Research

Space, the Final Frontier? Or Quantum Physics, Science, Computing…

The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) successfully launched Cygnus, last week. Cygnus is a payload with many scientific experiments aboard. The International Space Station captured the shuttle. Included in the payload were multiple experiments involving quantum science. Most interesting is that quantum experiments will be conducted during crew rest periods to reduce effects of decoherence. 

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May 28, 2018

Validating Cloud Quantum Computations

Quantum computing via the cloud is gaining ground. Numerous institutions have joined the likes of the IBM Q Experience, a quantum cloud computing service. Quantum computing clouds being developed reach back to quantum computers, programmable at your discretion.

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May 25, 2018

Using the Quantum Universe to Affect the Physical Universe

If you have been wondering just what is this entanglement thing? What is a qubit? How do we manipulate matter — for example, how do we change magnetic material to non-magnetic material? Superconductors at room temperature? What does this all mean. It may be ‘weird’ and sound difficult to understand

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May 19, 2018

Entangled Clouds

At present, large scale quantum computing is held back due to lack of needed scale in entangling particles. This could be a valuable step in the large scale quantum computing direction. 

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May 18, 2018

Entangled Atoms. Quantum Applications of Barium?

Current thinking is that exploiting quantum properties is needed to develop quantum computing. Researchers from the University of Innsbruck claim to be able to precisely control certain properties. Full control of entangling particles, generating single photons, and particle positioning, play into this “deliberate entanglement”.

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May 16, 2018

Developing Efficient Quantum Computing Algorithms

Research supported by the U.S. Army Research Office, the U.S. National Science Foundation, and the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research is progressing toward efficient quantum circuits (quantum algorithms) with available quantum computing equipment. Availability and expense curtail proliferation of resources to conduct quantum computation. The researchers find it an imperative to optimize quantum algorithms to make best use of the available resources as these are likely to remain in high-demand, low-availability. Read on for details on optimizing these circuits. 

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May 14, 2018

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