Diamonds diamonds! but not for breakfast at Tiffany’s but for quantum networks. That is what Amazon is pursuing by partnering with De Beers, manufacturers of artificial diamonds. Besides that, this week we witnessed a flurry of activity across the research and industrial sectors (Happy Easter everyone!). Breakthroughs were made in quantum error correction, extending the lifetime of a quantum bit, additional thoughts on the side-channel attack to the NIST finalist and Algorand using Falcon in its services. Archer Materials advanced to wafer-scale quantum device fabrication. Agnostiq raised $6.1M to work on their Enterprise version of Covalent. Eviden announced plans to launch its first post-quantum-ready solutions for digital identity. All that with the very first RFC (9340) for the architectural principles for a quantum internet. (Would this be this century’s version of the famous RFC719?). We got a fantastic paper that summarizes how trapped ion devices work and the state of the art and a solution from Q-Ctrl on how to push QAOAs to its limit. Claiming BRUTAL improvements on its convergence for problems such as MaxCut.IQM opens office in Singapore and Creotech will lead the Polish quantum computer. One of the 6th planned for Europe in hybridization with HPCsAnother report claims that 20% of companies have budgeted for quantum in 2023. Ok… guys… seriously? We all love this industry but lets be realistic with our numbers, what is possible and what is not and that it is still tiny compared to others. Let’s keep pushing without the hype.
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The Week in Quantum Computing - April 10th
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Diamonds diamonds! but not for breakfast at Tiffany’s but for quantum networks. That is what Amazon is pursuing by partnering with De Beers, manufacturers of artificial diamonds. Besides that, this week we witnessed a flurry of activity across the research and industrial sectors (Happy Easter everyone!). Breakthroughs were made in quantum error correction, extending the lifetime of a quantum bit, additional thoughts on the side-channel attack to the NIST finalist and Algorand using Falcon in its services. Archer Materials advanced to wafer-scale quantum device fabrication. Agnostiq raised $6.1M to work on their Enterprise version of Covalent. Eviden announced plans to launch its first post-quantum-ready solutions for digital identity. All that with the very first RFC (9340) for the architectural principles for a quantum internet. (Would this be this century’s version of the famous RFC719?). We got a fantastic paper that summarizes how trapped ion devices work and the state of the art and a solution from Q-Ctrl on how to push QAOAs to its limit. Claiming BRUTAL improvements on its convergence for problems such as MaxCut.IQM opens office in Singapore and Creotech will lead the Polish quantum computer. One of the 6th planned for Europe in hybridization with HPCsAnother report claims that 20% of companies have budgeted for quantum in 2023. Ok… guys… seriously? We all love this industry but lets be realistic with our numbers, what is possible and what is not and that it is still tiny compared to others. Let’s keep pushing without the hype.