The Week in Quantum Computing - May 30th - Q-Cat, QPhoton, Qlimate, Teleportation gets Real, so does error correction
The Week in Quantum Computing - May 30th - Q-Cat, QPhoton, Qlimate, Teleportation gets Real, so does error correction
Issue #89
The Week in Quantum Computing. Brought to you by Sergio Gago (@piratecto). This week Sponsored by Artificial Brain and QCentroid.
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Quick Recap
Let’s be honest. Some weeks are amazing, some others a bit fluff. Except in Quantum, where every week there is a major milestone. Now, the last week can be framed for posterity. Not only we got the QPhoton acquisition by Quantum Computing Inc. the Qlimate initiative by PsiQuantum putting their $$$ at work, or the official launch of Q-Cat. The brightest minds in Quantum got together to discuss what is ahead of our theory, our experiments and ultimately what the industry can do. Surely some of these names will be recognized in a hundred years as the ones in the picture below.
Composition credits by Mikel Kurek
But that is not all. The team at Delft has finally achieved the teleportation of a quantum state (information) over a normal channel, which paves the way for the saught quantum internet. And at the same time the team at Inssbruck has succeded at creating a universal gate in a logic qubit. This means, error-free quantum computation is now a reality. Is this a big thing? IT IS. you just have to throw your algorithm to one of the current computers to start crying at the results due to the low fidelity and high error rates of the different gates we apply. Until now. We have also seen a logic n-Toffoli gate, which is critical to create entanglement. What else? The Qiskit summer school for this year is open, and a great summary by TQI on the best open source tools for coding Quantum. Enjoy the week!
After Solvay, this thread by John Preskill is a must read:
The Week in Quantum Computing
Apocalypse now? What quantum computing can learn from AI
A few years ago, many people imagined a world run by robots. The promises and challenges associated with artificial intelligence (AI) were widely discussed as this technology moved out of the labs and into the mainstream. Many of these predictions seemed contradictory.
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May 23, 2022 at 12:30PM
Qunnect awarded $1.85M from US Department of Energy to support Quantum Repeater Commercialization
BROOKLYN, N.Y., May 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Qunnect, INC., a Quantum Networking company, was awarded two SBIR awards from the US Department of Energy totaling $1.85M. These awards further the development and commercialization of the company's Quantum Repeater product suite. When complete, this collection of devices supports the next generation of quantum-secure communication protocols to distribute entanglement, a unique quantum property of light, over long distances, serving as the foundation for the Quantum Internet.
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May 24, 2022 at 07:30AM
A new quantum antenna will help bring 5G to 100% of the population
This quantum antenna uses what are known as excited atoms to produce higher sensitivity than conventional radio antennas.
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May 24, 2022 at 07:30AM
Quantinuum's new platform brings quantum chemistry to industry
Chemists at BMW, for instance, have been using quantum chemistry to simulate electrode reactions in hydrogen fuel cells, with the ultimate aim of designing catalytic converters that aren't based on platinum.
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May 24, 2022 at 09:30AM
Quantum circuit architecture search for variational quantum algorithms
Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) are expected to be a path to quantum advantages on noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices.
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May 24, 2022 at 11:30AM
Qbits for Climate: How Quantum Computing Can Video: Have a Gigaton Impact on Decarbonization | DLD 22
The DLD Conference channel features all talks held at past conferences and our digital format DLD Sync as well as the highlights of our events.
What are quantum computers good for?
Spoiler: they’re not meant to compute “1+1=2”. In the last 42 years, quantum computing has gone from theoretical speculations to the implementation of machines that can solve problems beyond what is possible with classical means.
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May 24, 2022 at 02:30PM
Quantum Catalyzer (Q-Cat) launches in Maryland to bring promising quantum technologies to the real world
COLLEGE PARK, MD – May 24, 2022 – A new company in the heart of Maryland’s research corridor, Quantum Catalyzer (Q-Cat), is on a mission — to create and grow successful quantum technology start-ups.
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May 24, 2022 at 05:30PM
Quantum Computing Inc. Announces Agreement To Acquire QPhoton Delivering First Commercially Available, Ready-to-Run Full-Stack Quantum Solutions
LEESBURG, Va., May 24, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Quantum Computing Inc. ("QCI'' or the "Company") (QUBT) , a leader in accessible quantum computing software, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire QPhoton, a quantum photonics innovation company that has developed a series of quantum photonic systems (QPS). The acquisition of QPhoton extends QCI's offerings to accelerate the accessibility of quantum computing, and other powerful technologies, into easily deployable solutions today, and advances QCI into a full-spectrum quantum software and hardware company.
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May 24, 2022 at 05:30PM
Back to the Future: Protecting Against Quantum Computing
The previous two years have proven the importance of proactively working to secure our data, especially as organizations underwent digital transformations and suffered increased cyberattacks as a result.
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May 24, 2022 at 05:30PM
Breakthrough in Quantum Universal Gate Sets: A High-Fidelity iToffoli Gate
High-fidelity quantum logic gates applied to quantum bits (qubits) are the basic building blocks of programmable quantum circuits. Researchers at the Advanced Quantum Testbed (AQT) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) conducted the first experimental demonstration of a three-qubit high-fidelity iToffoli native gate in a superconducting quantum information processor and in a single step.
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May 24, 2022 at 10:30PM
Game: Quantum Rescue
In this puzzle/adventure video game, Ada wants to rescue her pet Bell and to achieve that, Ada must learn to solve quantum circuit puzzles, by finding the necessary quantum gates while exploring the paths that will lead her to the villain Alby's mansion. SPOILER ALERT! Solutions to puzzles here.
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May 25, 2022 at 08:30AM
‘Beam Me Up:’ Nation’s First Quantum Drone Provides Unrivaled Security
Florida Atlantic University’s Warner A. Miller, Ph.D., in concert with Qubitekk and L3Harris , is leading the United States’ efforts to deliver the first drone-based, mobile quantum network to seamlessly maneuver around buildings, inclement weather and terrain and quickly adapt to changing environments such as warfare.
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May 25, 2022 at 05:30PM
‘Quantum Internet’ Inches Closer With Advance in Data Teleportation
Scientists have improved their ability to send quantum information across distant computers — and have taken another step toward the network of the future. From Santa Barbara, Calif.
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May 26, 2022 at 05:30PM
PsiQuantum Announces Qlimate Initiative Developing Breakthrough Climate Technologies Enabled by Quantum Computing
PALO ALTO, Calif., May 26, 2022--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PsiQuantum, the company that’s building the world’s first utility-scale quantum computer, today at Davos announced Qlimate.
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May 26, 2022 at 05:30PM
Researchers teleport quantum information across rudimentary quantum network
Researchers in Delft have succeeded in teleporting quantum information across a rudimentary network. This first of its kind is an important step towards a future quantum Internet.
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May 26, 2022 at 06:30PM
Error-free quantum computing gets real
The team led by Thomas Monz of the Department of Experimental Physics at the University of Innsbruck and Markus Müller of RWTH Aachen University and Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany has now succeeded for the first time in realizing a set of computational operations on two logical quantum bits that can be used to implement any possible operation. "For a real-world quantum computer, we need a universal set of gates with which we can program all algorithms," explains Lukas Postler, an experimental physicist from Innsbruck.
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May 26, 2022 at 06:30PM
Top 35 Open Source Quantum Computing Tools in 2022
To do a job properly, you need the right tools for the job — that’s a given in area profession you can think of. And in the Quantum Computing (QC) industry is no different.
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May 28, 2022 at 06:30PM