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October 23, 2019
IonQ Secures $55 Million in Funding to Bring Quantum Computing from the Lab to the Enterprise
Samsung and Mubadala Capital, a Emirati investment fund, are leading a new $55 Million funding round for IonQ, the startup that uses "trapped ions," or charged particles suspended in a…
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October 22, 2019
A tiny cavity leads to a strong interaction between light and matter
Researchers at University of Basel have succeeded in creating an efficient quantum-mechanical light-matter interface using a microscopic cavity. Within this cavity, a single photon is emitted and absorbed up to…
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October 22, 2019
IBM: On “Quantum Supremacy”
A very interesting paper from IBM Quantum Computing Team as an answer to the famous leaked preprint of Google regarding quantum supremacy. Some excerpts: Recent advances in quantum computing have…
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October 21, 2019
Barclays demonstrates proof-of-concept quantum clearing algorithm
A team of researchers from Barclays’ chief technology and innovation office, in collaboration with IBM, have published a paper describing a proof-of-concept quantum optimised application. The paper, Quantum algorithms for mixed binary…
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October 18, 2019
Weaving quantum processors out of laser light
Researchers at Australian Centre for Quantum Computation & Communication Technology open a new avenue to quantum computing with a breakthrough experiment: a large-scale quantum processor prototype made entirely of light.…
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October 18, 2019
Blanket of light may give better quantum computers
Researchers at Technical University of Denmark describe how they have created a 'carpet' of thousands of quantum-mechanically entangled light pulses at room temperature . The discovery has the potential to…
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October 18, 2019
Stretched photons recover lost interference
Researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) and the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science (QuICS) have stretched out multiple photons and turned three distinct pulses into overlapping…
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October 18, 2019
Quantum physics: Ménage à trois photon-style
Researchers at the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, have discovered a new quantum property: by placing 3 pairs of photons in a network, it is possible to entangle them and…
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October 17, 2019
Oct. 17th, 2019: Helsinki became the Quantum epicentre
On October 17-18th 2019, renowned representatives, experts and stakeholders within the quantum technologies field were gathering in Helsinki to participate in the Exploring and Making Quantum Technology event, aimed to…
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October 16, 2019
BBVA believes Quantum Computing will change the face of banking
This paradigm shift is likely because of the huge potential the massive processing power quantum computing offers. BBVA believes it could fundamentally change the face of banking. BBVA‘s quantum computing algorithms’…
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October 16, 2019
EY: Could Quantum Computing be the technology that drives your quantum leap forward?
An interesting though entry-level document from EYQ (EYQ is EY’s think tank) about Quantum Computing. Some quotations/excerpts: "Quantum technologies offer huge potential for disruption. C-suite leaders that want their companies…
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October 16, 2019
Qubits diversity may be key to reducing errors in Quantum Computing
The processing in quantum-based machines is noisy, which produces error rates dramatically higher than those of silicon-based computers. So quantum operations are repeated thousands of times to make the correct…
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