The Week in Quantum Computing - December 6th
Issue #65
The Week in Quantum Computing. Brought to you by Sergio Gago (@piratecto). Sponsored by Qapitan Quantum.
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The Quote of the Week
"The unforgotten moments of my life are those rare ones which come after years of plodding work, when the veil over nature’s secret seems suddenly to lift, and when what was dark and chaotic appears in a clear and beautiful light and pattern."
Gerty Cori - biochemist. First woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
The Week in Quantum Computing
Paper: Demonstration of fault-tolerant universal quantum gate operations
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November 28, 2021 at 12:30PM
US Adds Eight Chinese Quantum Computing Orgs to the Entity List
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November 28, 2021 at 06:30PM
Public Key Encryption Dead Before 50?
November 2021 marks the 45th anniversary of when Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman published their paper, New Directions in Cryptography, introducing the world to a new system for developing and exchanging keys over an insecure channel. The Diffie-Hellman key exchange has since become one of the most important developments in public-key cryptography and is frequently used in a range of different security protocols including, TLS, IPsec, SSH, PGP, and many others.
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November 29, 2021 at 05:30PM
IBM Quantum’s Open Science Prize returns with a quantum simulation challenge
IBM Quantum Open Science Prize Begins: November 29, 2021 Ends: April 16, 2022 Learn more and register, here.. This year, the challenge will feature one problem from the field of quantum simulation, solvable through one of two approaches.
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November 29, 2021 at 07:30PM
Researchers propose a simpler design for quantum computers
Today's quantum computers are complicated to build, difficult to scale up, and require temperatures colder than interstellar space to operate. These challenges have led researchers to explore the possibility of building quantum computers that work using photons—particles of light.
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November 30, 2021 at 08:31AM
Amazon Braket adds support for hybrid quantum-classical algorithms
Amazon Web Services Inc. is trying to make quantum computing more accessible with the launch of Amazon Braket Hybrid Jobs today.
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November 30, 2021 at 09:30AM
SpeQtral closes US$8.3M round to deliver tamper-proof, computationally uncrackable encryption keys
SpeQtral's OKD solution uses quantum physics to distribute symmetric encryption keys to firms secure data against present and future threats brought on by advances in computing
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November 30, 2021 at 09:30AM
Quantum computing to grow by 50 per cent per year until 2027, when revenue will still be chump change
Don't rush to convert your analog computing skills into the quantum realm – analyst firm International Data Corporation (IDC) reckons that in 2027 the annual market for quantum computing globally will still only be worth $8.6 billion. Which sounds like a lot, but really isn't.
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November 30, 2021 at 10:30PM
Sydney-based quantum sensing startup Q-CTRL raises $25M Series B led by Airbus Ventures
Q-CTRL, a Sydney-based startup that provides quantum control engineering solutions, announced today it has raised a $25 million Series B led by Airbus Ventures with participation from Ridgeline Partners, Main Sequence Ventures, Horizons Ventures, SquarePeg Capital, Sierra Ventures, DCVC, Sequoia Cap
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December 01, 2021 at 09:30AM
Deterministic photonic quantum computation in a synthetic time dimension
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December 01, 2021 at 09:30AM
Quantum computing heavyweight arrives as merger creates Quantinuum
Honeywell Quantum Solutions and Cambridge Quantum, two big companies in the nascent but potentially revolutionary quantum computing technology, completed merger plans to become a new company called Quantinuum on Tuesday.
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December 01, 2021 at 09:30AM
Finland’s First 5-Qubit Quantum Computer is Now Operational
Today, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland announced that the country’s first operational 5-qubit quantum computer is up and running.
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December 01, 2021 at 10:30AM
Quantum generative adversarial networks with multiple superconducting qubits
Generative adversarial networks are an emerging technique with wide applications in machine learning, which have achieved dramatic success in a number of challenging tasks including image and video generation.
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December 01, 2021 at 06:30PM
Rigetti Enhances Predictive Weather Modeling with Quantum Machine Learning
BERKELEY, Calif., Dec. 01, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rigetti Computing, a pioneer in hybrid quantum-classical computing, announced today it has developed an effective solution to a weather modeling problem using quantum computers.
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December 02, 2021 at 10:30AM
OQC ON AWS
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December 02, 2021 at 10:30AM
Quantinuum Launches With Over $270 Million To Tackle Quantum Computing’s Biggest Challenges
The world of quantum computing now has another big player vying for business.
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December 02, 2021 at 12:30PM
Stanford and Google Team Up To Create Time Crystals With Quantum Computers
A team of researchers including ones from Stanford and Google have created and observed a new phase of matter, popularly known as a time crystal.
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December 02, 2021 at 09:30PM
Setting the scene for a quantum marketplace: where quantum business is up to and how it might unfold
As quantum computing makes its first forays from the lab to the real world, are the latest claims mere hype causing a bubble that will burst before the field finds its feet? Or are investors and researchers right to be enthusiastic about this burgeoning technological revolution? Philip Ball investig
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December 03, 2021 at 08:30AM
Microsoft and KPMG plan to test quantum computing with real-world problems
Krysta Svore, general manager of Microsoft Quantum, explains how quantum computing hardware works during a Seattle science conference in 2020.
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December 03, 2021 at 09:30AM
FirstQ Store to drive Quantum Adoption. Aggregator Plug and Play Commercialization Store launched by CogniFrame.
CogniFrame announces the public beta of its FirstQ Store; the aggregator plug and play commercialization store for near quantum and quantum ready applications. TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA, December 2, 2021 /EINPresswire.
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December 03, 2021 at 06:31PM
How Much Has Quantum Computing Actually Advanced?
We're in a new era of spaceflight: The national space agencies are no longer the only game in town, and space is becoming more accessible. Rockets built by commercial players like Blue Origin are now bringing private citizens into orbit.
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December 04, 2021 at 01:30AM