IBM has announced its most advanced quantum systems to date, enhancing its ability to address complex scientific and industrial challenges. Featuring the powerful IBM Quantum Heron processor and improved Qiskit software, IBM pushes quantum systems to new performance levels.
Aqarios has launched Luna, a quantum platform enabling businesses to solve complex problems without needing quantum expertise. Luna offers pre-built optimization scenarios, access to various quantum backends, and integration with leading quantum solutions like Amazon Braket and Q-CTRL Fire Opal.
BTQ Technologies and Macquarie University have initiated a research collaboration to advance quantum algorithms and secure communications. Supported by Sydney Quantum Academy PhD students, the partnership focuses on integrating quantum processing into communication protocols to enhance speed, security, and energy efficiency.
Altair and the Technical University of Munich introduced a quantum algorithm for CFD, demonstrating improved scalability and efficiency. The research offers practical applications for industries relying on complex fluid dynamics simulations. This quantum-based approach marks a shift toward integrating advanced computing methods to solve large-scale industrial challenges.
Quantum computers offer enormous potential to solve certain complex problems that are impossible for conventional computers, but this power depends on harnessing extremely fleeting behaviors of subatomic particles.
BASF has begun to explore how PASQAL’s proprietary quantum algorithms could one day be used to predict weather patterns.
The DARPA project — Optimization with Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum devices — aims to “demonstrate the quantitative advantage of quantum information processing by leapfrogging the performance of classical-only systems in solving optimization challenges…”
As data volumes increase geometrically, and the interdependence of our supply chains grows increasingly complex, the computations required to optimize supply chains are outpacing our ability to accurately and efficiently solve them. Quantum computing promises to be the answer to this increasing challenge.
The University of Ottawa (uOttawa) and Xanadu formed a new partnership to drive Canada’s quantum computing approach beyond fundamental scientific research.
A team of researchers led by Richard Warburton at the University of Basel, in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Bochum, has now succeeded in creating identical photons originating from different and widely-separated sources.
