Understanding the structural properties of molecules found in nature or synthesized in the laboratory has always been the bread and butter of materials scientists. These researchers rely upon sophisticated simulation techniques that incorporate the rules […]
In recent years simulations of chemistry and condensed materials has emerged as one of the preeminent applications of quantum computing, offering an exponential speedup for the solution of the electronic structure for certain strongly correlated […]
The researchers showed that EASE gates make it drastically easier to implement circuit elements for universal quantum computation: An n-qubit Clifford circuit can be applied in only 6log(n) EASE gates, an n-qubit multiply-controlled NOT gate in 3n/2 EASE gates, and an n-qubit permutation in only six EASE gates.
A team at Wells Fargo and University of California has just released a paper on solving a central and difficult problem in Financial Engineering: Computing Weighted Sums. Those familiar with expected values, value at risk, or […]
Scientists from MIT‘s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (CSAIL) created their own programming language for Quantum Computing called Twist. Twist can describe and verify which pieces of data are entangled in a quantum program, through […]
npj Quantum Information, Published online: 02 June 2021; doi:10.1038/s41534-021-00429-8 Avoiding coherent errors with rotated concatenated stabilizer codes
Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC) today announced the discovery of a new algorithm that accelerates quantum Monte Carlo integration – shortening the time to quantum advantage and confirming the critical importance of quantum computing to the […]
The Quantum Summer Symposium (QSS) is Google Quantum AI’s annual conference. It brings together experts in academia, industry and government to discuss progress in quantum computing research. This year’s event is virtual. If you are […]
In this post, Fabio Sanches, Quantum Computing Services Lead for QC Ware, introduces you to QC Ware Forge, which is built on Amazon Braket. It provides turnkey quantum algorithms, so you can speed up research into applying […]
Goldman Sachs and QC Ware researchers have designed new, robust quantum algorithms that outperform state-of-the-art classical algorithms for Monte Carlo simulations and can be used on near-term quantum hardware expected to be available in 5 to 10 […]
CaixaBank is progressing in its preparation strategy for the arrival of quantum computing. After successfully performing the first real tests of quantum computing to study the applications of this technology in financial services, the institution […]
Recent advances in Quantum Computing have drawn considerable attention to building realistic application for and using quantum computers. However, designing a suitable quantum circuit architecture requires expert knowledge. For example, it is non-trivial to design […]
Distributed training across several quantum computers could significantly improve the training time and if we could share the learned model, not the data, it could potentially improve the data privacy as the training would happen […]
Nvidia has just announced at their GTC event about the performance of quantum simulators using the DGX A100 and its own custom-cooked quantum development software stack, called cuQuantum. The thing is, most of the quantum […]
University of Sydney science undergraduate Pablo Bonilla Ataides has tweaked some computing code to effectively double its capacity to correct errors in the quantum computers. This homework has attracted the attention of quantum computing programmers at Amazon […]
Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC) and CERN have posted an article on Arxiv proposing the dual-Parameterized Quantum Circuit (PQC) Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) for generative modelling applications in High-Energy Physics (specifically for generating typical calorimeter images). […]
IBM Quantum and Qiskit team announced the IBM Quantum Developer Certification — the world’s first ever developer certification for programming a quantum computer. The purpose of this test, a 60-questions exam, is to certify that the members […]
Using the D-Wave hybrid solver service, Multiverse Computing developed an algorithmic approach to rapidly generate portfolios that can be optimized against a variety of constraints. Every investment entails some measure of risk—the fundamental question is whether the reward […]
Except for Value at Risk and option pricing, quantum algorithm are not often used to solve problems in finance. Indeed, such analysis are computationally too expensive to perform on classical computers. In this study, authors […]
Benchmarking of Quantum Computing devices is necessary to measure their performance, and to guide their use and future development. As Quantum Computing systems become more complex, they need to be benchmarked in terms of practical […]
Many machine learning algorithms on quantum computers suffer from the dreaded “barren plateau” of unsolvability, where they run into dead ends on optimization problems. Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory have established theorems that guarantee […]
A team of researchers at IBM Quantum and ETH, Switzerland, has introduced a variant of Quantum Amplitude Estimation (QAE), called Iterative QAE (IQAE), which does not rely on Quantum Phase Estimation (QPE) but is only based on Grover’s Algorithm, which reduces […]
A team of researchers at Osaka City University has developed a quantum algorithm they called Bayesian eXchange coupling parameter calculator with Broken-symmetry wave functions (BxB), that predicts the electronic states of atoms and molecules by […]
Researchers at Florida State University found a way to automatically infer parameters used in an important quantum Boltzmann machine algorithm for machine learning applications. The work could help build artificial neural networks that could be used […]
Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC) announces the publication of a research paper on the online pre-print repository arxiv (available here) that provides details of the largest ever experimental implementation of Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks on a […]