pune scientists at the indian institute of science education and research iiser pune are working on the bits in the processor of a quantum computerin classical computer processors one has 32 or 64 bits to carry out computations and processing of informationiiser scientists are trying to increase a similar number of mechanical bits in a quantum computer they have received an allocation of rs 25 crore the project is part of the national mission on quantum technologies and applications qta which received rs 300 crore from the department of science and technology for 51 projects across indiathe interdisciplinary cyber physical systems division of the department recently released the financial sanction under quantum enabled science and technology quest programme umakant rapol and t s mahesh said both are leading two experimental projects of the 51 in this programme coprincipal investigators include ms santhanam rejish nath and gv pavan kumarlike in classical computer processors one has 32 or 64 bits to carry out computations and processing of information that finally will be used to convert store display process and transfer data among different devices to get to a similar number of quantum mechanical bits in a quantum computer is a big technical and scientific challenge rapol added