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August 5, 2020
UC Berkeley to lead $25 Million Quantum Computing center
As part of the US federal government’s effort to speed the development of quantum computers, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded the University of California, Berkeley, $25 million over five…
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August 4, 2020
Reinforcement Learning to perform Qubit routing
Researchers at University of Cambridge have presented an interesting paper regarding the usage of Reinforcement Learning to perform Qubit routing in Quantum compilers. Qubit routing refers to the task of…
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August 3, 2020
Option pricing using Quantum Computers
A team from JPMorgan Chase, IBM Research Zurich and ETH Zurich presents a methodology to price options and portfolios of options on a gate-based quantum computer using amplitude estimation, an…
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August 3, 2020
A Quantum money solution to the Blockchain scalability problem
Researchers from Caltech and Ben-Gurion University put forward the idea that classical blockchains and smart contracts are potentially useful primitives not only for classical cryptography, but for quantum cryptography as…
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July 31, 2020
Miraex as finalist of the NASA Challenge
Miraex, together with top-notch partners Aperio Global and IBM, has been selected among the 15 finalists for the NASA Science Mission Directorate “Entrepreneurs Challenge”. Miraex, a Swiss startup located in Lausanne and spinoff of EPFL,…
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July 31, 2020
Quantum machines learn 'quantum data'
Skoltech scientists have shown that quantum enhanced machine learning can be used on quantum (as opposed to classical) data, overcoming a significant slowdown common to these applications and opening a…
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July 30, 2020
Scientists make quantum sensor technology smaller
Researchers at the UK Quantum Technology Hub Sensors and Timing, led by the University of Birmingham, have developed a way of shrinking the devices used in quantum sensing systems to…
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July 30, 2020
Classiq raised 4M$ for building the next layer of the quantum software stack
Classiq, which is the first Israeli startup in the field of quantum computing software, has raised 4M$ from Entrée Capital. Quantum development environments (e.g Qiskit, Cirq, Q#, Forest, etc.) allow…
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July 30, 2020
Superconducting artificial giant atoms for Quantum Computing
MIT researchers have introduced a quantum computing architecture that can perform low-error quantum computations while also rapidly sharing quantum information between processors. While natural atoms are small and point-like with respect to…
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July 30, 2020
A method to predict the properties of complex quantum systems
Researchers at California Institute of Technology recently introduced a new method that can be used to predict multiple properties of complex quantum systems from a limited number of measurements. The…
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July 29, 2020
How to calculate entanglement cost
Louisiana State University researchers have solved a 20-year-old problem in quantum information theory on how to calculate entanglement cost—a way to measure entanglement—in a manner that’s efficiently computable, useful, and…
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