Quantum Converse → Weekly #1

Hello World! This is the first publication for Quantum Converse Weekly & I’m excited to bring you the best of this week’s updates. You should definitely sign-up for the newsletter at: http://eepurl.com/hdqSGb; in order to receive future publications directly in your mailbox.

Observations & Measurements (What’s New)

• Xanadu recently launched it’s cloud based photonic quantum computing platform:
  https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/xanadu-releases-world-s-first-photonic-quantum-computer-in-the-cloud-818969456.html

The Breakthrough Junior Challenge, a short video competition for high school students, in which they have to explain a physics, life sciences or mathematics related scientific idea has generated some really good student submissions:

• This 3-min video by a 17 year old student, explaining how multi-particle Qubits could be the key to stabilizing quantum computers in noisy environments:
  https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1094186587644525
• This 3-min video by another 17 year old student, explaining Quantum Computing & Qubits in a very simple manner:
  https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=392729595048562

Some Superposition(Tutorials)

• Quantum Computing for the very curious:
  https://quantum.country/qcvc
• A brilliant follow-up to Quantum Computing for the very curious by Jackson Kelley (It’s a 2 part video series):
  (Part 1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yypx-iHp17s
  (Part 2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-GMRd8eHas

It’s Certain (Open Source)

• Someone wrote the Bernstein-Vazirani Algorithm in QisKit — you can run it on a IBM Quantum Computer or in your QASM simulator offline. I haven’t checked it out myself, but you definitely should:
  https://github.com/theheavygluon/berVaz

Get Entangled (Jobs & Offers)

• The QOSF (Quantum Open Source Foundation) Mentorship Program’s applications were supposed to be done by September 13th, 2020; but the form still seems to be available:
  https://qosf.org/qc_mentorship/
  Try out your luck, maybe you’d still get in for an interesting project.
• IBM is taking applications for it’s Summer 2021 Quantum Internships; the 2020 cohort just ended & we have high hopes for the 2021 batch, interested students should apply at:
  https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2020/09/2021-ibmquantum-internships/

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