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June 17, 2020 |
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Element Six launches a quantum grade diamond |
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Element Six, part of the De Beers Group, is launching its first commercially-available, general-purpose chemical vapour deposition (CVD) quantum grade diamond, DNV-B1™. DNV-B1™, the first solution in Element Six’s new DNV™… |
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June 16, 2020 |
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A quantum memory that operates at telecom wavelengths |
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Researchers at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) have developed a new mechanical quantum memory with sufficiently long storage times, a high readout efficiency, and the ability to operate at… |
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June 16, 2020 |
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First intuitive programming language for quantum computers |
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Researchers at ETH Zurich have designed the first programming language, Silq, that can be used to program quantum computers as simply, reliably and safely as classical computers. Silq is the… |
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June 16, 2020 |
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PennyLane by Xanadu supports AQT quantum computers |
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Xanadu and AQT announced that PennyLane, an open-source project from Xanadu for quantum machine learning, automatic differentiation, and optimization, now supports AQT quantum computers. Xanadu develops software for quantum machine… |
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June 16, 2020 |
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Universal Quantum startup out of stealth with £3.6 million seed-funding |
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A new Quantum Computing startup has just emerged out of stealth mode: Universal Quantum, announcing an oversubscribed £3.6 million seed-funding round. The company is set to develop its new quantum… |
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June 15, 2020 |
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Adding noise for ultimate privacy protection in QKD |
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A team of physicists of the University of Basel and ETH Zurich have developed the theoretical foundations for a QKD communication protocol that offers ultimate privacy protection and can be… |
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June 15, 2020 |
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Quantum Legendre-Fenchel Transform |
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Researchers at EPFL and IBM Quantum present a quantum algorithm to compute the discrete Legendre-Fenchel Transform (LFT). Most currently known quantum algorithms use a few basic building blocks as subroutines.… |
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June 15, 2020 |
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A surprising quantum effect observed in a “large” object |
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While conducting experiments on a layered metal, EPFL researchers witnessed something very surprising. The unexpected electron behavior they discovered could open up possibilities in the field of quantum computing. In… |
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June 15, 2020 |
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Adaptive characterization of spatially inhomogeneous fields and errors in qubit registers |
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Researchers at the University of Sydney showed how concepts in robotics provide new opportunities to improve the efficiency of Quantum Computer hardware characterization and tuneup. New quantum computing architectures consider… |
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June 15, 2020 |
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Quantum eraser with Phonons |
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Few quantum effects are as mind-tripping as the quantum eraser, in which quantum signatures can appear or disappear depending on the future actions of an experimenter. Previous quantum eraser experiments… |
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June 12, 2020 |
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IQM Quantum startup takes a total €32M funding |
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IQM Finland Oy (IQM), a European startup which makes hardware for quantum computers, has raised a €15M equity investment round from the EIC Accelerator program for the development of quantum computers.… |
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June 12, 2020 |
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Bose-Einstein condensates in space for the first time |
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A team of NASA scientists have observed Bose-Einstein condensates, aka the fifth state of matter, in space, aboard the International Space Station, for the first time. Albert Einstein and Indian… |
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June 12, 2020 |
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Quantum algorithms implementation in the NISQ era |
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Researchers at University of Stuttgart has just published an interesting paper “The Bitter Truth About Quantum Algorithms in the NISQ Era“. Implementing a quantum algorithm on a NISQ device has… |
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June 12, 2020 |
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JPMorgan engineer improved Grover's algorithm |
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Engineers from JPMorgan have found a method to improve Grover’s algorithm. Their innovation leads to a performance improvement because it removes, “X gates from the inversion-by-the-mean step in the standard… |
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June 11, 2020 |
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Introducing structure to expedite quantum search |
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Researchers of Polish Beit Project have presented a novel quantum algorithm for solving the unstructured search problem with one marked element. Their algorithm allows generating quantum circuits that use asymptotically… |
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