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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