QUANTUM NEWS AND UPDATES FROM China

22 Apr 2024: Chinese researchers have developed a quantum light source using gallium nitride (GaN), a semiconductor commonly used in blue LEDs. This innovation marks progress toward functional quantum chips by generating entangled light particles essential for quantum systems. The GaN-based device offers a wider wavelength range than existing sources, promising more efficient, easily integrated quantum chips for computing and other applications. Researchers foresee GaN enabling all-on-chip quantum photonic circuits.

11 Jan 2024:

A Chinese company has made a 72-qubit superconducting quantum chip with foreign machines as the United States’s curbs failed to slow China’s development in this area.

Origin Quantum, a Hefei-based quantum computer maker, on January 6 officially launched its third-generation quantum computer called Wukong, which uses the name of the Monkey King in Chinese mythology as the superhero can transform into 72 different forms.

06 Jun 2022: Japan has made key advancements in the quantum computer race, India has developed its own strategy for the technology, and debates are simmering over whether China has surpassed the U.S. on some fronts.