The Weekly Quantum Digest: Scientists Are Chipping Away at Spooky Action at a Distance
Quantum chips get even spookier, cooling LEGOs and more in this week’s digest of quantum news. Spotlight Story: “Each chip was then fully programmed to perform a range of demonstrations which utilize the entanglement. The flagship demonstration was a two-chip teleportation experiment, whereby the individual quantum state of a particle is transmitted across the two […]
Scotland’s Quantum Computing Company, M Squared, is Taking Lightsabers to a Whole New Level
It’s in The Whiskey, Laddy Innovation and entrepreneurship is an inherent Scottish trait. Some of the greatest engineers and scientists the world has ever seen have hailed from the bonny, bonny land of glens and lochs. Men like Thomas Telford, James Watt, James Clerk Maxwell, and John Logie Baird join the great Scottish-born industrialist Andrew Carnegie […]
Quantum Computing Now – All The Frameworks
Quantum Computing Now – All The Frameworks
Could Quantum Computing Help Reverse Climate Change?
The unique powers of quantum computation may give humanity an important weapon — or several weapons — against climate change, according to one quantum computer pioneer. One of the possible solutions for the excess carbon in the atmosphere and to reach global climate goals is to suck it out. It sounds pretty easy, but, in […]
TQD Exclusive: Presenting The 12 Quantum Gifts of Christmas
Whether you’re a quantum skeptic, or a quantum believer, you have to admit 2019 has been a breathless 365-day stretch for quantum technologies. And now, as we enter the holidays and near the end of this crazy year in quantum, it’s a great time of year to dream wildly about the future. While the following […]
Quantum Godfathers #4: Yuri Manin, The Accidental Quantum Icon
1981 It would have been easy to do it, to be lazy, to pick the obvious choice out of the three available — Richard Feynman, that lovely man, that wizard of the quantum zone, of the minute world invisible to us. That true player, the streetwise Jewish kid from Queens who knew, above everyone else, how the […]
The Weekly Quantum Digest: It’s the Dawning of the Quantum Decade
So long Pepsi Generation, the Age of Aquarius, etc. etc. It’s the quantum decade that is upon us, according to some experts. Quantum supremacy, tomayto, tomahto, and other stories from the world of quantum computing. Spotlight Story: “And so here is a post—written in terms as clear and simple as this human could muster—summing up […]
Google’s Quantum Computing Lead, John Martinis, Makes Nature’s 2019 Top Moments in Science
Nature named John Martinis as one of the scientists behind 2019’s top ten moments in science. Martinis is a physicist who works both at Google and at the University of California, Santa Barbara. As leader of Google’s quantum computer efforts, he has spent 17 years honing the hardware that underpins the firm’s quantum computer, named […]
Volkswagen Traffic Jam Eradication Project Hits The Road
Falling Down It’s hot and you’re sweating. You’ve been in a traffic jam for hours. Guesses are you’ve moved over sixty thousand inches, at most (that’s a mile). Now you’re getting nervous. The air con’s not working and making it all the worse. You feel like shooting someone, just like Michael Douglas in Falling Down. […]
Is Quantum Supremacy Racist? A group of 13 academics think so.
A group of 13 academics are taking issue with the term, Quantum Supremacy. Because it’s racist. In a letter to Nature, the scientists say that historical context of the word promotes further divisions in society. They like the term, quantum advantage, instead. The letter states, “We take issue with the use of ‘supremacy’ when referring […]