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 DNA sequences, and data compression […]

Performance advantage in quantum simulation

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 times that of corresponding classical methods.

Particle collision simulation using Quantum Computing

A team of researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) used a quantum computer to successfully simulate an aspect of particle collisions that is typically neglected in high-energy physics experiments, such as those that […]

Quantum Neural Networks

Fault-tolerant quantum computers offer the promise of dramatically improving machine learning through speed-ups in computation or improved model scalability. In the near-term, however, the benefits of Quantum Machine Learning (QML) are not so clear. Understanding […]

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New quantum algorithm verifying quantum advantage in seconds

CNRS and QC Ware announced today that they have successfully demonstrated that a quantum machine using a new quantum algorithm can verify quantum advantage in seconds, while a classical computer can take thousands of years to perform the same task.

China’s first Quantum Computer Operating System

Origin Quantum Computing Technology, a Chinese startup, launched the country’s first homegrown operating system (OS) for quantum computers. The new OS, named Origin Pilot, has been optimized for the resource management and parallel processing capabilities […]

CQC releases tket with open access to Python users

Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC) today announced the latest version of tket (pronounced “ticket”), its high-performance quantum software development kit (SDK), with all licence restrictions removed for use of tket’s Python module (also known as “pytket”). […]

Pricing financial derivatives with exponential quantum speedup

Pricing financial derivatives with exponential quantum speedup

A team of researchers at University of the Basque Country, Santander Bank and IQM, has presented a digital quantum algorithm to solve Black-Scholes equation on a quantum computer for a wide range of relevant financial parameters by mapping it to the Schrödinger equation

Variational Quantum Algorithms Review

A team of researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Google has reviewed the state of the art of Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs). Applications such as simulating large quantum systems or solving large-scale linear algebra […]

ColdQuanta and ParityQC work on QAOA optimization problems

Solving industry-relevant problems using a quantum algorithm faster than any classical computer is considered the grand challenge of quantum computing. ColdQuanta, a developer of cold atom quantum technology, has joined forces with ParityQC, an Austrian […]

6-qubit Optimal Clifford Circuits

Clifford group lies at the core of quantum computation: it underlies quantum error correction, its elements can be used to perform magic state distillation and they form randomized benchmarking protocols, Clifford group is used to […]

Simple example of CNN and QCNN. QCNN, like CNN, consists of a convolution layer that finds a new state and a pooling layer that reduces the size of the system.

Tutorial: Quantum Convolutional Neural Networks (QCNN)

Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is a popular model in computer vision and has the advantage of making good use of the correlation information of data. However, CNN is challenging to learn efficiently if the given […]