Swiss Quantum Hub The Swiss Community Hub for Quantum Computing and Technologies
Weekly Newsletter
Image
January 15, 2020
Quantum information processing with alkaline-earth Rydberg atoms
Trapped neutral atoms have become a prominent platform for quantum science, where entanglement fidelity records have been set using highly-excited Rydberg states. However, controlled two-qubit entanglement generation has so far…
Read more...
Image
January 14, 2020
How to verify that quantum chips are computing correctly
In a step toward practical quantum computing, researchers from MIT, Zapata Computing and Google have designed a system that can verify when quantum chips have accurately performed complex computations that…
Read more...
Image
January 14, 2020
New Quantum loop allows testing of spooky action at 52 miles
Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago launched a new testbed for quantum communication experiments. The Argonne quantum loop consists of a pair…
Read more...
Image
January 14, 2020
QuTech: Reliable and extremely fast quantum calculations with germanium transistors
Transistors based on germanium can perform calculations for the future quantum computer. This discovery by the team of Menno Veldhorst may place the transistor at the basis of the quantum…
Read more...
Image
January 13, 2020
Confirmation of the (in)separability of an electron's spin and electric charge
The charge and spin of an electron are considered to be inseparably connected. But in a strictly one-dimensional quantum world, both quantum - spin and charge - properties are separable…
Read more...
Image
January 13, 2020
Unexpected twist in a quantum system
Physicists at ETH Zurich have observed a surprising twist in a quantum system caused by the interplay between energy dissipation and coherent quantum dynamics. To explain it, they found a…
Read more...
Image
January 13, 2020
New approach for controlling qubits via microwave pulses
Researchers at Leibniz University Hannover (LUH) and Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) have now developed a new method for ion-trapped qubits under vacuum by using electric fields above a chip structure. Qubit…
Read more...
Image
January 10, 2020
Finding cryptographic Boolean functions with D-wave quantum annealer
As the building block in symmetric cryptography, designing Boolean functions satisfying multiple properties is an important problem in sequence ciphers, block ciphers, and hash functions. However, the search of n-variable Boolean…
Read more...
Image
January 10, 2020
IBM doubles its Quantum Computing power
IBM announced at CES 2020 that its newest 28-qubit quantum computer, Raleigh, achieved the company’s goal of doubling its Quantum Volume (IBM names its systems by city names). Raleigh reached…
Read more...
Image
January 10, 2020
Microsoft and Ford use quantum-style computing to solve Seattle’s traffic problem
Researchers at Ford and Microsoft teamed up to develop new quantum-style approaches to help reduce Seattle’s traffic congestion. Traffic apps tend to send individual drivers along the same routes. Even…
Read more...
Image
January 10, 2020
Qunnect announces the closing of $800,000 in Seed Financing
Qunnect LLC, a startup founded in 2017 in NY, USA, announces the closing of $800,000 in Seed Financing. Investors include Quantonation, the Accelerate NY Seed Fund, and private individual investors. Qunnect is…
Read more...
Image
January 10, 2020
Quantum simulation with up to 61 qubits using data compression
Researchers at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory significantly have used data compression techniques to fit a 61-qubit simulation of Grover's quantum search algorithm on a large supercomputer with 0.4…
Read more...
Image
January 9, 2020
Is France really ready to launch any Quantum initiative?
Paul Forteza, a LREM national MP (French President Macron political party) today presented the conclusions of its Quantum Report: The technological shift that France will not miss.  The report includes…
Read more...
Image
January 8, 2020
Delta Airlines and Daimler adopt IBM Quantum Computing
Daimler and Delta Airlines have partnered with IBM to develop real-world quantum computing applications and have joined the IBM Q Network™. Daimler wants to research into quantum computing to make…
Read more...
Facebook LinkedIn
Modify your subscription    |    View online
Service provided by VOLTANODE
rue de la Cité 1 - 1204 Geneva - Switzerland
All content under copyright Voltanode/Advixo 2015-2020