https://techmonitor.ai/hardware/quantum/how-india-became-the-hottest-date-in-quantum-computing > Professor Bhupendra Dev got an exciting delivery in May: an ultra-low temperature dilution refrigerator built by a Finnish company Bluefors. It suited Dev's purposes perfectly. The device will, the professor explains, provide temperatures close to absolute zero (−273.15 °C) — a stark contrast from the tropical climate on the streets outside the researcher’s lab in Kolkata, India. “People sometimes joke that Finland is a cold country and that’s why they can provide the refrigeration systems,” says Dev. > The icy extremes are essential for Dev’s research at the Centre for Quantum Engineering, Research and Education (CQuERE), where he’s trying to build one of India’s first quantum computers. Most of the electronics are already in place, except for a few couplers, and Dev hopes to begin working with his first qubit — the basic unit of quantum information — in about six months. “We'll proceed pretty slowly, because at this stage [we] have to train the students,” says Dev.