Davood Ranjbar, director of the Optical Communications Group at the Center for Communications and Information Technology, said quantum technology is growing rapidly and expanding around the world, and now quantum technology is one of the key pillars of the development of science, industry, security and information technology.
Countries, including the US, China, Russia and Germany, have made extensive and large investments in the sector, he said.
“There is currently a national project to design and implement the country’s first quantum network, launched with support from the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (ICT) and supporting the cooperation of research institutes such as the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization (AEOI) and knowledge-based companies,” he maintained.
Communications and Information Technology’s Research Center has launched research activities and fundamental research in this field since 2015 by identifying three key areas: quantum communication, quantum cryptography and quantum computing, Ranjbar added.
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