The Week in Quantum Computing - April 25th
Issue #84
The Week in Quantum Computing. Brought to you by Sergio Gago (@piratecto). This week Sponsored by Artificial Brain.
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Artificial Brain, a quantum computing startup released the #electricvehicle quantum application which lets customers identify the optimal locations for electric vehicle charging stations using quantum computers to serve as many people as possible.
They also introduced a novel heuristic combining Quantum Annealing and Genetic Algorithms to solve the problem and have published a paper where they demonstrated that this approach generated 42% better results than vanilla quantum computing. Link: https://tinyurl.com/EV-Quantum-Paper
Commercialising Quantum – May 17th-19th 2022
The Economist's Commercialising Quantum – May 17th-19th 2022 | Virtual & London
The final day of the “Commercialising Quantum” conference will examine the need for a quantum code of conduct and explore how to mitigate risk with dual technologies. As the timeline to defend against quantum attacks and the timeline for them being real begins to overlap, we will assess how we can revamp our encryption infrastructure to become quantum safe.
Themes on Thursday 19th May include: Quantum communications and cryptography, Techno nationalism, Quantum ethics.
Companies speaking virtually include: BP, Gulf Bank, Toshiba Corporation, U.S. Department of Energy, Wells Fargo, Quantum AI Institute and many more.
Find out more about the event and how to attend
Quick Recap
Intel making strange moves, Taiwan pushes with NT$8B while Qebec puts $18M for their ecosystem. This has been the week of manufacturing, seeing great advances in neutral atoms and using semiconductor processes into quantum. Synergy Quantum raises a series A. Another record in quantum communication published.
If you speak spanish Telos Magazine has published a great spotlight on quantum and I was honored to write one of the articles. (Free download)
Lastly, Arqit Quantum got a whistleblower publishing a piece that had ripples in the market (see below). Is this the beginning of the quantum winter?
What is the difference between adiabatic and gate based quantum computing? A meme to expalin it.
Guest Spotlight - by Brian Siegelwax
Turing: “Ahoy, Captain, innovation ahead!”
Turing is a quantum computing startup founded by Prof. Seth Lloyd and Dr. Michele Reilly. They use artificial intelligence in an original capacity in order to load data onto quantum machines. Turing’s protocols go beyond the gate-based model to take advantage of the full suite of local and global quantum controls to compress quantum algorithms into a form where they attain results without fault-tolerance.
Existing tools support conventional quantum gate-based algorithms, so as to create an analogy with classical computing. Turing’s methods operate at the pulse level: performing operations on qubits directly in a purely quantum mechanical framework. This gives them a way to speak to the system to provide applications for quantum clouds in advance of fault tolerance, thus enabling practical and societally useful applications for quantum computing now.
Prof. Seth Lloyd is a co-founder of Turing and professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. He designed the first technologically feasible quantum computer and created the first quantum algorithms for a variety of applications, including quantum simulation, finding ground states of molecules, and solving linear systems of equations. He is a co-inventor of quantum random access memory, and a pioneer in quantum machine learning.
Dr. Michele Reilly is a co-founder of Turing and an inventor and pioneer in quantum random access memory and distributed systems of entanglement in particular. She significantly extended some of Prof. Lloy’s qRAM proposals from 2008. She owns the patents in the United States and Europe on a truly distributed network of movable qRAM.
Turing is an AI software company that combines techniques of traditional and quantum machine learning to develop novel, practical and societally useful applications for quantum computers.
The Week in Quantum Computing
EV Battery Design to Be Dramatically Accelerated by PsiQuantum Breakthrough
Another breakthrough in Quantum Computing has been achieved by PsiQuantum, a company best known for its silicon photonics and fault-tolerant quantum architecture designs, and the first company that built the world’s first utility-scale quantum computer.
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April 18, 2022 at 12:30PM
Quantum Computing in Healthcare Market with Tremendous growth by 2029 D-Wave Solutions, Google, Rigetti Computing
Quantum computing is an emerging field of research that may provide a quantum leap in computing performance and thus enable many new and exciting healthcare applications such as rapid DNA sequencing, research and discovery.
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April 18, 2022 at 12:30PM
British Encryption Startup Arqit Overstates Its Prospects, Former Staff and Others Say
A U.K. cybersecurity startup rocketed to a multibillion-dollar valuation when it listed publicly last fall on the promise of making encryption technology that would protect the defense industry, corporations and consumers alike from the prying eyes of next-generation computer systems.
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April 18, 2022 at 07:30PM
Intel is making some mysterious moves in quantum computing
Intel has shipped a mysterious quantum computing device to the US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), in an interesting development in the company's bid for quantum supremacy.
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April 18, 2022 at 08:30PM
Making Quantum Computing a Reality
Scientists have theorized about the potential of quantum computing — that is, a new approach to computation that uses probabilities, rather than binary signals, to make calculations — for decades.
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April 19, 2022 at 12:30AM
Lawmakers try to get ahead of cyber war’s quantum leap
BEING PROACTIVE — A bipartisan group of House lawmakers led by Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) will introduce legislation today aimed at getting ahead of one of the most significant cybersecurity concerns tied to quantum computing: hackers relying on these advanced devices to decrypt stolen encrypted messages.
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April 19, 2022 at 06:30PM
Taiwan to invest more in quantum technology development
The Taiwanese government is planning to invest a total of NT$8 billion over five years to drive quantum technology development.
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April 20, 2022 at 09:30AM
5 Skills You Need to Launch a Quantum Computing Career
Over the past decade, quantum computing has earned a lot of attention from academic researchers, as well as private industry and the media more recently. This might seem surprising since quantum is a relatively old technology that first appeared in the 1980s.
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April 20, 2022 at 06:30PM
'Time travel to the future': Tech giants are touting quantum computing as the next big thing. But has the hype gone into hyperdrive?
Under normal circumstances, the arrival of a breakthrough technology creates its own hype. The first light bulb drew hundreds of gawkers to Menlo Park, New Jersey, in 1879.
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April 20, 2022 at 08:30PM
So, what exactly is quantum music?
You’ve probably heard of such terms as quantum physics, quantum mechanics, and quantum computing, but are you aware of quantum music? The term is fairly new, but has been growing in popularity and, quite possibly, could have an impact on the future of music.
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April 20, 2022 at 11:30PM
Synergy Quantum, a Swiss based quantum technology company, today announced it has completed a pre-series A funding round. The investment is led by Swiss and international private investors.
GENEVA, /PRNewswire/ -- "At Synergy Quantum, we are focused on building high impact industry solutions using Quantum Technologies.
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April 21, 2022 at 05:30PM
Realization of quantum secure direct communication over 100km fiber with time-bin and phase quantum states
Rapid progress has been made in quantum secure direct communication in recent years. For practical application, it is important to improve the performances, such as the secure information rate and the communication distance.
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April 21, 2022 at 06:30PM
Combinatorial optimization with physics-inspired graph neural networks
Combinatorial optimization problems are pervasive across science and industry. Modern deep learning tools are poised to solve these problems at unprecedented scales, but a unifying framework that incorporates insights from statistical physics is still outstanding.
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April 22, 2022 at 01:30AM
Fabricating qubits using advanced semiconductor manufacturing processes
Quantum computers are promising computing machines that perform computations leveraging the collective properties of quantum physics states. These computers could help to tackle many computational problems that are currently intractable with conventional computers.
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April 22, 2022 at 10:30AM
Quantum Neural Networks
In this tutorial we will explore the use of quantum neural networks in time series function forecasting using PennyLane. We will develop a variational circuit which is a continuous variable quantum neural network that learns to fit a one dimensional function by making predictions.
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April 22, 2022 at 02:30PM
$18 Million to Launch the Digital and Quantum Innovation Platform - Accelerating Quebec's digital transformation
SHERBROOKE, QC, /CNW Telbec/ - The Digital and Quantum Innovation Platform (PINQ2) was created as an initiative of the Université de Sherbrooke and the Ministère de l'Économie et de l'Innovation du Québec.
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April 22, 2022 at 10:30PM