University of Maryland’s Quantum Alliance Sets Mission to Make a Quantum-Ready Society
Leaders from the University of Maryland, the state of Maryland and other partners gathered yesterday in Annapolis to launch an alliance designed to push innovations from quantum science and engineering into the mainstream and further enhance the region’s primacy in a field that promises to revolutionize society, according to a university news release. Led by […]
AI’s Quantum Predictions May Help Deliver Quantum Advantage
A neural network that learned to predict the behavior of a quantum system by “looking” at its network structure, according to a team Russian researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Valiev Institute of Physics and Technology, and ITMO University. The neural network autonomously finds solutions that are well-adapted toward quantum advantage demonstrations, […]
The Quantum Daily Launches Global Conference Resource Compendium
As the quantum computing expands exponentially, so is the number of meetings, symposia and conferences that cover the industry. The list of these events has already grown so fast that it can be confusing and intimidating. The Quantum Daily, the leading global resource for the quantum computing industry, now features a Conference page. The page […]
The Weekly Quantum Digest: This Week’s Hottest Quantum Stories
For our pre-Valentine’s Day special: A new experiment aims to find the sweet spot between the weird world of quantum mechanics and the classical world, a look at sweet spots for quantum startups outside of London and Oxbridge, using the power of love and quantum computing to feed the world’s hungry… and more sweet quantum […]
Houston QC Startup Xofia Aims To Blast Off Towards ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’
Photo by Mikael Daghighi on Unsplash Greater Horizons As the quantum computing industry expands to ever greater horizons in research, investment and implementation, it will naturally occur that more startups will appear to fill the gaps in the space to solve the most difficult problems that the technology presents us with. As of yet, the QC […]
Quantum Programming 101: Shor’s Algorithm
Introduction In this tutorial we will go through Shor’s Algorithm and see how to run it on IBM’s quantum computers with Python and Qiskit. What is the Shor’s Algorithm Shor’s Algorithm is a quantum algorithm for integer factorisation. Simply put given an odd integer N it will find it’s prime factors. The algorithm consists of […]
Quantum Computing Incorporated – the first publicly traded Quantum Computing stock
We have written before about how to invest in Quantum Computing. We concluded that there no established listed Quantum Computing companies of note. We looked at ETFs (they’re OK but constituents typically are not “proper” Quantum Computing companies). Finally, we found that VC investment in to Quantum Computing is increasing, but this is restricted mostly […]
What Is Google’s Secret Quantum Team X Working On? Some Mindless Speculation Follows
Wired Magazine recently dropped the news that Google is busy building another quantum team. This team is connected with the Googlers that claimed their quantum computer achieved quantum supremacy, but the team and its mission is being kept largely secret by the search engine behemoth. But, just because Google — aka Alphabet — can achieve […]
Could Quantum Computing Help Feed the World?
One in three men, women, and children around the world suffers from malnutrition of some sort. Food security is one of the greatest problem we face; so much so, that the United Nations has named Zero Hunger Goal 2 of its 17 sustainable development goals, second only to complete eradication of poverty. One of the […]
Existing Technology May Precisely Control Qubits Made From Calcium and Strontium Ions
Of the many divergent approaches to building a practical quantum computer, one of the most promising paths leads toward ion traps. In these traps, single ions are held still and serve as the basic units of data, or qubits, of the computer. With the help of lasers, these qubits interact with each other to perform […]