Drones to create local quantum networks
A team of Chinese researchers has used drones to create a prototype of a small airborne quantum network and to send entangled particles from one drone to another and from a drone to the ground. […]
New type of optical quantum computers
Scientists at the Institute of Physics of the University of Tartu, Estonia have found a way to develop optical quantum computers of a new type, based on the discovery of Rare Earth Ions (REIs) that […]
India collaborates with Amazon in Quantum Computing
The India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has announced a collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to develop a Quantum Computing Applications Lab in the country. The lab is meant to provide access […]
New state of matter in one-dimensional quantum gas
Researchers at Stanford University have developed a quantum version of Archimedes’ screw that, instead of water, hauls fragile collections of gas atoms to higher and higher energy states without collapsing. Most nonequilibrium, many-particle systems eventually […]
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 […]
Quantum Personality of the Year – Nominee: Daniel Twitchen
Dr Daniel Twitchen, Chief Technologist of UK-based E6 (ElementSix), a De Beers company, is the fourth nominee of the ‘Quantum Personality of the Year 2020’.
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 […]
Connecting ansatz expressibility to gradient magnitudes and barren plateaus
Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory proved a fundamental theorem for Quantum Neural Networks (QNNs), or more generally, for any parameterized quantum circuit (often called an “ansatz”). Parameterized quantum circuits serve as ansätze for solving […]
Pivotal discovery in quantum and classical information processing
Researchers in the Argonne National Laboratory and Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering have demonstrated a novel approach that allows real-time control of the interactions between microwave photons and magnons, potentially leading to advances in electronic […]
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
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 […]
New qubit can be switched between storage and fast calculation modes
Researchers from the University of Basel and TU Eindhoven have produced a new type of qubit that can be switched from a stable idle mode to a fast calculation mode.
On-demand storage in integrated solid-state quantum memory
Researchers at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) have demonstrated on-demand storage of photonic qubits in an integrated solid-state quantum memory for the first time. On-demand storage requires determination of the storage time after […]
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
A joint group of scientists has demonstrated that temperature difference can be used to entangle pairs of electrons in superconducting structures.
Quantum Personality of the Year – Nominee: Ilyas Khan
Ilyas Khan, CEO of UK quantum startup Cambridge Quantum Computing, is the third nominee of the ‘Quantum Personality of the Year 2020’. He founded the company in 2014, when the wording ‘quantum’ was anything but trendy. […]
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 […]
Use of photonic structures for AI
A team of researchers has examined the potential of photonic processors for artificial intelligence applications.
China: World’s first integrated quantum communication network
Chinese scientists have established the world’s first integrated quantum communication network, combining over 700 optical fibers on the ground with two ground-to-satellite links to achieve Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) over a total distance of 4,600 […]
Robust quantum computational advantage scheme using fermion sampling
Fermionic Linear Optics (FLO) is a restricted model of quantum computation which in its original form is known to be efficiently classically simulable. A team of researchers showed that, when initialized with suitable input states, […]
Securing a wireless link with MDI-QKD
Relying in part on techniques used to sharpen up images from ground-based telescopes, researchers in China have implemented a type of secure quantum communications protocol—known as measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution (MDI-QKD)—across a wireless link connecting […]
Quantum Personality of the Year – Nominee: Itamar Sivan
Itamar Sivan, CEO of Israeli quantum startup Quantum Machines, is the second nominee of the ‘Quantum Personality of the Year 2020’. He has co-founded his company in 2018, just after having created WISe – the Weizmann […]
Quantum teleportation with 90% accuracy over 44 km
Researchers at California Institute of Technology have achieved conditional quantum teleportation of time-bin qubits at the telecommunication wavelength of 1536.5 nm. They measured teleportation fidelities of ≥ 90% that are consistent with an analytical model […]
Variational Quantum Algorithms Review
A team of researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Google has reviewed the state of the art of Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs). Applications such as simulating large quantum systems or solving large-scale linear algebra […]