Staying Power: Get Your Quantum State to Last 10,000 Times Longer

Staying Power: Get Your Quantum State to Last 10,000 Times Longer UChicago scientists discover way to make quantum states last 10,000 times longer Read More… +  A team of scientists at the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering announced the discovery of a simple modification that allows quantum systems to stay operational—or “coherent”—10,000 […]

Rigetti Starts August With $79M Funding Announcement…

Rigetti Starts August With $79M Funding Announcement… Bessemer Leads $79M Series C Round of Rigetti Computing to Advance Practical Quantum Computing Press release… Rigetti Computing, a leading quantum computing startup and pioneer in hybrid quantum-classical computing systems, has announced it closed a $79M Series C financing led by Bessemer Venture Partners. Franklin Templeton joins the […]

U.S. DARPA Funds Awarded to Argonne National Laboratory and University of Chicago in Effort to Boost U.S. Quantum Computing Leadership

U.S. DARPA Funds Awarded to Argonne National Laboratory and University of Chicago in Effort to Boost U.S. Quantum Computing Leadership Argonne receives two awards from DARPA for quantum information science | Argonne National Laboratory The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago recently received two awards from the Defense […]

U.S. DARPA Program to Exploit Quantum Information Processing Selects Teams

U.S. DARPA Program to Exploit Quantum Information Processing Selects Teams DARPA Kicks Off Program to Advance Quantum Computing Image:  DARPA’s Optimization with Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum devices (ONISQ) program will pursue a hybrid concept that combines intermediate-sized quantum devices with classical systems to solve challenging optimization problems. (Image Credit: DARPA) DARPA has selected seven university and […]

National Security Gets Boost with Q-CTRL’s Investment From In-Q-Tel

National Security Gets Boost with Q-CTRL’s Investment From In-Q-Tel Q-CTRL announces strategic investment by In-Q-Tel to accelerate quantum technology solutions for national security applications Q-CTRL, a startup that applies the principles of control engineering to accelerate the development of quantum technology, today announced a strategic investment by In-Q-Tel (IQT), the not-for-profit strategic investor that identifies innovative […]

DARPA Award to Accelerate Scalable Cold Atom Quantum Computing

DARPA Award to Accelerate Scalable Cold Atom Quantum Computing ColdQuanta Awarded Contract of up to $7.4M from DARPA to Accelerate Development of Scalable Cold Atom Quantum Computer ColdQuanta, the quantum atomics company, has been selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop a scalable, cold-atom-based quantum computing hardware and software platform that […]

DARPA Grants $8.6M to Rigetti for Practical Quantum Computing

DARPA Grants $8.6M to Rigetti for Practical Quantum Computing Rigetti Computing Wins $8.6 million DARPA Grant to Demonstrate Practical Quantum Computing Full release… BERKELEY, Calif., March 26, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Rigetti Computing, a pioneer in hybrid quantum-classical computing systems, has been awarded up to $8.6 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), as […]

U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Seeking Quantum Research Collaboration

U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Seeking Quantum Research Collaboration DARPA hopes to form quantum computing consortium In brief… +  The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is considering forming a quantum computing consortium.  In a request for information, DARPA said that it is seeking “companies that would be willing to enter into a partnership with […]

DARPA Awards Quantum Machine Learning Contract; Xanadu’s PennyLane is Key

DARPA Awards Quantum Machine Learning Contract; Xanadu’s PennyLane is Key Xanadu awarded DARPA grant to further advance quantum machine learning Full release ~ PennyLane, the company’s cross-platform software for quantum machine learning, will be central to the team’s work. TORONTO, Nov. 19, 2019 /PRNewswire/ – Xanadu, a full-stack quantum computing and advanced AI company developing […]

“Nature as Computer” Studied as Substitute for Quantum Computing Efficiency

“Nature as Computer” Studied as Substitute for Quantum Computing Efficiency The Pentagon Is Turning to Nature to Solve Its Most Complex Problems Excerpts and salient points ~ +  On Aug. 1, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency kicked off a research initiative that looks to harness the computational power of living cells, chemical bonds and […]