The Week in Quantum Computing - February 27th
Issue #127
The Week in Quantum Computing. Brought to you by Sergio Gago (@piratecto).
Quick Recap
Google has demonstrated a key milestone in quantum error correction, with their quantum computer reaching an error-correcting milestone demonstrating the viability of logical qubits. This is the beginning since once now they have to “build” it, but a great step along the way. Quantum Motion raised over £42 million in equity funding led by Bosch Ventures. Quantinuum set an industry record on quantum volume, and QuantumWare launched technology that makes superconducting quantum computers massively scalable. AI power analysis has broken the post-quantum security algorithm (using a side / hardware attack, so the algorithm is not completely lost, but that leaves only 2 ‘uncompromised’ algorithms from NIST. Hamburg is banking on quantum computers to become an international hotspot of quantum technology. Pasqal has launched a simulator of neutral atoms based on tensor networks and Quside is launching with EY the “Quantum Network initiative”.
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Mobile World Congress 2023
I will be at the Quantum Technologies session at MWC / 4FYN this year in Barcelona. If you are attending, please come to our sessions on March 1st.
Then in the evening, Quantum Barcelona, InnoIT and Barcelona Technology School - Quantum Applications Course invite you to a Quantum Beers Meetup.
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The Week in Quantum Computing
2023 could be the breakthrough year for quantum computing
2022 has been a dynamic year for quantum computing. With commercial breakthroughs such as the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) investing in its first quantum computer, the launch of the world’s first quantum computer capable of advantage over the cloud and the Nobel Prize in Physics awarded for ground-breaking experiments with entangled photons, the industry is making progress.
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February 19, 2023 at 02:30PM
Quantum Computing Has a Noise Problem
Quantum computers have a huge problem. Or, to be more accurate, lots of incredibly tiny ones. These futuristic devices promise to revolutionize everything from the financial industry to drug discovery by tapping into the power of quantum uncertainty—instead of using bits like your laptop or phone does, quantum computers use qubits, which means they’ll be able to perform certain tasks much more quickly than traditional computers and may be better at simulating natural processes.
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February 21, 2023 at 08:30AM
Quantum Motion Raises £42 Million Investment Round Led By Bosch Ventures
London, UK. 21 February 2023 – Quantum Motion, a UK-based quantum computing scale-up founded by Professor John Morton, UCL, and Professor Simon Benjamin, Oxford University, has raised over £42 million in equity funding from some of the world’s leading quantum and technology investors.
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February 21, 2023 at 09:30AM
Hamburg banking on quantum computers
Hamburg has set its sights on becoming an international hotspot of quantum technology. Alternative research fields include quantum communication, quantum sensor technology and quantum materials. The Hamburg Quantum Innovation Capital (HQIC) initiative, launched in May, networks all the relevant stakeholders, co-ordinates projects along the entire value chain and acts as a cross-industry contact for all kinds of queries
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February 21, 2023 at 01:30PM
AI power analysis breaks post-quantum security algorithm
One of the key post quantum security algorithms agreed as the latest standard has been broken by Swedish researchers. The CRYSTALS-Kyber algorithm was chosen last year as part of the standards by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for encapsulating data as protection from attack by quantum computers. The researchers at the […]
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February 21, 2023 at 01:30PM
Quside products deployed in EY’s Quantum Resistant Network Initiative
Barcelona, 21st February 2023. Quside, a leading provider of advanced randomness solutions, is proud to announce that our products are being used in the Quantum Resistant Network, a global project led by EY and Hades.
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February 22, 2023 at 07:30AM
The first on-demand service to simulate neutral atoms quantum processors
Our novel emulator, EMU-TN, is based on Tensor Networks, an approach that improves how the quantum dynamics escalate with the number of qubits, while reproducing accurate results.
Tensor networks are powerful structures we can use to represent complex quantum systems in an efficient manner. They are based on the concept of tensors—multi-dimensional arrays of numbers—which are used to compress the information that represents the quantum system. Even as the system size grows, useful properties of the ‘true’ quantum system can be efficiently computed using a series of specialized algorithms.
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February 22, 2023 at 11:30AM
Google’s quantum computer reached an error-correcting milestone
Scientists now have demonstrated a key milestone in quantum error correction. Scaling up the number of qubits in a logical qubit can make it less error-prone, researchers at Google report February 22 in Nature. The new advance doesn’t mean researchers are ready to build a fully error-corrected quantum computer, “however, it does demonstrate that it is indeed possible, that error correction fundamentally works,” physicist Julian Kelly of Google Quantum AI said in a news briefing February 21.
Original paper on Nature
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February 22, 2023 at 06:30PM
QuantWare launches technology that makes superconducting quantum computers massively scalable
DELFT, THE NETHERLANDS - QuantWare, the leading provider of large-scale superconducting quantum processors, has launched Tenor, a new processor which features a massively scalable technology and enables quantum computers with 64 fully controllable qubits to be built commercially.
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February 23, 2023 at 03:30PM
Quantinuum Sets Industry Record for Hardware Performance with New Quantum Volume Milestone
Quantinuum, the world's largest standalone integrated quantum computing company, today announced its H1 generation quantum processors set two performance records in quick succession, with its H1-1 achieving a quantum volume (QV) of 16,384 (214), and then 32,768 (215). The achievements represent a high-water mark for the quantum computing industry, based on the widely recognized QV benchmark, which was originally developed by IBM to reflect a quantum computer's general capability.
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February 23, 2023 at 06:30PM
Breakthrough in tin-vacancy centers for quantum network applications
Quantum entanglement refers to a phenomenon in quantum mechanics in which two or more partiecome linked such that the state of each particle cannot be described independently of the others, even when they are separated by a large distance. The Sn-V center is expected to exhibit a long spin coherence time in the millisecond range at Kelvin temperatures, allowing it to maintain its quantum state for a relatively long period of time. However, these centers have yet to produce photons with similar characteristics, which is a necessary criterion for creating remote entangled quantum states between quantum network nodes.
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February 25, 2023 at 12:30PM