In Catalonia, Spain, physicist Ignacio Cirac is advocating for the development of a quantum technology hub, similar to Munich Quantum Valley. Engineers at UNSW Sydney have been able encoding quantum information in four unique ways within a single antimony atom inside a silicon chip. Finland continues to push in the quantum computing ecosystem with companies like IQM and SemiQon. IQM just set new benchmarks on its 20-qubit quantum computer, demonstrating a two-qubit gate fidelity of 99.51% across 30 qubit pairs (not a lot on interconectivity though). In Australia, the Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre is integrating NVIDIA's CUDA Quantum platform into its National Supercomputing and Quantum Computing Innovation Hub. Also in Australia NEC and D-Wave are also expanding their quantum offerings to the market through a partnership. South Carolina has made a substantial $15 million investment in quantum computing, marking the state's largest-ever tech initiative. While the Governor of Illinois adds $500M to their quantum budget. It seems the US has an internal “quantum civil war” to get both federal and state funding.Zapata, the Quantum company that went all AI in collaboration with Insilico Medicine, the University of Toronto, and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, developed a generative model running on quantum hardware potentially outperforming classical models in generating viable cancer drug candidates. AI/ML also helps companies like Q-Ctrl in error reduction and circuit optimization. Researchers have also used AI (AlphaTensor) to reduce the number of T-Gates in a circuit. All fantastic examples on how AI can help Quantum. But Quantum inspired methods can also help with AI explainability in a new paper from Multiverse. For now, quantum inspired because a lot of the errors come from cosmit rays. A group of researchers from MIT found that cosmic rays are responsible for nearly a fifth of all difficult-to-correct errors in quantum computers. Lastly, and connecting with the MWC in Barcelona, a solid PQC strategy seems to be fundamental. Singapore government warns their banks to start their PQC strategy and Apple just released a post quantum secure update to iMessage, adding PQ3 in their encryption mechanisms. Apple has been traditionally silent in quantum and this is the first push they make on this giving a mainstream encryption to all their devices.
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The Week in Quantum Computing - February 26th…
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In Catalonia, Spain, physicist Ignacio Cirac is advocating for the development of a quantum technology hub, similar to Munich Quantum Valley. Engineers at UNSW Sydney have been able encoding quantum information in four unique ways within a single antimony atom inside a silicon chip. Finland continues to push in the quantum computing ecosystem with companies like IQM and SemiQon. IQM just set new benchmarks on its 20-qubit quantum computer, demonstrating a two-qubit gate fidelity of 99.51% across 30 qubit pairs (not a lot on interconectivity though). In Australia, the Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre is integrating NVIDIA's CUDA Quantum platform into its National Supercomputing and Quantum Computing Innovation Hub. Also in Australia NEC and D-Wave are also expanding their quantum offerings to the market through a partnership. South Carolina has made a substantial $15 million investment in quantum computing, marking the state's largest-ever tech initiative. While the Governor of Illinois adds $500M to their quantum budget. It seems the US has an internal “quantum civil war” to get both federal and state funding.Zapata, the Quantum company that went all AI in collaboration with Insilico Medicine, the University of Toronto, and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, developed a generative model running on quantum hardware potentially outperforming classical models in generating viable cancer drug candidates. AI/ML also helps companies like Q-Ctrl in error reduction and circuit optimization. Researchers have also used AI (AlphaTensor) to reduce the number of T-Gates in a circuit. All fantastic examples on how AI can help Quantum. But Quantum inspired methods can also help with AI explainability in a new paper from Multiverse. For now, quantum inspired because a lot of the errors come from cosmit rays. A group of researchers from MIT found that cosmic rays are responsible for nearly a fifth of all difficult-to-correct errors in quantum computers. Lastly, and connecting with the MWC in Barcelona, a solid PQC strategy seems to be fundamental. Singapore government warns their banks to start their PQC strategy and Apple just released a post quantum secure update to iMessage, adding PQ3 in their encryption mechanisms. Apple has been traditionally silent in quantum and this is the first push they make on this giving a mainstream encryption to all their devices.