This is a proof of concept by IBM that hints at how quantum computing could generate Minecraft-like scenes, levels or even complete video games that are better than the ones we have today. For example, […]
New algorithms to determine eigenstates and thermal states on quantum computers
Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have recently published the development of three new algorithms that could help to overcome the limitations of existing phase estimation and variational methods techniques for computing Hamiltonian eigenstates on […]
Amazon Braket: a paradigm shift
Amazon AWS announces new Quantum Computing Service (Amazon Braket) along with AWS Center for Quantum Computing and AWS Quantum Solutions Lab. It had been hardly a secret for weeks but now it’s disclosable. At Swiss […]
Xanadu gets grant from Darpa to test QML performance
Toronto-based quantum computing startup Xanadu announced today that it has secured a grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The startup, which provides both hardware and software-based solutions, says the grant will be used to […]
Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Rigetti partner in quantum computing
Researchers from Rigetti Computing and the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) announce they have taken an important step towards the use of quantum computing in the financial services sector. This week, they published details of […]
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 first CNN implementation on quantum […]
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 trapped ion-based quantum computing devices […]
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 Keynote at Ignite. Microsoft provides […]
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, together with a prescription for […]
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 Scale Quantum (NISQ) computers. Combine […]
