The Week in Quantum Computing - April 12th
Issue #31
The Week in Quantum Computing. Brought to you by Sergio Gago (@piratecto) and The Quantum World Association.
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Quick Recap
Qiskit releases a new version with Nature and Machine Learning modules getting closer to developers and higher level quantum software development and also allows to control IonQ computers. Finland announces quantum institute, SAP leads European Quantum consortium and Chicago builds quantum focused accelerator. The Netherlands allocates €615M for Quantum. AWS releases more info on their computers. Telefonica together with QuSide and SK Telecom advance in QRNG applied to communications. See the video below from QuantumBarcelona to know more.
The Quote of the Week
"I’m not afraid of prototyping a circuit without fully understanding or simulating it first."
Jeri Ellsworth - computer chip designer and inventor. Creator of the C64 Direct-to-TV.
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Quantum Barcelona session on Quantum and Post-Quantum Cryptography
The Summary of the Week
Quantum computer has the edge for NP verification – Physics World
One of the main goals in quantum computing is to experimentally demonstrate that a quantum machine can perform some computational task faster than a classical one. A team of researchers based in France and the UK has now done just that using a simple quantum photonics experimental set-up.
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April 05, 2021 at 09:33PM
Introducing Qiskit Nature
Richard Feynman envisioned quantum devices as a new computational paradigm for the simulation of Nature at its fundamental (quantum) level. Today, we are announcing Qiskit Nature, a unique platform to bridge the gap between natural sciences and quantum simulations.
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April 07, 2021 at 08:33AM
New computing algorithms expand the boundaries of a quantum future
Quantum computing promises to harness the strange properties of quantum mechanics in machines that will outperform even the most powerful supercomputers of today. But the extent of their application, it turns out, isn’t entirely clear.
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April 07, 2021 at 10:33AM
Quantum technologies can transform innovation and mitigate climate change – here's how
“If you can think about quantum theory without feeling dizzy, you haven’t understood the first thing about it.” This quote from Niels Bohr stems from a conversation he had in Copenhagen, in 1952, with Werner Heisenberg and Wolfgang Pauli, two of his fellow key founders of quantum mechanics.
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April 07, 2021 at 10:33AM
Finnish Quantum Institute announced
Aalto University, University of Helsinki and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland have signed an agreement to collaborate on quantum science and technology, under the umbrella of InstituteQ: The Finnish Quantum Institute.
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April 07, 2021 at 07:33PM
Certifiable quantum random number generation picks up the pace – Physics World
Researchers at Japan’s Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) have built a quantum random number generator (QRNG) that delivers random bits periodically with high speed and is robust against noise that would otherwise compromise the bits’ security.
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April 07, 2021 at 09:33PM
SK Telecom applies quantum cryptographic communication technology to IP equipment
SEOUL -- SK Telecom, a top mobile carrier in South Korea, opened the way for the wider use of its security solution by applying quantum cryptographic communication technology to corporate IP equipment such as routers and switches.
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April 07, 2021 at 10:34PM
Quantum technology emerges from the lab to spark a mini startup boom
Forty years after the renowned physicist Richard Feynman floated the idea for a quantum computer, the technology is starting to seep out of academic labs and into the real world.
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April 08, 2021 at 08:33AM
ColdQuanta lands $2.55M in federal contracts
ColdQuanta Inc. won two federal government contracts to apply its cold-atom technology in military applications, with the combined contracts worth about $2.55 million. An office within the U.S. Department of Defense awarded $1.
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April 08, 2021 at 11:33AM
Spooks funding Quantum Computing in the United Kingdom
As if Quantum Computing couldn’t get any spookier, funding aimed at promoting UK security and defence is actively investing in the technology.
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April 09, 2021 at 09:33AM
Nation’s first quantum startup accelerator, Duality, launches at UChicago’s Polsky Center and Chicago Quantum Exchange
Duality is taking applications through its website for the first cohort. Companies are invited to apply and will be considered on a rolling basis until May 14, 2021.
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April 09, 2021 at 09:33AM
Telefónica Tech collaborates with Quside and Qrypt to validate new quantum technology
Telefónica's digital business holding company is offering its customers next-generation solutions in its VDC cloud service following successful completion of testing.
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April 09, 2021 at 06:34PM
Quantum Delta NL awarded 615 million euro from Netherlands’ National Growth Fund to accelerate quantum technology
The Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy announced the allocation of €615 million to power the advancement of quantum technology. QuTech, the leading Dutch quantum institute, is proud to be a key partner of Quantum Delta NL.
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April 09, 2021 at 08:35PM
Paper: Quantum Enhanced Filter: QFilter
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) are used mainly to treat problems with many images characteristic of Deep Learning. In this work, we propose a hybrid image classification model to take advantage of quantum and classical computing. The method will use the potential that convolutional networks have shown in artificial intelligence by replacing classical filters with variational quantum filters. Similarly, this work will compare with other classification methods and the system's execution on different servers. The algorithm's quantum feasibility is modelled and tested on Amazon Braket Notebook instances and experimented on the Pennylane's philosophy and framework.
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April 09, 2021 at 08:35PM
IBM releases Qiskit modules that use quantum computers to improve machine learning
IBM is releasing Qiskit Machine Learning, a set of new application modules that’s part of its open-source quantum software.
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April 10, 2021 at 11:33AM
Announcing the creation of the European Quantum Industry Consortium
We at SAP are proud to be a founding member and to chair the newly founded European Quantum Industry Consortium (QuIC), and I am honoured to be the interim President of QuIC.
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April 10, 2021 at 02:33PM
Fraunhofer launches quantum computing research platform in Germany
Considered a game changer, quantum computing will generate knowledge and create new opportunities in many sectors of industry within just a few years: for optimization and simulation, in logistics and transport, energy management, chemistry, medicine or materials science.
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April 12, 2021 at 07:33PM
Quantum Computing and a Diverse Quantum Workforce
An exciting and much needed event as we see quantum computing ecosystems develop around the globe. Emanuele and Anahita will be speaking with Dr Celia Yeung and Dr Rupesh Srivastava from the Quantum Computing & Simulation (QCS) Hub.
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April 12, 2021 at 07:33PM
IonQ now supports IBM’s Qiskit quantum development kit
IonQ, the trapped ion quantum computing company that recently went public via a SPAC, today announced that it is integrating its quantum computing platform with the open-source Qiskit software development kit.
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April 12, 2021 at 07:33PM
Designing a fault-tolerant quantum computer based on Schrödinger-cat qubits
At the AWS Center for Quantum Computing, we are doing scientific research and development on quantum computing algorithms and hardware.
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April 12, 2021 at 08:33PM