The Week in Quantum Computing - July 3rd
Issue #142
The Week in Quantum Computing. Brought to you by Sergio Gago (@piratecto).
Quick Recap
I like the smell of quantum in the morning! QuEra published the paper with all the details on its latest device called Aquila, a 256-qubit neutral-atom quantum computer available through AWS Braket. Aquila operates as an analog Hamiltonian simulator and offers programmable coherent quantum dynamics on its user-configurable architecture. Meanwhile, Microsoft has achieved a significant milestone towards developing a quantum supercomputer. In a virtual event called Azure Quantum: Accelerating Scientific Discovery, Satya Nadella, Microsoft's CEO, expressed the company's goal to compress 250 years of chemistry and materials science progress into the next 25. This breakthrough holds promise for accelerating scientific research and innovation in various fields.
Finnish company Algorithmiq secured €13.7 million in Series A funding to further develop noise-resilient quantum algorithms for drug discovery and development, while Q-CTRL, a global leader in quantum technologies, is constructing a state-of-the-art quantum tech facility in Sydney, Australia, as its new headquarters. Progress has been made in quantum encryption and quantum batteries. Toshiba Europe and Orange announced a significant breakthrough in securing network communications against increasingly powerful cyber attacks. Meanwhile, an Israeli startup has revolutionized digital security with a "keyless" encryption scheme, and Planckian, an Italian startup, secured over €2.7 million in funding to advance quantum battery technology based on solid-state energy governed by quantum mechanics.
The Week in Quantum Computing
Paper: Aquila: QuEra's 256-qubit neutral-atom quantum computer
The neutral-atom quantum computer "Aquila" is QuEra's latest device available through the Braket cloud service on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Aquila is a "field-programmable qubit array" (FPQA) operated as an analog Hamiltonian simulator on a user-configurable architecture, executing programmable coherent quantum dynamics on up to 256 neutral-atom qubits. This whitepaper serves as an overview of Aquila and its capabilities: how it works under the hood, key performance benchmarks, and examples that demonstrate some quintessential applications. This includes an overview of neutral-atom quantum computing, as well as five examples of increasing complexity from single-qubit dynamics to combinatorial optimization, implemented on Aquila. This whitepaper is intended for readers who are interested in learning more about neutral-atom quantum computing, as a guide for those who are ready to start using Aquila, and as a reference point for its performance as an analog quantum computer.
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June 25, 2023 at 11:30AM
gottfriedsz/falsehoods-quantum
Common misconceptions about quantum technology and computers. Quantum computers will destroy the internet.
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June 25, 2023 at 11:30AM
Microsoft achieves first milestone towards a quantum supercomputer
In the virtual event, Azure Quantum: Accelerating Scientific Discovery, our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella said it best, “Our goal is to compress the next 250 years of chemistry and materials science progress into the next 25.
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June 25, 2023 at 11:30AM
Explaining the Infinite Potential of Quantum Computing in Rather Funny English (No Math)
In quantum physics, at the infinitesimally small Planck scale, we encounter a captivating and mind-boggling reality that challenges our conventional understanding.
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June 26, 2023 at 10:30AM
Q-CTRL Breaks Ground on New Global Headquarters in Sydney the First Commercial Facility in Australia Dedicated to Quantum Tech
SYDNEY, June 27, 2023 — Q-CTRL, a global leader in developing useful quantum technologies through quantum control infrastructure software, today announced it is building a new global headquarters in Sydney for an ever-growing team to accelerate innovation in the quantum technology space. Q-CTRL’s new HQ will be the first standalone commercial quantum technology facility in the country and exemplifies Australia’s leading role in the industry.
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June 27, 2023 at 09:30AM
Quantum Ready "Keyless" Encryption Scheme by enCryptofire
Petah Tikva, Israel, June 27, 2023 --(PR.com)-- A "keyless" encryption scheme, designed to reset the world of digital security, has been developed by an Israeli startup based in Petah Tikva.
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June 27, 2023 at 09:30AM
With a fresh 13.7 million in hand Algorithmiq is poised to access the inaccessible in the world of drug discovery and development
Finland’s quantum-computing-based software developer Algorithmiq has raised €13.7 million in a Series A funding round. Developing noise-resilient quantum algorithms specifically attuned to the drug discovery and development market, Algorithmiq says that it will use the funding to further advance its collaborations with pharmaceutical companies around the globe. Ultimately, the company is honing in on delivering a proof-of-concept that will make for "a useful quantum advantage".
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June 27, 2023 at 10:30AM
Four Ways To Reinvigorate The Quantum Computing Industry
Dr. Pravir Malik is the founder and chief technologist of QIQuantum and the Forbes Technology Council group leader for Quantum Computing. There have been a number of articles recently questioning the value being created by the quantum industry.
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June 27, 2023 at 08:30PM
NEC Corporation: Tohoku University and NEC start joint research on computer systems using a newly developed 8-qubit quantum annealing machine
TOKYO, June 28, 2023 - (JCN Newswire) - Tohoku University and NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) have started joint research on computer systems using an 8-qubit quantum annealing machine developed by NEC and Japan's new windowNational Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST).
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June 28, 2023 at 09:30AM
Quantum woo: how to avoid mystical nonsense when doing physics outreach
Engaging with the public is often part of the job description for academic physicists and many undertake outreach activities such as writing popular science books, podcasting or even making music videos. In this episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast I meet a condensed-matter physicist who has done all three and more. Philip Moriarty explains how he gets people excited about quantum mechanics while avoiding “quantum woo” – that heady and irrational mix of science and mysticism.
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June 28, 2023 at 11:30PM
New superconducting state could be significant for quantum computing future
Researchers at the Macroscopic Quantum Matter Group laboratory in University College Cork (UCC) have discovered a spatially modulating superconducting state in a new and unusual superconductor, uranium ditelluride (UTe2). This new superconductor may provide a solution to one of quantum computing's greatest challenges. Their findings have been published in Nature.
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June 28, 2023 at 11:30PM
Corporate collaboration bolsters quantum encryption
Toshiba Europe and global telecommunications corporation Orange say they have achieved a significant advance in securing network communications from ever-more powerful computer attacks.
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June 28, 2023 at 11:30PM
The path to a quantum network: Erbium dopants stimulated to emit single photons
A single dopant in a nanophotonic silicon chip is used to generate photons at a wavelength that is compatible with existing optical fiber infrastructure. Credit: C.
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June 29, 2023 at 04:30PM
Finnish scaleup grabs $15M series A to propel quantum-powered drug discovery and development revolution
Helsinki-based scaleup Algorithmiq has received $15 million in a series A round led by Inventure.
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June 29, 2023 at 06:30PM
Italys Planckian has raised 2.7 million to develop quantum batteries
Pisa-based startup Planckian has raised over €2.7 million in a pre-seed funding round aimed at developing solid-state energy technology governed by quantum mechanics.
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June 29, 2023 at 06:30PM
Deloitte and the World Economic Forum collaborate to launch the Quantum Readiness Toolkit actionable guidance to inspire safe technological transitions
Forecasting unprecedented challenges to cybersecurity amid accelerating quantum computing developments, the Quantum Readiness Toolkit provides organizations with resources to help stay ahead of threats NEW YORK, /PRNewswire/ -- Today, in collaboration with Deloitte, the World Economic Forum (The Fo
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June 29, 2023 at 06:30PM
Paper: MNISQ: A Large-Scale Quantum Circuit Dataset for Machine Learning on/for Quantum Computers in the NISQ era
We introduce the first large-scale dataset, MNISQ, for both the Quantum and the Classical Machine Learning community during the Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum era. MNISQ consists of 4,950,000 data points organized in 9 subdatasets. Building our dataset from the quantum encoding of classical information (e.g., MNIST dataset), we deliver a dataset in a dual form: in quantum form, as circuits, and in classical form, as quantum circuit descriptions (quantum programming language, QASM). In fact, also the Machine Learning research related to quantum computers undertakes a dual challenge: enhancing machine learning exploiting the power of quantum computers, while also leveraging state-of-the-art classical machine learning methodologies to help the advancement of quantum computing. Therefore, we perform circuit classification on our dataset, tackling the task with both quantum and classical models. In the quantum endeavor, we test our circuit dataset with Quantum Kernel methods, and we show excellent results up to 97% accuracy. In the classical world, the underlying quantum mechanical structures within the quantum circuit data are not trivial. Nevertheless, we test our dataset on three classical models: Structured State Space sequence model (S4), Transformer and LSTM. In particular, the S4 model applied on the tokenized QASM sequences reaches an impressive 77% accuracy. These findings illustrate that quantum circuit-related datasets are likely to be quantum advantageous, but also that state-of-the-art machine learning methodologies can competently classify and recognize quantum circuits. We finally entrust the quantum and classical machine learning community the fundamental challenge to build more quantum-classical datasets like ours and to build future benchmarks from our experiments. The dataset is accessible on GitHub and its circuits are easily run in qulacs or qiskit.
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June 30, 2023 at 10:30AM
PASQAL, Qunova Computing, and POSCO Holdings Collaborate on Quantum Computing Solutions for Traditional Steelmaking and Material Development
June 29, 2023 — POSCO Holdings, a South Korean steel company, has decided to cooperate with the French company PASQAL and the Korean company Qunova Computing in developing quantum computing technologies, anticipating the development of innovative technologies needed for the group’s future growth business.
POSCO Holdings New Experience of Technology Hub plans to conduct research and development of quantum AI algorithms jointly with PASQAL. The two companies plan to focus their capabilities on developing innovative technologies, such as optimizing the eco-friendly steelmaking process and developing secondary battery materials by combining POSCO Group’s AI technology and PASQAL’s quantum computer technology.
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June 30, 2023 at 08:30PM
NIST to Withdraw Special Publication 800-67 Revision 2 June 29 2023
NIST will withdraw Special Publication (SP) 800-67 Revision 2, Recommendation for the Triple Data Encryption Algorithm (TDEA) Block Cipher, on January 1, 2024.
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July 01, 2023 at 12:30AM
Terra Quantum acquires divis intelligent solutions to accelerate development and application of classical and hybrid quantum algorithms
Acquisition of divis intelligent solutions is a major step to leverage quantum computing capabilities for complex analytical challenges.
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July 01, 2023 at 12:30AM
Quantinuum H-Series quantum computer accelerates through 3 more performance records for quantum volume: 217 218 and 219
In the last 6 months, Quantinuum H-Series hardware has demonstrated explosive performance improvement. Quantinuum’s System Model H1-1, Powered by Honeywell, has demonstrated going from 214 = 16,384 quantum volume (QV) announced in February 2023 to now 219 = 524,288, with all the details and data released on our GitHub repository for full transparency. At a quantum volume of 524,288, H1-1 is 1000x higher than the next best reported quantum volume.
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July 01, 2023 at 01:31PM
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What skills do you need to start a career in quantum?
Quantum tech is perhaps not as well-known as other areas of tech, but there is no doubt that its influence is growing – and that means it is a good area to look into if you’re an ambitious person with an aptitude for computers and maths.
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July 01, 2023 at 11:30PM