Charge Qubits Get a Thousand-fold Boost
Insider Brief U.S. researchers led by Dafei Jin from the Argonne Center for Nanoscale Materials and David Schuster from Stanford University and the University of Chicago. have significantly improved the coherence time of charge quantum bits (qubits) by a factor of 1000 and achieved a high fidelity of 98.1% in reading out the state of […]
Qubit Pharmaceuticals Partners With The PINQ² Platform to Use Quantum Computers to Accelerate Pharmaceutical Research
Insider Brief Qubit Pharmaceuticals will partner with the Platform for Digital and Quantum Innovation for medical drug research. This collaboration expands partnership between Qubit Pharmaceuticals and DistriQ – Quantum Innovation Zone. The IBM Quantum System One computer is operated by PINQ2 in Quebec. PRESS RELEASE — Qubit Pharmaceuticals, a company fostering the application of highly […]
Aliro Quantum Introduces Aliro Simulator For Organizations Designing And Building Quantum Networks
Insider Brief Aliro Quantum announced the controlled availability of Aliro Simulator. The simulator is a modular quantum network simulator equipped to model all portions of a quantum network. Organizations can use it to determine proof of value for implementing an entanglement-based quantum network. PRESS RELEASE — Aliro Quantum announced the controlled availability of Aliro Simulator, a versatile, […]
Quantum Xchange Joins Migration to Post-Quantum Cryptography Project Consortium
Insider Brief Quantum Xchange is collaborating with the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence as part of the migration to Post-Quantum Cryptography Project Consortium. This move is designed to bring awareness to the issues involved in migrating to NIST’s post-quantum cryptography. Quantum Xchange is developing holistic cryptographic agility, visibility, and management solutions. PRESS RELEASE — Quantum […]
Harry Buhrman Joins Quantinuum as Chief Scientist for Algorithms and Innovation
Insider Brief Harry Buhrman, Ph.D., a renowned and distinguished complexity theorist and quantum computing scientist, has joined Quantinuum‘s team as Chief Scientist for Algorithms and Innovation. Buhrman has been an active researcher advancing the understanding of complexity theory and quantum computing since the 1990s. In 2015, he founded QuSoft, the national research center for quantum […]
ICOSA and NEC Present Quantum-Inspired Solution for Financial Markets
Insider Brief ICOSA and NEC have developed Vector Annealing (VA), a quantum-inspired computing method, which significantly accelerates solution finding in financial portfolio optimization. VA’s implementation in financial portfolio management, using Markowitz’s Modern Portfolio Theory, has shown consistent outperformance over traditional simulated annealing, especially in larger problem scenarios. Future applications of VA in financial markets include […]
JPMorgan Chase, Argonne National Lab Researchers Demonstrate Fast Simulation of High-Depth QAOA Circuits
Insider Brief Global Technology Applied Research at JPMorgan Chase and the U.S. Department of Energy‘s Argonne National Laboratory collaborated to develop QOKit, a Python library and toolset. QOKit’s success is partly due to its approach of splitting simulations into pre-computation and evaluation phases. Integration with NVIDIA‘s cuQuantum library enhanced QOKit’s performance, with a new precomputation […]
UAE, Saudi Arabia And Qatar Spearheading Quantum Computing Development in The Middle East
Insider Brief The growing prominence of quantum computing in the Middle East region will be discussed at Intersec 2024. The conference will take place from 16-18 January 2024 at the Dubai World Trade Centre. 1,000 exhibitors from 60 nations and 45,000 trade visitors are expected at the event. Image: Intersec PRESS RELEASE — The rapid […]
Machine Learning Could Bridge The Reality Gap in Quantum Devices
Insider Brief Researchers report they may have found a way to close the ‘reality gap’: the “crazy golf-like” difference between predicted and observed behavior from quantum devices. A “physics-informed” machine learning approach may be able to infer disorder characteristics indirectly. The team was led by University of Oxford scientists. PRESS RELEASE — A study led […]
Microsoft’s Krysta Svore Explores the Present Status of QC & Its Future Implications on “Hansel Minutes” Podcast
Dr. Krysta Svore is a distinguished researcher and leads Microsoft Quantum — Redmond (QuArC) group. Her expertise spans quantum computation, algorithms and high-level programming. A Ph.D. graduate from Columbia University, her research has included machine learning (ML) algorithms, web search, information retrieval, and web user dynamics. This month, Svore featured on the popular coding podcast Hansel Minutes. […]