After the last few weeks with big announcement drops, we did not expect much for the holiday season. But lo and behold, Santa has dropped some nice presents under the tree. Starting a plethora of great articles worth read during the holidays. A glimpse at Eduardo Miranda’s amazing work on Quantum Music, the last from Bob Coecke on how Quantum in Pictures taught quantum to school children and a great paper on the ethical lines required for Quantum adoption. Also a couple of pieces on whether there is hype or not in Quantum, including the DoD on reframing timelines. The year in Physics and in Computer Science videos are out, And the new guide on migration to PQC by NIST.But that is not all. Nokia and HellasQCI, a consortium of 14 Greek public and private entities, have successfully demonstrated Quantum-Safe Networks (QSN) across Greece. Kipu Quantum, a German quantum software company, has secured 10.5 million EUR in seed funding for the expansion of their team and to keep developing compressed quantum algorithms. Alice & Bob, a hardware developer, has taped out a new chip, Helium 1, a 16-qubit quantum processing unit (QPU), expected to improve error rates with every added qubit. They are the third company joining the “logical qubit” race, together with Quantinuum and MIT+QuEra (and also IBM+Q-Ctrl). QCentroid and Tecnalia put together a partnership to bring quantum to the enterprise. Zapata AI has published research on quantum-enhanced Generative AI in Nature Communications, “demonstrating” how quantum circuits can extend and complement classical generative AI capabilities. Well… not quite. They have found that QML circuits without barren plateaus are classically simulable. They have not found any real intersection between Generative AI and Quantum. (But hopefully they may in the future!). And lastly no end of year without our factoring prime numbers paper (Remember last year with Schnorr’s technique?). This time with a Grover-like algorithm. The published paper (link below) tries to find a different way (not through Shor) to break RSA. But don’t start turning tables yet.
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After the last few weeks with big announcement drops, we did not expect much for the holiday season. But lo and behold, Santa has dropped some nice presents under the tree. Starting a plethora of great articles worth read during the holidays. A glimpse at Eduardo Miranda’s amazing work on Quantum Music, the last from Bob Coecke on how Quantum in Pictures taught quantum to school children and a great paper on the ethical lines required for Quantum adoption. Also a couple of pieces on whether there is hype or not in Quantum, including the DoD on reframing timelines. The year in Physics and in Computer Science videos are out, And the new guide on migration to PQC by NIST.But that is not all. Nokia and HellasQCI, a consortium of 14 Greek public and private entities, have successfully demonstrated Quantum-Safe Networks (QSN) across Greece. Kipu Quantum, a German quantum software company, has secured 10.5 million EUR in seed funding for the expansion of their team and to keep developing compressed quantum algorithms. Alice & Bob, a hardware developer, has taped out a new chip, Helium 1, a 16-qubit quantum processing unit (QPU), expected to improve error rates with every added qubit. They are the third company joining the “logical qubit” race, together with Quantinuum and MIT+QuEra (and also IBM+Q-Ctrl). QCentroid and Tecnalia put together a partnership to bring quantum to the enterprise. Zapata AI has published research on quantum-enhanced Generative AI in Nature Communications, “demonstrating” how quantum circuits can extend and complement classical generative AI capabilities. Well… not quite. They have found that QML circuits without barren plateaus are classically simulable. They have not found any real intersection between Generative AI and Quantum. (But hopefully they may in the future!). And lastly no end of year without our factoring prime numbers paper (Remember last year with Schnorr’s technique?). This time with a Grover-like algorithm. The published paper (link below) tries to find a different way (not through Shor) to break RSA. But don’t start turning tables yet.