If we could not find room for it, time to digest it, or a reason to run it during the past week, we have collected it here. Not a recap for the week, but a cleanup of pieces we received and just could not get to.
Because Quantum is Coming. Qubit.
Who’s Eyeing Quantum Clouds | The IDC Study, Quantum Computing Adoption Trends: 2020 Survey Findings notes that cloud-based quantum computing while still in its infancy, and funds earmarked for quantum-computing initiatives are limited (0-2% of IT budgets), end users are certainly optimistic that early investment will prove to be a competitive advantage in the future. Manufacturing, financial services, and security industries are currently experimenting with more potential uses, developing advanced prototypes, and being further along in their implementation. Source: CONNECTED WORLD. CONNECTED WORLD, Who’s Eyeing Quantum Clouds…
Podcast: Quantum Computing Deep Dive | Johnny Hooyberghs introduces Quantum Computing, explaining why it matters, what a qubit and superposition are, what IBM and Microsoft are doing in this area, and some of the algorithms used. Source: Infoq. Johnny Hooyberghs, Podcast: Quantum Computing Deep Dive…
New Perspectives on the APAC Quantum Computing Market | Inside Quantum Technology is revising its projections for worldwide quantum computer (hardware) sales. In this iteration of our forecasting work we place more emphasis on regional activity. The infographic that accompanies this blog shows our latest estimates for the APAC countries. Source: Inside Quantum Technology. Inside Quantum Technology, New Perspectives on the APAC Quantum Computing Market…
Ground-state energy estimation of the water molecule on a trapped-ion quantum computer | Quantum computing leverages the quantum resources of superposition and entanglement to efficiently solve computational problems considered intractable for classical computers. Examples include calculating molecular and nuclear structure, simulating strongly interacting electron systems, and modeling aspects of material function. While substantial theoretical advances have been made in mapping these problems to quantum algorithms, there remains a large gap between the resource requirements for solving such problems and the capabilities of currently available quantum hardware. Bridging this gap will require a co-design approach, where the expression of algorithms is developed in conjunction with the hardware itself to optimize execution. Here we describe an extensible co-design framework for solving chemistry problems on a trapped-ion quantum computer and apply it to estimating the ground-state energy of the water molecule using the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) method. The controllability of the trapped-ion quantum computer enables robust energy estimates using the prepared VQE ansatz states. The systematic and statistical errors are comparable to the chemical accuracy, which is the target threshold necessary for predicting the rates of chemical reaction dynamics, without resorting to any error mitigation techniques based on Richardson extrapolation. Source: npj. Yunseong Nam, Jwo-Sy Chen, Jungsang Kim, Ground-state energy estimation of the water molecule on a trapped-ion quantum computer…
Top 25 Quantum Computing Blogs and News Websites To Follow in 2020 | The Qubit Report has made it through some wickets. Now listed on the “Top 25 Quantum Computing Blogs and News Websites To Follow In 2020”. Because Quantum is Coming. Qubit. Source: Feedspot. Feedspot, Top 25 Quantum Computing Blogs and News Websites To Follow in 2020…
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