The Week in Quantum Computing - The 100th Edition! - Dwave, SpinQ, IQM, ICFO, Quside and NIST
Issue #100 !!!! Thanks all readers!
Well, it has been 100 issues of the Quantum Pirates newsletter already! 100 Weeks, non-stop, covering the most important news, discoveries and situations in the quantum world. Curating from the news and choosing papers, videos, funding news, mergers, thought leadership opinions, reviews, etc. This newsletter has grown a lot. From my own little playground to curate content to a bunch of faithful followers and quantum ennthusiasts. MANY MANY THANKS FOR THAT!!!. It is now over 5000 of you reading this, every week, commenting and sharing. I can’t be happier.
Now, we could not be here without the help, support and feedback from great people in the quantum industry. Or better said, I would not be in the industry itself:
Great inspirers and leaders like Andre Konig, Javier Mancilla, Alfonso Rubio, Esperanza Cuenca, Yuval Boger, Brian Lenahan, Karan Pinto, Whurley, Carlos Kuchkovsky or Deborah Berebichez among many. Incredibly brilliant scientists like Adrian Perez Salinas, always ready to proofread my non-scientific claims, or Jitesh Lalwani developments and algorithms, Miquel Farre and his data pipelines, or Profs. Anna Sanpera and Ramon Muñoz, who were able to inspire love for the underlying physics like no other professor. Of course I owe a lot to many other Professors like Aaronson, Bazirani, Allan Adams or Susskind. But unfortunately they were not aware they were teaching me with their writings and videos :) And huge huge thanks to the great quantum community out there. If it was not for your amazing contributions to Arxiv, comments on the Quantum Exchange, or the many slack and discord communities out there including the Quantum Barcelona folks.
I am sure I’ve missed many people, but since this is a truly entangled community hope the ripples reach you. It is a small community both on the research and the business side, but a caring and sharing one.
Onwards and upwards! For 100 more editions of the Quantum Pirates Newsletter!
Quick Recap
Lots of things happened this hot week of august. Rigetti announced their Q2 earnings with 2.1M revenues (you make your own conclusions on how a public company with that capitalization should look like). A couple of great papers on building qubits with molecules. And one fantastic piece on whether we shyould build quantum computers after all, tapped with a demo of the SpinQ Desktop computer. Dwave makes its debut stabilizing at about 11$.
How do you create a quantum algorithm? Rakhim Davletkaliyev from IQM has created an amazing infographic that explains it. (Original Post)
Can quantum computers be used to help with space debris? Apparently yes in this paper by Jitesh and the Artificial Brain team. White Paper: Space Sustainability Using Quantum Computing.
The Week in Quantum Computing
How Deutsch-Jozsa made history in Quantum Computing
Have you heard of the paradox of Schrödinger’s cat? To illustrate in short, Erwin Schrödinger, a physicist conducted a thought experiment with a “hypothetical” cat where he imagined that depending on a random sub-atomic event, a cat may be considered both dead and alive simultaneously.
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August 07, 2022 at 10:30AM
Rigetti Awarded DARPA Contract for Quantum Application Benchmarking
BERKELEY, Calif., Aug. 04, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A subsidiary of Rigetti Computing, Inc. (Nasdaq: RGTI) (“Rigetti” or the “Company”), a pioneer in full-stack quantum computing, has been selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop benchmarks for quantum application performance on large-scale quantum computers. The program is worth up to $2.9 million over three years based on the achievement of certain milestones. Joining Rigetti on this project are the University of Technology Sydney, Aalto University, and the University of Southern California.
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August 07, 2022 at 01:30PM
Everything you wanted to know about quantum computing, but were afraid to ask
By Andrey Y. Lokhov and Stephan Eidenbenz Twenty years ago, theoretical physicists and computer scientists were developing quantum algorithms for virtual quantum computers, with no working hardware in sight.
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August 07, 2022 at 09:30PM
Quantum Cryptography: Co-founder & CEO of QNu Labs reveals the skills that developers need to master
It is a well acknowledged fact that data is the new ‘oil’ in today’s highly globalised world economy. While digitalisation has added tremendous momentum to the industry, it has also exposed data in servers, data centres, cloud and in transit to serious attacks.
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August 08, 2022 at 08:30AM
Record-Breaking Experiment Could Solve a Huge Challenge in Quantum Computing
Two atoms inflated to an almost comical size and cooled to a fraction above absolute zero have been used to generate a robust, insanely fast two-qubit quantum gate that could help overcome some of quantum computing's persistent challenges.
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August 09, 2022 at 08:30AM
B.C. quantum-computing company D-Wave shares jump 16 per cent in NYSE debut
Shares of British Columbia quantum-computing startup D-Wave Quantum Inc. popped nearly 16 per cent on their first day of trading Monday after merging with a special purpose acquisition company – in a market in which other freshly listed quantum companies have struggled to keep their share prices up.
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August 09, 2022 at 08:30AM
Should We Build Quantum Computers at All?
Quantum computing is the future. Have you heard? Over the last decade, governments and industries worldwide have invested billions.
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August 09, 2022 at 08:30AM
For the First Time, Zapata Generates High-Resolution Images Using a Quantum Computer
Zapata Generates High-Resolution Images for the First Time Using a Quantum Computer
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August 09, 2022 at 08:30AM
An Amazing Journey: Pictures from D-Wave’s Early Days
On Monday August 8th at 6:30am Pacific time, D-Wave will ring the bell to open the New York Stock Exchange. The D-Wave story is an incredible one. Some day I hope to tell the whole story.
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August 09, 2022 at 09:30AM
A roadmap for the future of quantum simulation
Leading researchers in quantum science, including Immanuel Bloch from MPQ, have published a perspective article on the future of quantum simulation, a special form of quantum computing, in the current issue of the high esteem science journal Nature.
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August 10, 2022 at 08:30AM
RSA’s ‘Quantum-Proof’ Successor May Not Be Safe For Long
In 1994, mathematician Peter Shor published a landmark paper that threatened the very foundation of modern cybersecurity. In the paper, Shor presented an algorithm that, given access to a powerful enough quantum computer, could efficiently find the prime factors of large integers—the key to breaking RSA and other public key encryption schemes that secure most digital communication today. Shor’s algorithm proved that the advent of quantum computing would spell the end for secure communication as we know it.
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August 10, 2022 at 08:30AM
Q-CTRL Introduces Quantum Sensing Division to Meet Market Demands
– Q-CTRL, a global leader in developing useful quantum technologies through quantum control infrastructure software, today introduced its quantum sensing division, which has become one of the largest in the world.
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August 10, 2022 at 09:30AM
Playing with a real room temperature 2-qubit desktop quantum computer
It is real. SpinQ is a revolutionary company that’s been working since 2018 on the development of quantum computers that can be used as desktop devices using the NMR approach, but also in complex superconducting quantum computers that can be used over the cloud (or in your own facilities depending on the budget). On this occasion, I want to talk about the Gemini Mini, which is the entry product from SpinQ and is mainly used for educational purposes.
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August 11, 2022 at 07:30AM
Fifth State Of Matter Used To Create Never-Before-Achieved Quantum Simulation
Researchers in Barcelona have created a peculiar new quantum simulation. The approach involves Bose-Einstein condensates – often referred to as the fifth state of matter – which have been used to study the intricate quantum properties of solid materials by mimicking them in a much simpler way.
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August 11, 2022 at 08:30AM
World’s Fastest 2-Qubit Gate – Revolution in Quantum Computing
There are several ways to build a quantum computer, and for the past two decades all these computer hardwares have been focused on pursuing faster gates to eliminate the effects of external noise for preventing computational errors.
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August 11, 2022 at 09:30AM
NIST post-quantum algorithm candidate’s future uncertain, with second attack proposed
Uncertainty surrounds a cracked post-quantum cryptography algorithm being considered by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, now that researchers have potentially discovered a second attack method.
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August 11, 2022 at 09:30AM
Quantum random number generators: Why, how & where
Random number generators (RNGs) are essential in a wide range of applications, such as secure communications or stochastic simulations. To assure secure communications we encrypt data by using RNGs to generate cryptographic keys.
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August 11, 2022 at 07:30PM
Paper: Is there evidence for exponential quantum advantage in quantum chemistry?
The idea to use quantum mechanical devices to simulate other quantum systems is commonly ascribed to Feynman. Since the original suggestion, concrete proposals have appeared for simulating molecular and materials chemistry through quantum computation, as a potential "killer application". Indications of potential exponential quantum advantage in artificial tasks have increased interest in this application, thus, it is critical to understand the basis for potential exponential quantum advantage in quantum chemistry. Here we gather the evidence for this case in the most common task in quantum chemistry, namely, ground-state energy estimation. We conclude that evidence for such an advantage across chemical space has yet to be found. While quantum computers may still prove useful for quantum chemistry, it may be prudent to assume exponential speedups are not generically available for this problem.
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August 12, 2022 at 02:30PM
Quantum networking: Defining the next wave of networking and communications
For many, quantum computing remains an abstract concept – a far-off dream of titanic supercomputers able to process and solve problems millions of times faster than your average machine. The reality is actually a lot closer than many of us would think.
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August 12, 2022 at 02:30PM
Device-independent QKD brings unhackable quantum Internet closer – Physics World
Network node: A vacuum system containing the ion trap used to create the "Bob" node in the Oxford-CEA-Switzerland experiment.
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August 12, 2022 at 09:30PM