U.S. Banning Export of Quantum, Advanced Technologies to Several Chinese Groups
The US is blacklisting about a dozen Chinese groups involved in quantum computing and other advanced technologies, according to The Financial Times. The blacklist is meant to stop the export of technologies that may pose a risk of gaining access to critical American technologies for the People’s Liberation Army. The ban involves a total of […]
Zurich Instruments Launches its First Qubit Controller Offering a Full Qubit Control System in a Single Instrument
Highlights Zurich Instruments launches the SHFQC, its first qubit controller that can control, readout and perform fast feedback on up to 6 qubits. The SHFQC supports control and readout frequencies up to 8.5 GHz without the need for mixer calibration, and provides a wide and clean instantaneous bandwidth of 1 GHz. Description The SHFQC comes […]
Dell And IonQ Partner To Test Classical-Quantum Hybrid System
Dell Technologies reports that the company partnered with IonQ to test a hybrid classical-quantum platform, according to Dell’s blog post. The platform allows classical and quantum simulation workloads to be executed on-premises, while quantum workloads, such as modeling larger, more complex molecules for pharmacological development, can be executed remotely on IonQ QPUs, according to the […]
Steal Now, Hack Later: Experts Warn Spies Could Steal Encrypted Data Now For Future Quantum Hacking
Kicking the quantum cybersecurity can down the road my be a potentially devastating delay tactic, a team of cybersecurity experts and quantum information scientists warn. While current quantum computers may not be a threat to data now, a new Booz Allen Hamilton report is suggesting that hackers, particularly Chinese hackers, could steal encrypted data now […]
The Quantum Daily Launches Its Market Intelligence Platform, Rebrands to ‘The Quantum Insider’
23 November 2021, Toronto, ON – Matching the explosive growth of the quantum industry, the quantum technology’s leading media and data provider announced today that it will formally launch its market intelligence platform and rebrand the company to reflect its integrated intelligence offering: The Quantum Insider. The Quantum Daily, which launched in 2019, has built […]
MIT Researchers Helping Quantum Dots to Stop Blinking
UNIVERSITY NEWS — Quantum dots, discovered in the 1990s, have a wide range of applications and are perhaps best known for producing vivid colors in some high-end televisions. But for some potential uses, such as tracking biochemical pathways of a drug as it interacts with living cells, progress has been hampered by one seemingly uncontrollable […]
U.S., Australia Agree to Help Buld Quantum Future
The United States and Australia have agreed to a statement of intent to cooperate and share in what the countries term “enormous opportunities and benefits” of advances in quantum science and technology, according to a joint statement from the nations. The Joint Statement of the United States of America and Australia on Cooperation in Quantum Science and […]
Qunnect Announces Sale of First Commercial Quantum Memory
PRESS RELEASE — Qunnect, Inc., a Quantum Networking company, announces the sale of the world’s first commercial Quantum Memory to Brookhaven National Laboratory. Quantum Memories are critical components for enabling future quantum-secure networks, as they support distributed entanglement communication protocols, and serve as core components in quantum repeaters. Qunnect’s Quantum Memory stores and releases single […]
2021 ACM Gordon Bell Prize Awarded to Chinese Team for Closing Google’s ‘Quantum Supremacy Gap’
PRESS RELEASE — CM, the Association for Computing Machinery, named a 14-member team, drawn from Chinese institutions, recipients of the 2021 ACM Gordon Bell Prize for their project, Closing the “Quantum Supremacy” Gap: Achieving Real-Time Simulation of a Random Quantum Circuit Using a New Sunway Supercomputer. The members of the winning team are: Yong (Alexander) Liu, Xin […]
Quantum China Weekly Volume 32 (2021/11/13-2021/11/19)
Quantum China is a weekly periodical focusing on China’s quantum information technology, provide a voice for the Chinese quantum technology. It mainly focuses on eight major directions: Policy, Capital, Business, Technology, Research, Education, Conference, and People. Providing researchers, Interested parties, and industry pioneers with all the latest developments in China’s quantum field. Business Preview of […]