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November 11, 2020
QC Ware teams up with Total
QC Ware has announced a joint research collaboration with Total, one of world’s largest energy companies, to explore quantum optimization algorithms.  QC Ware’s quantum engineers and Total’s researchers worked together on…
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November 10, 2020
Data-driven quantum error mitigation
Achieving near-term quantum advantage will require effective methods for mitigating hardware noise. One approach is to optimize quantum circuits using compiling and machine learning, while another employs variational quantum algorithms…
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November 10, 2020
New record in super-fast quantum light detection
Researchers from the University of Bristol‘s Quantum Engineering Technology Labs (QET Labs) and Université Côte d’Azur have made a new miniaturized light detector to measure quantum features of light in more…
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November 9, 2020
ColdQuanta Raises $32M in Series A Funding
ColdQuanta has just announced it has raised $32M in Series A funding, with additional funding expected to close soon. The round was co-led by Global Frontier Investments and LCP Quantum…
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November 9, 2020
A new candidate material for Quantum Spin Liquids
Scientists at EPFL’s School of Basic Sciences have successfully produced and studied a Quantum Spin Liquid (QSL) in a highly original material known as EDT-BCO. The system was designed and…
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November 9, 2020
Quantum simulation of electronic structure with a transcorrelated Hamiltonian
Researchers at IBM Research and Mercedez–Benz Research have demonstrated quantum simulations of electronic structure with a transformed Hamiltonian that includes some electron correlation effects. The transcorrelated Hamiltonian used in this…
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November 7, 2020
Reinforcement Learning with Quantum Variational Circuits
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have explored the potential for Quantum Computing to facilitate Reinforcement Learning (RL) problems. Deep RL has accelerated at astounding speed in the last decade. Achieving…
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November 6, 2020
Atos and Pasqal to develop Quantum Accelerator for HPC
Atos will collaborate with French start-up Pasqal to develop a Quantum Accelerator based on neutral atom technology for High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems. This technology would make it possible to strengthen…
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November 6, 2020
A modem for a future Quantum Internet
The interface between local quantum devices and light quanta that enable the remote transmission of highly sensitive quantum information is a key topic of quantum communications. The Otto-Hahn group “Quantum…
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November 6, 2020
QuAlg: A symbolic algebra Quantum Computing package
Researcher at QuTech proposes QuAlg, an open-source symbolic algebra package for Quantum Computing. There are many packages and tools for representing and simulating quantum states and operations, such as nesquid,…
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November 5, 2020
Next-generation computer chip with two heads
Note: This article is not directly related to Quantum Computing but we believe it might be of interest to our readers. EPFL engineers in Switzerland have developed a computer chip…
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November 5, 2020
Hybrid quantum-classical algorithms and quantum error mitigation
Quantum computers can exploit a Hilbert space whose dimension increases exponentially with the number of qubits. In experiment, quantum supremacy has recently been achieved by the Google team by using…
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November 5, 2020
Using quantum properties of light to transmit information
Researchers at the University of Rochester and Cornell University have taken an important step toward developing a communications network that exchanges information across long distances by using photons. The research…
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