November 14, 2018
Hardware-agnostic Quantum Computer Software. Xanadu corporation has developed hardware-agnostic quantum computer software dedicated to machine learning. Currently available systems utilizing qubits and photonic methods to enable quantum computation have built-in support with the package, dubbed PennyLane.
PennyLane’s Key Points and Features:
- Scalability inherent in its design
- Implements the Backpropagation algorithm; key for training deep learning models
- Plugin system design
- Hardware-agnostic
- Hybrid quantum-computation routines
The plugin developer system in PennyLane permits integration to major corporation quantum computing services; the IBM Quantum Experience, for example. Xanadu’s “Strawberry Fields software stack, released earlier this year…enabled the rapid prototyping and optimization of quantum circuits using existing machine learning tools.” Building on Strawberry Fields experiences, Xanadu released PennyLane.
Release found here at MARKETS INSIDER…
More on Backpropagation algorithm…
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Argonne Takes Delivery of 35-Qubit Quantum Learning Machines
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Google and NASA Contracting Bristlecone’s Quantum Computing Services
November 12, 2018
Risk Assesment and Data Protection. In the top cost reduction factors for a data breach in the pre-quantum computing era, also known as the classical computing era, or today, we have number one, an incident response team. And number two, extensive use of encryption. As the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) feverishly works to screen suitable cryptographic algorithms resistant to quantum computing, the race to beat a ‘practical’ quantum computer to ‘the cracking’ of encryption is on.
Organizations need now to conduct a thorough risk assessment of their encryption infrastructure. Not only the cryptography in use, but also the enablers to its practical use. To be thorough, an assessment from a quantum computing threat aspect must be given. Areas in cybersecurity and data protection assessment that should be considered are “digital certificate management, mobile device management, application scanning, data loss prevention, security incident response, access control, data classification and digital forensics.” Reference report is found here…
IBM and the Ponemon Institute have produced a data breach calculator, based on Ponemon’s 2018 data breach report; worth putting some thought into. 2018 Data Breach Calculator…
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Second Meeting for the U.S. Quantum Economic Development Consortium
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Calcutta University Initiates Quantum Studies
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U.K.’s Pioneer Fund Aims to Produce in Next 2 Years
November 9, 2018
Quantumizing the Speed of Data Searches. New research and advancements in the “quantum walk” protocol shows promising application. “…[C]onsidering the protocol’s essence as an optimization process…the protocol of fast hitting on glued trees may further trigger many useful applications that utilize quantum speed-up for tasks…” Data searches and logistics are potential gainers of this protocol. Benefit is also seen in the quantum device’s scalability, utilizing an integrated quantum photonic chip. Use of the chip’s scalability places it as a viable candidate for simulating complex physical systems.
Reference report is found here at PHYS.ORG…
Original work is found at Cornell University Libary [PDF]…
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Two-Minute Guide to Quantum Computing?
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University of Alberta Using Reduced Power to Store Quantum Data
November 7, 2018
QKD Over Long Distance; Crucial to Data Security. Quantum Key Distribution, QKD, utilizes photon entanglement to distribute encryption keys with near-total security. Research conducted at the University of Geneva has taken QKD to new lengths, literally. Though only a small gain in distance has been achieved over the 404KM record, the 421KM distance attained showed improvements elsewhere. Namely, in encryption key-rate throughput – a much needed aspect to enabling QKD in the high-speed communication networks today. Security, distance, and key rate must all be considered. These studies are sorting out each of these aspects for the optimal QKD system.
Reference is found here at APS physics…
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VW and Quantum Computing for Traffic Management
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QKD Over Long Distance; Crucial to Data Security
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Quantum-Resistant Signatures on Your Host
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Maintaining Quantum Information Through Error Reduction
November 5, 2018
Voting by Mobile Phone is Bad. Using Blockchain, Worse. West Virginia is set to test blockchain for voting. The ballot will be right in the palm of the voter’s hand on their mobile phone. Inherently insecure, the mobile phone as a ballot is a bad idea, today. Consider what happens when quantum computing arrives? If West Virginia incorporates blockchain, it could spell a bigger disaster. Concept is found here at LIVE BITCOIN NEWS…
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Quantum-resistant Password-Authenticated Key Exchange Partners
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Australia Entangling Photons with Fewer Errors
November 2, 2018
Scalable Quantum Computing Nodes Using Rare Earth Atoms. Scientists at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), funded by the European Commission within the Quantum Technology Flagship, are undertaking a 3M EUR project to study rare earth ions. Though nascent in the study, the ions show promise for quantum communication due to their quantum properties being readable via focused laser and transmission of their quantum state to photons. Further benefits to be studied are the rare earth ions’ resistance to external interference (increases qubit stability) – ergo, quantum states are stored “for a very long time”, activated by light in solid-state crystals. Presently, the program (“SQUARE”) is aiming “to demonstrate functional elements of a multi-qubit quantum register that can be read out optically and to realize building blocks of a quantum network.” Simply put, SQUARE is looking to determine which rare earth ions are programmable individually in vast numbers. This will give quantum computational capacity a vast boost forward to making quantum computing a reality.
Reference from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology…
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Bitcoin Getting Quantum Resistant
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Scalable Quantum Computing Nodes Using Rare Earth Atoms
Rochester Institute of Technology Receives Funding for Advanced Research and Training
If Chemistry is the Hardware of Life, Is Quantum the Software?
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Protecting Entanglement of Photons with Symmetry
October 31, 2018
CiViQ: Securing Quantum Communications Without the Photons. The Quantum Flagship initiative launched by the European Union will fund alternative cybersecurity and cryptography development through a project dubbed Continuous Variable Quantum Communications (CiViQ). Their mission is to develop “low-cost QKD systems that can be integrated easily into emerging telecommunication infrastructures.” Steering their study away from budget straining photon detection methods, CiViQ will focus efforts toward electric field amplitude detection.
The CiViQ web presence is found here…
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Quantum Summit @ The University of Chicago
Semiconducting Cling-wrap as a Quantum Photon Generator
October 29, 2018
Rydberg Atoms: Taking Quantum Communication Excitement to a New Level. The U.S. Army Research Laboratory has been studying Rydberg atoms. The highly excited atoms are being researched for use in communications receivers. ARL wants to achieve high data throughput in existing communications networks. As part of the Army’s “Network C3I Modernization” priorities, the program studying the highly energetic Rydberg atoms, is also looking at numerous other applications.
Report is found here at U.S. ARMY…
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Post-Quantum Cryptography, Primer Blog
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Rydberg Atoms: Taking Quantum Communication Excitement to a New Level
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The Purcell Effect: Key to Quantum Repeater
First Quantum Key Distribution Network: Boston to D.C.
October 27, 2018
TUDelft Lays Out Broad Plan for a Quantum Internet. University research at TUDelft, Netherlands, has laid out a broad roadmap for a quantum internet. The plan develops the quantum network around two concepts presently unknown to the current internet: (1) Entanglement’s synchronization capability between distant locations; and, (2) entanglement’s inherent security, considered unbreakable. Engineering, computer science, and physics, all must come into agreement and collaborate closely to enable the increasing functionality of each stage.
As put forth by TUDelft, the six stages toward a quantum computing network, in increasing functionality are:
Stage 1: Trusted repeater development (Ex: Quantum key distribution, or QKD)
Stage 2: Prepare & Measure (Ex: QKD, secure delivery of quantum bits between any two network nodes)
Stage 3: Entanglement generation (Ex: Device independent protocols)
Stage 4: Quantum Memory
Stage 5: Few Qubit Fault Tolerant (Ex: Clock synchronization, distributed quantum computation)
Stage 6: Quantum computing (Ex: Complex chemical modeling; financial market prediction)
“The first true quantum networks, allowing the end-to-end transmission of quantum bits, are expected to be realized in the coming years, heralding the dawn of a large-scale quantum internet.”
Reference report is found here at TUDelft…
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TUDelft Lays Out Broad Plan for a Quantum Internet
October 26, 2018
University of Delaware Studying Tunable Qubits. This past September, the U.S. National Science Foundation awarded substantial sums to a number of universities. The funding is to go toward advancing quantum information science. One university, the University of Delaware, received funds to that end. UD is leading a collaborative team to develop quantum devices with each quantum bit, or qubit, tunable at the outset. This is different than other approaches wherein thousands of identical qubits are created to achieve the same result. As part of their research, their studies in quantum information science include developing sophisticated algorithms to enable the quantum device operations, studying meta-materials to create devices (waveguides) to manipulate atoms more effectively, and developing other associated quantum computer components. Looking ahead two years, the UD team will unveil quantum science to select high-school students during a premier two-week summer camp. The UD Nanofabrication Lab seeks to break out among peers with the aid of the NSF’s funding. This report is found at the University of Delaware…
Atom Sized-Magnet = Smaller, More Stable Qubit. Scientists in South Korea have shown the ability to detect magnetism in the nucleus of an atom. The Center for Quantum Nanoscience in South Korea, IBM, and other academic institutions, have used IBM’s scanning tunneling microscope to measure changes in the nuclear spin of an atom. When other atoms were placed near the atom being studied, the nuclear spin was affected in measurable amounts. Though extremely small, the changes observed will allow the teams to “measure properties of the electronic structure of atoms and molecules” yet unseen.
The quantum computing “so what?” Recent studies involving the Holmium atom were effective in reading, writing, and storing of digital information, effected by manipulation of the atom’s electron spin. The sub-atomic nature of the nuclear-spin quantum bits (qubits) allows for environmental stability due to the atomic shell surrounding the nucleus. Lack of stability at the quantum level, has posed a major challenge to further advancement to quantum computing. Though still a challenge, the increased stability is another step to overcoming this challenge. Reference report is found here at ibs…
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University of Delaware Studying Tunable Qubits
Atom Sized-Magnet = Smaller, More Stable Qubit
October 24, 2018
Quantum Key Distribution: Photons, Data Rates, Fibers. Research team from the Technical University of Denmark achieves multi-fold increase in quantum encryption key bitrates. From their earlier research, the team’s work “achieved low and stable quantum bit error rate” – a key challenge in quantum computing research and development. The team developed protocols maximizing multi-core optic fiber; in turn, they accomplished encoding greater amounts of information thus improving quantum key distribution throughput rates. Continued progress based on single-photon arrays is expected to produce improved data-rate through efficient protocols and scalable processes. Research has also continued into photon-pair generation with multi-mode “fiber optics and four-wave mixing.” Photon-pair generation has direct application to quantum communications.
Reference is found here at STRN… The original work is found at npj [PDF]…
See mdpi.com for the May, 2018, study on photon-pair generation in fibers…
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Sibos 2018, in Sydney: Financial Giants Get Quantum for Lunch
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Quantum Key Distribution: Photons, Data Rates, Fibers
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India: Falling Short in Quantum Expertise
October 23, 2018
Cybersecurity and the Electric Grid: Illusion? The author’s opinion presented challenges us to consider our reliance on the U.S. electrical grid; is its security an illusion? Many claim we have little to worry about. Those that do fit into the “Relax Camp.” The “We’re Doomed Camp” claims, according to this author, just that: The grid is doomed. What can quantum do? Perhaps add quantum-resistant security – to some of it. This the first of a two-part series, gives one reason to pause. What camp does the Qubit Report belong to? Take a look at the chapter on the grid failure in the Bronx during the summer of 1977 (“Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City”, Jonathan Mahler). Technology aside, the success of the grid when under duress, is intrinsically linked to the human operator in the control room. After all, the weak link in cybersecurity is the human, by far. Reference found at RSA Conference…
The weakest link is still us, the human.
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Yale’s Quantum Institute Advancing Quantum Computing
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NIST Device Measures Amount of Nothing
October 19, 2018
Quantum Advantage Achieved? IBM, the Technical University of Munich, and the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo, have presented proof of the theorized superiority of a quantum computing over classical computing. A new quantum circuit has been developed by this team of researchers, and owing to the circuit’s “simple structure”, proves “quantum information processing really does provide benefits” over its classical counterparts. The circuit’s simplicity is found in that it processes a fixed number operations per qubit; exploiting the non-locality of quantum physics. The circuit is dubbed as having “constant depth.”
This report is found here at ScienceDaily…
Microsoft Hiring Quantum Team. Not only is Microsoft using Qualcomm’s old spaces in Raleigh, North Carolina, they’re sopping up former Qualcomm employees to work on quantum computing. Twenty years of research, one billion dollars per year, and all bets on the Majora-quasi-particle, Microsoft appears to be all-in. Although so far, not a qubit has been produced. Something is keeping them at it.
This report is found here at Winbuzzer…
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Huawei Presents HiQ Cloud Service
Quantum Computing Trending in Top 10 Strategic Techs for 2019
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Topological Insulators: Edge Work
October 17, 2018
Don’t Think a VPN Will Be Safe from Quantum Computing. Quantum-safe virtual private networks require securing from quantum computing’s threat. Not only are VPNs vulnerable, but much of the cryptographic infrastructure affiliated with the VPN. The RSA cryptosystem and elliptic curve cryptographic methods will purportedly expose their weakness to quantum computing. Both of these are used widely, VPNs are no exclusion. This means data considered secure today, if captured today, stands to be decrypted at the advent of sufficiently strong quantum computers. The transition of VPNs to quantum-safe solutions is deemed “extremely complex.” The complexity demands government, academia, and industry to get started in planning to secure their authentication and confidentiality of systems and data from the quantum computing revolution.
Discussion found at TECHNUTER…
Full ETSI report [PDF] is here…
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Quantum Computer in the Wrong Hands
October 15, 2018
Quantum Computing Algorithms and Big Data’s Data. A Purdue University’s research team has embarked on a task to combine quantum computing and analysis of big data sets. How big? 3 petabytes of data is collected every two seconds. The data is coming from the U.S. electrical grid. Monitoring the data – currents and voltages – enables the grid operators to make decisions which keep the grid stable. To analyze such a tremendous amount of data requires unique systems invoking unique algorithms.
Quantum computing is being studied as the analytical solution. The team has created a hybrid quantum algorithm using a quantum Boltzmann machine – an artificial neural network used in data analysis and machine learning. Their method is being refined though has already been proven for ‘small molecular systems’. Looking forward, the Purdue team’s algorithms have been thought to apply to several complex problems. One, to keep the electric grid stable. Two, to better model chemical interactions. Three, “to determine the lifetime of solar farms and other sustainable energy technologies.” Though in the early stages of quantum computing research to this end, the team’s studies bear watching.
This report is found here at Purdue University…
The original work is found at Cornell University Library [PDF]…
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Office of Naval Research Program Probes emerging Technology
October 11, 2018
Silicon Photonic Chips: Solving Two Challenges for Quantum Computing. Silicon computer chips are the foundation for nearly all computing devices today. From your desktop, to the server room, back into your palm inside your smartphone, and circling Earth in the International Space Station, they’re everywhere. Silicon has a well-established manufacturing base and supply chain. However, Moore’s Law suggests we are at the close of doubling the number of bits we can place and process with silicon. Enter quantum computers – a completely new realm – to exponentially expand the speed and complexity of issues which can be solved.
Researchers from the University of Defence Technology in China and the University of Bristol have been working to build quantum bit hardware into the silicon-chip architecture. Doing so would mean obvious advantages to widespread use. How is this being accomplished? Through photons being sent along waveguides where the photons, quantum bits of light, are encoded with information. Henceforth called qubits – short for “quantum bits.”
Though nascent in the silicon-quantum chip’s development, the chip being researched is capable of basic quantum computing. It’s a starting point. With 200+ components, compatible with the common CMOS processor, it has shown quantum-unique capability in repeated two-qubit quantum information processes. This research shows promise to make quantum computers out of scalable technology, readily manufactured, and available. Therein lies why the entrenched silicon-based computing economy is the focus of many quantum computer endeavors.
Reference work is at electropages…
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Topological Superconductivity Extends Below Surface
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Silicon Photonic Chips: Solving Two Challenges for Quantum Computing
October 9, 2018
Blackberry Ushers in Quantum-Resistant Code Signing. Blackberry teams with ISARA and others to enable quantum-resistant (QR) code-signing methods. Taking the threat quantum computers pose to public key cryptographic security, Blackberry’s subsidiary Certicom and ISARA will work closely to ensure “durable connected devices” will maintain security in the event quantum computers crack the current ecryption codes. Blackberry anticipates a November, 2018, launch of its QR server. ISARA is providing the quantum-safe solution. ISARA is establishing itself as an early leader in QR solutions, having recently partnered with DigiCert and Gemalto to provide quantum-secure PKI with “end-to-end roots of trust” for IoT devices. The code server, the first QR code signing and key management server, will provide critical infrastructure, industrial control systems, and other “long-lived assets” with protection from quantum computing-enabled attacks on cryptography.
This Blackberry release is found here…
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Blackberry Ushers in Quantum-Resistant Code Signing
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October 8, 2018
NIST and SRI International to Lead U.S. Quantum Economic Development Consortium. Recent focus on quantum computing and the U.S.’s perceived lagging behind China’s efforts have accelerated the White House to push research and development of this nascent technology. The Department of Commerce has directed the National Institute of Standards and Technology to establish a forum for industry and government collaboration on developing a quantum economy.
To comply, NIST, along with SRI International will enable the QEDC to:
- Determine workforce needs essential to the development of quantum technologies
- Provide efficient public-private sector coordination
- Identify technology solutions for filling gaps in research or infrastructure
- Highlight use cases and grand challenges to accelerate development efforts, foster sharing of intellectual property, develop efficient supply chains, technology forecasting and quantum literacy
The QEDC’s charter, governing its activities, will be vetted over the next several months through workshops and other working groups.
This report is found here at CHIPS…
The NIST’s article on the QEDC is here…
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Intel Running Into Challenges; Skepticism Abounds
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NIST and SRI International to Lead U.S. Quantum Economic Development Consortium
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$218M+ for U.S. Quantum Computing Research
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Building a Quantum Computer is Hard
October 5, 2018
The Quantum Battlefield. How the U.S. military sees itself using quantum on the battlefield is quite varied. Quantum cloud, quantum metrology, quantum-secure communication, quantum fiber networks, and quantum precision navigation & timing. Is it a reality? This graphic is found at dvids…
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Fitting Quantum Bits to Ride the Ubiquitous Fiber Networks
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Qrypt and ORNL: Making a Hybrid Quantum Approach
Quantum Communication Satellite Under Design
October 3, 2018
“…[E]mbracing the end of the Moore’s Law era…” Discussion on the end of Moore’s Law and the dawn of “acceleration” technologies. “[T]he vast majority of information will be analyzed by artificial intelligence and data analytics algorithms to inform actions taken on our behalf. Nearly all of this will happen in a distributed information infrastructure.” It is not sustainable to keep adding power to analyze exponentially growing data sets. The computational power requirement to analyze such sets will need to be met by new methods. “Current architectures are just simply not sustainable.” Enter quantum computing. This report is found in The European Sting…
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True Random Number Generator Touted as Cybersecurity Savior (In Light of Facebook’s Lack Thereof…)
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“…[E]mbracing the end of the Moore’s Law era…”
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Artificial Intelligence’s Influence on Quantum Computing; and Vice Versa
October 1, 2018
Microsoft Adds Chemical Simulation to Quantum Development Kit. Microsoft’s Q# (“Q-Sharp”) quantum developer’s development kit has a new simulation library; this time it’s chemical. This new addition is geared toward one of the most anticipated application fields for quantum computers – chemistry. Without anyone or any organization having a working quantum computer which is “supreme”, the quantum development kit is merely anticipatory to something which may never arrive (”supreme” being the point at which a quantum computer can outperform the most advanced classical computer).
It never hurts to ‘learn the basics’ and prepare for what many consider the eventuality of a fully quantum computer in all aspects.
This report is found here at TC…
Microsoft’s Quantum Developent Kit is found here…
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Microsoft Adds Chemical Simulation to Quantum Development Kit
qRAM: Quantum Random Access Memory
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Quantum Xchange Producing First U.S. Quantum Network
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The U.S. National Strategic Overview for Quantum Information Science
September 27, 2018
Encoding Metamaterials for Quantum Information Processing. Israeli researchers have demonstrated quantum metamaterials are employable in quantum information systems. The team from Haifa, Israel, believes the metamaterials will see wide-ranging uses in future quantum computers. Through research, the team has derived new concepts such as use of metasurfaces for entangling photons with differing frequencies and orbital angular momenta.
This report is found here at Cornell University Library [PDF]…
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Autonomous Vehicle Research Using Quantum Computing
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Placing Big Bets on Disruptive Tech
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Encoding Metamaterials for Quantum Information Processing
Funding for Quantum Information Science and Sensing Dark Matter
September 26, 2018
Quantum Resistant PKI and Key Management for IoT Devices. More corporations are working on the hard-problems created by the threat of quantum computers to current encryption methods to include PKI and key management and delivery. While NIST is developing post-quantum computer-resistant algorithms, the commercial sector is being mobilized to tackle the larger issue. DigiCert, Gemalto, and ISARA have teamed together to meet the challenges presented. Together they plan to develop quantum-resistant encryption algorithms and key management systems. Their goal is to be able to integrate the quantum-resistant systems into current encryption systems in use. “DigiCert, Gemalto and ISARA will be delivering a solution that provides the same protections that classical encryption and key management systems provide today, with the additional assurance that the data will not be at risk when quantum computers become a threat to classical algorithms like RSA or ECC (Elliptic Curve Cryptography).”
What each brings:
Gemalto: Hardware security module (HSM) provider. Provides cybersecurity for cryptographic key management, processing, and storage. Securely provisions encryption, decryption, digital signatures, and authentication.
DigiCert: Digital certificate trusted root services.
ISARA: Quantum-resistant (quantum-safe) algorithms integrated into current security protocols and services.
The partnership aims to provide enterprise cybersecurity for long-life products. Each of the companies believes integrating the resistant and safe components now will preclude retrofitting when quantum computers come to fruition; estimated anywhere from 3 to 10 years, depending. The bottom line to the partnership is to “develop technologies that can enable digital certificates and secure key management for internet of things (IoT) and other devices in the post-quantum era.
Reference is found here at eWeek…
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Quantum Resistant PKI and Key Management for IoT Devices
Quantum Computers To Be Treated as Nuclear Weapons?
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One Quantum Dot as a Sensor for the Other Quantum Dot
Single-Photon Emissions at Room Temperatures
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Laser Tweezers Positioning Atoms
September 24, 2018
China Poised to Eclipse U.S. Stunning report suggests China is poised to eclipse the U.S. technologically. The Center for a New American Security released a thorough report gauging China’s thirst for quantum science knowledge and the applications of this to economic and military prowess as a super-power. A must-read for the quantum computing interested.
Overview found at…Center for a New American Security…
In depth work, found here [PDF]…
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Concern Over Complexity of Cryptographic Methods May Ease
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Concern Over Complexity of Cryptographic Methods May Ease
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One Quantum Dot as a Sensor for the Other Quantum Dot
September 21, 2018
Intellectual Property Rights: China’s Threat to World Quantum Computing. Intellectual Property Rights add to the ‘fire of genius’ by protecting an innovator’s invention. Such protections fuel inventiveness. But what happens when China gets involved with secret intellectual property rights agreements or outright theft? Considered ‘the principal infringer’ of IPRs, a 2017 study concluded up to ½ trillion U.S. dollars per year are lost to China’s theft of U.S. intellectual property. A quick and captivating report which helps put together the importance of the U.S. stance with China on trade. This report is found in Forbes…
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Replacing Schrodinger’s Cat With A Physicist
Florida International University Quantum Information Processing
September 19, 2018
Cold-Atom Research Supports Elements of Quantum Computing. The People’s Friendship University of Russia (RUDN), located in Moscow, engaged scientists from the University of Hamburg to study quantum properties. Their study encompassed super-cooled atoms and ion systems at nearly absolute zero. The extreme temperature is needed to slow the quantum physical processes to such a point the processes may be measured; in this experiment the atoms were considered “trapped.” The team “developed a mathematical method reducing multi-dimensional calculations to a system of one-dimensional equations to…describe atomic systems with different parameters (intensity of effective interparticle interaction, initial state population, and particle energy).” “The developed algorithm provides for the calculation of collisions of atoms and ions to each other and the trap.” This hybrid atom-ion trap is seen as providing support to modelling the elements of quantum computers. Read the full reference at PHYS.org…
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Post Quantum Computing’s Importance
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Cold Atom Research Supports Elements of Quantum Computing
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Essential Elements of Scaling Quantum Computers
Quantum Communications Satellite Commercialization
September 18, 2018
“Control-Knob” for Quantum Topology Opens ‘Enormous Possibilities.’ Princeton physicists have directed the flow of electrons at will using a scanning tunneling spectromicroscope with a rotatable magnetic field. [See image]. “The spectromicroscope has a resolution less than half the size of an atom, allowing it to scan individual atoms and detect details of their electrons while measuring the electrons’ energy and spin distribution.” This capability resulted in the discovery of the tunable electron flow direction. “This level of manipulability opens enormous possibilities for next-generation nanotechnologies and quantum computing.” This report is found here at ScienceDaily…
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Quantum Computing and Cryptography: For the Newbie
Cybersecurity Professional? Get Ready, Now
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U.S. House of Representatvies Passes Quantum Initiative
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“Control-Knob” for Quantum Topology Opens Enormous Possibilities
“Promising Option for Building Qubits”
September 14, 2018
High-Speed Quantum Internet. Japanese industry research and development teams have enabled a quantum key distribution (QKD) network over a distance of 7 kilometers with a speed over 10 Mbps. The network was constructed with designated fiber-optic lines transmitting photons encoded with data encryption keys. The teams developed the software to manage the crypto-keys, encryption algorithms, and coordinating routines to operate this first-ever, successful, and highly-secure network of the coming quantum era. This report is found here at Toshiba Corporation…
Japanese QKD Network enabled by quantum physics. (Image credit: Toshiba)
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Is The U.S. Behind in Quantum Computing?
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Interface Between Quantum Network and Quantum Computer Devised
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September 13, 2018
Identical Photons Created with Silicon Chips. University of Maryland researchers have overcome the challenge of creating multiple identical photons. Through the use of silicon and infrared light, the team designed silicon loops which enable “many pairs of single photons out of the silicon chip.” The challenge was in producing photons of nearly identical frequency (color) with different chips. The loops permitted the photons to travel the edge of the silicon chip, undisturbed, regardless of the imperfections of the chip. A benefit is the production of the photons at room temperature, no cryogenics needed. “This could have implications for a variety of fields where light-matter interactions play a role, including quantum information science and optoelectronic technology.” This report is found at the University of Maryland…
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Patriot Day, 2018
The Amazon of Quantum Cloud Computing? Rigetti, arguably the world leader in the race to quantum advantage, is offering quantum cloud computing services to anyone. To encourage participation, the company has put up an award of $1M for the first organization which produces an application achieving quantum advantage. Chemical manufacturers, finance giants, and the military, to name several sectors, stand to gain in immeasurable ways once this feat has been accomplished.
More on Rigetti’s quantum computing services at Fast Company…
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