The Week in Quantum Computing - November 21st
Issue #114
The Week in Quantum Computing. Brought to you by Sergio Gago (@piratecto).
Quick Recap
For real, how many qubits do we really need? That is the question of this week that Azure tries to solve with their resource estimator (hint: a lot). Russ does a review on the quantum space race. Germany continues its push for a quantum cloud and Riverlane makes a breakthrough in error correction. SandboxAQ partners with US Air Force for delivering quantum cryptography while Google tries to deploy their own PQC algorithm ahead of NIST.
IQM, Open Ocean and Lakestar have released their State of Quantum 2022 report with great findings.
70% of business leaders are using and developing real-life use cases for quantum computing.
61% of business leaders are planning to invest $1 million or more in quantum computing over the next 3 years.
63% of business leaders believe that commercialised quantum computing will hit the market in 5 years.
76% of business leaders agreed that there is a skills crisis in quantum computing: slowing innovation and needing to be addressed as a priority.
61% of business leaders said the hardware costs of running quantum computing are currently not sustainable.
Only 10% of firms are cautious that quantum computing will ever be functional for everyday usage.
However I would take this data with a pinch of salt. Similar to Zapata’s report last year that claimed companies spent on average $1M/year in quantum, the sample taken for this survey is small and biased. The data was collected from 174 survey respondents on a great work by TQI and the analysis of their own dataset. Which has a very specific target. So we can’t really generalize that 61% of business leaders in the world are planning to invest that amount of money. While I wisht that was true, a different sample would yield much different results.
The Tweet of the week:
The Week in Quantum Computing
Germany to Create Its First Quantum Computing Business Cloud
The German government is investing tens of millions in a consortium to help businesses benefit from the latest supercomputer technology.
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November 14, 2022 at 04:30PM
Into The Unknown: For Quantum Computing Startups The Challenge Is Finding The Use Cases
Quantum computing. It’s a term that most of us are familiar with and yet very few people - if pushed - could provide an adequate explanation of what quantum computers will actually do once the technology makes the jump from interesting research to more-or-less mainstream and useful tool.
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November 14, 2022 at 08:30PM
EDF, Exaion Inc., PASQAL and the Quantum Innovation Zone Bring High-Performance Computing and Quantum Technologies to the Forefront of Energy Solutions
SHERBROOKE, QC, Nov. 15, 2022 /CNW Telbec/ - EDF, Exaion Inc., PASQAL and the Quantum Innovation Zone are joining forces to create the first open center of excellence to develop sustainable energy solutions using the combined capabilities of HPC and quantum computing.
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November 15, 2022 at 07:30PM
Can post-quantum encryption save the internet?
The future of privacy online begins and ends with the demise of public key cryptography. Mathematical riddles shared between two nodes in a network, modern encryption techniques would take trillions of years for your everyday ‘classical’ computer to crack.
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November 16, 2022 at 03:30AM
Available Today: Azure Quantum Resource Estimator empowers you to create algorithms for quantum at scale
Microsoft Azure Quantum Resource Estimator enables quantum innovators to develop and refine algorithms to run on tomorrow’s scaled quantum computers. This new tool is one way Microsoft empowers innovators to have breakthrough impact with quantum at scale.
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November 16, 2022 at 03:30AM
Paving the Way for Satellite Quantum Communications
Few things have captured the scientific imagination quite like the vastness of space and the promise of quantum technology. Micius—the Chinese Academy of Science’s quantum communications satellite launched in 2016—has connected these two inspiring domains, producing a string of exciting first demonstrations in quantum space communications. Reviewing the efforts leading up to the satellite launch and the major outcomes of the mission, Jian-Wei Pan and colleagues at the University of Science and Technology of China provide a perspective on what the future of quantum space communications may look like [1]. The success of this quantum-satellite mission proves the viability of several space-based quantum communications protocols, providing a solid foundation for future improvements that may lead to an Earth-spanning quantum communications network (Fig. 1).
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November 16, 2022 at 04:30AM
The unimon, a new qubit to boost quantum computers for useful applications
Of all the different approaches to build useful quantum computers, superconducting qubits are in the lead. However, the qubit designs and techniques currently used do not yet provide high enough performance for practical applications.
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November 16, 2022 at 04:30AM
OpenOcean–IQM-Lakestar State of Quantum 2022: 63% of Business Leaders Believe Commercialised Quantum Computing to Hit Market in Five Years
Insider Brief OpenOcean–IQM-Lakestar State of Quantum 2022 Report, in association with The Quantum Insider (TQI), points to a robust belief in the viability of quantum computing to solve real-world, but extremely challenging computational problems.
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November 16, 2022 at 01:30PM
Gurobi 10.0 Delivers Blazing-Fast Speed, Innovative Data Science Integration, and an Enterprise Development and Deployment Experience
BEAVERTON, Ore. – November 14, 2022 – Gurobi Optimization, LLC, the leader in decision intelligence technology, today announced the release of Gurobi Optimizer 10.0.
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November 17, 2022 at 12:30AM
Entanglement, Inc. Announces the Launch of SeQure, Inc., Its First Spin-out Company Focused on Commercializing Novel Zero-trust Enterprise Cybersecurity and Data Observability Capabilities, Validated by the United States Army
SeQure's first product is 1000x faster than existing systems and more accurate. DALLAS, /PRNewswire/ -- Entanglement Inc., a next-generation computing and AI company, announces the launch of SeQure, Inc.
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November 17, 2022 at 12:30AM
Probing a nonequilibrium phase transition with a quantum computer
One of the most promising and impactful applications of quantum computers, with the potential to reshape scientific and industrial pursuits such as the discovery of novel materials or the design of medicines, is the simulation of quantum mechanical systems.
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November 17, 2022 at 01:30PM
Alice & Bob tests Azure Quantum Resource Estimator, highlighting the need for fault-tolerant qubits
At Alice & Bob, we meet many companies looking to understand when Quantum Computing can help them.
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November 17, 2022 at 07:30PM
Atos and IQM partner up in quantum simulation
Paris, France –November 16, 2022 – Atos and IQM today announce the signature of a partnership to deliver end-to-end quantum computing technologies and capabilities, as part of the Group’s hybrid computing strategy.
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November 18, 2022 at 10:31PM
Dell Technologies Advances High Performance Computing and AI with Dell PowerEdge Servers and Dell APEX Innovation
Dell Technologies (NYSE:DELL) expands its high performance computing (HPC) portfolio, offering powerful solutions to help organizations quickly innovate with confidence.
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November 18, 2022 at 10:31PM
The Quantum Space Race
Some have described the rapidly accelerating global push in Quantum Computing as a figurative “space race” given the potential reach of its computational power and its applications in drug development, logistics, material science, and its potential ability to overpower existing encryption techni
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November 19, 2022 at 09:30AM
Quantum Error Detection by Riverlane, another breakthrough for Quantum Computing
Riverlane, the pioneering quantum engineering company, has announced its breakthrough on the very first error “decoding” technology, that will power the initial batch of “error-corrected” quantum computers, the decoding hardware has the ability to handle far more qubits than ever.
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November 19, 2022 at 03:30PM
Paper: Assessing requirements to scale to practical quantum advantage
While quantum computers promise to solve some scientifically and commercially valuable problems thought intractable for classical machines, delivering on this promise will require a large-scale quantum machine. Understanding the impact of architecture design choices for a scaled quantum stack for specific applications, prior to full realization of the quantum system, is an important open challenge. To this end, we develop a framework for quantum resource estimation, abstracting the layers of the stack, to estimate resources required across these layers for large-scale quantum applications. Using a tool that implements this framework, we assess three scaled quantum applications and find that hundreds of thousands to millions of physical qubits are needed to achieve practical quantum advantage. We identify three qubit parameters, namely size, speed, and controllability, that are critical at scale to rendering these applications practical. A goal of our work is to accelerate progress towards practical quantum advantage by enabling the broader community to explore design choices across the stack, from algorithms to qubits..
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November 19, 2022 at 08:30PM
Securing tomorrow today: Why Google now protects its internal communications from quantum threats
With the PQC standards by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) still pending, rolling out quantum-resistant cryptography can currently only happen on an ephemeral basis, where the exchanged data is used once and never needed anymore.
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November 19, 2022 at 09:30PM
Preparing for quantum cryptography, U.S Air Force partners up with SandboxAQ
The clock is ticking for public key encryption. With researchers anticipating that quantum computers will be able to decrypt public key algorithms as soon as 2030, organizations are under increasing pressure to find quantum-resistant algorithms to protect their data from threat actors.
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November 19, 2022 at 10:30PM
Errata: taking place*, not taking plaing