Government
