WitsQ: the Wits quantum initiative, is a strategic initiative of the University of Witwatersraand to be a driver of quantum technologies, making Wits the leading quantum institute in Africa. The vision is to strategically promote and advance Quantum Technology at Wits, with a focus on the research, innovation, business, education and outreach, and ethics of quantum technologies, creating a collaborative forum that includes the sciences, engineering, social sciences, humanities, health, and business. The Initiative is growing a vibrant and productive quantum community at Wits, engaging with relevant national and international entities across sectors, and providing a forum for experts and non-experts to interact.
Quantum mechanics is a theory that has been in existence for over a century, and it has already revolutionised our world, giving birth to disruptive technologies such as the laser and the transistor, both at the very heart of our digital world. And now quantum mechanics is experiencing a further resurgence, spurring new technologies based on quantum entanglement. This has given rise to what has been called a “second quantum revolution”, promising new disruptive technologies. By harnessing the quantum world, we open an exciting future that is developing before our eyes: seeing smaller, better and with less light for enhanced medical imaging (quantum ghost imaging), networks that are fundamentally secure and unbreakable taking cybersecurity beyond its man-made limitations (quantum secure communication) and exponentially faster computers (quantum computing) to solve assumed “unsolvable” problems, from finance to drug design. Quantum technologies are closely integrated with artificial intelligence and machine learning, and considered a core security component of devices that will fuel the fourth industrial revolution.
WitsQ sees the university as the main driver of South Africa’s Quantum Technology Initiative (SA QuTI), launched in March 2021 to move South Africa into the quantum future.
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