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December 9, 2020 |
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Generation of hires handwritten digits with an Ion-Trap Quantum Computer |
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Generating high-quality data (e.g., images or video) is one of the most exciting and challenging frontiers in unsupervised machine learning. Utilizing quantum computers in such tasks to potentially enhance conventional… |
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December 9, 2020 |
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Amazon Braket now supports PennyLane |
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Amazon Braket now supports PennyLane, an open source software framework for hybrid quantum computing. Pennylane provides interfaces to common machine learning libraries, including PyTorch and TensorFlow. It’s now possible to train… |
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December 9, 2020 |
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D-Wave to compare Annealing and Gate-Model Quantum Computers |
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D-Wave has just announced a cross-system software tool providing interoperability between quantum annealing and gate-model quantum computers. The open-source plugin allows developers to map quadratic optimization inputs in IBM’s Qiskit… |
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December 8, 2020 |
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Valley interference and spin exchange at the atomic scale in silicon |
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Tunneling is a fundamental quantum process with no classical equivalent, which can compete with Coulomb interactions to give rise to complex phenomena. Phosphorus dopants in silicon can be placed with… |
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December 8, 2020 |
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Kudelski new focus on Quantum Security |
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Kudelski Security, the cybersecurity division within the Swiss Kudelski Group, announced today the launch of a new focus on Quantum Security, including expanded research and advisory services that enable security… |
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December 7, 2020 |
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Microwave package design for superconducting quantum processors |
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Solid-state qubits with transition frequencies in the microwave regime, such as superconducting qubits, are at the forefront of quantum information processing. However, high-fidelity, simultaneous control of superconducting qubits at even… |
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December 7, 2020 |
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Intel debuts 2nd-Gen Horse Ridge cryogenic quantum control chip |
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At an Intel Labs virtual event today, Intel unveiled Horse Ridge II, its second-generation cryogenic control chip, marking another milestone in the company’s progress toward overcoming scalability, one of quantum… |
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December 7, 2020 |
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Analog quantum simulation of chemical dynamics |
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Ultrafast chemical reactions are difficult to simulate because they involve entangled, many-body wavefunctions whose computational complexity grows rapidly with molecular size. In photochemistry, the breakdown of the Born-Oppenheimer approximation further… |
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December 7, 2020 |
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Mapping quantum structures with light to unlock their capabilities |
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Researchers at the University of Michigan, University of Regensburg and University of Marburg propose a new tool that uses light to map out the electronic structures of crystals. This could… |
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December 7, 2020 |
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Taiwan invests $282M in Quantum Technology |
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Taiwan will invest NT$8 billion (US$282 million) in the development of Quantum Technology in the coming five years with a view to becoming a tech hub that boasts more than… |
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December 7, 2020 |
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Atos announces Q-score as a new Quantum performance metrics |
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Atos has just introduced Q-score, a new quantum metrics, applicable to all programmable quantum processors. Atos’ Q-score measures a quantum system’s effectiveness at handling real-life problems, those which cannot be… |
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December 7, 2020 |
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Fault-tolerant Quantum Computer using concatenated cat codes |
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A team at Amazon has presented a comprehensive architectural analysis for a fault-tolerant quantum computer based on cat codes concatenated with outer quantum error-correcting codes. For the physical hardware, they… |
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December 4, 2020 |
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Physicists in China challenge Google’s ‘Quantum Advantage’ |
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A team in China claims to have made the first definitive demonstration of ‘Quantum Advantage’ by exploiting the counter-intuitive workings of quantum mechanics to perform computations that would be prohibitively… |
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December 4, 2020 |
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A new theorem maps out the limits of Quantum Physics |
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The result highlights a fundamental tension: Either the rules of quantum mechanics don’t always apply, or at least one basic assumption about reality must be wrong. Some excerpts of this… |
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