The Indian government has launched the country’s first quantum computer simulator toolkit, called QSim, which will enable researchers and students to carry out cost-effective research in quantum computing.
QSim is one of the first initiatives in the country to address the common challenge of advancing the Quantum Computing research frontiers in India. This project is being executed collaboratively by IISc Bangalore, IIT Roorkee, and C-DAC with the support of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India.
The QSim toolkit allows researchers and students to write and debug quantum code that is essential for developing quantum algorithms. Quantum systems are highly sensitive to disturbances from the environment, and even necessary controls and observations can disturb them. The available and upcoming quantum devices can be noisy, and techniques to bring down the environmental error rate are being intensively pursued. QSim allows researchers to explore quantum algorithms under idealized conditions and help prepare experiments to run on actual quantum hardware.
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