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November 6, 2019
Quantum algorithms for deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN)
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) are one of the best current Machine Learning techniques to learn, detect and classify images. Researchers at CNRS, IRIF and Université Paris Diderot have described the…
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November 5, 2019
IBM Qiskit: Write once, target multiple architectures
IBM open-source Qiskit quantum computing framework has been designed to be extensible and to support research beyond the IBM quantum systems based on superconducting qubits. The company recently added support in Qiskit for…
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November 5, 2019
Honeywell in the Quantum race: high fidelity and trapped ions
Industrial giant Honeywell is bringing its quantum computing hardware to Microsoft's Azure cloud computing service. Although Microsoft has for a long time been developing its own quantum circuitry, the partnership…
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November 5, 2019
Microsoft Azure Quantum
If you eventually thought Microsoft would not play in the Quantum sandbox and let IBM and Google have fun alone, Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO made the show during the Vision…
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November 5, 2019
Josephson penetration depth in coplanar junctions based on 2D materials
Josephson junctions and superconducting quantum interference devices with graphene or other 2D materials as the weak link between superconductors have become a hot topic of research in recent years, with…
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November 4, 2019
Evading Heisenberg isn't easy
Researchers at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland (EPFL) unravel novel dynamics in the interaction between light and mechanical motion with significant implications for quantum measurements designed to evade the…
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November 4, 2019
Quantum communication chip 1,000 times smaller than current setups
Researchers at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a quantum communication chip that is 1,000 times smaller than current quantum setups, but offers the same superior security quantum…
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November 1, 2019
Robert Bosch Venture Capital invests in IonQ
Robert Bosch Venture Capital GmbH (RBVC), the corporate venture capital company of the Bosch Group, has participated in an extension of the recent funding of IonQ, which comprises a sum…
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October 31, 2019
Researchers create blueprint for 'quantum battery' that doesn't lose charge
Scientists from the universities of Alberta and Toronto developed a blueprint for a new quantum battery that doesn't leak charge. The research team considered an open quantum network model with…
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October 31, 2019
Structured light promises path to faster, more secure communications
Researchers at American Institute of Physics and University of Witwatersrand in South Africa now review the progress being made in using structured light in quantum protocols to create a larger…
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October 31, 2019
Quantum optimization with a Novel Gibbs objective function and Ansatz Architecture Search
The Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) is a standard method for combinatorial optimization with a gate-based quantum computer. The QAOA consists of a particular ansatz for the quantum circuit architecture,…
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October 31, 2019
Xanadu PennyLane now has support for Google AI Cirq
PennyLane, Xanadu's software for quantum machine learning & optimization of hybrid quantum-classical computations, now has support for Google AI Cirq via the new PennyLane-Cirq plugin! Cirq is an open-source framework for Noisy Intermediate…
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October 30, 2019
Learning adiabatic quantum algorithms for solving optimization problems
An adiabatic quantum algorithm is essentially given by three elements: An initial Hamiltonian with known ground state, a problem Hamiltonian whose ground state corresponds to the solution of the given…
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