New Quantum Random Number Generation improvement

A research team from the University of Science and Technology of China has made security analysis and improvement of Source Independent Quantum Random Number Generators (SI-QRNGs) with imperfect devices. By studying the actual characteristics of […]

A single-quantum-dot heat valve

A single-quantum-dot heat valve

A team of researchers at University Grenoble Alpes and Centre of Excellence Quantum Technology has developed a single-quantum-dot heat valve. They have demonstrated gate control of electronic heat flow in a thermally biased single-quantum-dot junction.

Unexpected quantum behavior in insulators

Physicists at Princeton University have observed an unexpected quantum behavior in an insulator made from a material called tungsten ditelluride. This phenomenon, known as quantum oscillation, is typically observed in metals rather than insulators, and […]

Entangled error-protected qubits

Entangled error-protected qubits

Researchers from the University of Innsbruck have entangled two qubits distributed over several quantum objects and successfully transmitted their quantum properties.

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

AION: A UK Atom Interferometry Observatory and Network

Searches for dark matter and the detection of gravitational waves in the Universe have been boosted by the announcement from the UKRI Science Technology and Facilities Council (STFC) of initial funding for the AION (Atom Interferometry Observatory […]

Google and Boehringer Ingelheim partnership

Google’s Quantum AI division is teaming with pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim to develop new types of drugs using Quantum Computing. The idea is to research and develop quantum computing tech to do molecular dynamics simulations, or the […]

Dutch Quantum Computing startups create IMPAQT consortium

Members of the IMPAQT consortium signed an agreement to collaborate on ensuring that different building blocks of Quantum Computing are well-interfaced. In the future, this will allow Quantum Computer manufacturers to easily integrate subsystems. The members of the IMPAQT consortium are: Orange QS – Integrated quantum system provider  […]

Dutch Quantum Computing startups create IMPAQT consortium

Dutch Quantum Computing startups create IMPAQT consortium

Members of the IMPAQT consortium signed an agreement to collaborate on ensuring that different building blocks of Quantum Computing are well-interfaced. In the future, this will allow Quantum Computer manufacturers to easily integrate subsystems. The members of the IMPAQT consortium are: Orange QS – Integrated quantum system provider  […]

World’s fastest optical neuromorphic processor

World’s fastest optical neuromorphic processor

An international team of researchers led by Swinburne University of Technology has demonstrated the world’s fastest and most powerful optical neuromorphic processor for artificial intelligence (AI), which operates faster than 10 trillion operations per second (TeraOPs/s) and is capable of processing ultra-large scale data.

High-dimensional quantum teleportation

A team at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) has demonstrated the teleportation of high-dimensional states in a three-dimensional six-photon system. Compared with two-dimensional systems, high-dimensional system quantum networks have the advantages […]

Electrons entanglement using heat

Electrons entanglement using heat

A joint group of scientists has demonstrated that temperature difference can be used to entangle pairs of electrons in superconducting structures.

Better security proofs for QKD protocols

Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) protocols are performed by sending a sizeable, but finite, number of quantum signals between the distant parties involved. Many QKD experiments, however, predict their achievable key rates using asymptotic formulas, which […]

CES 2021: QBlox wins Innovation Award

CES 2021: QBlox wins Innovation Award

The Dutch startup Qblox wins CES 2021 Innovation Award honoree for its qubit control hardware – the Cluster series and announces it secures $6Mn in seed funding from the European Innovation Council – Horizon 2020.