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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Highly Secure, Pan-European Quantum Communication Infrastructure. The European space agency and European Commission agreed to the initial steps in creating a quantum-secure communication network – for Europe. Excerpt: It would comprise a series of quantum communication networks, linking institutional users and their critical infrastructures, and […]
U.S. Project Scaling Quantum Network from Local Area to Wide-Area. Quantum Goes the Distance. U.S. research team expands quantum network with successful long-distance entanglement experiment. Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, Stony Brook University, and DOE’s Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) are […]
UK’s UKQN: Testing Quantum Key Distribution with the UK’s Quantum Network. Quantum communications are destined to be the most-secure type of data transfer throughout the globe. China demonstrated this in 2017 with Micius, their quantum-secure communications satellite. Now, the UK has brought together the research […]
Qrypt Awarded Licensing of Quantum Random Number Generator from Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory awarded Qrypt one of two of its licensing awards. The award fully recognizes the successful transfer of federal laboratory technologies to the marketplace. From […]
Commercially Available 4-Qubit Quantum Processor Provides Cryptographic Security. Cambridge Quantum Computing (“CQC”), a leader in quantum computing technologies, will be demonstrating “IronBridge” – the world’s first commercially available certifiable Quantum Cryptographic Device – in booth # 1847C at this year’s RSA Conference in San Francisco. […]
U.S. Army to Leverage Quantum Sensing’s “Nonintuitive Properties.” Entanglement, wave-particle duality, superposition: These properties are key to quantum sensing. And the U.S. Army intends to leverage these properties for national defense applications. “Quantum sensing uses some nonintuitive properties of nature to measure things like time, […]
U.S. National Science Foundation Soliciting Proposals for Quantum Leap Challenge Institutes. The Quantum Leap initiative augments a wide range of NSF investments in quantum information science and engineering. These efforts, combined with activities supported by other entities, including other government agencies and industry, indicate that […]
5G Softwareization and Quantum Cryptography. Cybersecurity of network data is an industry in itself. Add 5G and you place more data in vulnerable environments; in the case of 5G, the airwaves. Where the data can easily be captured for processing. That is the easy vulnerability to […]
Interesting Thought: Could Entangled Qubits Reveal a Black Hole’s Information? Researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute in Maryland have implemented an experimental test for quantum scrambling. Quantum scrambling is a “chaotic shuffling of the information stored among a collection of quantum particles.” Recently, the JQI […]
Bringing Photonic Quantum Computing to Reality. Researchers in China “have demonstrated a way to map and measure large-scale photonic quantum correlation with single-photon sensitivity.” This capability is critical for making photon-based quantum computing practical. The new method is dubbed “correlation on spatially-mapped photon-level image or […]
Universal Entangler: Negates Re-wiring, Choose Any Code. For the relatively few quantum computers in use today, the complexity of processing a quantum computing algorithm is intensive – to set up! Now, thanks to a research team at Yale University, the process should be easier with their […]
New Angle on Producing Single-photons; Applying to Quantum Computing. Researchers at Macquarie University have developed a new method for producing single-photons. The “standard approach” is limited at quantum scales as the production is through materials engineering — a known challenge. The new method shows promise […]
Strategic U.S. Policy and Quantum Science: Time to Prepare. The Heritage Foundation has presented a primer for U.S. national security policymakers. Whether in policy or technology, the piece is an excellent synopsis, in simple terms, on the current status of quantum computing. From the report […]
Quantum Spin in Sheets of Hexagonal Boron Nitride are Reading Out Quantum States. The sheer volume of data held in a quantum bit vice a classical binary bit’s 1 or 0 is the strength behind quantum computing as a “revolutionary technology.” But to harness this […]
U.S. Quantum Key Distribution Leader a Finalist in SXSW 2019. Quantum Xchange, a Bethesda, Maryland, company, has been chosen as a one of five finalists to demonstrate their accomplishment at the South by South West Interactive Innovation Awards, March 9. From their news release: “A quantum […]
Crystals Coupled with Current Fiber-optic Links for Low Loss Quantum Information Transfer. For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that crystals manufactured by lasers within a glass matrix maintain full ferroelectric functionality. What does this do for quantum computing? Applications for the technology include use […]
UK Heavily Funding Four Major Research Areas. Crossword Cybersecurity has completed a global database looking at university research. In the UK, “a significant £5.6 million has gone to work on security for healthcare” data. Four UK projects with the greatest funding are found in safe robotics, […]
Photonics for Quantum Workshop, @ RIT. Quantum science has potential for “handling complex computational problems, providing communication security, and in enhancing navigation, imaging and other sensing technologies.” From January 23 to 25, 2019, scientists and engineers from across the U.S. will meet at the Rochester […]
Quantum Key Distribution in the Holland Tunnel. The annual QKD market may demand $2 billion by 2024. The nascent technology promises to be nearly impossible to hack without discovery. Currently the technology is being tested throughoout the world. Unknown to nearly everyone, the cutting-edge quantum science […]
Quantum Computing Cloud. Harvard’s John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences researchers have shifted the frequency of photons using microwaves. Using a molecule-like photonic system built with lithium niobate on a chip, the team demonstrated that light’s frequency and phase could be controlled by […]
Quantum Key Distribution and Wind Turbines, G.E. and U.S. DoE Protecting the Grid. GE protecting the grid, the wind turbines, and quantum computing systems; having been awarded $12.6M by the U.S. DoE. Reference is found at Windpower ENGINEERING & DEVELOPMENT… Additional reference…
Quantum Communication Satellite Under Design. By 2021, United Kingdom engineers with a team from Singapore, aim to place a quantum-communication satellite in orbit. This report is found here at optics.org…
Quantum Communications Satellite Commercialization. Heriot-Watt University researchers are developing a fully-autonomous and low-cost quantum-key distribution (QKD) satellite receiver. This report is found at HERIOT-WATT UNIVERSITY…
Essential Elements of Scaling Quantum Computers. Topological photonics: Don’t require strong magnetic fields; are highly coherent; operate at room-temperature; easily manipulated. This report is found at International Business Times…
Europe’s Quantum Technology Roadmap…Quantum Communication, Quantum Simulation, Quantum Computation, and Quantum Sensing and Metrology are explicitily discussed in this summary of a 150 page quantum technology roadmap, Euro-style. These four domains have been driven and are driving the quantum bus…Read on… Published at the […]