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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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