The problem with releasing a newsletter on Mondays, is that when someone breaks the mold on tuesday you have to bite your tongue for 6 days. THANK YOU GOOGLE. Munich Quantum Valley is set to transition from research to commercial applications in 2024, with a robust team of 70 principal investigators and 400 scientists. SpinMagIC, a start-up from the University of Stuttgart, is advancing quantum sensor technology for the food industry, supported by Germany's Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection. The National Reconstruction Fund Corporation's $13 million investment in Quantum Brilliance aims to establish a quantum diamond foundry in Australia. Nvidia, Rigetti, and Quantum Machines have made progress by using AI to automate the calibration of quantum systems, a crucial step towards scalable quantum computing. Also collaborating with Nvidia, Infleqtion's delivery of the first materials science application powered by logical qubit. Research by Vladyslav Bohun and colleagues on matrix product state methods and a study on Quantum Reservoir Computing for drug discovery highlight the expanding scope of quantum applications. Quantinuum has also released a system with 50 logical qubits and 98% fidelity running a GHZ state.And yes: Google unveiled its latest quantum chip, Willow, which promises exponential error reduction and the potential to outperform supercomputers in specific tasks. Google claimed two things (well, three if you count the many worlds computation interpretation). 1. That they computed “something” in 5 minutes that otherwise it would take 10 septillion years (don’t bother counting the numbers). And 2. They have built an error correcting code that escales with the number of qubits. I.e. now we can build corrected qubits as long as we figure out how to condense fabrication properly. (Note on 1: Yeah, random circuit sampling, i.e. a completely useless benchmark problem that solves nothing). Don’t get me wrong. This is impressive and a key stepstone in the journey towards FTQC. But we still have a long ways to go. Seeing the media just taking on the multivese and the septillions, misses the point.
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The Week in Quantum Computing - December 16th…
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The problem with releasing a newsletter on Mondays, is that when someone breaks the mold on tuesday you have to bite your tongue for 6 days. THANK YOU GOOGLE. Munich Quantum Valley is set to transition from research to commercial applications in 2024, with a robust team of 70 principal investigators and 400 scientists. SpinMagIC, a start-up from the University of Stuttgart, is advancing quantum sensor technology for the food industry, supported by Germany's Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection. The National Reconstruction Fund Corporation's $13 million investment in Quantum Brilliance aims to establish a quantum diamond foundry in Australia. Nvidia, Rigetti, and Quantum Machines have made progress by using AI to automate the calibration of quantum systems, a crucial step towards scalable quantum computing. Also collaborating with Nvidia, Infleqtion's delivery of the first materials science application powered by logical qubit. Research by Vladyslav Bohun and colleagues on matrix product state methods and a study on Quantum Reservoir Computing for drug discovery highlight the expanding scope of quantum applications. Quantinuum has also released a system with 50 logical qubits and 98% fidelity running a GHZ state.And yes: Google unveiled its latest quantum chip, Willow, which promises exponential error reduction and the potential to outperform supercomputers in specific tasks. Google claimed two things (well, three if you count the many worlds computation interpretation). 1. That they computed “something” in 5 minutes that otherwise it would take 10 septillion years (don’t bother counting the numbers). And 2. They have built an error correcting code that escales with the number of qubits. I.e. now we can build corrected qubits as long as we figure out how to condense fabrication properly. (Note on 1: Yeah, random circuit sampling, i.e. a completely useless benchmark problem that solves nothing). Don’t get me wrong. This is impressive and a key stepstone in the journey towards FTQC. But we still have a long ways to go. Seeing the media just taking on the multivese and the septillions, misses the point.