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September 30, 2020
CERN meets quantum technology
The CERN Quantum Technology Initiative (QTI), which was announced in June, sees CERN join a rapidly-growing global effort to bring about a “second quantum revolution” – whereby phenomena such as…
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September 29, 2020
D-Wave announces availability of first Quantum Computer built for Business
D-Wave Systems announced the general availability of its next-generation quantum computing platform, incorporating new hardware, software, and tools to enable and accelerate the delivery of in-production quantum computing applications. Available…
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September 29, 2020
Toshiba joins Azure Quantum to solve large combinatorial optimization problems
Complex optimization problems exist across every industry, such as vehicle routing, supply chain management, risk assessment, portfolio optimization, power grid operations, and many others.   While a number of sophisticated algorithms have been…
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September 29, 2020
Rahko reaches groundbreaking accuracy on Honeywell’s latest QPU
Rahko presents the results from its latest Quantum Processing Unit (QPU) implementation, in a collaboration with Johnson Matthey and Honeywell Quantum Solutions. Using Rahko’s Discriminative Variational Quantum Eigensolver (‘DVQE’), they have reached…
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September 29, 2020
Fault-Tolerant Operation of a Quantum Error-Correction Code
Researchers at University of Maryland and the Duke University have managed to present the first implementation of Fault-Tolerant (FT) logical state preparation. They have experimentally demonstrated fault-tolerant preparation, rotation, error syndrome extraction,…
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September 29, 2020
Quantum entanglement between distant and different objects
A team of researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, have succeeded in entangling two very different quantum objects. Researchers succeeded in making entanglement between a mechanical oscillator—a…
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September 29, 2020
Quantum Industry Day in Switzerland 2020
The Quantum Industry Day in Switzerland (QIDiS) is a major European and Swiss event which gathers industrial R&D, academics and investors to foster exchange and accelerate the development of new quantum products. As you probably know if…
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September 28, 2020
Predicting molecular behavior using Quantum Computing
Researchers at Osaka City University create a quantum algorithm that removes spin contaminants while making chemical calculations on quantum computers. This allows for precise and accurate predictions of electronic and…
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September 25, 2020
The return of the spin echo
A research team from Garching and Vienna University of Technology discovered a remarkable echo effect that offers exciting new possibilities for working with quantum information. The team has now discovered…
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September 25, 2020
Quantum bedtime reading: A question of quantum reality
Physicist Reinhold Bertlmann of the University of Vienna, Austria has published a review of the work of his late long-term collaborator John Stewart Bell of CERN, Geneva, “Real or Not…
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September 25, 2020
Faint communications signals detection using quantum physics
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a system that could dramatically increase the performance of communications networks while enabling record-low error rates in detecting…
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September 24, 2020
Single subatomic quantum memories in semiconductors
Scientists at the University of Chicago demonstrated control of atomic quantum memories in silicon carbide, a common material found in electric cars and LED light bulbs. Then, they used this…
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September 24, 2020
Controlling ultrastrong light-matter coupling at room temperature
Physicists at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, together with colleagues in Russia and Poland, have managed to achieve ultrastrong coupling between light and matter at room temperature. The discovery…
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September 24, 2020
Baidu offers Quantum Computing from the Cloud
Baidu today detailed Quantum Leaf, a new Cloud Quantum Computing platform designed for programming, simulating, and executing quantum workloads. It will provide a programming environment for quantum-infrastructure-as-a-service setups and it complements the Paddle…
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