The Department of Energy Awards $3.2 million to Build Optical Quantum Networks
The Department of Energy has announced that it will grant Fermilab and partner institutions $3.2 million to develop designs for transparent optical quantum networks and demonstrate their operation in the greater Chicago area. The proposed Illinois-Express Quantum Network, or IEQNET, connects nodes at Fermilab and proposed nodes at Northwestern University’s Chicago and Evanston campuses. The […]
Quantum Programming 101: Grover’s Algorithm
This tutorial will show you how to implement Grover’s Algorithm on IBMs Quantum Computers in Python with Qiskit. What is Grover’s Algorithm? Grover’s Algorithm is a quantum search algorithm that can search for a value or element in an unsorted set in O(√N) as opposed to classical search algorithms that at worse will find an […]
New Technique Helps to Sort Out a Quantum Internet
Quantum-based communication and computation technologies promise unprecedented applications, such as unconditionally secure communications, ultra-precise sensors, and quantum computers capable of solving specific problems with a level of efficiency impossible to reach by classical computers. In recent times, quantum computers are also envisioned as nodes in a network of quantum devices, where connections are established through […]
Northern Lights: Espoo QC Startup IQM
Northern Exposure Quantum computing (QC) is the new byword in disruptive technology. Notwithstanding Finnish-owned behemoth Nokia Bell Labs, Helsinki-based Quantastica is one of only two representatives in the QC startup sector in Finland. Another, based just twenty kilometres west of the capital, is making its own QC inroads. Espoo is nothing remarkable to look at […]
AQT, University of Innsbruck adopt IBM’s Qiskit quantum software development kit
Quantum computers may find applications in chemistry, logistics, finance and several other fields. There is an ongoing race between various technologies to realize a quantum computer – including trapped ions, superconducting circuits, single photons and many more. In contrast to the variety in technical approaches, there are only very few quantum programming languages, with Qiskit […]
Quantum-Safe Encryption: A Primer on Quantum Cryptography
Quantum Computing Now: Quantum-Safe Encryption: A Primer on Quantum Cryptography
Panelists: Financial Companies Will Be Among The First To Benefit From Quantum Tech
At first, experts speculated IF quantum technology would be realizable, let alone impact the market. Recently, most people migrated from IF quantum technology would impact the market to WHEN it would happen. Now, people are wondering WHERE that impact will be felt. According to the Wall Street Journal, a panel of experts at a quantum-computing […]
Origin Quantum’s Year of The Pig
Two Scientists According to chinesenewyear.net and Chinese English-language website, ‘pigs are associated with the Earthly Branch. They are the symbol of wealth and their chubby faces and big ears are signs of fortune’. 2019, as it so happens, is the Year of the Pig. Does this bode well for one Chinese startup in the quantum […]
The Weekly Quantum Digest: Is Microsoft Heading Right To The Topological?
Microsoft says it’s close to unveiling a better qubit, when will quantum computers be in our pocket — and will quantum computing be the bomb, the geopolitical bomb, that is. Along with more quantum computing stories in the media this week. Spotlight Story: “Microsoft has been working on a Topological qubit technology called a topological […]
UK Investment in Quantum Computing Expected to Triple in Next Five Years
UK business investment in new technologies, such as quantum computing, is set to nearly triple in the next five years, according to the CBI and Accenture Tech Tracker survey. The survey suggested that the proportion of firms seeking to invest in quantum computing is set to increase from 11 percent today to 32 percent in […]