The Week in Quantum Computing - April 5th
Issue #30
The Week in Quantum Computing. Brought to you by Sergio Gago (@piratecto) and The Quantum World Association.
Quick Recap
The week of the big corps upping up their game. Toshiba and Fujitsu announce their plans. Honeywell keeps pushing hard on the quantum volume race and silicon realizes key developments for building qubits. Good talks around hype and how to avoid it (if possible). Qiskit launches their first official certification aimed for developers.
The Quote of the Week
"There is too much tendency to making separate and independent bundles of both the physical and the moral facts of the Universe. Whereas, all and everything is naturally related and interconnected"
Ada Lovelace - mathematician and writer. First to recognize that the Analytical Engine had applications beyond pure calculation, and to have published the first algorithm intended to be carried out by such a machine. One of the first computer programmers in the World.
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The Summary of the Week
Helgoland by Carlo Rovelli review – a meditation on quantum theory
There are two kinds of geniuses, argued the celebrated mathematician Mark Kac. There is the “ordinary” kind, whom we could emulate if only we were a lot smarter than we actually are because there is no mystery as to how their minds work.
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March 29, 2021 at 04:34PM
Video: Disentangling hype from reality: Achieving practical quantum advantage
Join distinguished Microsoft Scientist Matthias Troyer in his session on achieving practical quantum advantage from the 2020 Q2B event. Learn more about Microsoft Quantum: https://ift.tt/3rpHzFC #Microsoft #Azure
Quantum Computing in Agriculture
On 26 March 2021 the Washington DC Quantum Computing MeetUp had an interesting discussion on QC and agriculture. A link to the slides that were shared is below. Thanks Gary Jenkins for sharing.
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March 29, 2021 at 07:33PM
Honeywell says quantum computers will outpace standard verification in ’18 to 24 months’
Honeywell expects that as advances in quantum computing continue to accelerate over the next 18 to 24 months, the ability to replicate the results of a quantum computing application workload using a conventional computing platform simulation will come to an end.
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March 29, 2021 at 10:33PM
Fiber Optics Could Be the Key to Million-Qubit Quantum Computers
Bridging the gap between the cryogenically-cooled inner working sof quantum computers and the conventional electronics that control them is an outstanding challenge.
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March 30, 2021 at 09:33AM
IBM launches its first quantum developer certification
IBM today announced the launch of its first developer certification for programming quantum computers. While quantum computing may still be in its infancy, most pundits in the industry will tell you that now is the time to learn the basic concepts.
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March 30, 2021 at 09:33AM
Toshiba brings quantum-inspired computer out of the cloud and onto the desktop
Toshiba has brought its kind-of-quantum computers out of the clouds and onto Japanese desktops.
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March 30, 2021 at 09:33AM
Cambridge Quantum Computing Pioneers Quantum Machine Learning Methods for Reasoning
Scientists at Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC) have developed methods and demonstrated that quantum machines can learn to infer hidden information from very general probabilistic reasoning models.
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March 30, 2021 at 09:33AM
The Good, The Bad and The Inevitable. How Hype Might Shape Quantum Science’s Future
The role of hype in communicating science is increasingly an area of concern for quantum researchers and entrepreneurs. According to a science communication researcher, hype around science — especially quantum science — can be bad, can be good sometimes, and is probably inevitable for the rapidly expanding quantum science and technology fields.
In a recent study, Tara Roberson, a postdoctoral researcher at the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems (EQUS), examined the negative and positive effects of hype in the communication of science and technology.
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April 01, 2021 at 11:33AM
'We're hacking the process of creating qubits.' How standard silicon chips could be used for quantum computing
To create and read qubits, which are the building blocks of those devices, scientists first have to retain control over the smallest, quantum particles that make up a material; but there are different ways to do that, with varying degrees of complexity.
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April 01, 2021 at 11:33AM
5 Quantum Machine Learning Resources not to miss
A recent controversial paper tried to define a new formalism for deep learning in terms of quantum fields. Indeed, qubits are described naively as a state between zero and one, and each node of a neural network, similarly is a value between zero and one meaning probability or something alike.
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April 01, 2021 at 11:33AM
Quantum Motion unveils 9-second silicon qubit
Quantum Motion, a four-year-old UK-based startup is today announcing a quantum computing breakthrough, demonstrating that a stable qubit can be created on a standard silicon chip, similar to those used in smartphones.
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April 01, 2021 at 01:34PM
Fujitsu takes on IBM in race for most powerful quantum computer
Japanese tech giant Fujitsu has announced a new initiative to build on top of Riken research institute’s ongoing work with advanced superconducting quantum computing technologies to create a 1000 qubits quantum computer within the next few years.
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April 02, 2021 at 10:33AM
New code breaking record for quantum-safe cryptography
A team of cryptanalysts from Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) has set a new code breaking record for an important computational problem: the lattice shortest vector problem (SVP).
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April 02, 2021 at 10:33AM
Qubits composed of holes could be the trick to build faster, larger quantum computers
A new study indicates holes the solution to operational speed/coherence trade-off, potential scaling up of qubits to a mini-quantum computer. Quantum computers are predicted to be much more powerful and functional than today's 'classical' computers.
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April 02, 2021 at 07:33PM
Biden’s infrastructure plan includes billions to develop emerging tech the military needs
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan released Wednesday calls for $180 billion in new research and development spending on emerging technologies expected to define the coming decades and drive military innovation.
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April 03, 2021 at 11:33AM
Building quantum processors using industrial mass fabrication techniques
UCL-led research reports the first measurements of a single electron spin in a device fabricated using 300mm wafer scale processing.
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April 03, 2021 at 11:33PM
Quantifying Utility of Quantum Computers
Although universal fault-tolerant quantum computers – with millions of physical quantum bits (or qubits) – may be a decade or two away, quantum computing research continues apace. It has been hypothesized that quantum computers will one day revolutionize information processing across a host of military and civilian applications from pharmaceuticals discovery, to advanced batteries, to machine learning, to cryptography. A key missing element in the race toward fault-tolerant quantum systems, however, is meaningful metrics to quantify how useful or transformative large quantum computers will actually be once they exist.
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April 04, 2021 at 02:33PM
Use cases for quantum computing
The New York Times heralds that, “Quantum Computing Is Coming, Bit by Qubit” [1]; the Guardian touts, “the new space race” [2]; and Le Monde speaks of, “Le futur au rythme du Quantum Computing (the future at the pace of Quantum Computing)” [3]. Yet in spite of all this chatter about the merits of quantum computers few in the media have actually stopped to ask how this technology might manifest? With this in mind, Quantum Business Europe’s – Quantum Computing Use Cases Reports offer us some insight.
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April 04, 2021 at 10:33PM
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