Classiq Coding Competition Shows Quantum’s Future in Good Hands With Under-18 Winners
Shraddha Aangiras, of India and team Carnivorous Cacti — Tarushii Goel, Kareem Jaber and Cyril Sharma — were the coding challenge’s under-18 winners. For Aangiras, a video led to a lifetime career goal. Aangiras is a rising junior in high school at RV PU College. “In the 8th grade, I became aware of quantum computing when […]
An Ideal Qubit Platform Developed by Argonne Researchers Shows Promising Results
Guest Post by Shaurya Agrawal Just recently the quantum community has been buzzing about a new, ideal qubit platform with cheap manufacturing costs. This new technology was developed by a team at DOE’s Argonne National Laboratory and published in Nature. This ideal platform from the Argonne National Laboratory is mentioned to have promising results and […]
Soshun Naito Wins Gold Medal For Solution in Classiq Coding Competition’s Toffoli Decomposition Challenge
The gold medal for the Toffoli Decomposition challenge in the Classiq Coding Competition went to Soshun Naito. Many quantum operations include multi-controlled Toffoli (MCX) gates. Among the most notable are Grover Operator, logical AND operator, various state preparation algorithms, and arithmetic comparators. The Classiq Competition focused on the implementation of the MCX gate with a […]
Toshiba, Safe Quantum Enter Agreement to Accelerate Quantum Communication Solutions in North America
PRESS RELEASE — NEW YORK, July 6, 2024/Toshiba America, Inc. Toshiba recently announced a partnership with Safe Quantum in the areas of quantum key distribution (QKD) and quantum communications. Led by John Prisco, Safe Quantum champions the commercial adoption of quantum technology and will support Toshiba’s ongoing work to secure the quantum future. Data breaches and security […]
Quantinuum Partners With JSR Corporation to Explore Using Quantum Computers For Semiconductor Research
PRESS RELEASE — Quantinuum, the world’s leading integrated quantum computing company, has announced a global collaboration with materials technology leader JSR Corporation of Japan to explore the application of quantum computing methods in semiconductor research. The collaboration brings together JSR’s world-leading materials scientists with quantum computing experts at Quantinuum in Japan, Europe, and the USA. The joint team will […]
Algorithmiq Collaborates With Boston Research Team to Launch New Field of Quantum Network Medicine
PRESS RELEASE — Helsinki, 12 July 2022/Algorithmiq, a Helsinki-based startup developing quantum algorithms to solve complex problems in life sciences, is set to collaborate with a Boston-based research team affiliated with Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School, to establish the new field of Quantum Network Medicine. Together, they aim to lay the […]
Quantum Journey From the Search Engine to Google Sycamore
The Google Sycamore chip, 54 qubits, capable of performing a calculation in 200 seconds that would take a classical computer 10,000 years to complete. This was the basis of Google’s quantum supremacy achievement which was widely hailed as a major milestone in the development of quantum computing and has spurred further research and development in […]
Teams Take Home Gold in Classiq Coding Challenge
Teams of quantum developers from all over the world – and from all over the age brackets — took part in the Classiq Coding Challenge. Here are three gold-medal winners to offer insights on the competition and what it takes to grapple with the huge challenges of quantum algorithm design and execution. Constraint Satisfaction First, […]
Quantum Computing Startup, BosonQ Psi, Raises $525k in Pre-seed Round
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay NEW DELHI, INDIA, July 12, 2022 /The Weekend Leader/ — BosonQ Psi (BQP), a Quantum-based enterprise SaaS software venture, has raised $525,000 in pre-seed funding led by 3to1 Capital. India-based angel investors Abhay Tandon, Vijay Sethi, Chandan Chowdhury, Saptorshi Hore, Neeraj Khandelwal, Ankur Jain, Vijay Rajagopal, and Abhishek Sureka and US-based angel […]
MIT Engineers Say New Nanoscale Detectors Opens Up Quantum Computing, Biological Sensing Advances
UNIVERSITY RESEARCH NEWS — MIT engineers report on advances that could expand the capabilities of nanoscale detectors — and that could boost quantum computing and even lead to biological sensing. Quantum sensors, which detect the most minute variations in magnetic or electrical fields, have enabled precision measurements in materials science and fundamental physics. But these […]