The Week in Quantum Computing - June 7th
Issue #39
The Week in Quantum Computing. Brought to you by Sergio Gago (@piratecto) and The Quantum World Association.
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Quick Recap
210M pounds for an AI and Quantum computing center in the UK. Great interview on ACM with Scott Aaronson reducing the hype. A group at ICFO in Barcelona realizes breakthrough in quantum communication and memories. Japan starts consortium led by Toshiba. New approaches for NP Hard problems that could realize quantum advantage (maybe!).
Google has a very beautiful infography that shows their adventure in the Quantum World and it is a great entry point to the industry.
The Quote of the Week
"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible." Arthur C. Clarke - science-fiction writer, science writer, futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host.
Featured Content
Who is doing what on security? Great summary by https://www.thequantuminsider.com/
The problems of undecidability in classical and quantum information: This thread has a plethora of papers that can get you hooked for weeks:
The Summary of the Week
Our quantum computing journey – Google Quantum AI
A useful, error-corrected quantum computer is within reach for humanity. There's still a lot of work to do, but we think we might be able to accomplish our goal within the decade. Learn more about what it will take.
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May 31, 2021 at 06:33PM
A Quantum Leap for Quantum Computing
UC Riverside will lead collaborative effort at developing scalable quantum computers. The University of California, Riverside, has won a University of California Multicampus-National Lab Collaborative Research and Training Award of $3.
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May 31, 2021 at 07:33PM
Qu&Co announces multi-year research collaboration with Janssen Pharmaceuticals
Amsterdam, 31 May 2021 - Qu&Co announces multi-year research collaboration with Janssen Pharmaceuticals to develop and test quantum computational methods for applications in pharma R&D Qu&Co, a European quantum computational software developer and Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., one of th...
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May 31, 2021 at 08:33PM
Canada must act fast to prepare for the quantum age
Canada has been an early global leader in quantum research, but its ecosystem resembles a house of cards consisting of small injections of funds with ambiguous strategic purpose.
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June 01, 2021 at 08:33PM
A consortium of European digital players to design the future EU quantum internet
– The European Commission has selected a consortium of companies and research institutes to study the design of the future European quantum communication network, EuroQCI (quantum communication infrastructure).
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June 01, 2021 at 09:33PM
Quantum algorithm provides new approach to NP-hard problem – Physics World
Imagine a parallel universe where physicists are remunerated so handsomely that they can accumulate multitudinous assets. In this alternate universe, you naturally wish to share your good fortune, so you decide to divide your assets equally between your two non-physicist friends.
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June 01, 2021 at 10:33PM
Toshiba, Others to Form Partnership on Quantum Technology
Tokyo, June 1 (Jiji Press)--Eleven Japanese companies, including Toshiba Corp. <6502>, have said they plan to jointly launch a council this summer in a bid to create a new industry using quantum technology.
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June 01, 2021 at 10:33PM
The British company pioneering quantum secure encryption
Ian Levy, technical director at GCHQ’s National Cyber Security Centre warned in November: “A quantum computer will allow the attacker to read information that has been encrypted in the past, and forge information in the future.
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June 02, 2021 at 08:33AM
Paper + Video: A Threshold for Quantum Advantage in Derivative Pricing
[1] A. Prabha, S. Savard, and H. Wickramarachi, Deriving the Economic Impact of Derivatives, Tech. Rep. (Milken Institute, 2013). https://milkeninstitute.org/sites/default/files/reports-pdf/Derivatives-Report.pdf [2] F. Black and M.
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June 02, 2021 at 08:33AM
Thinking About A Career As A Quantum Machine Learning Engineer?
Quantum computing has the potential to be the most disruptive technology of the 21st century. It is a different form of computation that builds upon quantum mechanics, and it promises to solve problems we can’t solve with classical computers, such as the factorization of large numbers.
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June 02, 2021 at 05:33PM
Telecom-heralded entanglement between multimode solid-state quantum memories
Future quantum networks will enable the distribution of entanglement between distant locations and allow applications in quantum communication, quantum sensing and distributed quantum computation1.
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June 03, 2021 at 08:34AM
Why Software Developers Are Crucial for Improving Quantum Computers
Are you a software developer interested in getting started with Qiskit? Learn more here. Quantum computing may be the subject of 40-plus years of research, but many software developers still consider it an obscure technology that “will change the world, one day, in 10 or 20 years.
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June 03, 2021 at 08:34AM
People of ACM - Scott Aaronson
What has surprised you most about the development of quantum computing since you began working in the field?
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June 03, 2021 at 08:34PM
Peeking into the world of quantum intelligence
Intelligent beings have the ability to receive, process, store information, and based on the processed information, predict what would happen in the future and act accordingly. We, as intelligent beings, receive, process, and store classical information (0/1 bits).
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June 03, 2021 at 09:34PM
The Four Shifts Needed to Make Quantum Computing Part of Your Analytics Strategy
In this special guest feature, Christopher Savoie, Ph.D., J.D., founder and CEO of Zapata Computing, provides four necessary shifts organizations need to make to turn quantum computing from an exploration of an edge technology to production-ready technology that creates real value.
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June 05, 2021 at 10:33AM
New £210 million centre to create jobs of the future with AI and quantum computing
The Hartree National Centre for Digital Innovation (HNCDI), based at the Science and Technology Facilities Council’s (STFC) Daresbury Laboratory in the Liverpool City Region, will create vacancies for an additional 60 scientists and opportunities for students to gain invaluable hands-on experience
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June 05, 2021 at 04:33PM
24 Multinational companies empracing Quantum Tech
In Kristina LeBlanc’s insightful Atos blog post When will quantum computing become a mainstream reality? she lays bare her employer’s attitude towards quantum technology and where it’s heading. And though the post is mainly sobering and a disappointment for those who think we’ll have quantum laptops by 2025, her visions of collaborations involving the major players and startups — as well as organizations spread over various sectors that “will jumpstart their quantum development efforts” — is cause for celebration.
Link: https://thequantumdaily.com/2021/06/05/24-multinational-companies-embracing-quantum-tech/
June 05, 2021 at 09:33PM