Could Australia’s Archer Exploration Be the Mouse that Roared? Archer Exploration, an Australian mining company, recently embarked on a quantum computing project dubbed the “12CQ Project”. Last week, the 12CQ team took to the road to update its shareholders in Sydney, Adelaide, and Melbourne. During […]
IBM Quantum Computing Collaboration Arrives in Africa Full release. Wits enters the quantum computing universe with IBM Q IBM expands its quantum computing program with Wits as its first partner in Africa on the IBM Q Network. IBM has announced the expansion of its quantum […]
Controlling Polarity Results in New Quantum Devices The Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia, officially ICN2, is an international research institute located in the Barcelona, Spain, region. Its research focuses matter at the nanoscale; more specifically, the physical and chemical properties that arise from the […]
First Analog, then Digital; What’s Next? Quantum. Quantum tech firm leaps to aid of planet and mankind Excerpts and salient points ~ + THE technology [quantum technology] will help map the inner workings of the mind and, equally, measure the molecules of pollutants from space, […]
Poking Atoms is Soooo Yesterday. Here’s a Faster Method Getting to Powerful Quantum Sensors A Faster Way to Rearrange Atoms Could Lead to Powerful Quantum Sensors The technique is also more accurate than the traditional method of poking atoms with the tip of a scanning […]
Yale: Predicting Schrodinger’s Cat Physicists can predict the jumps of Schrödinger’s cat (and finally save it) Yale researchers have figured out how to catch and save Schrödinger’s famous cat, the symbol of quantum superposition and unpredictability, by anticipating its jumps and acting in real time […]
University of California Researchers Study 2D Materials; Potential Quantum Computing Device Foundation UCI Scientists Create New Class of Two-Dimensional Materials In a paper published this week in Nature, materials science researchers at the University of California, Irvine and other institutions unveil a new process for producing […]
2048-Bit RSA Cracked in < 8 Hours? How a quantum computer could break 2048-bit RSA encryption in 8 hours Excerpts and salient points ~ + A new study shows that quantum technology will catch up with today’s encryption standards much sooner than expected. That should […]
Quantum Information Storage through Light-Matter Manipulation Manipulating Light-Matter Interaction Unlocks Properties for Quantum Information Storage and Computing Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have come up with a way to manipulate tungsten diselenide (WSe2) —a promising two-dimensional material—to further unlock its potential to enable faster, more […]
U.S. National Science Foundation Issues Request for Information on U.S. National Strategic Overview for Quantum Information Science Request for Information on National Strategic Overview for Quantum Information Science AGENCY: National Science Foundation. ACTION: Notice of Request for Information. SUMMARY: The National Science and Technology Council […]
Limits of Quantum Communication Networks; Secret Key Capacity Explored Establishing the ultimate limits of quantum communication networks At the moment, sensitive data is typically encrypted and then sent across fibre-optic cables and other channels together with the digital “keys” needed to decode the information. However, […]
High Performance Computing Simulating Quantum Computing What’s New in HPC Research: Quantum Computing, Cold Plate Cooling, Smartphones & More …HPCwire highlights newly published research in the high-performance computing community and related domains. From parallel programming to exascale to quantum computing, the details are here. Simulating […]
Boosting Efforts to Create Reliable Photonic Quantum Computing, Quantum Key Distribution This image shows a false-color scanning electron micrograph of the array used to create place single-photon sources in epitaxial tungsten diselenide. Inset shows the Hanbury-Brown Twiss interferometry measurement proving quantum emission. An innovative method […]
Silicon for Quantum Computing Uses Battle of the Elements: silicon builds digital revolution from sand Silicon is the element that driven the biggest changes in our modern lives. Silicon chips in computers, phones, and all sorts of other gadgets have revolutionized both the way we […]
Secure metropolitan quantum networks move a step closer Successful new field tests of a continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD) system over commercial fiber networks could pave the way to its use in metropolitan areas.That is the key achievement from a joint team of Chinese scientists, […]
Engineers Boost Potential for Creating Successor to Shrinking Transistors Computers and similar electronic devices have gotten faster and smaller over the decades as computer-chip makers have learned how to shrink individual transistors, the tiny electrical switches that convey digital information.Scientists’ pursuit of the smallest […]
Ultra-Quantum Matter Studies Receive Funding Full release from the Chicago Quantum Exchange ~ May 28th, 2019 Dam T. Son, University Professor in the Department of Physics, and Michael Levin, Associate Professor in the Department of Physics, have been awarded a Simons Foundation grant as part […]
IBM continues to show unanticipated progress towards what will become a Quantum backed AI Excerpts and salient points ~ + IBM has the largest public Quantum effort and arguably has the lead in Quantum Computing development though companies like Alphabet, Intel, and Microsoft are accelerating […]
Researchers break quantum limit in the precision of force and position measurements Researchers of the Schliesser Lab at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, have pushed the precision of force and position measurements into a new regime. Their experiment is the first to surpass […]
Air Force Research Laboratory demonstrates world’s first daytime free-space quantum communication enabled by adaptive optics. The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Starfire Optical Range (SOR) recently demonstrated quantum communication in daylight under conditions representative of space-to-Earth satellite links. “This is the world’s first such demonstration, […]
Still Don’t Understand Quantum Computing? Step Back to 2014… Attempting to understand quantum mechanics is very difficult, if not impossible, due to our lack of effort to understand “hard stuff.” You can’t see it, you can’t smell it, but for billions of dollars, governments, academia, […]
Two-Cavity System Generates High-Quality Single Photons Efficiently A new dual-cavity design for a quantum emitter, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), emits more high-quality single photons for carrying quantum information at room temperature than existing methods. The two-cavity system could make the development of […]
Moving the Needle On Nanoscale Imaging with Single-Molecule Magnets (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Amid intense research focus on magnetic single atoms and molecules – which could serve as the smallest possible memory elements in quantum computing – researchers report creating a sensor […]
New Insights into Quantum Measurements As reported in Physical Review Letters, Dr Paul Skrzypczyk and Professor Noah Linden looked at the way in which we gain information about the world at the quantum scale through the process of measurement. This work has been selected as […]
Holding the Universe Together with Quantum Computing Simulation A group of scientists at the Department of Energy’s Fermilab has figured out how to use quantum computing to simulate the fundamental interactions that hold together our universe. In a paper published in Physical Review Letters, Fermilab […]
Efficient Passive Measurement-Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution Author(s): Chun-Hui Zhang, Chun-Mei Zhang, and Qin Wang To date, only active-decoy-state methods have been adopted in current measurement-device-independent (MDI) quantum key distribution (QKD) protocols, causing security loopholes when modulating multiple light intensities with practical devices. To solve this […]
Quantum Bayesianism; Putting the Scientist Back in Science Considering the ongoing challenge of taking measurements in the quantum world and the meaning and accuracy of those measurements, do they form a true picture? Some say not. Objectivity and subjectivity come into the equation. Not to […]
A Step Towards Probabilistic Computing When it comes to performing a calculation destined to arrive at an exact result, humans are hopelessly inferior to the computer. In other areas, humans are still lengths ahead of it: An example is signal processing, which plays an important […]
Proposed: The China Technology Transfer Control Act of 2019. The U.S. Senate has introduced a new bill aimed at thwarting China’s intellectual property theft. The proposed legislation focusses on disruptive technologies. This includes quantum computing. Qubit. Excerpts and salient points ~ • The China Technology […]
Digital Quantum Simulators Can Be Astonishingly Robust Heidelberg Researchers investigate “error bound” that limits usable simulations. In solving quantum-physical problems in many-body systems, such as predicting material properties, conventional computers rapidly reach the limits of their capacity. Digital quantum simulators might help, but until now […]
Silicon Based Qubit Calculation Accuracy. UNSW, Sydney. Quantum world-first: researchers can now tell how accurate two-qubit calculations in silicon really are. After being the first team to create a two-qubit gate in silicon in 2015, UNSW Sydney engineers are breaking new ground again: they have […]
Oak Ridge National Laboratory Adds Quantum Information Science Home. New research facility will serve ORNL’s growing mission in computing, materials research and development. Energy Secretary Rick Perry, Congressman Chuck Fleischmann and lab officials today broke ground on a multipurpose research facility that will provide state-of-the-art […]
Automotive Industry Sees Billions in Quantum Computing. VW and D-Wave, Bosch [parts] and Zapata Computing, Ford and NASA, Daimler and IBM (and Google) and the list is growing. The automotive industry is partnering with the budding quantum computing industry all the while exploring first uses […]
Taking Quantum Computing to Students Quantum leap into the future of education. The quantum era will soon be upon us. The changes we will see will far outpace even those we saw in the development of personal computers, smartphones and broadband networking — combined. IBM […]
Keeping Quantum Computing Reports From Lying. Numerous salient points regarding the confidentiality and integrity of data being espoused by quantum computing devices. Having been on the cybersecurity side of classical computing for years, the topic discussed in the Communications of the ACM piece, Questioning Quantum, […]
Japan and The United States Push Forward in Quantum Technology Japan, US affirm cooperation in AI, quantum technology. Japan and the United States agreed Thursday [May 2nd] to step up cooperation in the areas of artificial intelligence and quantum science and technology. The two governments […]
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Takes Pride In Quantum Computing and Chemical Research Direction Tri-Cities scientists are taking a quantum leap in supercomputing for clean energy and more. PNNL. PNNL’s Katherine Koh, who explores and develops the chemistry for hydrogen fuel cell technologies, may one day […]
Tangent to Quantum Computing: Quantum Spin of Electrons Providing High-Capacity Information Storage Researchers at Argonne have discovered a way to control the direction of electron spin in a cobalt-iron alloy, influencing its magnetic properties. The result could have implications for more powerful and energy-efficient materials […]
Quantum Bits Entangled Using Sound at Distance with Quality. The University of Chicago develops a way to entangle two superconducting qubits with sound vice microwaves. “A challenge for scientists and engineers as they advance quantum technology is to be able to translate quantum signals from […]
Quantum Communication Theory, Informativeness, Noise and Measurement: New Insights New insights into quantum measurements. University of Bristol. Researchers from the University of Bristol have shed new light on the process of quantum measurement, one of the defining, and most quantum features of quantum mechanics. As […]
Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Information for Quantum Neural Networks. Interesting research is being conducted which pulls together quantum information technologies and artificial neural networks. The two together have provided promising advances: Enhanced machine-learning efficiency Speed-up of classical tasks Solving complex quantum problems (such as the […]
Quantum Physicists Pouring Photon Schnapps. A Still for Light Quanta. An atom in a cavity extracts highly pure single photons from weak laser light. Quantum physicists can now distil a kind of photon schnapps. When spirits are distilled, the alcohol content increases relative to the […]
Mass Producing “Stable and Able” Quantum Bits. University of Copenhagen researchers realize new platform for future quantum computer. Quantum physics. University of Copenhagen physicists, as part of the University and Microsoft collaboration focused on topological quantum computing, may have unloosed a Gordian knot in quantum […]
Nothing Spooky About It Says University of Toronto Professor. And he’s right. From the below piece, “This is an entangled state of the two atoms. Neither your atom, nor your friend’s, has a definite energy in this superposition. Nevertheless, the properties of the two atoms […]
Micius Quantum Prize for 2018 Goes to Peter Shor. Peter Shor, the Morss Professor of Applied Mathematics at MIT, has received the2018 Micius Quantum Prize, which is awarded within the field of quantum computation. Shor was nominated for his groundbreaking theoretical work on the factoring […]
Indium Arsenide: Solution for a Scalable Quantum Computer? Above image is of a nanomechanical router. Full caption: “The research team has invented a component, called a nanomechanical router, that emits quantum information carried by light particles (photons) and routes them into different directions inside a […]
IBM Gobbles Up Notre Dame. IBM is adding Notre Dame University to its retinue of higher-learning establishments joining the IBM Q Network. University of Louisville, University of Colorado, University of North Carolina…and on and on. Smart move on IBM’s part? Time will tell. Qubit. Notre […]
Virginia Tech Hitches Its Wagon to IBM’s Train of Schools in the IBM Q Network. Continuing the enrollment of universities, IBM has now pulled in to Virginia Tech and brought the school on-board the IBM Q Network. Qubit. Virginia Tech joining IBM Q Network to […]