Researchers at ETH Zurich have designed the first programming language, Silq, that can be used to program quantum computers as simply, reliably and safely as classical computers. Silq is the very first high-level programming language […]
Xanadu and AQT announced that PennyLane, an open-source project from Xanadu for quantum machine learning, automatic differentiation, and optimization, now supports AQT quantum computers. Xanadu develops software for quantum machine learning (QML) and optimization. PennyLane, one […]
Researchers at EPFL and IBM Quantum present a quantum algorithm to compute the discrete Legendre-Fenchel Transform (LFT). Most currently known quantum algorithms use a few basic building blocks as subroutines. Examples of these building blocks […]
Researchers at University of Stuttgart has just published an interesting paper “The Bitter Truth About Quantum Algorithms in the NISQ Era“. Implementing a quantum algorithm on a NISQ device has several challenges that arise from […]
Engineers from JPMorgan have found a method to improve Grover’s algorithm. Their innovation leads to a performance improvement because it removes, “X gates from the inversion-by-the-mean step in the standard Grover iterate that is used […]
Researchers of Polish Beit Project have presented a novel quantum algorithm for solving the unstructured search problem with one marked element. Their algorithm allows generating quantum circuits that use asymptotically fewer additional quantum gates than […]
Researchers at Atos Quantum Lab, Ecole Polytechnique and Argonne National Laboratory demonstrated a recently introduced method that breaks a quantum circuit into smaller sub-circuits or fragments, and thus makes it possible to run circuits that […]
Be ready to add a new acronym to your quantum taxonomy: QCD aka Quantum Computer-aided Design. Researchers at Intel, MIT and University of Toronto, have addressed the question of how one can design and test […]
The impressive pace of advance of quantum technology calls for robust and scalable techniques for the characterization and validation of quantum hardware. Quantum process tomography, the reconstruction of an unknown quantum channel from measurement data, […]
Quantum computing systems need to be benchmarked in terms of practical tasks they would be expected to do. A team of researchers at Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC) and IBM has proposed “application-motivated” circuit classes for […]
Baidu announced Paddle Quantum, an open source machine learning toolkit designed to help data scientists train and develop AI within quantum computing applications. It’s built atop Baidu’s PaddlePaddle deep learning platform. Baidu claims it’s “more flexible” compared with other […]
A scientist, Dr Benjamin Brown, at the University of Sydney has developed a type of error-correcting code for quantum computers that will free up more hardware to do useful calculations and allow to design better […]
Microsoft has just announced Azure Quantum is now officially in preview with select customers and partners. Developers can take advantage of Azure Quantum stack and access diverse quantum software, hardware, and solutions from Microsoft and partners 1QBit, […]
Atos announced that it has sold its Atos Quantum Learning Machine (QLM), the world’s highest-performing commercially available quantum simulator, through its APAC distributor Intelligent Wave Inc. (IWI), in Japan. This is the first QLM that Atos […]
A consortium led by Cambridge-based quantum computing software developer Riverlane has been awarded a £7.6M grant from the government’s Industrial Challenge Strategy Fund to deploy a highly innovative quantum operating system. The project will deliver an operating […]
The Irish Centre for High-End Computing (ICHEC) which delivers complex compute solutions to Irish HEAs, Enterprises and the Public Sector on behalf of the State, announced that it is leading a novel quantum simulation project in collaboration […]
As the search continues for useful applications of noisy intermediate scale quantum devices, variational simulations of fermionic systems remain one of the most promising directions. A team at Google AI Quantum has performed a series […]
A team of researchers at Microsoft discovered a breakthrough in two common problems that have been open for over twenty years. Specifically, the team revisited the question of the largest possible quantum speedups for some important classes of […]
The team of researchers (including people from Q-CTRL) has studied a class of entangling gates for trapped atomic ions and demonstrated the use of numeric optimization techniques to create a wide range of fast, error-robust […]
Researchers at Leibniz Universität Hannover in Germany have recently developed quantum machine-learning algorithms that can be used to denoise quantum data. These algorithms could help to produce more reliable data using quantum clocks or other measurement tools […]
Singapore Management University (SMU) and Tradeteq will be embarking on a project which aims to develop quantum computing-based credit scoring methods for companies. SMU and Tradeteq’s objective for the project is to build a predictive […]
Zapata Computing, a startup software company for NISQ-based quantum applications, has just announced an Early Access Program to Orquestra™, its end-to-end platform for quantum-enabled workflows. Providing this software- and hardware-interoperable, enterprise quantum toolset, Orquestra enables advanced […]
CaixaBank has applied a hybrid computing framework — which combines quantum computing and conventional computing in different phases of the calculation process — to classify credit risk profiles. To do this, the bank used a […]
The problem of compiling general quantum algorithms for implementation on near-term quantum processors has been introduced to the AI community. Previous work demonstrated that temporal planning is an attractive approach for part of this compilation […]
Recently researchers demonstrated numerically that QAOA performance varies as a power law in the amount of noise under certain physical noise models. A team of scientists at NASA Ames Research Center and USRA Research Institute […]