Nathan’s Quantum Tech Newsletter: №16
This is what I’ve seen in quantum tech in the last month:
00 🗞 Tech News
01 📰 Research Highlights
10 🎲 Bonus Links
00 🗞 Tech News
IonQ, a quantum computing startup based in Maryland, USA, for the first time released information on its quantum computer roadmap. While using trapped ions allows some inherent benefits and advantages over other approaches, namely in connectivity and scale-up design, some details of the expected announcement were impressive. Link
The National Quantum Initiative Act became a law of the USA as President Donald Trump signed the bill. Link
Amazon Web Services formally entered the quantum computing space. It hired Simone Severini, a theoretical physicist previously based at University College London, in order to lead its quantum machine learning group in Seattle. Link
IBM researchers released QISKit Aer, the fifth element of its open-source toolbox that allows researchers to simulate quantum circuits with realistic noise models. Link
The first Israeli startup in quantum computing, Quantum Machines, announced a funding round of $5.5 mln. From the founders’ background, it is possible that the technology is based on superconducting circuits. Link
An informative ‘tweetstorm’ on the Quantum for Business conference recently held in Mountain View, CA, and John Preskill’s slides. Link1 Link2
Similarly to IBM, Microsoft announced the establishment of partnerships with a batch of quantum computing startups. Link
Singapore-based neuri.ai is just the latest startup to claim the use of quantum computing into their AI. Cool website, unsure of the claims. Link
The National Science Foundation has opened a call for grants on technology transfer in quantum technologies. Link
01 📰 Research Highlights
A special issue of PLOS One, a multi-disciplinary open-access research journal, is focused on quantum software. It contains the first review of open-source quantum computing software. Link1 Link2
Atomic clock performance enabling geodesy below the centimeter level. Link
Quantum control of surface acoustic-wave phonons. Link
Experimental optical phase measurement approaching the exact Heisenberg limit. Link
8 GBit/s real-time quantum random number generator with non-iid samples. Link
Using a recurrent neural network to reconstruct quantum dynamics of a superconducting qubit from physical observations. Link
Quantum neural networks to simulate many-body quantum systems. Link
Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm: Performance, mechanism, and implementation on near-term devices. Link
Simulating quantum field theory with a quantum computer. Link
Classifying snapshots of the doped Hubbard model with machine learning. Link
Validating quantum computers using randomized model circuits. Link
Nanomechanical single-photon routing. Link
Transmission of photonic polarization states through 55-meter water: Towards air-to-sea quantum communication. Link
Superfluorescence from lead halide perovskite quantum dot superlattices. Link
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A map of the patent landscape of quantum technologies. Link
An essay by Michael Nielsen: In what sense is quantum computing a science? Link
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