2021 Quantum Predictions and 2020 Predictions Analysis!
It’s always amazing in January to sit back and check our previous year predictions with easy criticism and to predict new year facts with a fair dose of optimism. And a bit of humor too.
A new scalable approach towards the quantum computer
Researchers at QuTech, a collaboration between TU Delft and TNO, have invented a new readout method that is an important step forward on the road towards such a large-scale quantum computer. The approach of the
Breaking through the resolution barrier with quantum-limited precision
Researchers at Paderborn University have developed a new method of distance measurement for systems such as GPS, which achieves more precise results than ever before. Using quantum physics, the team has successfully overcome the so-called
Ultracold atom interferometry in space
A team of German researchers have employed light-pulse interferometry to investigate and exploit the spatial coherence of multi-component Bose-Einstein Condensates (BECs) on a sounding rocket. BECs in free fall constitute a promising source for space-borne
Quantum computed moments correction to variational estimates
The variational principle of quantum mechanics is the backbone of hybrid quantum computing for a range of applications. However, as the problem size grows, quantum logic errors and the effect of barren plateaus overwhelm the
Robust quantum computational advantage scheme using fermion sampling
Fermionic Linear Optics (FLO) is a restricted model of quantum computation which in its original form is known to be efficiently classically simulable. A team of researchers showed that, when initialized with suitable input states,
Securing a wireless link with MDI-QKD
Relying in part on techniques used to sharpen up images from ground-based telescopes, researchers in China have implemented a type of secure quantum communications protocol—known as measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution (MDI-QKD)—across a wireless link connecting
Quantum Personality of the Year – Nominee: Itamar Sivan
Itamar Sivan, CEO of Israeli quantum startup Quantum Machines, is the second nominee of the ‘Quantum Personality of the Year 2020’. He has co-founded his company in 2018, just after having created WISe – the Weizmann
Single artificial atoms in silicon emitting at telecom wavelengths
Researchers at Université de Montpellier and CNRS, University Leipzig and other universities in Europe have recently successfully isolated single, optically active artificial atoms in silicon for the first time. Given its potential for integration and scalability,
Single-electron operations in a foundry-fabricated array of quantum dots
Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, in collaboration with the French CEA-Leti, have found industrially-manufactured transistor wafers to be suitable as a qubit platform capable of moving to the second dimension, a