Take your coffe for this one because we have a loaded week with significant research. A breakthrough in quantum entanglement has been achieved by a large team of researchers who managed to entangle up to 60 superconducting qubits in a GHZ state. Also a new super cool way (QCrank and QBart) to encode data in quantum states pushing for parallelization. Q-Ctrl adds some light into QEC regarding the error introduction in the devices. SEALSQ Corp has announced its entry into the AI chip market, backed by an advanced AIoT strategy. Australian quantum computing startup, Diraq, has raised $15M in a Series A-2 round, bringing its total funding to over $120M. Diraq is developing quantum processors using existing chipmaking technologies, aiming to leverage the semiconductor industry’s existing infrastructure. On-chip integration of single-photon sources at room temperature has been achieved by a team from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in collaboration with Los Alamos National Laboratory and Ulm University.
The news from DiraQ and Rigetti, combined with other news of funding rounds eralier this year, hints that last years investment slump wasn't due to the general slowdown of VC funding affecting the QC market, but that the AI mania syphoned the available capital and that things are returning to normal (more or less).
Anything quantum related at (or near) room temperature is also fascinating, because it hints at this tantalizing holy grail of room temperature QC, which is awesome, not in the least because dillution refrigeration is so frigging expensive.
And topological qubits on a trapped ion QC? I know topological qubits are still a loooong way off, but damn, that stuff has promise, even if thinking about it ties my brains in knots (or was that braids?)...
Fascinating developments.
The news from DiraQ and Rigetti, combined with other news of funding rounds eralier this year, hints that last years investment slump wasn't due to the general slowdown of VC funding affecting the QC market, but that the AI mania syphoned the available capital and that things are returning to normal (more or less).
Anything quantum related at (or near) room temperature is also fascinating, because it hints at this tantalizing holy grail of room temperature QC, which is awesome, not in the least because dillution refrigeration is so frigging expensive.
And topological qubits on a trapped ion QC? I know topological qubits are still a loooong way off, but damn, that stuff has promise, even if thinking about it ties my brains in knots (or was that braids?)...