The Week in Quantum Computing - July 4th - qBraid, PlanQC, routers for quantum internet, Argonne and Fermilab

Issue #94

Jul 4, 2022

The Week in Quantum Computing. Brought to you by Sergio Gago (@piratecto). This week Sponsored by QCentroid.

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Quick Recap

Energy optimization and sustainability become one of the key pillars for QC. The Quantum Internet gets closer, first with a proposal for a proper router (remember quantum states can’t be copied… or.. can they?) And Argonne and Fermilab achieving the best synchronizity for quantum data transfer. A double tap in error correction between Rigetti and Riverlane (in addition to what we saw last week). Planqc raises €4,6M and qBraid integrates with AWS Braket.

The Week in Quantum Computing

Quantum Computing Could Solve the World’s Energy Crisis

Since you’re paying $6 a gallon for gas at your local pump, you already know this. But I’ll say it anyway: The world is facing a massive energy crisis. What you may not know, though, is that one technology holds the key to solving it.

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June 26, 2022 at 09:30AM

The Metaphysics of Quantum Computing

When I created this blog, my stated purpose was to follow Quantum Computing (QC) from the perspective of an investor. To date, I have generally posted blogs that either covered technical aspects of QC (e.g.

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June 26, 2022 at 09:30AM

Riverlane and Rigetti Computing launch partnership to tackle error correction on superconducting quantum computers

Error correction is the single greatest challenge to unlock quantum’s full potential Innovate UK providing £500k initial funding per its mission to fund ‘disruptive and game changing R&D’ Project will specifically focus on ‘syndrome extraction’, a crucial step in solving the error correct

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June 27, 2022 at 09:30AM

Quantum Error Correction: Time to Make It Work

Dates chiseled into an ancient tombstone have more in common with the data in your phone or laptop than you may realize. They both involve conventional, classical information, carried by hardware that is relatively immune to errors.

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June 27, 2022 at 09:30AM

NRL unveils DC-QNet

To advance quantum network capabilities and leadership, the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) announced work with five other U.S.

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June 28, 2022 at 05:30PM

Quantum network between two national labs achieves record synch

Editor’s note: Below is a press release jointly issued by Fermilab and Argonne National Laboratory. The world awaits quantum technology. Quantum computing is expected to solve complex problems that current, or classical, computing cannot.

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June 28, 2022 at 08:30PM

Simulating a PhD

Seems like job hunting in QC is in the zeitgeist recently1, because both Olivia Lanes and Michał Stęchły have written recently about various facets of getting a job in quantum computing. If you’re an outsider like I was, you should give these both a read.

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June 28, 2022 at 09:30PM

Paper: Integral Transforms in a Physics-Informed (Quantum) Neural Network setting: Applications & Use-Cases

In many computational problems in engineering and science, function or model differentiation is essential, but also integration is needed. An important class of computational problems include so-called integro-differential equations which include both integrals and derivatives of a function. In another example, stochastic differential equations can be written in terms of a partial differential equation of a probability density function of the stochastic variable. To learn characteristics of the stochastic variable based on the density function, specific integral transforms, namely moments, of the density function need to be calculated. Recently, the machine learning paradigm of Physics-Informed Neural Networks emerged with increasing popularity as a method to solve differential equations by leveraging automatic differentiation. In this work, we propose to augment the paradigm of Physics-Informed Neural Networks with automatic integration in order to compute complex integral transforms on trained solutions, and to solve integro-differential equations where integrals are computed on-the-fly during training. Furthermore, we showcase the techniques in various application settings, numerically simulating quantum computer-based neural networks as well as classical neural networks.

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June 29, 2022 at 10:30AM

QuSecure Awarded Coveted SBIR Phase III Federal Government Procurement Contract for Post-Quantum Cybersecurity Solutions

Industry's First Phase III Designation for Post-Quantum Cybersecurity Continues Federal Government's Aggressive Moves to Address Current Cyber and Future Post-Quantum Threats QuSecure™, Inc., a leader in post-quantum cybersecurity (PQC), today announced the U.S.

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June 30, 2022 at 06:30PM

qBraid Announces qBraid SDK Integrated with Amazon Braket on qBraid Lab

Chicago, IL – [Channel] – June 29, 2022 – qBraid, a provider of a cloud-based Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for quantum computing, is excited to release a Software Development Kit (SDK) in its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform “qBraid Lab” hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS)

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June 30, 2022 at 08:30PM

Quantum Monte Carlo for Economics: Stress Testing and Macroeconomic Deep Learning

Computational methods both open the frontiers of economic analysis and serve as a bottleneck in what can be achieved. Using the quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) algorithm, we are the first to study whether quantum computing can improve the run time of economic applications and challenges in doing so.

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June 30, 2022 at 08:30PM

Former RAF airfield in Perth & Kinross to lead fight against cyberattacks

This optical ground station project represents a total investment of around £1.1 million from the Quantum Communications Hub, funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, Heriot-Watt University and Dundee Satellite Station (DSS).

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July 01, 2022 at 08:30AM

planqc Emerges From Stealth, Raises €4.6M To Build Neutral Atom Quantum Computer

Quantum computing startup planqc today announced a financing round of EUR 4.6 million led by UVC Partners and Speedinvest. With this funding, planqc will develop a highly scalable quantum computer operating at room temperature that is based on atoms trapped in optical lattices.

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July 01, 2022 at 08:30AM

A quantum router architecture for high-fidelity entanglement flows in quantum networks

The past decade has seen tremendous progress in experimentally realizing the building blocks of quantum repeaters.

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July 01, 2022 at 09:30AM

QUANTUM INTERNET SEEMS POSSIBLE! QUBITS CAN BE READ WITHOUT BEING DESTROYED

Qubits are the building blocks of quantum computers, but they are also extremely fragile. Generally, scientists use it to read and extract information, but sometimes qubits tend to break down in the process. But new research conducted by experts from the University of Colorado Boulder and the National Institute of Standards and Technology reveals that professionals can take a leap forward while handling qubits, without the risk of breaking them. This new research gives hopes for a future driven by quantum internet.

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July 01, 2022 at 12:30PM