The Quantum Weekly: A Record-Breaking Week for the Quantum Industry
From government grants to venture capital funding to claims of world-leading performance and world’s best executives, it’s been a breathless week of achievements and promise for the quantum community. We’ll review a few of those stories in this edition of The Quantum Weekly.
Spotlight Story: Honeywell Says It’s Quantum Computer Leads the World in Performance
“What makes our quantum computers so powerful is having the highest quality qubits, with the lowest error rates. This is a combination of using identical, fully connected qubits and precision control,” said Tony Uttley, president of Honeywell Quantum Solutions — The Quantum Daily
Business
TQD Exclusive: 22 Quantum Computing Executives Shaping the Industry — The Quantum Daily
IonQ Secures New Funding – raising total to $84 million – adds Advisory Board Members — The Quantum Daily
Universal Quantum Emerges From Stealth With £3.6 Million Seed-Funding Announcement — The Quantum Daily
Britannia to Rule the Wavefunction, Spreads 78 Million Pounds Across 38 Projects — The Quantum Daily
AQT Awarded as Technology Pioneer by World Economic Forum — The Quantum Daily
IQM Receives Up to 17.5 Million Euros in Funding From European Commission Accelerator — The Quantum Daily
Science and Technology
Quantum Intuition Dojo — The Quantum Daily
The Commercialization of Quantum Technology — The Quantum Daily
Is Teleportation Possible? Yes, in the Quantum World — Science Daily
China Reports Progress in Ultra-Secure Satellite Transmission — New York Times
Arrays of Strontium Rydberg Atoms Show Promise for Use in Quantum Computers — Phys.org
Quantum Realm’s ‘Fifth State of Matter’ Observed in Space For the First Time — Good News Network
Weird and Wild
Strange Theory: Entire Universe Structured By “Quantum Static” — Futurism
Jobs
Quantum Software Scientific Manager — Cambridge Quantum Computing
University Research Partner — QuantFi
Nanofabrication Engineer — OQC
Quantum Control Engineer – Q-CTRL
Platform Engineer – Tech lead — Riverlane
QKD Researcher — QEYnet
Director of Research, Quantum Computing Software for Finance — QuantFi
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Matt Swayne
With a several-decades long background in journalism and communications, Matt Swayne has worked as a science communicator for an R1 university for more than 12 years, specializing in translating high tech and deep tech for the general audience. He has served as a writer, editor and analyst at The Quantum Insider since its inception. In addition to his service as a science communicator, Matt also develops courses to improve the media and communications skills of scientists and has taught courses.
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Honeywell
Honeywell Aerospace, founded in 1906, is a global company focused on aviation technology, with hardware and avionics utilized on nearly all commercial and military aircraft. The division specializes in designing and manufacturing advanced aircraft engines, flight decks, satellite communications, and auxiliary power systems.
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IonQ
IonQ is a developer in trapped ion quantum computing founded in 2015 that actively applies its technology to the aerospace and defense sectors. The company empowers satellite-based quantum networks and quantum enabled drones to improve positioning, navigation, and timing resilience in GPS denied environments, and collaborates with industry leaders like Airbus to optimize aircraft loading.
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Universal Quantum
Universal Quantum is working on scalable trapped ion quantum computers.
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IQM
IQM Finland builds scalable hardware for universal quantum computers, focusing on superconducting technology.
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European Commission
The Commission represents and upholds the interests of the EU as a whole, and is independent of national governments. The European Commission prepares legislation for adoption by the Council (representing the member countries) and the Parliament (representing the citizens). It administers the budget and the policy programmes (agriculture, fisheries, research etc.) in cooperation with authorities in the member countries.
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