Nathan’s Quantum Tech Newsletter: №17
This is what I’ve seen in quantum tech in the last month, January 2019:
00 🗞 Tech News
01 📰 Research Highlights
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00 🗞 Tech News
At CES 2019, a yearly meeting in Las Vegas showcasing consumer technology products, IBM announced that it is now also beginning to sell their quantum computers. While this is clearly a marketing move, it departs from the cloud-access-only approach pursued so far. This article contains on of the most well-balanced analysis and comments on the issue. Link
Ford, the car company, is seeking to hire a quantum algorithms expert. More than information about the state of quantum computing application, this seems like a proxy of how corporate businesses are willing to add ‘quantum’ as a marketing feature in their R&D portfolio. Link
KETS, a UK cybersecurity startup raised £2 mln in funding, in a round led by Quantonation, a French venture fund specialized in deep-physics startups. Link
01 📰 Research Highlights
Quantum Chemistry in the Age of Quantum Computing. Link
A Photonic Majorana Bound State. Link
Decoherence benchmarking of superconducting qubits. Link
Strong coupling of light to collective Terahertz vibrations in organic materials. Link
Experimental quantum stochastic walks simulating associative memory of Hopfield neural networks. Link
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Shahnawaz Ahmed and I wrote a popular-science article for Nature’s physics blog on how open-source software is affecting research in quantum technology. Link
Roy J. Glauber, one of the fathers of quantum optics, recently passed away. He is remembered in this nice obituary in the New York Times. Link
“How I got a job in quantum computing”. Link
PBS Nova made a video documentary about a quantum communication experiment. Link
“How Space and Time Could Be a Quantum Error-Correcting Code” in Quanta. Link
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