The Week in Quantum Computing - November 8th
The Week in Quantum Computing - November 8th
The Week in Quantum Computing. Brought to you by Sergio Gago and The Quantum World Association.
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Quick Recap
Another series A this week, this time $32M for ColdQuanta. Additional developments in superconducting qubits and the announcement of a Quantum Computing course by CERN. Clear indicators that the race is picking up on the three main fronts: 1. Build better, scalable, noiseless qubits. 2. Develop an ecosystem and a talent pool of multidisciplinar proffesionals and 3. Develop success cases that convince both top executives and investors that this is the way for the future in Quantum.
Featured Content
Is mathematics invented or discovered? By Sir Roger Penrose:
Bonus track to dig deeper into it: https://watchnebula.com/videos/up-and-atom-is-mathematics-invented-or-discovered
Can Quantum Computers help the steel industry? As it turns out that is a big yes.
Events / Webinars and other stuff happening
Chicago Quantum Summit - November 11th - 13th
More on Quantum Machine Learning: Quantum Barcelona announces the next two events. Quantum Machine Learning (November 25th). And for those new in the field: Quantum Computing and Qiskit for Dummies (November 18th)
QBN Webinar: Quantum Computing for Material Science & Pharma - 09.11.2020 15:00 - 17:15h
Quantum Computing and Qiskit for Dummies - By QuantumBarcelona - November 18th. 18h CET.
The Summary of the Week
An Ion Trap Quantum Computer On-The-Go
Ion traps currently have the leading edge in terms of qubit quality, amassing broken records and “world’s-firsts” for qubit fidelity and multiqubit error correction. Recently it has culminated in the first fault tolerant demonstration of a logical qubit.
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November 01, 2020 at 04:33PM
IonQ Unveils New Quantum Data Center
IonQ, the leader in quantum computing, today announced the opening of its new Quantum Data Center. In addition to IonQ's current space, the 23,000 square foot Quantum Data Center, strategically located in Maryland's Discovery District, will house IonQ's existing state of the art quantum computers. This will significantly expedite the development of future, more powerful quantum computers for commercial use.
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November 02, 2020 at 09:33AM
Video: Best Quantum Computing Courses from EdX, MITx, Coursera, and FutureLearn
I’m going to cover some of the top rated quantum computing courses, quantum mechanics courses, and quantum machine learning courses from EdX, Coursera, FutureLearn, and the MITx Pro professional certificate, both short courses and courses that can get you actual credit hours towards a masters degr
Video:
Sydney united to build a Quantum Harbour City
Workng together: from left, Professor Andrew Dzurak (UNSW), Dr Bas Hensen (UNSW), Anderson West (UNSW), Dr Alexis Jouan (University of Sydney), Professor David Reilly (University of Sydney). Photo by Nyasha Nyakuengama/UNSW. Sydney is fast becoming recognised as the global destination for quantum technology. Research teams at the University of Sydney and UNSW are finding that cooperation alongside competition provide a fertile ground for advancement.
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November 02, 2020 at 10:33PM
Paper: The power of quantum neural networks
Amira Abbas, David Sutter, Christa Zoufal, Aurélien Lucchi, Alessio Figalli, Stefan Woerner.
Fault-tolerant quantum computers offer the promise of dramatically improving machine learning through speed-ups in computation or improved model scalability. In the near-term, however, the benefits of quantum machine learning are not so clear. Understanding expressibility and trainability of quantum models-and quantum neural networks in particular-requires further investigation. In this work, we use tools from information geometry to define a notion of expressibility for quantum and classical models. The effective dimension, which depends on the Fisher information, is used to prove a novel generalisation bound and establish a robust measure of expressibility. We show that quantum neural networks are able to achieve a significantly better effective dimension than comparable classical neural networks. To then assess the trainability of quantum models, we connect the Fisher information spectrum to barren plateaus, the problem of vanishing gradients. Importantly, certain quantum neural networks can show resilience to this phenomenon and train faster than classical models due to their favourable optimisation landscapes, captured by a more evenly spread Fisher information spectrum. Our work is the first to demonstrate that well-designed quantum neural networks offer an advantage over classical neural networks through a higher effective dimension and faster training ability, which we verify on real quantum hardware.
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November 03, 2020 at 08:33AM
01 Communique Signs a Co-operation agreement with PwC to Implement Quantum-Safe IronCAP Cryptography Technology
TORONTO, ON / ACCESSWIRE / November 2, 2020 / 01 Communique Laboratory Inc. ("01 Communique") (TSX-V:ONE)(OTCQB:OONEF) today announced it has entered into a joint business relationship with PwC, one of the world's leading professional services firm, to bring post-quantum cryptography technology and its related services to enterprise customers.
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November 04, 2020 at 12:33AM
Paper: Software modernization to embrace quantum technology
Authors: RicardoPérez-Castillo, Manuel A.Serrano, MarioPiattini. Quantum Computing is becoming an increasingly mature area, with a simultaneous escalation of investment in many sectors. Quantum technology will revolutionize all the engineering fields. For example, companies will need to add quantum computing progressively to some or all of their daily operations.
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November 04, 2020 at 11:33AM
Quantum computing ramps up in private sector
In the early days of quantum computing research, people working in the field routinely encountered skepticism. Twenty years ago eminent physicists told Susan Coppersmith, a theoretical physicist now at the University of New South Wales in Australia, that she was “wasting her time and that quantum computing would never work because of [the difficulties of] error correction.” But advances have led to a gradual shift in attitudes.
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November 05, 2020 at 10:35AM
Scientists manipulate the properties of quantum dots
Scientists at the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (MEPhI) have demonstrated an increase in the intensity and emission rate of quantum dots.
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November 05, 2020 at 09:33PM
Physicists develop efficient modem for a future quantum internet
The Garching quantum modem: The crystal disk with the quantum bits of erbium atoms (arrows) is in the middle, the back and forth reflected infrared light is indicated by the red disks.
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November 06, 2020 at 12:33AM
CERN offers introductory lectures on quantum computing starting 6 November
A series of weekly lectures on the basics of quantum computing will be broadcast via webcast starting 6 November 2020 at 10.30 a.m. New lectures will be broadcast each Friday of the next seven weeks.
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November 06, 2020 at 12:33AM
An accessible intro to quantum computing for CIOs
Any modern-day CIO who has been keeping an alert eye on the latest trends will, at some point, have come across quantum technologies.
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November 06, 2020 at 05:34PM
New Kind of Superconductivity Discovered: Researchers Demonstrate a Superconductor Previously Thought Impossible
Superconductivity is a phenomenon where an electric circuit loses its resistance and becomes extremely efficient under certain conditions. There are different ways in which this can happen which were thought to be incompatible.
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November 07, 2020 at 10:33AM
ColdQuanta Raises $32M in Series A Funding to Accelerate Development of Quantum Systems
BOULDER, Colorado – November 5, 2020 – ColdQuanta, the quantum atomics company, today announced it has raised $32M in Series A funding, with additional funding expected to close soon.
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November 07, 2020 at 11:33AM