Russian quantum center

The center was created on the initiative of two graduates of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology - businessman Sergey Belousov , founder of Acronis , and physicist, professor at Harvard University Mikhail Lukin ^[2] . On December 14, 2010, the RCC became one of the first 15 resident companies of the Skolkovo innovation center ^[3] , and on July 15, 2011, the Russian Quantum Center officially began operation ^[4] . The creators of the center hoped to attract leading world and Russian physicists to participate in the project, including due to high salaries ^[5] . Leading physicists from around the world, including Nobel laureates, have joined the international advisory board.

The RCC is engaged in fundamental and applied research in the following areas ^[6] , ^[7] :

• Quantum optics : controlling the interaction of light with matter, nanophotonics and nanoplasmonics.
• Quantum materials : the study of quantum physics of many bodies, from ultracold atoms to artificial metamaterials, with the goal of creating states of substances with new properties. Applications of quantum materials, in particular for quantum memory or high-temperature superconductors.
• Quantum informatics : development of basic principles and hardware platforms for scalable quantum computers (atoms, ions, superconducting circuits, single spins in solid-state systems), as well as for long-distance quantum communication systems, including quantum repeaters for cryptographic systems of a global scale.
• Quantum technologies : quantum sensors, ultra-high precision atomic clocks, communication systems and optical information processing.

The RCC consists of an advisory board, an executive committee, a board of trustees and research groups ^[8] .

Research Groups:

• Quantum simulators and integrated photonics ^[9] . The leader of the group is Aleksey Akimov ^[10] (a specialist in the field of coherent and nonlinear optics, a senior researcher at the PN Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences ).
• Magnetoplasmonics and ultrafast magnetism ^[11] . The leader of the group is Vladimir Belotelov ^[12] (Associate Professor of Moscow State University named after MV Lomonosov ).
• Advanced Photonics ^[13] . The leader of the group is Zheltikov, Alexei Mikhailovich ^[14] (professor at MV Lomonosov Moscow State University ). Photonics for advanced quantum technologies, photonics tools, methods and interfaces, quantum methods and tools for microscopy of biological objects.
• Quantum Optics ^[15] , ^[16] . The team leader is Alexander Lvovsky ^[17] (professor at the University of Calgary ). Arbitrary quantum states of light and matter on demand, intertwined states on a macroscopic scale, solving the quantum black box problem, quantum tomography.
• Strongly correlated quantum systems ^[18] . The leader of the group is Alexey Rubtsov ^[19] (professor at MV Lomonosov Moscow State University ).
• Superconducting quantum circuits ^[20] , ^[21] , ^[22] . The leader of the group is Alexey Ustinov ^[23] (professor at the Technological University of Karlsruhe ). Superconducting quantum circuits, quantum metamaterials, quantum microwaves, hybrid quantum systems.
• Coherent microoptics and radio photonics ^[24] , ^[25] , ^[22] . The group leader is Gorodetsky, Mikhail Leonidovich ^[26] (professor at MV Lomonosov Moscow State University ). Quantum, nonlinear and optomechanical effects in microresonators, promising radio photonics devices.

In December 2013, three research laboratories were opened ^{[27] [28]} .

The International Advisory Council is responsible for coordinating the scientific activities of the Center ^[29] . It includes ^[30] :

• Lukin, Mikhail Dmitrievich - author of pioneer studies in the field of quantum networks and quantum sensors, professor of physics, winner of the Rabi Prize ^[31] and more than 10 other awards and prizes, professor of physics, Harvard University .
• Demler, Evgeny Aleksandrovich - author of pioneer studies in the field of the theory of many bodies in ultracold gases, winner of the Gutenberg Prize ^[32] , NSF Career Award ^[33] , a number of other awards and prizes, professor of physics, Harvard University .
• Tommaso Kalarko is Professor of Quantum Computer Science, University of Ulm .
• Wolfgang Ketterle - author of pioneering research and the first experimental implementation of the Bose-Einstein condensate , laureate of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics and the Fritz London Prize , winner of the Benjamin Franklin Medal .
• Zoller, Peter - author of pioneering research in the field of theory and practical implementation of quantum computers, holder of the Dirac Medals and the Max Planck Medals , winner of the Wolf Prize .
• Syrac, Juan Ignacio - author of pioneering studies in the field of quantum information theory and quantum computing , laureate of the Prince of Asturias Prize , Wolf Prize , Benjamin Franklin Medals , Carl Zeiss Prize .
• John Doyle - author of pioneering research in the field of cooling of atoms and molecules, winner of the Humboldt Prize ^[34] .
• Arthur Eckert - author of pioneering research in the field of quantum computing and communications, laureate of the Descartes Prize and Maxwell Prize , winner of the Hughes Medal .
• - author of pioneering research in the field of quantum computing with ions, holder of the Stern-Gerlach Medal , Prize of Erwin Schrödinger , Prize of Cardinal Innicer , Carl Zeiss Prize
• Kitaev, Alexey Yurievich - author of pioneer studies in the field of topological quantum computing, laureate of the McArthur Scholarship and Prize in fundamental physics .
• - author of pioneering research in the field of quantum modeling of the physics of many-body systems, winner of the Leibniz Prize , Prize of the International Optical Commission.
• - author of pioneering studies in the field of experimental quantum optics and quantum communication, laureate of the Prize named after Gordon Moore for outstanding scientific achievements ^[35]
• Shalaev, Vladimir Mikhailovich - author of pioneer studies in the field of metamaterials, transformation optics, nanooptics and plasmonics, laureate of the Max Born Prize, Lamb Prize ^[36] , McCoy Prize ^[37]

In December 2010, a grant in the amount of 10-15 million dollars was received from the Skolkovo Fund ^[38] . In December 2012, a grant of 1.33 billion rubles was received from the Skolkovo Fund ^[39] .

In 2015, Gazprombank will invest 230 million rubles in the company ^[40] .

The center cooperates with a number of universities and scientific organizations:

• in 2011, memoranda of cooperation in science, technology and education were signed with Moscow State University. Lomonosov ^[41] , St. Petersburg State University, Russian State Technological University. K. E. Tsiolkovsky ^[42] , Academic University, Novosibirsk State University, P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute (LPI) ^[43] . With the Institute of Semiconductor Physics named after A. V. Rzhanova (IPP) SB RAS plans to jointly implement two projects in the field of information security and the creation of a quantum computer ^[44] , ^[45] .
• in 2012, a memorandum of cooperation was signed with the University of Calgary ^[46] .

The RCC conducts research in joint laboratories with MISiS ^[47] , Moscow State University, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Lebedev Physical Institute and the Center of the Institute of Solid State Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Chernogolovka ^[48] , ^[49] , ^[50] . Moving to your own laboratory facilities will happen in 2013 ^[51] . RCC scientists plan to participate in the educational process of the Skolkovo Technological University ^[52] , ^[53] .

• 2013: scientists from the Russian Quantum Center and the Laboratory of Superconducting Metamaterials MISiS under the guidance of Professor Alexei Ustinov for the first time in Russia measured the qubit ^[54] , ^[55] , ^[56] , ^[57] . By July 2013, 43 articles were published in leading journals ^[58] .
• 2015: Scientists at the Russian Quantum Center, MIPT, MISiS and IFTT RAS created the first superconducting qubit in Russia ^[59] .
• 2017: Scientists at the Russian Quantum Center created the world's first 51-qubit quantum computer ^[60] and the world's first quantum blockchain ^[61] .

Every two years, the Russian quantum center holds an international conference on quantum technologies with the participation of leading scientists from the world. In 2015, the 3rd conference was held. ^[58] .

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