The Week in Quantum Computing - September 19th - Moody's, Kipu, Planqc, Toshiba, ICFO, Pasqal, Sandbox
Issue #105
The Week in Quantum Computing. Brought to you by Sergio Gago (@piratecto).
Quick Recap
Fasten your seatbelts! This week two companies leave stealth mode. Planqc in Austria with €4,5M investment, and Kipu with €3M. SandboxAQ buys Cryptosense. LuxQuanta and ICFO demonstrate in Barcelona a video conference QKD protected. The Unitary Fund releases the very first Quantum Open Source Survey (please fill it here). Amazon and Hardvard partner to build together the building blocks of the “Quantum Internet”. Toshiba presents a new type of double Transmon coupled qubit (superconducting ones) that promises better coherence and less errors. Pasqal hits a milestone on their roadmap. And finally the one piece that affects me personally: We have officially launched the Moody’s Quantum Computing strategy and I’ll have the honor of leading it. I will be talking about this strategty at Quantum London both on Monday and Tuesday. Hope I can see some of you there!
More? The WEF has released their report on the state of the industry with very good insights (download it below). And a fantastic paper by Aaronson on what problems need to find quantum advantage. Incidentally, Qiskit did a video seminar talking about the demonstration of quantum speed ups. I will put a couple of captures shared by Dr. Zlako Minev because they really hit me. Any quantum advantage must take into consideration encoding, decoding, and classical operations such as circuit opmitizations! Sometimes people refer to speed up only for the actual quantum computing time, which in my opinion makes no sense. You need a full end-to-end time measurement.
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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. You can view the full agenda here.
The Week in Quantum Computing
Moody’s explores quantum to power risk-modelling capabilities
Moody’s establishes new initiative, partnerships roadmap, and use cases all focused on quantum computing for the financial services industry and beyond
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September 16, 2022 at 09:30PM
Unitary Fund Open Source Survey
We’re excited to share the first Quantum Open Source Software (QOSS) Survey with you all! The QOSS survey aims at obtaining a community-wide and industry-wide snapshot that is representative of everyone who codes or wants to code for and with quantum computing technologies.
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September 12, 2022 at 12:30PM
What Quantum Computing Will Mean for the Future Artificial Intelligence
Today’s artificial intelligence (AI) systems are only as good as the data they’re trained on. The AI industry is currently taking advantage of large datasets to train AI models and make them more useful.
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September 12, 2022 at 05:30PM
Quantum Boosting AI’s Performance
Artificial intelligence tries to predict future based on current information or to classify data. The heart of an AI is the model which is basically the brain of an AI. Models are the result of learning (aka training) like normal brains have to do.
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September 12, 2022 at 06:30PM
Quantum battery breakthrough paves way for instant recharging
Researchers have made significant progress towards creating a new type of battery charging technology, which could hold the potential to revolutionise energy storage.
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September 13, 2022 at 07:30AM
IBM Research’s Path To Serverless Quantum Computing
Summary: IBM is on the road to fault-tolerant Quantum computing, but before we get to this holy grail of quantum computing, there’s a lot of useful work that can be done using error mitigation techniques.
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September 13, 2022 at 09:30AM
LuxQuanta Field Demonstration with the Government of Catalunya
Today, LuxQuanta’s QKD systems successfully established a quantum communication link through a 30km distance point-to-point optical fiber link, between the headquarters of the ICFO (Castelldefels) and the Government of Catalunya at CTTI's head offices (Hospitalet de Llobregat).
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September 13, 2022 at 12:30PM
State of Quantum Computing: Building a Quantum Economy - WEF Report
Quantum computing is developing rapidly, with government and business investment reaching $35.5 billion globally, but the technology has not reached maturity yet.
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September 13, 2022 at 05:30PM
70-year-old quantum prediction comes true, as something is created from nothing
Whoever said, “You can’t get something from nothing” must never have learned quantum physics. As long as you have empty space — the ultimate in physical nothingness — simply manipulating it in the right way will inevitably cause something to emerge.
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September 13, 2022 at 11:30PM
SandboxAQ Acquires Cryptosense to Accelerate Delivery of Security Solutions to Global Organizations
PARIS and PALO ALTO, Calif., /PRNewswire/ -- SandboxAQ, an enterprise SaaS company delivering the compound effects of AI and Quantum tech (AQ) to governments and the Global 1000, today announced it has acquired Cryptosense, a leading cybersecurity and encryption analysis software company.
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September 14, 2022 at 09:30AM
What are quantum-resistant algorithms—and why do we need them?
Cryptographic algorithms are what keep us safe online, protecting our privacy and securing the transfer of information. But many experts fear that quantum computers could one day break these algorithms, leaving us open to attack from hackers and fraudsters. And those quantum computers may be ready sooner than many people think. That’s why there is serious work underway to design new types of algorithms that are resistant to even the most powerful quantum computer we can imagine.
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September 14, 2022 at 04:30PM
We have quantum computers—now Amazon and Harvard want a quantum internet
Two big players in computing and research are trying to lay the groundwork for a future quantum internet. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is teaming up with Harvard University to test and develop strategies for networking together quantum technologies.
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September 14, 2022 at 09:31PM
New quantum algorithm solves critical quantum chemistry problem through adaptation along a geometric path
In calculating the potential energy surface of the chemical reaction of H2 ;+ D2 → 2HD, the new algorithm (green diamonds) outperforms the previous algorithm (orange squares) in finding the most accurate solution (blue line).
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September 14, 2022 at 10:30PM
Toshiba’s Double-Transmon Coupler Will Realize Faster, More Accurate Superconducting Quantum Computers
Researchers at Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO: 6502) have achieved a breakthrough in quantum computer architecture: the basic design for a double-transmon coupler that will improve the speed and accuracy of quantum computation in tunable couplers.
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September 16, 2022 at 10:30AM
Kipu Quantum Emerges From Stealth, Closes a €3 Million Funding Round
Kipu Quantum, a German quantum computing startup based in Karlsruhe and Berlin, emerged from stealth after closing a EUR 3 million funding round, according to a LinkedIn post.
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September 16, 2022 at 10:30AM
Title:How Much Structure Is Needed for Huge Quantum Speedups?
I survey, for a general scientific audience, three decades of research into which sorts of problems admit exponential speedups via quantum computers -- from the classics (like the algorithms of Simon and Shor), to the breakthrough of Yamakawa and Zhandry from April 2022. I discuss both the quantum circuit model, which is what we ultimately care about in practice but where our knowledge is radically incomplete, and the so-called oracle or black-box or query complexity model, where we've managed to achieve a much more thorough understanding that then informs our conjectures about the circuit model. I discuss the strengths and weaknesses of switching attention to sampling tasks, as was done in the recent quantum supremacy experiments. I make some skeptical remarks about widely-repeated claims of exponential quantum speedups for practical machine learning and optimization problems. Through many examples, I try to convey the "law of conservation of weirdness," according to which every problem admitting an exponential quantum speedup must have some unusual property to allow the amplitude to be concentrated on the unknown right answer(s).
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September 16, 2022 at 12:30PM
PASQAL Reports New Quantum Processor Architecture Hits Record 324 atoms
Paris, September 14, 2022 – Today, PASQAL, the leader in neutral atom quantum computing, and the Institut d’Optique, unveiled a new setup that enables the operation of 324-atom quantum processors. This achievement is validated by the scientific community in a paper published in Physical Review A and confirms that PASQAL is approaching the industrial scale expected by its customers [1].
By confirming its ability to scale up to 300 trapped atoms, PASQAL is in line with its roadmap to offer 1000 qubit quantum processors and the associated industrial quantum advantage by 2024. PASQAL thus confirms its ambition to combine a state-of-the-art quantum processor with algorithms designed to enhance its capabilities with the aim of delivering the best performance to its end users.
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September 16, 2022 at 11:30PM
Betting big on quantum
Quantum technologies could be the key to resolving global issues from climate change to improving drug-delivery times. China has committed $15.3 billion in public funds in quantum computing investments, which is more than double that of EU governments ($7.
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September 16, 2022 at 11:30PM
QUBIT BY QUBIT
Planqc, das 3 Monate alte Quantencomputer-Start-up, das aus dem brandneuen Munich Quantum Valley hervorgegangen ist, gab kürzlich eine Finanzierungsrunde in Höhe von 4,6 Millionen Euro bekannt.
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September 17, 2022 at 10:30AM
Rigetti Announces New Partnerships, Provides Business Updates at Inaugural Investor Day
FREMONT, Calif., Sept. 16, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rigetti Computing, Inc. ("Rigetti" or the "Company") (Nasdaq: RGTI), a pioneer in hybrid quantum-classical computing, will share business developments, including updates regarding its partnerships, Fab-1 facility, and status of its technology roadmap, ahead of its previously announced inaugural investor day.
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September 17, 2022 at 01:30PM