The Week in Quantum Computing - September 5th
Issue #103
The Week in Quantum Computing. Brought to you by Sergio Gago (@piratecto).
Quick Recap
The heated debate over last week’s article on the FT about the quantum computing hype and potential bubble continues with additional rebuttals. Finland and Singapore join forces, both countries have mature and advanced quantum programs as well as promising startups. Australia makes strides with their Quantum Alliance and a good opinioin letter talks about what Europe needs to do to get on par. IQM, from Finland as well partners with QphoX. Azure also talks about the same issue: Scalability. How do we connect and control thousands of qubits. As Isaac Chuang said “(Quantum Computing) is not longer a physicist’s dream, it is an engineer’s nightmare” (Chuang is the co-author with Nielsen of the book all of you should have in your bookshelves: Quantum Computation and Quantum Information).
Meanwhile, at Max Plank institute they’ve managed to entangle photons on demand, which could prove extremely useful for photonic computers. Lastly: Did you know that we already have the equivalent of Moore’s Law for Quantum?
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Quantum.Tech Europe is your chance to meet the quantum community all under one roof at Twickenham Stadium, London on 19th – 21st September. The focus of the show will be GLOBAL with case studies coming from multinational enterprises from the key centres of quantum innovation including Tokyo, California, Munich, Madrid, Paris, Riyadh, and Natal.
By attending, you’ll hear from the quantum elite who have already confirmed their attendance at Quantum.Tech Europe this September including Bhushan Bonde, Head of Innovation for In-silico R&D, Drug discovery at Evotec, Sir Peter Knight, Emiretus professor at Imperial College and Jalal Mapar, Sr Advisor for Emerging Technologies Department of Homeland Security, Science and Technology Directorate. You can view the full agenda here.
The Week in Quantum Computing
Finland and Singapore's National Quantum Office ink MoU to strengthen quantum technology research cooperation
The National Quantum Office of Singapore, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, IQM Quantum Computers and CSC - IT Center for Science (Finland) agree to explore and promote research and development collaboration in the areas of quantum technologies.
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August 30, 2022 at 09:13AM
Quantum Software Components and Platforms: Overview and Quality Assessment
Manuel Serrano, José Antonio Cruz, Ricardo Pérez, and Mario Piattini, members of aQuantum has just published the paper “Quantum software components and platforms: overview and quality assessment” in the journal ACM Computing Surveys of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
This research work analyses the different existing platforms for quantum software development, both from the point of view of the principles of the Talavera Manifesto and the ISO/IEC 25010 standard.
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August 30, 2022 at 02:38PM
Quantum computing poses an existential threat to banks' security
Quantum computing is rapidly moving from sci-fi tech to the real world, and regulators and financial institutions must both have a plan in place to address soon-to-be-obsolete cybersecurity. Left unchecked, the risk is beyond systemic. For some institutions, it is existential.
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August 30, 2022 at 03:41PM
Entangled photons tailor-made
Physicists at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics have managed to entangle more than a dozen photons efficiently and in a defined way. They are thus creating a basis for a new type of quantum computer.
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August 30, 2022 at 04:39PM
Overcoming infrastructure and scaling challenges in quantum computing
From accelerating the discovery of life-saving medicines to boosting the security of financial services, quantum computing’s potential business opportunities seem limited only by the imagination. For organisations that are actively pursuing it, however, the tangible barriers quickly become clear.
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August 30, 2022 at 10:33PM
AWS Takes the Short and Long View of Quantum Computing
It is perhaps not surprising that the big cloud providers – a poor term really – have jumped into quantum computing. Amazon, Microsoft Azure, Google, and their like have steadily transformed into major technology developers, no doubt in service of their large cloud services offerings. The same is true internationally. You may not know, for example, that China’s cloud giants – Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent – also all have significant quantum development initiatives.
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August 31, 2022 at 09:30AM
Democratizing the quantum ecosystem: Microsoft’s Krysta Svore on the pathway towards a scalable quantum computer
Krysta Svore, vice-president of Microsoft Quantum, talks to Tushna Commissariat about the company’s journey to quantum advantage Krysta Svore. (Courtesy: Microsoft Corp.)Across the globe, small and large firms alike are racing to develop and launch computing technologies based on quantum physics.
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August 31, 2022 at 11:30AM
IQM Quantum Computers and QphoX Partner to Develop Optical Interface for Scaling Superconducting Quantum Processo
DELFT, The Netherlands--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dutch based quantum transduction startup QphoX and Finnish quantum computer manufacturer IQM Quantum Computers have announced a new collaboration to develop a next generation interface for scaling quantum computers.
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August 31, 2022 at 06:30PM
Simulating 44-Qubit quantum circuits using AWS ParallelCluster
Simulations are also invaluable to understand the noise resilience of quantum algorithms. Because the noise characteristics of today’s hardware prototypes often defy analytic treatment, they are instead investigated through small-scale experiments and intensive numerical modelling. Even performance evaluations of perfect noise-free quantum algorithms typically require some form of classical emulation.
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August 31, 2022 at 09:30PM
Flavors of quantum nonlocality
In this post, by I don’t mean spooky action at a distance, but instead I try to approach it from a more flexible and informal perspective. As for quantum phenomena, here is what I mean:
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September 01, 2022 at 07:30AM
Paper: AutoQML: Automatic Generation and Training of Robust Quantum-Inspired Classifiers by Using Genetic Algorithms on Grayscale Images
We propose a new hybrid system for automatically generating and training quantum-inspired classifiers on grayscale images by using multiobjective genetic algorithms. We define a dynamic fitness function to obtain the smallest possible circuit and highest accuracy on unseen data, ensuring that the proposed technique is generalizable and robust. We minimize the complexity of the generated circuits in terms of the number of entanglement gates by penalizing their appearance. We reduce the size of the images with two dimensionality reduction approaches: principal component analysis (PCA), which is encoded in the individual for optimization purpose, and a small convolutional autoencoder (CAE). These two methods are compared with one another and with a classical nonlinear approach to understand their behaviors and to ensure that the classification ability is due to the quantum circuit and not the preprocessing technique used for dimensionality reduction.
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September 01, 2022 at 09:30AM
Why 'erasure' could be key to practical quantum computing
Overview of a fault-tolerant neutral atom quantum computer using erasure conversion. a Schematic of a neutral atom quantum computer, with a plane of atoms under a microscope objective used to image fluorescence and project trapping and control fields.
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September 01, 2022 at 10:30PM
Quantum computing startups unite to drive Australia’s push to be a global leader in the space
Australia’s local quantum technology leaders have united with some of the bignames in global tech to form new industry group for the sector. The Australian Quantum Alliance (AQA) will sit under peak body the Tech Council of Australia to promote and connect the local quantum ecosystem.
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September 02, 2022 at 09:30AM
The U.S., China, and Europe are ramping up a quantum computing arms race. Here’s what they’ll need to do to win
Every country is vying to get a head start in the race to the world’s quantum future. A year ago, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia teamed up to develop military applications of digital technologies, especially quantum computing technologies. That followed the passage in 2019 of the National Quantum Initiative Act by the U.S. Congress, which laid out the country’s plans to rapidly create quantum computing capabilities.
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September 02, 2022 at 04:30PM
Moore’s Law vs Rose’s Law vs Neven’s Law → Kjoob
First the question is What makes a law a law? A law as discussed here is not like a law in physics or a law defined by legal, a set of rules enforced by government. Laws as discussed here are rather theories and hypotheses that try to explain the future based on observations in the past.
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September 02, 2022 at 04:30PM
Separating quantum hype from quantum reality
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September 03, 2022 at 08:30AM
How reality gets in the way of quantum computing
Baidu is the latest entrant in the quantum computing race, which has been ongoing for years among both big tech and startups. Nevertheless, quantum computing may face a trough of disillusionment as practical applications remain far from reality.
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September 03, 2022 at 01:30PM