The Week in Quantum Computing - April 19th
Issue #32
The Week in Quantum Computing. Brought to you by Sergio Gago (@piratecto) and The Quantum World Association.
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Quick Recap
The EU kicks off QuIC Industry consortium. DWave sponsors academy for adoption of quantum and more government push like the department of energy providing another $25M investment. QCI delivers optimization framework on top of AWS Braket. Get hands on building your own quantum music compositions or quantum drunken walks. Nvidia launches cuQuantum, a simulation framework leveraging their TPUs competing directly with Alphabet’s FLOQ.
The Quote of the Week
"Every object that we perceive appears in innumerable aspects."
Max Born - physicist, mathematician, quantum mechanics pioneer, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate.
Featured Content
Some time ago we saw that qubits can get erros from cosmic rays. Well, this could be a feature and not a bug:
The Summary of the Week
Is Quantum Computing Startup IonQ a Buy Ahead of Its SPAC Merger?
Special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) dMY Technology Group III (NYSE:DMYI) recently announced that it will be merging with quantum computing start-up IonQ.
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April 14, 2021 at 09:33AM
Nvidia Entangled in Quantum Simulators
Quantum simulators are a strange breed of systems for purposes that might seem a bit nebulous from the outset.
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April 14, 2021 at 09:33AM
GTC21: Nvidia Launches cuQuantum; Dips a Toe in Quantum Computing
Yesterday Nvidia officially dipped a toe into quantum computing with the launch of cuQuantum SDK, a development platform for simulating quantum circuits on GPU-accelerated systems.
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April 14, 2021 at 07:33PM
Majorana-based quantum computation gets a handy new platform – Physics World
The errors that arise from the volatile nature of quantum technologies are a major roadblock on the path to practical quantum computing. We can imagine getting past this blockade by driving straight through it, using a car built to withstand the impact: this is quantum error correction.
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April 15, 2021 at 09:33AM
The Future of the Quantum Processor: Three Trends
As we approach the spring edition of our Inside Quantum Technology (https://iqtevent.com) online event, we are musing on how far our industry has come in the past year, despite the obvious, pandemic in the room, and we are thinking also on where we have yet to go.
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April 15, 2021 at 09:33AM
Quantum Computing Inc. Announces Ready-to-Run Quantum Optimization on AWS
Quantum Computing Inc. (OTCQB: QUBT) (QCI) today announced that QCI’s Qatalyst constrained optimization is now available as a Software as a Service (SaaS) on Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), for both classical and quantum computers.
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April 15, 2021 at 09:33AM
Understanding quantum computing through drunken walks
Quantum computing is the biggest revolution in computing since… computing. Our world is made of quantum information, but we perceive the world in classical information. That is, there is a whole lot going on at small scales that are not accessible with our normal senses.
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April 15, 2021 at 05:33PM
Department of Energy to Provide $25 Million toward Development of a Quantum Internet
the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a plan to provide $25 million for basic research toward the development of a quantum internet.
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April 15, 2021 at 09:33PM
"This risks creating an arms race": inside Europe's battle over the future of quantum computing
Since the 1960s, the rate of progress in every field of scientific inquiry – from drug discovery to climate forecasting, renewable energy to artificial intelligence – has depended, at least in part, on the ability of engineers to build smaller transistors.
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April 16, 2021 at 12:33AM
Materials challenges and opportunities for quantum computing hardware
The potential of quantum computers to solve problems that are intractable for classical computers has driven advances in hardware fabrication.
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April 16, 2021 at 08:33AM
Quantum Music Playground 0.91 Tutorial
Playground for composing music using quantum states. Implemented as a Max for Live device in Ableton Live 11, and includes a MicroQiskit quantum simulator. Apache 2.0 licensed. Developed by James L. Weaver, @JavaFXpert on Twitter.
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April 16, 2021 at 08:33AM
Quantum Industry Consortium (QuIC)
Mission. The Quantum Industry Consortium (QuIC) advocates, promotes, and fosters the common interests of the European Quantum Industry towards all Quantum Technology stakeholders Objectives.
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April 16, 2021 at 01:34PM
Paper: Federated Quantum Machine Learning
Chen, S.Y.-C.; Yoo, S. Federated Quantum Machine Learning. Entropy 2021, 23, 460. https://ift.tt/32iK5nb Chen SY-C, Yoo S. Federated Quantum Machine Learning. Entropy. 2021; 23(4):460. https://ift.tt/32iK5nb
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April 16, 2021 at 07:34PM
Dutch researchers establish the first entanglement-based quantum network
The first steps towards a quantum internet were taken in the past decade by linking two quantum devices that shared a direct physical link.
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April 16, 2021 at 07:34PM
D-Wave Government Sponsors Quantum Academy to Accelerate Government Adoption of Practical Quantum Computing
D-Wave Government Inc., a subsidiary providing D-Wave’s quantum computing technology, software, services, and expertise to the U.S. and Cyber Bytes Foundation (CBF), a non-profit producing education, innovation, and outreach programs responsive to national security challenges, today announced they will work together to host a quantum academy.
Together, the two organizations are hosting four academy events this year. These events will be available to attend in a virtual capacity in the short term, with the potential to attend in-person at the Quantico Cyber Hub in Stafford, VA later in the year.
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April 17, 2021 at 09:33AM
A business leader’s guide to quantum technology
Quantum communication: Protecting communication networks Unlike postquantum cryptography—which uses new quantum-safe encryption algorithms that run on classical computers, as discussed in the sidebar, “Security implications of quantum computing: Postquantum cryptography”—quantum communicatio
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April 17, 2021 at 04:33PM