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October 30, 2019
Volkswagen and D-Wave optimize traffic flow with quantum computers
Volkswagen is launching in Lisbon the world’s first pilot project for traffic optimization using a quantum computer. For this purpose, the company is equipping MAN buses of the public transport…
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October 29, 2019
Quantum Benchmark supports development of Google’s world-leading quantum computers
Quantum Benchmark, the leading provider of solutions to characterize and reduce errors in quantum computing, is pleased to announce its partnership with the Google Quantum AI Lab during a milestone…
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October 29, 2019
Case Study: Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA)
Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) is one of the most promising quantum algorithms for the Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) era. Quantifying the performance of QAOA in the near-term regime is…
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October 29, 2019
Near-term quantum algorithms for linear systems of equations
Solving linear systems of equations is an essential component in science and technology, including in many machine learning algorithms. Existing quantum algorithms have demonstrated large speedups in solving linear systems,…
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October 29, 2019
D-Wave announces first European Leap quantum cloud site at Jülich
D-Wave Systems announced that it will house its first European Leap quantum cloud-based system outside of North America at the Forschungszentrum Jülich Supercomputing Center in Germany. The system marks the…
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October 28, 2019
Calculation of the Green's function on near-term quantum computers
The Green's function plays a crucial role to study the nature of quantum many-body systems, especially strongly-correlated systems. Although the development of quantum computers in near term is expected to…
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October 28, 2019
Fault-tolerant Quantum Error Correction (QEC) on near-term quantum processors
Fault-tolerant (FT) computation by using quantum error correction (QEC) is essential for realizing large-scale quantum algorithms. Devices are expected to have enough qubits to demonstrate aspects of fault tolerance in…
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October 28, 2019
Secure quantum communication in the microwave band in a local quantum network
An international team headed by physicists from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has, for the first time ever, experimentally implemented secure quantum communication in the microwave band in a…
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October 28, 2019
Building single-atom qubits under a microscope
IBM Research made a breakthrough in controlling the quantum behavior of individual atoms, demonstrating a versatile new building block for quantum computation. This is the first time a single-atom qubit…
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October 26, 2019
Extracting hidden quantum information from a light source
Researchers at ICFO-The Institute of Photonic Sciences report on a technique to extract the quantum information hidden in an image that carries both classical and quantum information. This technique opens…
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October 25, 2019
Improved Boltzmann machines with error corrected quantum annealing
Boltzmann machines are the basis of several deep learning methods that have been successfully applied to both supervised and unsupervised machine learning tasks. These models assume that a dataset is…
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October 25, 2019
Innovate UK invests £30M in quantum technologies
Innovate UK, as part of UK Research and Innovation, has up to £30 million to invest in projects that remove technological barriers to speeding up the commercialisation of the second…
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October 24, 2019
Quantum error detection improves accuracy of chemical calculations on a quantum computer
The ultimate goal of quantum error correction is to achieve the fault-tolerance threshold beyond which quantum computers can be made arbitrarily accurate. This requires extraordinary resources and engineering efforts. The…
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October 23, 2019
About the Neutrino’s tiny mass...
Though this information is not directly related to Quantum technology, we think you'll be delightfully pleased to read it... About a thousand trillion of these ghostly Neutrinos particles pass through…
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October 23, 2019
UC Santa Barbara/Google: Demonstration of the power of 53 qubits
Researchers at Google and UC Santa Barbara have made good on their claim to quantum supremacy. Using 53 entangled qubits, their Sycamore computer has taken on and solved a problem…
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