Nathan’s Quantum Tech Newsletter: №18

Nathan Shammah
Quantum Tech
Published in
2 min readApr 18, 2019
Adapted from Y. Nam et al., “Ground-state energy estimation of the water molecule on a trapped ion quantum computer”. Link

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
Lightmatter, a startup from MIT received $22 mln in additional funding in a round led by GV. Link

Talks from the Quantum to Business conference (Q2B): A video on how Qiskit, IBM open source library works, from transforming high level commands into reformatting them for the compiler, down to eventually opening pulse controls. Link

IBM is hosting an extended workshop about its library ecosystem. Link

Videos on Google research at Q2B: How the lab works and information about Google’s base open-source layer, Cirq. Link1 Link2

Videos from an open source conference, FOSDEM 2019. Link

Rigetti Computing open sources cloud services and interacts with a wider community. Link

MIT & Lincoln Labs, as well as Stanford, announce new quantum engineering centers. Link1 Link2

Advanced LIGO Plus will employ squeezed light to detect gravitational waves, expected upgrade by 2024. Link

01 📰 Research Highlights
Ground-state energy estimation of the water molecule on a trapped ion quantum computer. Link

Quantum gate teleportation between separated zones of a trapped-ion processor. Link

Super-resolution with quantum light. Link

Continuous symmetries and approximate quantum error correction. Link

Quantum Language Processing. Link

Waveguide-coupled single collective excitation of atomic arrays. Link

Detecting itinerant microwave photons with engineered non-linear dissipation. Link

Improved Fault-Tolerant Quantum Simulation of Condensed-Phase Correlated Electrons via Trotterization. Link

Theory of coupled parametric oscillators beyond coupled Ising spins. Link

Smart contracts meet quantum cryptography. Link

Quantum Entanglement in Deep Learning Architectures. Link

Neural-networks for dissipative many-body quantum systems. Link

Factoring semi-primes with (quantum) SAT-solvers. Link

Lidar: Lecture notes on open quantum systems. Link

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“Make your code count”: Quantum simulations and collaborative code development Introduction to QuTiP. Link

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