Racing to the Industry’s Fastest Qubit Reset and Readout IQM Aims to Drive Disruptive Advancements in Quantum Computing Technology Excerpts and salient points ~ + With a vision to drive disruptive advancements in quantum computing, a team of innovators has launched IQM Finland Oy (IQM). […]
National University of Singapore Placed Nanosat in Orbit; Study Quantum Communications Singapore nanosatellite developed by CQT goes into orbit Excerpts and salient points ~ + A nanosatellite, SpooQy-1 developed by the Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT) at NUS was the first Singapore satellite to be […]
Uganda Sets Up 4th Industrial Revolution Task Force; Not All are Happy Under all the developing quantum computing technology, the applications to healthcare, energy development optimization, and secure communications, we still need food, shelter, and clothing. A bit of a sobering perspective. Qubit. Uganda set […]
The Race for Quantum Computing: U.K. Status Excellent discussion and tracking of the U.K. MoD quantum programme and related U.K. Government initiatives. The race for quantum computing is surely on. Qubit. Mapping the Race to Quantum Computing: The UK National Quantum Technologies Programme – The […]
Government of Canada Adding $5M for Disruptive Tech Incubator FedDev Ontario supports electronics hub in southern Ontario Excerpts and salient points ~ + This project will support companies that produce the foundational technology for high growth areas such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and […]
Archer Exploration Fills Coffers for Quantum Computer Chip Research and Development Sugarloaf land sale completed + Highlights: ~ Completion of sale of Sugarloaf farm land. ~ Archer has received $1.35 million cash from purchasers. ~ After receipt of funds, Archer has over $2.0 million in […]
Stepping Towards Classical-Quantum Computing Interfaces with Microwaves Building a bridge to the quantum world Excerpts and salient points ~ + Entanglement is one of the main principles of quantum mechanics. Physicists from Professor Johannes Fink’s research group at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria […]
XANADU Joining Quantum Cloud Computing Offerings Xanadu Raises $32M Series A to Bring Photonic Quantum Computing to the Cloud Excerpts and salient points ~ + Xanadu…has announced it has raised $32 million in Series A financing. OMERS Ventures led the round with participation from Georgian […]
D-Wave Reveals Hybrid Quantum-classical Application Framework D-Wave Announces Quantum Hybrid Strategy and General Availability of D-Wave Hybrid Full press release ~ D-Wave Systems Inc., the leader in quantum computing systems, software, and services, today announced the general availability of D-Wave Hybrid™, a simple open-source hybrid […]
Sampling of Quantum Computing; French Perspective Computers: Promises of the Quantum Dawn Excerpts and salient points ~ + In this race for the greatest number of qubits and the creation of a quantum computer, two systems, currently neck and neck, offer the most interesting prospects. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Move Over Helium-3… Using Magnetism to Cool Quantum Computers Cooling for quantum electronics The start-up kiutra is the first company in the world to have succeeded in developing a permanent magnetic cooling system to reach temperatures close to absolute zero. Such temperatures are, for example, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Is Quantum Computing the Answer to Future Data Center Innovation? Excerpts and salient points ~ • Speaking during a keynote address at this week’s Glue Conference 2019 event, Murray Thom, vice president of software and cloud services at D-Wave Systems, laid out ways that quantum […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Disruptive Tech, Congressional Traditions In Clash of Old and New and It May Not End Well for the U.S. The New Revolution in Military Affairs. In 1898, a Polish banker and self-taught military expert named Jan Bloch published The Future of War, the culmination of […]
QPress to Build Flakey Material for Quantum Information Science Studies. Building a Printing Press for New Quantum Materials. Brookhaven National Laboratory. Scientists at Brookhaven Lab’s Center for Functional Nanomaterials are developing an automated system to synthesize entirely new materials made from stacked atomically thin two-dimensional […]
U.S. Air Force Showcases Quantum Information Science. The U.S. Department of Defense is hosting the DoD Lab Day, April 25, 2019, at the Headquarters of the U.S. military. The Air Force Research Lab has been involved with photonics processor and trapped ion quantum computing research. […]
Helium in High-demand, Short Supply: Negative Effect on Quantum Computing Research. Helium is used to keep most quantum computers at extremely cold temperatures. This summer, expect there to be a shortage of helium. There is a silver-lining, sort of. The type needed by quantum […]
If Quantum Computing Fails, What Next, Post-Moore’s Law? The Memristor? To keep somewhat of a balance in researching and studying quantum computing’s advancements, we search for pieces which call into question quantum computing’s future. Given Moore’s Law is winding down and causing industry to search […]
Implementing Ethics Principles In Quantum Computing The tech ethics community is at an inflection point. The broad and pervasive applications of Artificial Intelligence and other technologies are no longer a future possibility but an immediate potential harm. As practitioners, we need to respect that urgency […]
Quantum Internet Development a Melting Pot of Engineering, Physics, and Mathematics. Thorough discussion covering many of the aspects necessary to build a quantum internet. Qubit. ‘We need to think out of the box’: physicist Maria Spiropulu on how to build the quantum internet Experimental physicist […]
Silicon Qubit Fidelity and Noise. Qubits appear to be the flavor this week; at least in the output from media sources. Lack of coherence still plaguing stability of the quantum bit. Arguably the most fundamental aspect for quantum computing. Silicon Qubit Fidelities Approaching Incoherent Noise […]
U.S. GAO Establishing Tech Literacy Office for Lawmakers; 5G, Quantum Computing Slated. Of 65 positions, 25 will be geared toward emerging technologies to include 5G and quantum computing. GAO Will Pour $15 Million Into New Tech Assessment Office in 2020. Nextgov. The Government Accountability Office […]
Sticking to the Facts In Science and The White House: The National Quantum Initiative Act. Pertinent commentary from Mr. Gabriel Popkin, science writer. Qubit. Why Journalists Are Wrong to Say Trump Is at War With Science. By endorsing the overblown rhetoric that science is under […]
Tohoku University Research News. Tohoku University researchers have developed an algorithm that enhances the ability of a Canadian-designed quantum computer to more efficiently find the best solution for complicated problems, according to a study published in the journal Scientific Reports. Quantum computing takes advantage of […]
IMAGE: Scientists at Rice and Northwestern universities have developed a technique to get images of two-dimensional borophene and match them with models. Polymorphic borophene shows promise for electronic, thermal, optical and other applications. The researchers also created a phase diagram, at right, with details about […]
Quantum Computing and High-performance Computers (“Supercomputers”). Supercomputers, well, high-performance computers, are attempting to solve similar modern-day issues we hope quantum computing will be able to solve. However, these systems are attempting this today while we wait for quantum. What are they and how might they […]