Consortium From Erlangen Receives Roughly €3M From The Free State of Bavaria
Insider Brief: A consortium consisting of eleven researchers from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) will receive roughly three million euros in funding by 2025. The new project Quantum Measurement and Control for the Enablement of Quantum Computing and Quantum Sensing (QuMeCo) will start basic research into quantum computing, sensing and imaging, combining physics and electrical engineering in […]
First Studies With Quantum Machine Learning at LHCb
Insider Brief: The Data Processing & Analysis (DPA) project, led by the University of Liverpool senior research physicist Eduardo Rodrigues, has demonstrated in a paper for the first time the successful use of Quantum Machine Learning (QML) techniques for the identification of the charge of b-quark initiated jets at the LHC. The study was carried […]
Rigetti Awarded DARPA Contract For Quantum Application Benchmarking
Insider Brief: Rigetti Computing will lead a team that includes the University of Technology Sydney, Aalto University, and the University of Southern California to develop benchmarks for quantum application performance on large-scale quantum computers. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) contract is worth up to $2.9 million over three years based on the achievement […]
UK Research and Innovation Invests £6M to Assist the UK’s Quantum Efforts
Six Million Pound Grant According to its website, UK Research and Innovation is investing £6 million in seventeen new projects that will address some of the fundamental research questions with quantum technology, from the exploration of antimatter gravity to dark matter detection, while also supporting its existing research in Quantum Technologies for Fundamental Physics programme. The […]
DPCM Capital, Inc. and D-Wave Systems Inc. Announce Completion of Business Combination
Insider Brief: D-Wave stock will begin trading on Monday 8th August. Redemptions mean that of the target raise of ~$340 million, the company looks like it will raise about ~$50m (not accounting for costs). Nonetheless, this is a significant raise for the Canada-based full-stack quantum company. Full details should appear in the next set of […]
aQuantum Team Members Publish Research Paper on Quantum Software Components & Platforms
Research Paper Manuel Serrano, José Antonio Cruz, Ricardo Pérez, and Mario Piattini, members of the Madrid-based startup aQuantum and faculty members of The Institute of Technologies and Information Systems, University of Castilla-La Mancha (Universidad de Castilla–La Mancha), have just published the paper Quantum software components and platforms: overview and quality assessment in the journal ACM […]
UCLA-led Research Team Investigates New Approach to Quantum Computers
Insider Brief The scientists developed small molecules that include calcium and oxygen atoms and act as qubits. The team showed that the calcium-oxygen functional groups maintained their desired structure even when attached to much larger molecules. Their qubits can also stand up to laser cooling. New approach may take decades — and the technique faces […]
Women of Quantum: Carina Kießling of Ernst & Young LLP (EY)
For many interested in quantum physics, there is a tint of nostalgia about the science due to learning about it at university. This is true for Carina Kießling, who works as a Manager and Quantum Leader at Ernst & Young LLP (EY). Kießling has a background in physics, specifically quantum physics, and found her university […]
Post-Quantum Safe Algorithm Candidate Cracked in an Hour on a PC
Well, that decrypted quickly… A team of scientists report they were able to defeat one of the post-quantum safe algorithms that is still under consideration as part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) PQC program — and it only took one computational core on a PC working for about an hour. The […]
Researchers Use Classical Supercomputer to Challenge Google’s Quantum Supremacy Claim
A research team using a classical supercomputer beat Google’s historic experiment in 2019 that resulted in a claim of quantum supremacy. But, don’t pack away your artsy supercomputing chandeliers just yet. In a study published in the Physical Review of Letters, a research team from the Institute of Theoretical Physics at the Chinese Academy of […]