Quantum News

27 Mar 2024: While gen AI has captured the attention of virtually every CIO, quantum computing is priming to take center stage.

27 Mar 2024: Last year, IBM demonstrated that quantum computers had entered the era of utility, where they are now capable of running quantum circuits better than classical computers can. Over the next few years, they expect to find speedups over classical computing and extract business value from these systems.

18 Mar 2024: NVIDIA today launched a cloud service that allows researchers and developers to push the boundaries of quantum computing exploration in key scientific domains, including chemistry, biology and materials science. NVIDIA has more than 160 partners in its quantum computing ecosystem. Leading cloud service providers are integrating Quantum Cloud into their offerings, including Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud To learn more about NVIDIA Quantum Cloud, watch the GTC keynote from Jensen Huang, and register for GTC for free to attend sessions from NVIDIA and industry leaders through March 21.

18 Mar 2024:

The researchers have successfully created a large-scale array of optical tweezers that can trap over 6,100 neutral atoms across 12,000 sites, achieving new heights in several critical performance metrics for this technology.

They demonstrated:

• A coherence time of 12.6 seconds, a record for hyperfine qubits in an optical tweezer array.
• Trapping lifetimes close to 23 minutes in a room-temperature apparatus, enabling record-high
• Imaging survival of 99.98952% in combination with an imaging fidelity of over 99.99%.

Their results, together with other recent developments, indicate that universal quantum computing with ten thousand atomic qubits could be a near-term prospect. Furthermore, their work could pave the way for quantum simulation and metrology experiments with inherent single particle readout and positioning capabilities at a similar scale.

11 Mar 2024:

Tuta Mail has announced TutaCrypt, a new post-quantum encryption protocol to secure communications from powerful and anticipated decryption attacks.

TutaCrypt combines CRYSTALS-Kyber (Also used in QRL Zond) for post-quantum key encapsulation and X25519 for the Elliptic-Curve-Diffie-Hellmann key exchange.

11 Mar 2024: JILA breakthrough in integrating artificial atoms with photonic circuits advances quantum computing efficiency and scalability. Historically, there have been problems with integrating artificial atoms with photonic circuits. This is because creating the artificial atoms (where atoms are knocked out of a diamond crystal) is a very random process, leading to random placement of the artificial atoms, random number of artificial atoms at each location, and random color each artificial atom emits.

04 Mar 2024: Google and the XPRIZE Foundation are launching a three-year competition to encourage researchers to develop new quantum algorithms that could have practical real-world applications. While current quantum computers excel at certain abstract mathematical problems, this challenge aims to bridge the gap between these theoretical advancements and their practical utility, focusing on potential applications like improving battery storage capacity without necessarily requiring a working solution.

27 Feb 2024: Apple has implemented a new post-quantum cryptographic protocol, PQ3, to iMessage, aiming to protect against potential quantum computing threats that could break current encryption methods. This protocol, which combines with the existing Elliptic Curve Cryptography, introduces a hybrid model to ensure robust protection against both current and future quantum attacks. PQ3 features innovations like periodic rekeying to enhance security further, making it one of the most secure at-scale messaging protocols available.

26 Feb 2024: Google DeepMind taps the power of its AI to accelerate quantum computers In new research, Google DeepMind has demonstrated that its AI can help accelerate the development of quantum computers — taking one step further in combining two of the most disruptive technologies. DeepMind worked together with UK-based Quantinuum to solve a key challenge in fault-tolerant quantum computers: reducing the number of T gates.

24 Feb 2024: Russian scientists have successfully developed a 20-qubit quantum computer and aim to increase this number to between 50 and 100 qubits by the end of 2024. This development signifies a significant advancement in Russia’s quantum computing capabilities, surpassing their previous 16-qubit ion-based quantum computer. The initiative is part of a broader, ambitious roadmap to enhance their quantum computing technology, with potential applications ranging from drug discovery to logistics optimization