The Week in Quantum Computing - December 19th
Issue #118
The Week in Quantum Computing. Brought to you by Sergio Gago (@piratecto).
Quick Recap
Possibly the last week loads of announcements. Hope everyone can jump off to nice and deserverd holidays, because this 2022 has been packed. Very packed and key for our industry. Of course the news have been packed with news on nuclear fusion energy. And while very different fields they have similarities regarding the path (or bridge?) between scientific breakthroughs (like the one this week) and mass production / commercialization. In short: What will come earlier: Commercial distribution of fusion energy, or BAFTAQ (Bigg Ass Fault Tolerant Advantageus Quantum) - Computers.
Delft works on cryogenic components, key for the scalability and miniaturization of quantum devices. A great piece in The New Yorker on where we are and where we are going. GQI is born with some of the heavyweights in the industry: André König, Chief Executive Officer; Doug Finke, Chief Content Officer; David Shaw, Chief Analyst; and Terrill Frantz, Chief Product, and Technology Office. I can’t think of better brains for a quantum think tank! BosonQPsi releases the alpha version of their new platform for quantum-computed aided engineering (i.e. design engineering pieces with the help of QC in order to simulate its behaviour). Q-Ctrl releases openly fire opan and Brian (a regular in this newsletter) published a great review and tutorial. SpinQ publishes their collection of 3 home / desktop devices, ideal for education. Quantinuum releases InQuanto 2.0, their platform for chemistry. Classiq releases results of their research showing the potential of the industry, but at the same time James Clarke from Intel preaches for caution. Stephen Shankland writes on CNET a collection of quotes from Q2B (where we saw more vendors than clients!). My favourite from Doug Finke: ""I don't think there will be a quantum winter, but some people will get frostbite,". Ah, and after the House of Quantum in the Netherlads, it is Basel’s turn opening officially their hub by uptownBasel.
How do we measure qubit performance and capacity? Some people focus onnly on the number of qubits, but error rates, coherence times, connectivity and “clock speed” are as important. And on top of that how easy is to develop stuff on those devices (i.e from coding all the way to fine tuning and experimenting with pulses). So, when you look at buying your next quantum device, make sure you don’t skip leg day.
A great timelaps by QCrew on their assembly of their new cryostat.
The Week in Quantum Computing
uptownBasel opens first quantum computer hub for commercial use in Switzerland
Today, the uptownBasel Group announced the opening of Switzerland’s first quantum computer hub for commercial use. For this purpose, uptownBasel has founded uptownBasel Infinity Corp.
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December 11, 2022 at 03:30PM
Quantum Computing Inc. to Help Rabobank Combat Fraud with Entropy Quantum Computing
Quantum Computing Inc. (QCI) (NASDAQ: QUBT), a key player focused on accessible full stack quantum solutions, announced that it will work together with Rabobank, which claims to be one of the world’s largest banks in its sectors, “for a project to demonstrate the application of its photonic quantum information technologies, including the Dirac 1 entropy quantum computing (EQC) system, to fraud detection.”
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December 12, 2022 at 09:32AM
The quantum internet, explained
Scientists think it will be particularly useful for problems that involve many variables, such as analyzing financial risk, encrypting data, and studying the properties of materials. Researchers doubt that individuals will own personal quantum computers in near future.
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December 12, 2022 at 12:34PM
Quantum Biology: How Quantum Computing Can Unlock A New Dimension Of Treating Diseases
Imagine a future in which every person on Earth is given the gift of great health—a world where rare diseases can be treated, cancer can be cured, multi-morbidity complications no longer exist and people everywhere live healthier, for longer. Sound like science fiction? The emerging field of quantum biology may make it possible Quantum Is Key To Next-Level Understanding Of The Human Body
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December 12, 2022 at 03:32PM
Taking Transmons Out For a Quantum Spin
Coupling spin and superconducting qubits via a resonator opens up opportunities for hybrid quantum architectures. In the race to create a viable quantum computer, each competing implementation has its own strengths and weaknesses.
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December 13, 2022 at 11:31AM
The World-Changing Race to Develop the Quantum Computer
At Google’s lab in Santa Barbara, the objective is to entangle many qubits at once. Imagine hundreds of coins, arranged into a network. Manipulating these coins in choreographed sequences can produce astonishing mathematical effects.
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December 13, 2022 at 02:35PM
Learn more about RPUs
Quside’s new Randomness Processing Unit, based on high-speed, high-quality QRNGs and hardware acceleration, allows customers to offload their randomness generation and processing tasks from the CPU, thereby accelerating and optimizing their randomized workloads.
Link: https://quside.com/rpu/
December 14, 2022 at 02:31PM
Quantum Computing Will Change Our Lives. But Be Patient, Please
To hear some tell it, quantum computing progress will soon stall, ushering in a "quantum winter" when big companies ice their development programs and investors stop lavishing investments on startups.
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December 14, 2022 at 07:33PM
Intel Quantum Wisdom: Think Quantum is Powerful? You’re Right. Think it will Happen Soon. You’re Mistaken!
Currently, Intel doesn’t have a quantum processor that potential users can access. In the fall, it launched a new quantum software development kit and simulator. Sometime in 2023, Intel plans to debut its first QPU, a 12-qubit device, and to provide access to early developers. Is Intel behind in the race to develop quantum computers, you ask? A resounding ‘No’ is James Clarke’s answer. In fact, says Clarke, Intel director of quantum hardware, Intel is playing the tortoise in the familiar hare-and-tortoise fable.
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December 14, 2022 at 07:33PM
Classiq Research Shows Huge Quantum Computing Momentum, Market Potential
TEL AVIV, December 14, 2022--(BUSINESS WIRE)--New research from Classiq, the leader in quantum software, indicates that companies understand the tremendous economic opportunities that quantum computing represents and across sectors are hiring or planning to hire quantum talent.
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December 14, 2022 at 07:33PM
Quantum security and crypto agility
At Q2B this year, I had the pleasure of moderating a quantum security panel with experts from Sandbox AQ, Air Force Research Labs, National Institute of Standards (NIST), and Boston Consulting Group. Insights from this panel are worth sharing.
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December 14, 2022 at 07:33PM
By chemists for chemists — Introducing InQuanto™ 2.0
When we launched InQuanto™, our computational chemistry platform for quantum computing, we explained that its origins lay at least as much with our industrial partners as it did with us.
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December 14, 2022 at 08:38PM
Introducing Qiskit Algorithms With Qiskit Primitives!
By Dariusz Lasecki and Stefan Wörner. The latest release of Qiskit Terra introduced the Qiskit primitive programs as a new way to interact with quantum computers.
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December 15, 2022 at 07:36AM
Solving Optimization Problems With A Quantum Computer Is Surprisingly Easy
You can access the dataset used in this post on Kaggle under the Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) license. Suppose you have a computation-intensive task. For instance, you aim to train the GPT-3 from scratch. But you don't want to wait a few hundred years for the training to be complete.
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December 15, 2022 at 10:31AM
Quantum variational algorithms are swamped with traps
One of the most important properties of classical neural networks is how surprisingly trainable they are, though their training algorithms typically rely on optimizing complicated, nonconvex loss functions.
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December 15, 2022 at 10:31AM
Aegiq launches 'Project U-Quant' in partnership with the University of Exeter to help power space communications
Aegiq launches project U-Quant, a quantum communication development for satellite and tactical payloads in partnership with the University of Exeter.
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December 15, 2022 at 10:30PM
SpinQ Introduces Trio of Portable Quantum Computers
Switch-Science has just announced a trio of quantum computing products that the company claims are the world's first portable quantum computers.
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December 16, 2022 at 07:37AM
Review: Q-CTRL Fire Opal
I was privileged to participate in Fire Opal’s pre-beta, but it wasn’t publicly available for my various projects. While waiting for its official release, therefore, I had to mimic its functionality to the extent I could.
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December 16, 2022 at 07:37AM
Traxpay and Arqit to issue “quantum-secure” digital trade finance instruments
Supply chain finance platform Traxpay has inked an agreement with Arqit, a provider of encryption security technology, to develop digital trade finance instruments that cannot be hacked by quantum computing.
London-headquartered Arqit says efforts to digitise trade documents and processes, including upcoming legal reforms in the UK, could help unlock a multi-trillion dollar global market for supply chain finance.
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December 16, 2022 at 09:30AM
BosonQ Psi has released the BQPhy™ Alpha and will be available for early access in Jan 2023
BosonQ Psi (BQP) has released the alpha version of the world’s first Quantum-powered computer-aided engineering (CAE) software suite - BQPhy™ and early access will be provided to a limited set of users for a pilot run in the first half of January 2023.
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December 16, 2022 at 11:34AM
via Pocket https://www.bosonqpsi.com/post/bqphy-alpha-release
New X9 Report Demystifies Quantum Computing Risks
ANNAPOLIS, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Accredited Standards Committee X9 Inc. (X9) today announced that it has published an updated version of its Informative Report titled "Quantum Computing Risks to the Financial Services Industry," denoted X9.IR-F01-2022.
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December 16, 2022 at 05:34PM
Enabling useful quantum advantage in near-term quantum computers
Quantum computers are here to stay. In ten years from now, they will be widely adopted by many industries, as was the case for transistors and lasers invented during the first quantum revolution.
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December 17, 2022 at 09:31AM
Global Quantum Intelligence (GQI) created to support industry players better understand Quantum Computing Technology.
Global Quantum Intelligence (GQI), a dedicated market and business intelligence firm rooted in quantum technology, has recently launched and is currently serving significant vendors and users, governments, and investors interested in gathering authoritative intelligence to guide business policy, and
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December 17, 2022 at 09:31AM
Quantum Communicational Advantage
The recent paper “SupercheQ: Quantum Advantage for Distributed Databases” left me headscratching, but I thank the Infleqtion team for helping me sort my synapses.
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December 17, 2022 at 09:31AM
Video: Quantum Ethics: Who’s responsibility is it anyway? | Ilana Wisby, CEO, Oxford Quantum Circuits
World's Top 50 Innovators 2022 @Codex London, 26-28 September Quantum Computing session Ilana Wisby, CEO, Oxford Quantum Circuits Quantum Ethics: Who’s responsibility is it anyway? #T50 #CodexTalks #quantum #quantumcomputing #quantumtechnology #tech #innovation #future
Flexible Cryogenic Cables Simplify Quantum Computer Design
Delft Circuits announced its inclusion in the BICEP project in Antarctica, supporting NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) at the California Institute of Technology and other project partners.
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December 17, 2022 at 08:30PM