Portal For Airbus BMW Group ‘The Quantum Mobility Quest’ Is Now Open
Insider Brief The portal for The Airbus and BMW Group Quantum Computing Challenge — “The Quantum Mobility Quest” — is open. Problem statements include improved aerodynamics design, future automated mobility, sustainable supply chain optimization and enhanced corrosion inhibition. The winning team in each of the challenges will be awarded a €30,000 prize by the end […]
PsiQuantum, Mitsubishi Partner to Use Quantum Computers to Design Energy-Efficient Materials
Insider Brief PsiQuantum and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group announced they are working with Mitsubishi Chemical Group on a joint project to simulate excited states of photochromic molecules. The project could lead to smart windows, energy-efficient data storage, solar energy storage and solar cells, and other photoswitching use cases. Qlimate, a PsiQuantum-led initiative, focuses on using […]
Guest Post: Errare Quantum Est – But We Are Learning to Grapple With It
Guest Post by Ulrich Hoff Quantum Engagement Specialist, Kvantify Text/Image: Kvantify Quantum hardware is imperfect by nature, but if the imperfections are sufficiently minor it is nevertheless possible to use the imperfect hardware to simulate an ideal quantum computer, using a technique called quantum error correction. This counterintuitive fact was one of the key insights […]
Fujitsu Develops Technique to Speed up Quantum Circuit Computation in Quantum Simulator by 200 Times
Insider Brief Fujitsu announced the development of a novel technique on a quantum simulator that speeds up quantum-classical hybrid algorithms. The technique achieved 200 times the computational speed of previous simulations. The newly developed technology enables simultaneous processing of a large number of repetitively executed quantum circuit computations distributed among multiple groups. PRESS RELEASE — […]
Private Quantum Cloud: Oxford University Physicists Make Advance in ‘Blind Quantum Computing’
Insider Brief Oxford University Physics scientists say it may be possible to guarantee security and privacy in the quantum cloud. The researchers use an approach dubbed “blind quantum computing”, which connects two totally separate quantum computing entities. The new methods could be scaled up to large quantum computations, according to the team. Story and Images: […]
$5 Million XPRIZE Focuses on Quantum Applications
Insider Brief The XPRIZE Quantum Applications competition has launched. Organizers include Google Quantum AI, Google.org, XPRIZE, and the Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator (GESDA) The 3-year, $5 million global challenge seeks to harness the transformative power of quantum computing to address some of the world’s most pressing issues, aligning with the United Nations Sustainable Development […]
SoftBank Telecom Successfully Uses SandboxAQ’s AQtive Guard to Identify Undetected Security Vulnerabilities in Existing IT Infrastructure
Insider Brief SandboxAQ announced today the successful deployment of its AQtive Guard cryptography management platform. The company reports it was deployed at the Advanced Research Group of the telecommunications giant SoftBank Co., Ltd. in Tokyo, Japan. SoftBank Telecom plans to deploy AQtive Guard as part of its ongoing transition to post-quantum cryptography (“PQC”). PRESS RELEASE […]
Superposition Guy’s Podcast — Winners of the QuEra Challange at the MIT iQuHack Hackathon
“The Superposition Guy’s Podcast”, hosted by Yuval Boger, CMO at QuEra Computing A team of undergraduates who excelled at MIT‘s Quantum Hackathon are interviewed by Yuval Boger. They discuss their journey, the challenge they tackled—optimizing the “maximum independent set problem” on a quantum computer for machine learning applications—and their personal backgrounds and aspirations in quantum […]
Novonesis, Kvantify Perform Enzymatic Reactions With Quantum Computer Hardware
Insider Brief Biotech company legacy Novozymes (now Novonesis) has collaborated with Danish quantum company Kvantify to perform the world’s first calculation of an enzymatic reaction on a quantum computer. The team said the experiment shows how quantum computers and classical computers will work together in the future. This calculation can potentially save large amounts of […]
SEEQC Receives Award from the US Department of Energy to Produce Amplifiers for Fundamental Physics Research and Quantum Computing
Insider Brief SEEQC has been selected by the Department of Energy to design and produce superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs). QUIDs are extremely sensitive magnetometers used to measure incredibly subtle signals for many applications. A $200,000 Small Business Innovative Research grant will fund the project. Critical Quote: “… So while the ultimate goal is realizing […]