January 19, 2025
A new guide to programming quantum algorithms walks programmers through every step, from theory to implementing the algorithms on IBM’s publicly available 5-qubit ibmqx4 quantum computer and others. Credit: Dreamstime

Quantum Computer programming basics

Los Alamos National Laboratory recently published a Quantum Computer programming guide in ACM Transactions on Quantum Computing. For would-be quantum programmers scratching their heads over how to jump into the game as quantum computers proliferate and become publicly […]

Quantum circuit simulation can reveal the impact of noise on intermediate-scale quantum devices. Credit: Donald Jorgensen | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Next generation of quantum algorithms and materials

To overcome the limitations of current quantum computers, researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) are developing simulations that provide a glimpse into how quantum computers work. In collaboration with Oak Ridge National Laboratory and […]

Pictorial representation of the hybrid classifier model used for MNIST classification. Panel ( A ) shows the complete network including an encoder with M 0 units and a decoder with M 1 units. Panel ( B ) shows the implemented classical classifier composed by two units and panel ( C ) shows a schematic of the quantum models: input parameters coming from the encoder determine the unitary W while the output is obtained upon measurement of the qubits.

Quantum Machine Learning with SQUID

A team of researchers have presented the Scaled QUantum IDentifier (SQUID), an open-source framework for exploring hybrid Quantum-Classical algorithms for classification problems. The classical infrastructure is based on PyTorch and they provide a standardized design […]

Interaction between a quantum agent and an environment.

A variational quantum algorithm for deep Q-learning

Research in Quantum Machine Learning (QML) has focused primarily on variational quantum algorithms (VQAs), and several proposals to enhance supervised, unsupervised and reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms with VQAs have been put forward. Out of the […]

Exploring the smallest distance scales with particle colliders often requires detailed calculations of the spectra of outgoing particles (smallest filled green circles). Credit: Benjamin Nachman, Berkeley Lab

Team simulates collider physics on quantum computer

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory physicists have leveraged an IBM Q quantum computer through the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility to capture part of a calculation of two protons colliding. The calculation can show the probability […]

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NVIDIA unveils onramp to Hybrid Quantum Computing

NVIDIA cuQuantum debuts with an expanding ecosystem and a collaboration building the programming model for tomorrow’s most powerful systems. As quantum computers improve, researchers share a vision of a hybrid computing model where quantum and […]

QuantumNAS: Noise-Adaptive Search for Robust Quantum Circuits

Making quantum computing more resilient to noise

Researchers at MIT are working to mitigate the noise problem in quantum computing by developing a technique that makes the quantum circuit itself resilient to noise. (Specifically, these are “parameterized” quantum circuits that contain adjustable […]