About Raman Research Institute (RRI):
- It is an autonomous research institute engaged in research in basic sciences.
- Location: Bangalore
- The institute was founded in 1948 by the Indian physicist and Nobel Laureate Sir C V Raman, with funds from private sources.
- It was restructured in 1972 to become an aided autonomous institute receiving funds from the Department of Science and Technology of the Government of India.
- The institute is administered by a Governing Council.
- Today, the main areas of research at the Institute are Astronomy & Astrophysics, Light & Matter Physics, Soft Condensed Matter, and Theoretical Physics.
What is Quantum Technology?
- It is based on the principles of Quantum mechanics (including quantum entanglement and quantum superposition) developed in the early 20th century to describe nature at the scale of atoms and elementary particles.
- Quantum entanglement is known to be the exchange of quantum information between two particles at a distance, while quantum superposition is known to be the uncertainty of a particle (or particles) being in several states at once (which could also involve the exchange of quantum information for a particle that is known to be in several locations simultaneously).
