Quantum walk applications are divided into 4 main categories: quantum computing, quantum simulation, quantum information processing, and graph-theoretic applications. Credit: Xiaogang Qiang, Shixin Ma and Haijing Song

Quantum Walks: Next Frontier in Computational Intelligence

Quantum walks represent a revolutionary quantum computing paradigm that surpasses classical computational methods by leveraging fundamental quantum phenomena like superposition, interference, and entanglement. This technology has been comprehensively analyzed in recent research from China’s National […]

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Fault-tolerant quantum computer based on Schrödinger-cat qubits

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 […]

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 […]