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Quantum processors for mobile use
The Agentur für Innovation in der Cyberagentur (Cyberagentur) has issued a call for proposals for a research project entitled "Mobile Quantum Computers - Quantum Processors for Mobile Use in Defence and Security Applications". The project, designed as a competition, will take place in four phases.
On 12 December 2022, the Cyberagentur launched the call for proposals for the research project "Mobile Quantum Computer - Quantum Processors for Mobile Use in Defence and Security Applications". In the field of research into quantum computers, the aim is to think about and research the aspects of mobility or rapid deployability at an early stage. Relevant parameters for this are in particular size, weight or energy consumption. At the same time, the increase in performance compared to current quantum processors is to be significantly advanced.
"Mobile systems are of particular interest for use in security and defence scenarios, as they do not depend on a data connection to a stationary data centre with a quantum computer," explains project leader Dr Roman Bansen. "Especially in the event of a crisis or defence, the immediate deployability is important. But small, mobile systems also offer invaluable advantages for numerous other applications at home and abroad." The project's goals are therefore to make a significant contribution to Germany's digital sovereignty in the field of quantum computing.
"The project duration will be divided into four phases," says Roman Bansen, Research Officer Key Technologies. "At the end, there will be a laboratory setup of a fully mobile quantum computer." Tests can be carried out on this, the first experimental applications can be written and tested, and it can be used as the basis for developing powerful mobile systems in the future.
The research project also aims to miniaturise all components of a quantum computer, i.e. not only the pure quantum processor itself, but also the peripheral devices required for operation.
"There are a number of different research approaches for the physical realisation of the qubits of a quantum processor, all of which have advantages and disadvantages," says the Cyberagentur researcher, analysing the current state of development. "Although the approaches have progressed to very different degrees, it is not yet foreseeable which of them will prevail." Several of the approaches have the potential to be used for mobile applications. In this respect, the extent to which the various systems are actually suitable for powerful, mobile quantum computers will also become apparent in the course of the project.
"Quantum computers are expected to revolutionise computing in the foreseeable future," says Dr Roman Bansen, assessing developments in the field. "Quantum computers allow massive parallelisation of certain computing processes, which is impossible for classical computers. The speed advantage for concrete applications will be enormous. For example, for optimisation problems, large-scale simulations, in the context of big data analysis or even cryptography."
Further information on the project: https://www.cyberagentur.de/ausschreibung-der-cyberagentur-zu-mobilen-quantencom...
The call for tender was published in the Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union with award number 2022/S 243-702512: https://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:702512-2022:TEXT:DE:HTML
Contact
Michael Lindner
Press Officer of the Cyberagentur
Phone: +49 151 44150 645
E-mail: presse@cyberagentur.de
Background: Cyberagentur
The Agentur für Innovation in der Cyberagentur GmbH (Cyberagentur) was founded in 2020 as a fully in-house company of the Federal Government under the joint leadership of the Federal Ministry of Defence and the Federal Ministry of the Interior and for Home Affairs by the Federal Government with the aim of taking an application-strategy-related and interdepartmental view of internal and external security in the field of cybersecurity. Against this backdrop, the work of the Cyberagentur is primarily aimed at the institutionalised implementation of highly innovative projects that are associated with a high risk with regard to the achievement of objectives, but at the same time can have a very high disruptive potential if they are successful.
The Cyberagentur is headed by Prof. Dr. Christian Hummert as Research Director and Managing Director and Daniel Mayer as Commercial Director.
Dr. Roman Bansen
The call for tender was published in the Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union with award number 2022/S 243-702512: https://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:702512-2022:TEXT:DE:HTML
https://www.cyberagentur.de/ausschreibung-der-cyberagentur-zu-mobilen-quantencom...
Dr Roman Bansen, Research Officer Key Technologies.
Andreas Stedtler
Cyberagentur
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