Scientists Set Benchmark for Quantum Supremacy in Chemistry
Using classical computers, computational scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have set a mark that a quantum system would need to surpass to establish quantum supremacy in the realm of chemistry, according to information released by the laboratory. The fastest classical computers available today are getting better and better at simulating what a quantum computer […]
ICHEC ANNOUNCES PRIORITY ACCESS TO HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING FOR COVID-19 RESEARCH
ICHEC, the Irish centre for High-Performance Computing, announced today, Monday, 23rd March, that it will expedite access for all scientific and academic research relating to Covid-19 on the national high-performance computer (HPC), “KAY”. Researchers with approved projects will be given fast-track access to HPC. J.C.Desplat, Director of ICHEC said; “Research at the molecular level and the epidemiological level […]
Open Source For Quantum
Photo by Alex Holyoake on Unsplash Once Upon a Time in Finland Open-source software, operating systems and a focus on the global market. In a perfect world, that’s what it would all be about in a technological utopia. Linux, which started life as a Finnish computer science major from the University of Helsinki Linus Torvalds’ pet project […]
The Weekly Quantum Digest: Latest News, Business, Jobs and Advances in Quantum Computing
The Kremlin says “da” to quantum future, a quantum computer advance that Archimedes would have loved, and more in this edition of The Quantum Weekly. Spotlight Story: Russia Rushes Into The Quantum Game “In December of last year, at a technology forum in Sochi on the Black Sea coast, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Maxim Akimov […]
Quantum Machines Raises $17.5 Million in Venture Capital Funding
Israel’s Quantum Machines said it has raised $17.5 million in early stage funding, according to Reuters. Entrepreneur Avigdor Willenz and Harel Insurance investments (HARL.TA) with the participation of previous backers TLV Partners and Battery Ventures led the funding round for quantum computer hardware and software developer. Quantum Machines, which was founded in 2018, the company […]
Kremlin QC Initiative Means Business
Photo by Nikolay Vorobyev on Unsplash Russian Genius Of all the big players in the quantum computing (QC) market, it is Russia that has — up until recently — been slow to react to the market trends and global hype. China, the United States, Canada and Europe, in the main, have been the countries showing the biggest initiatives in the […]
Novel Qubit Design Could Lead to Quantum Computers That Work at Room Temperature
An international team of scientists report they found a way to manufacture stable qubits that would operate at room temperature, in contrast to the majority of existing analogues. This opens up new prospects for creating a quantum computer. The scientists’ new qubit design could create high-accuracy magnetometers, biosensors and new quantum internet technologies, according to […]
Google Releases TensorFlow Quantum for Quantum AI
Google recently announced the release of TensorFlow Quantum (TFQ), an open-source library for the rapid prototyping of quantum Machine Learning (ML) models, according to a blog post. The company is collaborating with the University of Waterloo, X, and Volkswagen on the project. According to the post, TFQ provides the tools necessary for bringing the quantum […]
Swiss Startup Focuses on Computational Quantum Chemical Data
Photo by Odin Aerni on Unsplash Early Adopters While quantum computing (QC) finds its feet, by way of reducing error correction of the qubits, becoming less expensive to build and gaining acceptance by the wider scientific community as being a real solution that current technology has no answer in solving, there will be limits to its […]
PR Crisis Communication Guide for Quantum Startups
Historically, in times of economic crisis, the first thing that businesses cut back on is public relations and communications. When staffing cuts are made during these times, it’s usually the marketing, advertising, and communications staff that feels the sharp edge of most of that ax. But, also historically, companies that cut back in times of […]