Encoding Metamaterials for Quantum Information Processing
Israeli researchers have demonstrated quantum metamaterials are employable in quantum information systems.
September 27, 2018
Israeli researchers have demonstrated quantum metamaterials are employable in quantum information systems.
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.
The People’s Friendship University of Russia (RUDN), located in Moscow, engaged scientists from the University of Hamburg to study quantum properties.
University of Maryland researchers have overcome the challenge of creating multiple identical photons.
Oak Ridge National Lab’s quantum random number generator is being harnessed by industry. Using an LED, their device produces photons while measuring the quantumness of the produced photons. Qrypt will harness these quantum statistics to produce “unique and unpredictable encryption keys.” Doing so places an exponentially better decryption mitigation method in place lending to greater communication cybersecurity.
“Made in China 2025” is China’s initiative to rein as world leader in technology — from telecommunications to artificial intelligence coupled with robots to quantum computing. A key accomplishment has been the over $10B put into their civilian-military quantum computing complex; this is aside from corporate mega-giants Huawei and Alibaba’s ‘commercial’ efforts.
Graphene is being more thoroughly studied for use as a fundamental component to quantum computers.
Finally? D-Wave’s 2048-qubit quantum annealer (quantum computer) has successfully simulated a topological phase transition. Successfully producing their results “is a major step toward reducing the need for time-consuming and expensive physical” R&D. The results of the study validate the D-Wave quantum computer; a fully-programmable, accurate simulator, using quantum bits (qubits) to compute results to complex problems.
Quantum material called samarium nickelate, suggestsa new avenue for research and potential applications in batteries, ‘smart windows’ and brain-inspired computers containing artificial synapses.
Spin-based quantum computing is getting a boost from researchers at the University of New South Wales. Potential uses may be found in: Quantum spin-based devices (such as spin transistors, spin-orbit qubits, and quantum logic gates), superconductor systems (based on Majorana particles), and new topological materials with low resistance to electron flow.
