The Week in Quantum Computing - October 3rd
Issue #107
The Week in Quantum Computing. Brought to you by Sergio Gago (@piratecto).
Quick Recap
A breakthrough in speed. Quantum does not only need amount of qubits, also coherence times, error correction and errorless gates, and speed on how we apply the gates (pulses) to it. It is a combination of many factors and we should not be carried away by the “1.000.000 qubit” concept without more information. Meanwhile Quantinuum achieves 8192 QV on their H1 device. Intel releases their Quantum SDK finally revealing some of the work they have been doing. IBM joins GSMA and Vodafone founding the Post-Quantum Telco Network Taskforce.
How much does it cost to build a Quantum Datacenter? Well you can start with $100M as Atom builds one facility at Boulder. In the meantime OQC will colocate their device at Cyxtera’s datacenter. Like in traditional ML, enough proper data is a problem, but QDataSet is the release of open large-scale datasets for QML (to be clear, this is not your typical Titanic survival dataset, but 52 sets of 1 and 2 qubit system Hamiltonian evolutions that could be used to work on quantum control, quantum spectroscopy and tomography. In short: to explain and model quantum systems. Not your cup of tea Mr. Data Scientist? Well, a group of researchers from Caltech prove how classical machine learning can be used to solve quantum systems, specially finding lowest molecular energy state (chemistry here we go). Which gives us some time until we have higher quantum volume and more qubits like the ones stated above.
Some bad news: In 2020 a study demonstrated a room temperature superconductor, which could have been amazing for several qubit architectures (bye bye dilution refrigerators). But like many things with science, as we advance and more people look into it, apparently has been debunked.
Is it time to stop thinking in circuits when designing algorithms? Michał Stęchły thinks it is!
Can Quantum Computing really help with Climate Change? A fantastic anti-hype thread:
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Meta-ethics of quantum technologies
Quantum science is important to study the minutest detail of physical matter and technologies derived from it carry immense disruptive power. The atom bomb, lasers, and semiconductors are a few of the first outcomes of quantum mechanics. These technology translations accounted for the “first generation” of quantum applications. While lasers and the atom bomb were breakthroughs in the mid-20th century, the “second generation” looks at designing materials that were earlier extracted from nature to manipulate them using quantum computers.
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September 25, 2022 at 05:30PM
Let’s move beyond circuits!
Last week I attended IEEE Quantum Week conference in Colorado. Out of all the wonderful conversations, presentations and discussions, there is one thought that felt particularly important, which I encapsulated in this tweet:
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September 26, 2022 at 05:30PM
The Quest For A Quantum Network
Security CEO and founder of Safe Quantum Inc., working with data-driven companies to define, develop and deploy quantum-safe technologies. As a quantum-enabled future continues to develop, we can say with some certainty that a fully functional quantum internet is still years away.
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September 26, 2022 at 11:30PM
‘Something is seriously wrong’: Room-temperature superconductivity study retracted
In 2020, Ranga Dias, a physicist at the University of Rochester, and his colleagues published a sensational result in Nature, featured on its cover. They claimed to have discovered a room-temperature superconductor: a material in which electric current flows frictionlessly without any need for special cooling systems. Although it was just a speck of carbon, sulfur, and hydrogen forged under extreme pressures, the hope was that someday the material would lead to variants that would enable lossless electricity grids and inexpensive magnets for MRI machines, maglev railways, atom smashers, and fusion reactors. Faith in the result is now evaporating. On Monday Nature retracted the study
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September 27, 2022 at 08:30AM
Quantum technology reaches unprecedented control over captured light
Researchers in quantum technology at Chalmers University of Technology have succeeded in developing a technique to control quantum states of light in a three-dimensional cavity.
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September 27, 2022 at 10:30AM
Boot strapping K-12 Quantum Education Programs. How to teach “Quantum” to the new workforce.
Multiple sessions at IEEE Quantum Week, which was held September 18-23, 2022, in Colorado, USA, discussed the development of a future, diverse quantum workforce. But, these sessions each discussed different aspects of that workforce development.
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September 27, 2022 at 02:31PM
Classical machine learning techniques make useful predictions about quantum materials
There has been a lot of buzz about quantum computers and for good reason. The futuristic computers are designed to mimic what happens in nature at microscopic scales, which means they have the power to better understand the quantum realm and speed up the discovery of new materials, including pharmaceuticals, environmentally friendly chemicals, and more. However, experts say viable quantum computers are still a decade away or more. What are researchers to do in the meantime?
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September 27, 2022 at 03:30PM
Quantinuum Sets New Record with Highest Ever Quantum Volume
Simpler, faster and fewer errors: How arbitrary angle gates help increase H1’s quantum volume New arbitrary angle gate capabilities enable increase in Quantum Volume (QV) to 8192 as Quantinuum continues to achieve its previously stated objective of increasing its QV by 10x every year; TKET down
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September 27, 2022 at 05:31PM
Introducing The Duality Quantum Accelerator, the United States first accelerator program for early stage quantum startups
Duality is United States’ first accelerator program solely dedicated to assisting early-stage quantum startups.
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September 28, 2022 at 09:30AM
ST Explains: How will quantum computing contribute to vaccine, EV development?
SINGAPORE - Singapore is stepping up its investments in quantum computing. Chiefly, it will have a foundry to develop the components and materials needed to build quantum computers to establish an ecosystem of activities in the emerging field.
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September 28, 2022 at 09:30AM
QDataSet, quantum datasets for machine learning
The availability of large-scale datasets on which to train, benchmark and test algorithms has been central to the rapid development of machine learning as a discipline.
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September 28, 2022 at 10:30AM
OQC to launch quantum computer in colocation data center
London, U.K. and Miami, FL – September 28, 2022 – Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC), Europe’s leading quantum computing company, and Cyxtera (NASDAQ: CYXT), a global leader in data center colocation and interconnection services, announced today that customers will soon have access to quantum computing-as-a-service via Cyxtera’s Reading Data Center Campus LHR3.
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September 28, 2022 at 04:30PM
Silicon Valley Up-Start, Atom Computing, Chooses Colorado to Build Next-Generation Quantum Computers
BOULDER, Colo., Sept. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Atom Computing today announced the opening of its new research and development facility in Boulder during a ceremony attended by industry and academic partners, officials from federal, state, and local government, and representatives from Colorado's Congressional delegation.
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September 29, 2022 at 09:30AM
Tracing uncertainty: Google harnesses quantum mechanics at California lab
Inside, it's minus 460 Fahrenheit (-273 Celsius) in some spots, pockets of cold that bristle with the impossible physics of quantum mechanics—a science in which things can simultaneously exist, not exist and also be something in between.
This is Google's Quantum AI laboratory, where dozens of super-smart people labor in an office kitted out with climbing walls and electric bikes to shape the next generation of computers—a generation that will be unlike anything users currently have in their pockets or offices.
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September 29, 2022 at 10:30PM
New Executive Order Directs CFIUS on Review of Covered Transactions
On September 15, President Biden issued an Executive Order on “Ensuring Robust Consideration of Evolving National Security Risks by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States” in response to “an evolving national security landscape and the nature of investments that pose related
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September 30, 2022 at 11:30AM
How IBM is helping make the world’s networks quantum safe
The GSMA today announced the formation of the GSMA Post-Quantum Telco Network Taskforce, with IBM and Vodafone as initial members, to help define policy, regulation and operator business processes for the enhanced protection of telecommunications in a future of advanced quantum computing.
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September 30, 2022 at 11:30AM
Intel’s Quantum SDK is in Beta
Intel showed off its Quantum SDK at IEEE Quantum Week, which was held September 18-23, 2022, in Colorado, USA. Unfortunately, the tutorial seems to be no longer available. But here is an outline of what was talked about.
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September 30, 2022 at 11:30AM
For the longest time: quantum computing engineers set new standard in silicon chip performance
UNSW engineers have substantially extended the time that their quantum computing processors can hold information by more than 100 times compared to previous results. Two milliseconds – or two thousandths of a second – is an extraordinarily long time in the world of quantum computing.
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September 30, 2022 at 11:30AM
Qubits surf sound waves between quantum nodes
Inspired by the functioning of pulsed lasers, scientists from France and Japan have developed an acoustic counterpart that enables the precise and controlled transmission of single electrons between quantum nodes.
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October 01, 2022 at 10:30PM