In the 2018 Optical and Quantum Leap Flagship Program of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, it was adopted as a joint research institute for research and development of quantum information processing (mainly quantum simulators and quantum computers, superconducting quantum computers).
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