The Week in Quantum Computing - February 8th
Issue #22
The Week in Quantum Computing. Brought to you by Sergio Gago (@piratecto) and The Quantum World Association.
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Quick Recap
Several big announcements happened this week. We started with the release of the Azure quantum cloud, that provides an ecosystem of providers, Q# language tools and SDKs in a similar way AWS did a few months back with BraKet.
A few days later IBM announces their revamped version of last year’s roadmap where they go beyond the promised qubits getting into co-design, tooling and frameworks. A clear direction for both OpenQASM and Qiskit.
A word of caution here: We have seen how the (classical) Open Source game has been played so far (Affero licenses anyone?) could something similar happen to this hardware providers owning key SDKs for quantum development?
Still, pretty exciting times. Which brings a well deserved call to action on ethics (see below) while countries lock in their positions in the industry
(https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2021/02/quantum-development-roadmap/)
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Unitary Fund & QOSF Wittek price winner announced:
Roger Luo is the 2020 Winner of the Wittek Quantum Prize for Open Source Software for his work on Yao.jl and several other projects. The prize has been awarded by the Quantum Open Source Foundation (QOSF) in collaboration with Unitary Fund, reviewing over 50 candidatures from a worldwide community.
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The Summary of the Week
Qubit Zoo
The Qubit Zoo is home to the qubits and quantum gates you submit. Before acceptance into the zoo, you can see new quanimals in New. Racing Qubits tells some of the stories behind the qubits.
Link: https://ift.tt/2L33qn8
January 31, 2021 at 03:33PM
A curious observer’s guide to quantum mechanics, pt. 4: Looking at the stars
One of the quietest revolutions of our current century has been the entry of quantum mechanics into our everyday technology. It used to be that quantum effects were confined to physics laboratories and delicate experiments.
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January 31, 2021 at 08:33PM
Infineon joins GeQCoS quantum computing project
Infineon is working in the joint project “German Quantum Computer based on Superconducting Qubits” (GeQCoS) together with Walther Meißner Institute (WMI) of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Technical University of Munich, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), the Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), the Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ) and the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics (IAF).
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February 01, 2021 at 10:33AM
Announcing the Winner of the 2020 Wittek Quantum Prize for Open Source Software
Roger Luo is the 2020 Winner of the Wittek Quantum Prize for Open Source Software for his work on Yao.jl and several other projects. The prize has been awarded by the Quantum Open Source Foundation (QOSF) in collaboration with Unitary Fund, reviewing over 50 candidatures from a worldwide community.
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February 01, 2021 at 06:33PM
Azure Quantum is now in Public Preview
Azure Quantum, the world’s first full-stack, public cloud ecosystem for quantum solutions, is now open for business.
Link: https://ift.tt/36zMpse
February 01, 2021 at 08:33PM
Quantum Ethics | A Call to Action
The Quantum Daily is proud to release Quantum Ethics: A Call to Action. This mini-documentary is meant to raise awareness and generate discussion about the ethical decisions that face society in the quantum era. This community-driven, solutions-based video relies on quantum experts and thought leade
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One Company Could Own the Quantum Product Spectrum
In the current quantum computing landscape, there are hardware and software providers with the most prominent players doing both. While the shakeout on which of these companies will become the prominent won’t even begin for a few years yet, there are some companies that have some significant advantages across the quantum spectrum. By spectrum, we mean the wide-ranging applications of quantum technology, from global positioning and navigation all the way to solving complex, scalable optimization problems.
The first in this category is Honeywell, which has the advantage of owning the supply chain of technology assets (from refrigeration units to control logic) to produce quantum systems from other businesses
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February 02, 2021 at 08:33AM
HLRS Sequoia Project to Bring Quantum Computing to Industry
Jan. 29, 2021 — HLRS will help develop new software for quantum computers and investigate ways to integrate them with conventional systems for high-performance computing and artificial intelligence.
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February 02, 2021 at 10:33AM
A co-design framework of neural networks and quantum circuits towards quantum advantage
Despite the pursuit of quantum advantages in various applications, the power of quantum computers in executing neural network has mostly remained unknown, primarily due to a missing tool that effectively designs a neural network suitable for quantum circuit.
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February 02, 2021 at 10:33AM
AQT and collaborators demonstrate 24 qubit entanglement
January 2021: We at AQT are thrilled to share that the first research paper on our compact ion-trap quantum computing demonstrator is now available on the arXiv, demonstrating 24 qubit GHZ entanglement in a room-temperature setup housed in two 19-inch racks.
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February 04, 2021 at 08:33AM
Aliro Joins the Center for Quantum Networks (CQN) Industry Advisory Board to Lay the Foundations for a Commercially-Available Quantum Internet
BOSTON, /PRNewswire/ -- Aliro Quantum, the leading quantum networking company, announces today that it has joined the Center for Quantum Networks (CQN) Industry Advisory Board.
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February 04, 2021 at 09:33AM
Quantum physics gives brain-sensing MEG scanners a boost – Physics World
Novel technology in healthcare based on fundamental physics saves millions of lives every year but while these machines have revolutionized medicine, the next generation must meet even greater challenges.
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February 04, 2021 at 09:33AM
IBM quantum computing development roadmap envisions applications running 100 times faster
Even as the hype around quantum computing continues to build, plenty of skeptical voices have emerged questioning the lofty predictions and growing venture capital pouring into the sector.
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February 04, 2021 at 01:33PM
New EU Quantum Flagship consortium launches a project on silicon spin qubits as a platform for large-scale quantum computing
The QLSI project brings together 19 top European groups to focus on developing highly scalable quantum processors in silicon, and marks a recent addition to the EU’s Quantum Flagship a 10-year, €1 Billion R&D initiative launched in 2018 THE NETHERLANDS, 4 FEBRUARY 2021 – A European consortium
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February 04, 2021 at 09:33PM
Quantum systems learn joint computing
The two qubit modules (red atom between two blue mirrors) that have been interconnected to implement a basic quantum computation (depicted as light blue symbol) over a distance of 60 meters. The modules reside in different laboratories of the same building and are connected by an optical fiber.
Link: https://ift.tt/3rlUysr
February 05, 2021 at 03:33PM
How Quantum Computers Could Cut Millions Of Miles From Supply Chains And Transform Logistics
Christopher Savoie, Ph.D., is the CEO and founder of Zapata Computing. He is a published scholar in medicine, biochemistry and computer science. UPS drivers almost never turn left. For decades, this was intuitively understood by drivers.
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February 05, 2021 at 09:33PM
Quantumtech TU/e literally going underground
Physicist Servaas Kokkelmans, director of QT/e and project leader of quantum computing, is excited about the new building. "The absence of influences such as sunlight or above-ground temperature fluctuations is paramount for our interference-sensitive experiments.
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February 06, 2021 at 09:33AM
China's Origin Quantum has raised funds to catch up with IBM
BEIJING -- Chinese quantum computing company Origin Quantum has raised additional funds in a Series A funding round in its bid to catch up with such leading players in the field as IBM and Google.
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February 06, 2021 at 09:33AM