Quantum computers will soon become a reality and Italy is sitting in the front row in this adventure: Massimo Inguscio, professor at the Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome, told ANSA on the sidelines of the Accademia dei Lincei conference organized by Sandro Stringari, of the University of Trento, and dedicated to the physics of ultracold atoms and Bose-Einstein condensates. Among them Wolfang Ketterle, Nobel Prize for Physics 2021, and Giorgio Parisi, Nobel Prize for Physics 2022. The meeting was dedicated to the physicist Lev Pitaevskij, “a truly fundamental figure for modern physics: his work deserves to be remembered in this conference that touches on many hot and highly topical issues”, declared Giorgio Parisi.
Authoritative member of the famous Landau school and co-author of the last volumes of the Theoretical Physics course of Landau -Lifshitz, since 1989 Pitaevskii – thanks to the international mobility favored by Gorbachev’s perestroika – began to collaborate with the University of Trento, where he became a professor in 1998. In these years he involved his team in various national and international collaborations. The work known as the Gross-Pitaevskii Theory is still being researched today in hundreds of laboratories around the world.
Pitaevsky’s research also laid the foundations for the development of quantum computers. “We are very close, all the advanced countries are making them – says Inguscio – and Italy is the protagonist both from a theoretical and an experimental point of view”.
The importance of this milestone is made clear by the many applications that this revolutionary technology can offer: “They will be used for precision agriculture, to study climate change with unprecedented accuracy and in the medical field, because, for example, they can read images relating to the brain in a much more precise way, also giving advice for possible therapies”, explains the lynx. “But also in the field of cybersecurity, or to develop new materials, for example capable of protecting the core of nuclear fusion reactors”.
Quantum computers are devices that use the quantum properties of matter to perform operations. Unlike a classic calculator, the quantum one is based on the so-called qubits (the quantum equivalent of bits), which are capable of storing much more information and performing much more complex operations.
This is why quantum computers are at the center of considerable economic investments, which are bringing them ever closer. “I am very happy – comments Inguscio, one of the organizers of the event at the Accademia dei Lincei – because I am also seeing great attention from the institutions. In fact, the technology will be so strategic that it will necessarily have to be made available to companies and institutions”.
Source: Ansa
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