LANL Study Tests Butterfly Effect With IBM-Q
LANL Study Tests Butterfly Effect With IBM-Q Simulating quantum ‘time travel’ disproves butterfly effect in quantum realm Press Release… In research by a team at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Alice prepares her qubit and applies the information scrambling unitary U to this and many other qubits altogether. Bob measures her qubit in any basis, flipping […]
University of Alberta Develops Data Transmission Tech Translating Microwaves to Optical Light
University of Alberta Develops Data Transmission Tech Translating Microwaves to Optical Light Physicists develop technology to transform information from microwaves to optical light Key points… + Physicists at the University of Alberta have developed technology that can translate data from microwaves to optical light—an advance that has promising applications in the next generation of super-fast […]
Fujitsu and Spain’s Largest Bank to Collaborate Using Quantum Annealing Technology
Fujitsu and Spain’s Largest Bank to Collaborate Using Quantum Annealing Technology BBVA Bank selects Fujitsu’s Quantum-Inspired Digital Annealer to explore customers’ investment portfolios Fujitsu [announced] that it is collaborating with BBVA, Spain’s second largest bank, on a proof of concept (PoC) of its quantum-inspired optimisation solution Digital Annealer. The bank wants to determine whether the […]
Tohoku University Researchers Enable More Effective Electron Spin for Better Information Carriage
Tohoku University Researchers Enable More Effective Electron Spin for Better Information Carriage Spin, Spin, Spin: Researchers Enhance Electron Spin Longevity + The electron is an elementary particle, a building block on which other systems evolve. With specific properties such as spin, or angular momentum, that can be manipulated to carry information, electrons are primed to […]
India as Spectator of the Quantum Internet
India as Spectator of the Quantum Internet Quantum leap? US plans for unhackable internet may not fructify within a decade, but India is far behind In brief… + Last week, the US department of energy released a blueprint for a national quantum internet. The project if successful, the government claimed, will ensure a safer and […]
Quantum Sensing Technology Gets Smaller
Quantum Sensing Technology Gets Smaller Scientists make quantum technology smaller Excerpts and salient points ~ + [A] team of researchers has used a new approach that will enable quantum sensors to shrink to a fraction of their current size. The research was conducted by an international team led by University of Birmingham and SUSTech in […]
Purdue University Scientists Taking a Quantum Walk at Room Temperature Vice 20 mili-Kelvins
Purdue University Scientists Taking a Quantum Walk at Room Temperature Vice 20 mili-Kelvins ‘Quantum rainbow’ — photons of switching colors allow room-temperature quantum computing + A new quantum random walk technique developed by engineers at Purdue University could eventually allow computers to search through data at speeds beyond that of conventional computers. “The point is […]
University of Maine Granted $ to Study Storage Devices; Applications to Quantum Information Science
University of Maine Granted $ to Study Storage Devices; Applications to Quantum Information Science UMaine professors receive Department of Energy grant to design novel energy-storage materials Points to note… + Two University of Maine researchers will use artificial intelligence-aided design to develop new materials for improved batteries and supercapacitors… “The new materials, if successfully predicted […]
Quantum Computing Developer Community Expanding, Here’s What ‘They’ Think
Quantum Computing Developer Community Expanding, Here’s What ‘They’ Think Interesting webinar provided by IBM. HPC Wire’s John Russell presents an excellent write-up if you are unable to listen through the webinar. Recommend reading, or listening, from the source links, below. Because Quantum is Coming. Qubit IBM-led Webinar Tackles Quantum Developer Community Needs Read More… + […]
ORCA Computing raises £2.9M ($3.7M) to develop quantum technology utilising “off the shelf” telecommunications components.
(London, 21st July 2020) – ORCA Computing raises £2.9M ($3.7M) to develop quantum technology utilising “off the shelf” telecommunications components. “Optical fiber is the cornerstone of the internet revolution, carrying information across continents” said Richard Murray, CEO and co-founder of ORCA Computing. “Light contained within optical fibers is also an excellent carrier of quantum information […]