At the AWS Center for Quantum Computing, Amazon’s scientists are doing scientific research and development on Quantum Computing algorithms and hardware. They posted a summary of their findings from their first architecture paper that describes a theoretical […]
Is Quantum Computing pharma’s next big disruptor?
Allie Nawrat talks to the Pistoia Alliance, QED-C and QuPharm about the opportunities Quantum Computing may provide to the pharma industry. In a future-casting 2030 vision report, life sciences membership organisation Pistoia Alliance examined technological opportunities […]
IBM: Exploring Quantum Computing use cases for life sciences
IBM has published a report concerning quantum computing use cases for life sciences. Some quotes from this report: The search space of potential protein configurations increases exponentially with the size of the protein. Quantum computing has […]
OIDA Report: Photonics and Quantum Technologies
Quantum technologies are expected to have major impacts in markets ranging from telecom and medicine to finance but advances in product engineering are necessary to bring the technologies to market, according to the newly released OIDA […]
Quantum Computing and Finance: Evolution or Revolution?
Modern Finance has always been closely linked to the evolution of IT, Telecommunications and Financial Mathematics. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are currently profoundly changing the banking and insurance business, in parallel with their accelerated […]
How many qubits for quantum supremacy?
This is a very interesting paper published by well-known people of the Quantum Community. Quantum computational supremacy arguments, which describe a way for a quantum computer to perform a task that cannot also be done […]
The diamond quantum revolution
In the April 2020 issue of Physics World, editors explain how diamond, this special form of carbon, now has many practical quantum applications. Here are some extracts. Diamonds are well known as the gem for marking […]
NCSC: Quantum security technologies
The British Nation Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has just released an interesting white paper which sets out its position on two security technologies that rely on quantum physics: Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) and Quantum Random […]
Are biological processes experts in Quantum Physics?
The intriguing, upcoming field of quantum biology by Olivier Loose. Scientific inquiry can be a lesson in humility. Astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus taught us this in the sixteenth century when submitting the hypothesis that the Sun is sitting […]
IBM: Exploring quantum use cases for chemicals and petroleum
IBM has published a report concerning three quantum computing use cases already being explored by chemicals and petroleum companies. Some quotes from this report: It has already been demonstrated that quantum chemistry simulations will likely […]