The Week in Quantum Computing - January 30th
Issue #123
The Week in Quantum Computing. Brought to you by Sergio Gago (@piratecto).
Quick Recap
1 month into the year and we have already hit Time’s cover magazine (ok, so did Theranos, but bear with me). The community is a bit divided with the implications of Time’s article, perhaps too much on the hype side but also a clear statement on how mainstream QC is getting. Two French startups raised capital this week. Welinq with a pre-seed round of €5M and Pasqal with €100M, to make a big push on neutral atoms. Xanadu also received $40M from the Canadian government as a push on their quantum strategy. All this fits with a study on QC patents, where the patented developments have multiplied almost by 10x in the last decade. On the cybersecurity side, Fujitsu published a series of tests on the RSA decryption that we have discussed in this newsletter several times, right on time for Kipu Quantum to release their pre-print on how to improve further on B. Yan et al research from December. They claim a success probability increase by a factor of 6 using a non-hybrid digitized-counterdiabatic quantum factorization (DCQF) algorithm.
The Week in Quantum Computing
Quantum computing infrastructure startup Welinq raises €5M pre-seed funding
Welinq SAS, a French startup that’s building quantum interconnects based on neutral atom technology, said today it has raised €5 million ($5.4 million) in a pre-seed round of funding.
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January 23, 2023 at 12:31PM
Fujitsu quantum simulator assesses vulnerability of RSA cryptosystem to potential quantum computer cryptography threat
TOKYO, Jan 23, 2023 - (JCN Newswire) - As concerns mount surrounding the potential threat posed by quantum computing to existing cryptographic methods, Fujitsu today revealed that it conducted successful trials to evaluate the widely-used RSA cryptosystem (1) for possible vulnerability to code-crack
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January 23, 2023 at 12:31PM
Disentangling quantum emulation and quantum simulation
In the quantum computing realm, there’s often some confusion with simple technical lingua. For example, in many general audience publications, you can read that ‘quantum cryptography’ is one application of future quantum computers.
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January 23, 2023 at 10:30PM
Xanadu to receive $40 million from Ottawa to advance quantum computer development
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to announce a $40 million contribution Monday to a Toronto startup that has taken a lead in the global race to develop a superpowered quantum computer, according to a person familiar with the situation. Government Xanadu Quantum Technologies Inc.
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January 24, 2023 at 07:31AM
Why Post Quantum Cryptography Can’t Protect Stolen Data
Denis Mandich, a former CIA officer specializing in cybersecurity, is the co-founder and CTO of Qrypt, a company that offers a mathematically proven cybersecurity solution that aims to protect against the harvest now, decrypt later, threat. In this Q&A, Mandich reveals the scale of the threat to data security and what can be done about it.
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January 24, 2023 at 07:31AM
PASQAL Raises €100 Million Series B Funding to Advance Neutral Atoms Quantum Computing
Founded on Nobel Prize-winning research, PASQAL set to deliver major commercial advantages over classical computers by 2024 with latest investment round Paris, January 24, 2023 - PASQAL, a leader in neutral atoms quantum computing, today announced it secured a €100 million equity Series B raise le
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January 24, 2023 at 07:31AM
Quantum computing technologies on the rise
Today the EPO published a patent insight report on quantum computing. It is the second in a series of EPO patent insight reports related to quantum technologies Over the last decade or so, many large technology companies have been heavily invested in developing quantum computing technologies.
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January 25, 2023 at 01:30PM
Quantum computing : Two real-world experiments conducted by Crédit Agricole CIB...
These two experiments, initiated in June 2021 by Crédit Agricole CIB, aimed to evaluate the contribution of an algorithmic approach inspired by quantum computing, and the potential of quantum computers for finance, in two areas: the valuation of financial products, and the assessment of credit risk
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January 26, 2023 at 06:32PM
Quantum Computers Could Solve Countless Problems—And Create a Lot of New Ones
At IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center in New York State’s Westchester County, scientists always keep a box of dental floss—Reach is the preferred brand—close by in case they need to tinker with their oil-drum-size quantum computers, the latest of which can complete certain tasks millions of times as fast as your laptop.
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January 26, 2023 at 09:31PM
Quantum computer solves protein puzzle
Together with researchers at Sweden's Lund University, he has now gone one step further and taken the problem of protein folding to a quantum computer. D-Wave's quantum annealer JUPSI of the quantum computer user facility JUNIQ at Forschungszentrum Jülich has more than 5,000 qubits and is the first device of this size outside North America. In an interview, Sandipan Mohanty gives insight into the pioneering work.
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January 27, 2023 at 12:30AM
The Worldwide Photonic Integrated Circuit Industry is Expected to Reach $25.22 Billion by 2027
DUBLIN, /PRNewswire/ -- The "Photonic Integrated Circuit Market: Global Industry Trends, Share, Size, Growth, Opportunity and Forecast 2022-2027" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The global photonic integrated circuit market reached a value of US$ 7.
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January 27, 2023 at 11:32AM
Paper Digitized-counterdiabatic quantum factorization
We factorize a 48-bit integer using 10 trapped-ion qubits on a Quantinuum's quantum computer. This result outperforms the recent achievement by B. Yan et al., arXiv:2212.12372 (2022), increasing the success probability by a factor of 6 with a non-hybrid digitized-counterdiabatic quantum factorization (DCQF) algorithm. We expect better results with hybrid DCQF methods on our path to factoring RSA-64, RSA-128, and RSA-2048 in this NISQ era, where the latter case may need digital-analog quantum computing (DAQC) encoding.
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January 27, 2023 at 11:32AM
Quantum Computing's Beautiful Accidents
On an early November day in 1895, Wilhelm Röntgen, professor of Physics in Wurzburg, Bavaria, altered the future of medicine for the better. But not because of what he originally set out to do. In fact, what he actually discovered did not match what he wanted to discover.
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January 27, 2023 at 11:35PM
More Money, More Guidance for Quantum Information Science R&D
The Pentagon wants a qualitatively superior force – one that can sense, analyze data collected by sensors, and target opponents more rapidly and precisely. Quantum Information Science is part of how it plans to create that force.
Over the past several months, both the White House and Congress have taken steps to advance Quantum Information Science R&D and reduce related cybersecurity risks.
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January 28, 2023 at 10:31AM