TQI Exclusive: Karina Robinson — City Quantum Summit Designed to ‘Bring Together the City’ on Quantum

Insider Brief: Karina Robinson is the CEO of Robinson Hambro Ltd., founder of The City Quantum Summit and a Senior Advisor to Multiverse Computing. The City Quantum Summit will be held Oct. 11, 2022 either in-person at Mansion House or on a live stream. Image: Michael Gwyther-Jones from London, UK – Mansion House, City of London, […]
SpeQtral & Thales Alenia Space Collaborate To Demonstrate Satellite Quantum Communications Using Entangled Photons

Insider Brief: SpeQtral and Thales Alenia Space, a joint Venture between Thales (67 %) and Leonardo (33 %), has announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (“MoU”) to research, develop and demonstrate quantum communications from space to Earth. From space to Earth: SpeQtral-1 satellite to transmit qubits to Thales Alenia Space’s ground station […]
Toshiba’s Double-Transmon Coupler Could Lead to Faster, More Accurate Superconducting Quantum Computers

Insider Brief Toshiba‘s quantum researchers have made an advance to double-transmon coupler design that should improve speed and accuracy of tunable couplers used in quantum computers. Tunable couplers in a superconducting quantum computer link two qubits and perform quantum computations by turning on and off the coupling between them. Toshiba plans to start to prototype […]
Guest Post: Moody’s Explores Quantum to Power Risk-modelling Capabilities

Moody’s establishes new initiative, partnerships roadmap, and use cases all focused on quantum computing for the financial services industry and beyond By Sergio Gago Huerta – Managing Director of Moody’s Quantum Computing At Moody’s, how we leverage technology to deliver data, analytics, and insights is an integral part of how we provide solutions to our […]
Toppan Develops Quantum Computing Method Toward Error Correction Technologies for Quantum Software

Insider Brief Toppan is a global provider of integrated solutions in the fields of printing, communications, security, packaging, décor materials and electronics. Toppan is working with with blueqat, a quantum computer software developer. The two papers will be presented at IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computer Sept 19-22. PRESS RELEASE — Toppan (TYO: 7911), a […]
The Quantum Insider and Quantropi Host Webinar to Prepare Security Community for Quantum Cyber Threat

While the computational power of quantum computers has awesome potential for creating new services and applications, it will soon make the cybersecurity protocols protecting most of the world’s $50 trillion economy obsolete. Scientists concur this threat is both real and imminent. Hosted by The Quantum Insider and featuring industry experts Brian Lenahan (Founder – The […]
Rigetti Announces New Partnerships and Details Multi-Year Roadmap Designed to Reach Quantum Advantage

Insider Brief Rigetti Computing, Inc. shared its updated multi-year roadmap regarding its partnerships and Fab-1 facility, at its inaugural investor day. The company said the upcoming Ankaa™ 84-qubit system is slated for release in early 2023, followed by the Lyra™ 336-qubit system expected in late 2023. In addition to an updated roadmap, Rigetti announced several […]
D-Wave-led Research Team Demonstrates Large-Scale Coherent Quantum Annealing

Insider Brief D-Wave report on large-scale coherent quantum annealing in Nature Physics. Company claims the demonstration goes beyond the scale of any previous programmable quantum phase transition, opening the door to simulations of exotic phases of matter that would otherwise be intractable. Research paves “the way for scientifically understanding the properties of a wider range […]
Women of Quantum: Dr. Leonie Mueck of Riverlane

Leonie Mueck, the Chief Product Officer at Riverlane, a world-leading quantum company, has had a lifelong fascination with how quantum technology and chemistry interact. “I am a chemist by training,” she explained. “And I’ve always been interested in the fact that you can predict chemical behavior purely using quantum mechanics. You can actually predict the […]
Researchers Propose New Quantum Error Correction Technique

Insider Brief: Researchers from Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), and their collaborators at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, and the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, have proposed a new error correction (QEC) technique, which has recently been published in Physical Review Research. Achieving QEC involves making a collection of multiple qubits using […]