Xanadu Chief Urges Optimistic, But Realistic Approach to Navigate Current Business Climate
Xanadu‘s CEO told his team they are currently do not need to freeze hiring or make cuts, but recognized the need for care to navigate the economic disruption that is happening, particularly in the tech sector. In an email to staff and later sent through social media, Christian Weedbrook said that the Canadian-based company, just […]
Quantum Technology: Our Sustainable Future — One Year On
Watch the full video here. Quantum Technology | Our Sustainable Future Last summer, The Quantum Insider released the documentary Quantum Technology | Our Sustainable Future, developed in partnership with Oxford Instruments NanoScience. Produced as a call from industry experts to discuss the potential of quantum technology in addressing the world’s urgent sustainability challenges, it included […]
Guest Post: Inside Classiq’s Synthesis Engine
Inside Classiq’s Synthesis Engine At a quick glance, Classiq’s Quantum Algorithm Design (QAD) platform looks like a relatively-quick way to build unfathomably large quantum circuits. As any quantum algorithm designer surely knows, manually designing circuits can be quite challenging even when using just a few qubits. Designing a circuit for a 1,000-qubit quantum computer will […]
Researchers Say Advance Is ‘Key’ to Commercializing Ultra-Safe Quantum Communication Systems
The Korea Institute of Science and Technology researchers and their partners say they took another step in commercializing quantum secure networks. In a news release, the team announced that their research group, the Center for Quantum Information, led by director Sang-Wook Han, demonstrated practical Twin-field Quantum Key Distribution — TF- QKD — network. This is […]
Quantum Computing Threat To Classical Symmetric Cryptography
UNIVERSITY RESEARCH NEWS —JULY 25, 2024/SCIENCE CHINA PRESS — Recently, Professor Guilu Long, Dr. Zeguo Wang, Dr. Shijie Wei from Tsinghua University and Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences, and Professor Lajos Hanzo from the University of Southampton, UK, proposed a quantum attack scheme for symmetric cryptography, which may lead to a deadly threat to the security […]
China: The Rising Star of Quantum Communication
Stepping Out of The Lab The China Academy of Railway Sciences (CARS), a research institute with multi-disciplines and multi-specialties in the China Railway industry founded in 1950, recently approached Wang Chao, general manager of XT Quantech, a quantum technology startup that provides information security solutions, with a plan to bring quantum communication to high-speed rail. Wang, […]
‘Nuclear Threat to Cybersecurity’ — Post-Quantum Cybersecurity Rapidly Gains Attention of U.S. Congress, Administration
Legislation aimed at kickstarting a national effort toward handling post-quantum cybersecurity (PQC) continues to make its way through U.S. Congress, as other members of the administration are raising the alert level about quantum’s ability to crack current cybersecurity measures. One side effect may be a rush on PQC providers in the quantum space to provide […]
Quantum-South Joins IBM Quantum Network to Explore Quantum Computing Applications in Logistics
PRESS RELEASE — MONTEVIDEO, URUGUAY, July 21, 2022 — Quantum-South, the Uruguay-based start-up, has joined the IBM Quantum Network to apply quantum computing to the advancement of the air and maritime cargo industry, including the potential for greater efficiency in logistics. Quantum-South works with complex optimization problems for air and maritime cargo that can be mapped to quantum computers. […]
Collaboration Between Laboratoire Charles Fabry, CNRS & PASQAL Results in Scaling Neutral Atoms Qubits
PASQAL — a Paris-based Quantum startup working on programmable quantum simulators and computers made of 2D and 3D atomic arrays, along with its partners, the Laboratoire Charles Fabry and CNRS (French National Centre for Scientific Research) — has published a paper on arXiv, In-situ equalization of single-atom loading in large-scale optical tweezers arrays. The article, published by Kai-Niklas Schymik […]
QuEra Releases Bloqade, a Quantum Simulation Package for Neutral-Atom Quantum Architectures
QuEra Computing, a Boston, Massachusetts-based startup founded in 2018 focused on neutral-atom technology, has just launched its quantum simulation package for neutral-atom Quantum architectures, called Bloqade. The startup’s IP, based on patented research from Harvard and MIT, using highly scalable, programmable neutral atom arrays as an industry-leading computational platform, is setting out to tackle critical […]