JANUARY 20178THE SECOND QUANTUM REVOLUTION; By Ruslan Yunusov, CEO, Russian Quantum Center Comprising of a hundred scientists of both Russian and international origin, The Russian Quantum Center conducts scientific research in the areas of safe data transmission networks, new materials with superior properties, optical sub-micron transistors, high-frequency optical electronics, and others, that lead to a fundamentally new class of technologies in the near future. The first quantum revolution of the 21st century has completely changed the scientific world view and brought us wonderful technologies such as lasers and superconductors. Today, humanity is on the eve of the second quantum revolution, leading to things that were previ-ously unimaginable.So what is the second quantum revolution? The first one let us manage ensembles of coherent quantum particles. A single laser pulse contains billions of billions of photons; a superconducting current contains billions of photons Coop-er electron pairs. However, in recent decades, we have learned how to manipulate individual quantum objects: individual atoms, ions, and photons. Their behavior obeys laws of quantum physics, and sometimes it is very counter intuitive. For ex-ample, superposition is the ability of single quantum system to be in many different states at once. So such system can simultaneously probe many different evolution pathways. Another hard to comprehend quantum property is entangle-ment. Two or more quantum particles can be set in such way that some link to each other, no matter how far they are separated in space.Modeling of such quantum systems requires intensive computation. But this difficulty can be converted into so-lution; if you can manipulate with quantum object, you can use them to perform such hard computation for any our needs. We also learned how to create artificial quantu mob-jects. These different kinds of quasi particles (phonons, ex-citons, polaritons, and others) determine properties of new generation of quantum materials -- superconductors, meta materials and quantum condensates. Such materials open completely new technology prospects that should be taken into account in mid-range and strategic forecasts.According to scientists, the results of the second quan-tum revolution, which has just begun, can change the world on the same scale as first one. It is clear that new quantum technologies will be applied in different areas; yet today, the most promising are sensors, computing and communications. Sensors: Quantum sensors in-volve quantum properties to achieve extremely high sensitivity and resolution in physical measurements. In the labs of the Russian Quan-tum Center, they have created the prototype of analogue pho-tonic detector capable of count-ing several to millions of photons. It is expected to be com-IN MY OPINION
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