Nathan’s Quantum Tech Newsletter: №21
This is what I’ve seen in quantum tech in the last two months:
00 🗞 Tech News
01 📰 Research Highlights
10 🎲 Bonus Links
00 🗞 Tech News
Xanadu raised $ 32 mln in a Series A funding round led by OMERS Ventures. The Canadian startup is developing photonics-based quantum computing hardware and is very active on the open-source side of the software infrastructure, where it developed two popular libraries for quantum-computing simulation and quantum machine learning. It recently announced its cloud-based framework for quantum computing. Link
Other funding news:
- Alpine Quantum Technologies, the ion-based quantum computing spin-out of IQOQI in Innsbruck, obtained € 10 million in funding from national and regional institutional funding agencies.
- ProteinQure raised $ 4 million in funding to discover protein-based drugs. Link
- IQM, a spinout of the University of Aalto in Finland, secured a $ 13 million seed round mainly from Finnish investors. The startup develops hardware for superconducting circuit quantum computing. Link
- Crypta Labs, a London-based cybersecurity startup raises € 3 million from Bloc Ventures and Innovate UK. Link
- Rigetti Computing acquired QxBranch. Link
01 📰 Research Highlights
The Quantum Toolbox in Python new version has been released, QuTiP 4.4. Link
Quantum computers as universal quantum simulators: state-of-art and perspectives. Link
Rydberg atom quantum technologies, a topical review. Link
A two-qubit gate between phosphorus donor electrons in silicon. Link
Experimental verification of five-qubit quantum error correction with superconducting qubits. Link
Quantum Metrology with Strongly Interacting Spin Systems. Link
Experimental dissipative quantum sensing. Link
The Capacity of Quantum Neural Networks. Link
Split-ring polariton condensates as macroscopic two-level quantum systems. Link
Cavity QED Based on Thermal Atoms Interacting with a Photonic Crystal Cavity: A Feasibility Study. Link
10 🎲 Bonus Links
Primo Levi and the other periodic table — by Phillip Ball. Link
Quantum Supremacy Is Coming: Here’s What You Should Know. Link
Quantum Games: Introducing Quantum TiqTaqToe. Link
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