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| Đinh Văn Trung, director of the Institute of Physics underneath the Việt Nam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST). Photo courtesy of VAST |
As Việt Nam develops and finalises its nationwide strategy for quantum technology in the coming years, Đinh Văn Trung, director of the Institute of Physics underneath the Việt Nam Academy of Science and Technology, spoke with the Communist Party of Việt Nam’s on-line portal about the significance of selecting the right strategy and steadily building long-term nationwide capacity to grasp quantum applied sciences.
The improvement of quantum technology requires superior analysis infrastructure and extremely certified human sources. Is this at the moment Việt Nam’s greatest bottleneck?
In my view, analysis infrastructure and human sources are certainly main challenges however they don’t seem to be but Việt Nam’s core bottleneck.
The extra necessary difficulty is the want for a unified strategic imaginative and prescient and a long-term mechanism for building nationwide capabilities. Quantum technology is a sophisticated and extremely advanced discipline that concurrently entails physics, arithmetic, data technology, superior supplies science, photonics, synthetic intelligence (AI), precision measurement and many different strategic applied sciences.
If improvement is pursued in a fragmented, short-term or trend-driven method, it is going to be very tough to create complete nationwide capabilities.
We are very inspired that Party General Secretary and State President Tô Lâm has pressured that quantum technology have to be seen as a matter of nationwide strategy relatively than merely a scientific analysis difficulty.
In my opinion, that is a particularly necessary orientation as a result of as soon as quantum technology is recognized as a nationwide strategic precedence, Việt Nam may have higher situations to mobilise sources to develop shared analysis infrastructure, long-term human useful resource coaching and stronger connections amongst analysis institutes, universities, defence enterprises and safety companies.
Although Việt Nam entered the discipline later than many international locations, we’ve the benefit of studying from worldwide expertise to decide on extra appropriate, targeted analysis and technological pathways whereas avoiding scattered funding. With the right strategy, efficient coordination mechanisms and sustained long-term assist, I consider Việt Nam can step by step construct its personal quantum technological capabilities.
In your opinion, which areas maintain the best potential for Việt Nam to maneuver past fundamental analysis and take part extra deeply in quantum technology improvement?
I consider Việt Nam ought to select instructions that align with the nation’s situations and can generate sensible worth for nationwide wants relatively than making an attempt to take part comprehensively throughout each space of quantum technology.
At this stage, Việt Nam has robust potential to have interaction extra deeply in a number of necessary areas, together with data safety, post-quantum applied sciences, scientific simulation, the integration of quantum applied sciences with AI and high-performance computing, in addition to quantum sensing, precision measurement and photonics.
In explicit, quantum sensing holds main significance for Việt Nam as a result of it may be immediately utilized to important nationwide sectors reminiscent of the marine financial system, pure useful resource monitoring, environmental remark and nationwide defence and safety.
In addition, photonics and precision measurement techniques are additionally promising areas the place Việt Nam can step by step deepen its participation, given their shut reference to high-tech industries and future digital infrastructure.
What key analysis instructions is the Institute of Physics pursuing to step by step grasp strategic quantum applied sciences?
In line with its capabilities and duties in addition to the broader orientation of the Việt Nam Academy of Science and Technology, the Institute of Physics is at the moment specializing in a number of areas of elementary analysis immediately linked to quantum applied sciences and associated strategic applied sciences.
Its precedence areas embrace quantum physics, quantum optics and photonics, lasers, quantum supplies, quantum sensing, precision measurement and the simulation of quantum techniques. Alongside elementary analysis, the institute can be paying particular consideration to analysis and technological improvement with robust utility potential, reminiscent of high-sensitivity sensors for atmospheric environmental monitoring and superior measurement gear.
One significantly necessary course right now is strengthening interdisciplinary connections between physics and fields reminiscent of arithmetic, AI, house technology and supplies science. The institute can be selling and leveraging worldwide cooperation by the UNESCO-recognised and sponsored International Centre for Physics to boost analysis capabilities.
The institute can be working in the direction of building interdisciplinary and inter-institutional analysis platforms with shared infrastructure, thereby step by step accumulating long-term nationwide capacity for Việt Nam.
In your view, what foundations does Việt Nam want to arrange to take part in and keep away from lacking the world wave of quantum technology?
In my opinion, the most necessary factor right now’s for Việt Nam to concurrently put together scientific, technological and human useful resource foundations whereas additionally growing a nationwide strategy accompanied by efficient coordination mechanisms.
First and foremost, long-term funding in elementary science is crucial, particularly in fields reminiscent of physics, arithmetic, photonics, supplies science, data technology and synthetic intelligence. Quantum technology has a particularly lengthy improvement cycle, so and not using a sufficiently robust basis in fundamental science, it is going to be very tough to develop real technological capabilities.
At the identical time, Việt Nam must construct superior shared analysis infrastructure, together with high-performance computing techniques, scientific simulation platforms, scientific knowledge techniques and precision measurement amenities.
In addition, efficient mechanisms are wanted to attach analysis institutes, universities, defence and safety enterprises and nationwide strategic technology programmes. In my view, this isn’t merely a matter for the physics sector or any single technological discipline. It is a long-term technique of building nationwide scientific and technological capacity.
If Việt Nam can determine the right strategic instructions, concentrate on areas of excessive strategic worth and steadily construct nationwide capabilities over a few years, the nation may have each alternative to participate extra deeply in the rising world quantum technology wave. — VNS