This Indian scientist has led the way in tapping into the quantum world for new tech

Dr Aditi Sen De, a physicist with the Harish Chandra Research Institute, Prayagraj, has won the 2023 GD Birla Award for Scientific Excellence. “Quantum information and computation is one of the most fascinating fields of research around the world,” De said. “In this respect, I should also mention the National Quantum Mission which was declared by the Government of India to involve more scientists and industrialists to build quantum devices,” De said. Several quantum communication protocols were discovered around the 1990s or later, typically dealing with a single sender and a single receiver,” De said. Another important direction that I am working on is to find suitable quantum systems in which quantum computers can be built.” De won the prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar prize, given to researchers under the age of 45, and the Buti Foundation Award for theoretical physics.