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February 24, 2021
A quantum algorithm for string matching
Algorithms that search for a pattern within a larger data-set appear ubiquitously in text and image processing. Pattern matching algorithms are used ubiquitously used in image processing, the study of…
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February 23, 2021
Experimental quantum homomorphic encryption
Quantum computers promise not only to outperform classical machines for certain important tasks, but also to preserve privacy of computation. For example, the blind quantum computing protocol enables secure delegated…
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February 23, 2021
Ion-optics-based quantum microscope can image individual atoms
A team of researchers at Universität Stuttgart, Germany, has developed an ion-optics-based quantum microscope that is capable of creating images of individual atoms. The microscope built by the team began…
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February 23, 2021
Lack of symmetry in qubits might explain matter/antimatter
While probing how quantum annealers perform when operated faster than desired, a team of scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory unexpectedly discovered a new effect that may account for the…
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February 22, 2021
A speed limit also applies in the quantum world
Physicists at the University of Bonn have shown what the speed limit is for complex quantum operations. The fact that there is a speed limit in the microcosm was already…
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February 22, 2021
Resource-efficient quantum algorithm for protein folding
A team of researchers at IBM Research – Zurich, Switzerland, has presented a resource-efficient quantum algorithm for protein folding. Predicting the three-dimensional structure of a protein from its primary sequence…
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February 19, 2021
CERN's ATLAS: Evidence of a rare Higgs boson decay
CERN’s ATLAS has found first evidence of the Higgs Boson decaying to two leptons (either an electron or a muon pair with opposite charge) and a photon. Known as “Dalitz decay”, this…
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February 19, 2021
Performance advantage in quantum simulation
D-Wave Systems has published a milestone study in collaboration with scientists at Google, demonstrating a computational performance advantage, increasing with both simulation size and problem hardness, to over 3 million…
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February 19, 2021
IBM's Quantum computer links two quantum revolutions
Using the IBM Q computer, physicists at EPFL have verified for the first time the tight relationship between quantum entanglement and wave-particle duality, showing that the former controls the latter…
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February 18, 2021
Quantum Internet in Austria
Austria is getting a Quantum Internet. With the “Austrian Quantum Fiber Network” (AQUnet), an Austria-wide network of fiber optic cables is to be built that is suitable for the exchange…
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February 18, 2021
Quantum or Classical Gravity?
An international team led by the University of Nottingham, has demonstrated that only quantum and not classical gravity could be used to create a certain informatic ingredient that is needed…
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