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March 4, 2020
Rigetti Computing has raised over $71M in new funding
Quantum computing company Rigetti Computing is on the fundraising trail, according to an SEC filing submitted by the company on Friday. According to the filing, the company has raised a little over $71 million…
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March 4, 2020
Cambridge Quantum Computing and Honeywell announce new investment and strengthened partnership
Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC) announced today that Honeywell Ventures has deepened its collaboration with CQC by investing in the company. The investment comes after a significant period of collaboration between…
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March 3, 2020
Zapata Computing announces investment from Honeywell Ventures
Zapata Computing, an enterprise software company for quantum applications, today announced a strategic investment from Honeywell Ventures, the venture capital arm of Honeywell. The investment will fuel continued enhancements to Zapata…
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March 3, 2020
Quantum supremacy in driven quantum many-body systems
A crucial milestone in the field of quantum simulation and computation is to demonstrate that a quantum device can compute certain tasks that are impossible to reproduce by a classical…
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March 3, 2020
Honeywell to leapfrog rivals in quantum computer race
Honeywell, which once sold massive mainframes but withdrew from the business decades ago, said that it expects to improve the performance of its quantum computers by a factor of 10…
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March 3, 2020
Atomic vacancy as qubit at room temperature
Physicists from Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) in Germany, in cooperation with the Technical University of Sydney in Australia have now succeeded for the first time in experimentally demonstrating so-called spin centers…
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March 3, 2020
Macroscopic-scale effects of quantum electronic coherence
Researchers found that low-energy and high energy states are correlated in a layered, superconducting material LSCO (lanthanum, strontium, copper, oxygen). Exciting the material with an ultrafast (<100fs) beam of near-infrared…
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March 3, 2020
Q-CTRL releases BOULDER OPAL Quantum Control Tools
Q-CTRL, a startup that applies the principles of control engineering to accelerate the development of the first useful quantum computers, today announced the Beta release of its professional-grade BOULDER OPAL…
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March 3, 2020
Electron spin qubit measurement without demolishing it
Scientists from the RIKEN Center in Japan has succeeded in taking repeated measurements of the spin of an electron in a silicon quantum dot (QD) without changing its spin in…
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March 2, 2020
Control the phase of light using atomically thin materials
A Columbia University team announced that they have discovered a new way to control the phase of light using 2D materials — atomically thin materials, ~0.8 nanometer, or 1/100000 the size of…
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February 28, 2020
Cambridge Quantum Computing and CERN announces quantum technology collaboration
Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC) announced today that it has joined CERN Openlab in a collaboration - named the QUATERNION project - to explore the application of quantum technologies to particle…
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February 28, 2020
ID Quantique partners with Fortinet in quantum-safe VPN solution
ID Quantique (IDQ), the Swiss provider of quantum-safe security solutions, integrates with the Fortinet Security Fabric to provide long-term security for critical data transported over Virtual Private Networks (VPN). Fortinet’s…
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February 28, 2020
Superconducting radio-frequency cavities could solve qubit decoherence
At Fermilab and Argonne National Laboratory, researchers work to determine whether instruments called superconducting radio-frequency cavities, also used in particle accelerators, can solve one of the biggest problems facing the…
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February 28, 2020
Telecom Italia uses live quantum computing on 4.5G and 5G
Telecom Italia (TIM) announces it is the first telecommunications operator in Europe to make use of the vast potential of quantum computing to plan its next generation mobile networks. TIM…
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February 28, 2020
Quantum researchers split one photon into three
Researchers from the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) at the University of Waterloo report the first occurrence of directly splitting one photon into three. The occurrence, the first of its…
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