Explorative study of the quantum research groups in Hungary

Abstract

According to the market forecast of P&S Intelligence (2020), the quantum computing market is supposed to surpass 65 000Million USD by 2030, hence is one of the most rapidly growing industries of the 21st century. In line with this, after shortly presenting the basic quantum phenomena that revolutionaries the IT world and providing an overview of the international quantum industry, I will introduce a research that aimed to explore the Hungarian quantum sphere. To explore the situation, I use both secondary and primary research. In the framework of the secondary research, I collect information about the players in the Hungarian quantum field, and then in the framework of primary data collection, I explore their opinions about the current state of affairs and the future prospects. Since our aim is to understand the prevailing thoughts and attitudes of the players, our investigations were initiated form an interpretative viewpoint and the data and results presented in the paper are also rather descriptive than indicative or prescriptive by nature.