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July 22, 2020
ORCA Computing raises £2.9M ($3.7M)
ORCA Computing Ltd, a quantum computing company based in London, UK has announced the close of £2.9M ($3.7M) public and private financing to begin building their optical-fiber based quantum computer.…
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July 21, 2020
BBVA's Quantum Proof of Concept for improving currency arbitrage and portfolio management
BBVA, a Spanish financial services corporation, has introduced the results of six proofs of concept (PoC) trials that leverage quantum computing for several different potential business use cases. BBVA worked…
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July 21, 2020
Extended coherence time for spin-orbit qubit in silicon
Scientists at Centre for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology (CQC2T) have demonstrated coherence times 10,000 times longer than previously recorded for spin-orbit qubits. Coherence time is the duration of time…
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July 21, 2020
Quantum magnetometry precision limit
Quantum magnetometry aims to measure the magnetic field with the highest precision. Although estimation of one component of a magnetic field has been well studied over many decades, the highest…
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July 20, 2020
Atomtronic device could probe boundary between quantum, everyday worlds
A new device that relies on flowing clouds of ultracold atoms promises potential tests of the intersection between the weirdness of the quantum world and the familiarity of the macroscopic…
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July 20, 2020
Highly tunable Quantum Dots at room temperature
Researchers at Columbia Engineering and Montana State University have reported that they have found that placing sufficient strain in a 2-D material—tungsten diselenide (WSe2)—creates localized states that can yield single-photon…
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July 17, 2020
Room-temperature optomechanical squeezing
Researchers at MIT have designed a quantum light squeezer that reduces quantum noise in an incoming laser beam by 15 percent. It is the first system of its kind to work at…
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July 17, 2020
Distributed Quantum information processing using multiplexed photons
Distributed quantum information processing is based on the transmission of quantum data over lossy channels between quantum processing nodes. These nodes may be separated by a few microns or on…
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