How Andhra Pradesh plans to make the quantum leap

EVEN BEFORE Amaravati rises into being, it has showcased a feat worthy of the sobriquet ‘India’s quantum capital’. On April 14, Andhra Pradesh chief minister N. Chandrababu Naidu launched the Amaravati Quantum Reference Facility in the under-construction capital. He unveiled Amaravati 1S and Amaravati 1Q, India’s first indigenously built, open-access quantum computing test beds at SRM University, Amaravati, and Medha Towers in Gannavaram, respectively, both part of the Amaravati Quantum Valley initiative.

“Amaravati 1S and 1Q are not merely computers. They are fully instrumental quantum hardware test beds. They will enable validation, benchmarking, and certification under real operating conditions. They give India a platform not only to study quantum technology but to build it, test it, and trust it,” Naidu said.