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Quantum error correction is a set of techniques used in quantum computing to protect quantum information from errors caused by decoherence and other quantum noise. It involves encoding quantum data in a way that allows for the detection and correction of errors, ensuring reliable computation.
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Today’s Brief Commentary: Today, we have two links to recent videocasts with me, three regarding post-quantum cryptography, and two for quantum computing. Each of the latter two categories includes variations of quantum hype. The first, from WIRED, is of the flavor “quantum computing is going to demolish classical security, and there will be an apocalypse.”…
Today’s Brief Commentary: I’m pushing this newsletter out on a Sunday because two big industry events are coming up this week. The first is the NVIDIA GTC AI conference in San Jose, California. It runs from Monday the 17st through Friday the 21st. Of note at the GTC are the Quantum Day Conference Sessions on…
Today’s Brief Commentary: It was a busy week in the quantum realm, with IonQ releasing Q4 2024 and FY 2024 earnings and getting a new CEO, and Amazon Web Services/ CalTech announcing a cat qubit prototype quantum processing unit. I really, really like that they called it a prototype. “Here, look what we did. It’s…
Today’s Brief Commentary: If you haven’t seen it, my commentary about quantum computing vendors and the trust they must nurture among the public, customers, and users is available on Substack. This is looking to be a busy week for quantum computing, and it is only Wednesday morning as I write this. IonQ announces earnings after…
Today’s Brief Commentary: Today, I am directing my remarks toward quantum computing companies, particularly small ones. Many of your websites need work. Here are a few suggestions: Be explicit about your quantum computing modality and paradigm. For example: “We implement the digital paradigm using neutral atom qubits.” Say you support specific quantum software development kit…
Today’s Brief Commentary: This week’s big news is that QuEra finally announced its large funding round. They telegraphed this last year by letting people know that Google had given them “a boatload of cash.” Okay, I made that quote up, but the final amount of $230 M from all investors is impressive. Congratulations to the…
Today’s Brief Commentary The word of the day is: Quantum Error Correction (QEC) and Fault Tolerance Okay, maybe that’s longer than one word. The more I dug into the latest quantum news and articles, the more QEC kept coming up. Let’s look at the question, “How should we change our approach to QEC when we…
Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. Today’s Brief Commentary While it sometimes seems that everyone who has heard the term “AI” has started their own Substack newsletter on the topic, we are not quite there with quantum computing. Nevertheless, we appear to be gaining at least…
Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. Today’s Brief Commentary Someone once said to me, and I paraphrase, “Beware of giving analogies when speaking about quantum computing. They will eventually go wrong, especially when comparing concepts to classical phenomena.” Many of us who write and speak about…
Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. Today’s Brief Commentary Plastic glass. Jumbo shrimp. Open secret. These are all examples of oxymorons, phrases whose first halves seem to be the opposite of the second. I read another one over the weekend: Quantum computing classical hardware. To be…
Today’s Brief Commentary I’m writing this on the afternoon of December 10, the first full day of Q2B Silicon Valley in Santa Clara. Today’s news links have a few items from last week, more world leadership, which I have highlighted, and important news from Infleqtion/NVIDIA and Google. Infleqtion has now demonstrated logical qubits via NVIDIA’s…
Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. Today’s Brief Commentary This is my last round-up of news and articles about quantum technologies before the Q2B Silicon Valley conference in Santa Clara, California, next week, December 10–12. Several companies, including Equal1 and Alice & Bob, squeezed in announcements…
Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. Today’s Brief Commentary Ahead of my talk at Q2B Silicon Valley on December 12 and an Analyst Insight article for The Futurum Group, I’ve been looking at companies around the world who claim to be creating quantum processing units (QPUs)….
Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. Today’s Brief Commentary We’ve entered the end-of-year quantum lull period, though we are between the SC24 conference last week and the Q2B Silicon Valley conference during the second week of December. In the United States, the Thanksgiving holiday is Thursday,…
Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. Today’s Brief Commentary The Supercomputing SC24 conference is this week in Atlanta, so many quantum computing vendors used the occasion to make announcements. That’s why the Quantum Computing section in this newsletter is longer than usual. The superconducting modality is…
Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. Today’s Brief Commentary IBM had a lot of news this week on the occasion of their first Quantum Developer Conference held at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. The lab is about 35 miles…
Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. Today’s Brief Commentary Today’s links are primarily about quantum computing, with a couple of others thrown in about a quantum game and quantum networking. Start paying attention to the Imec company for quantum-related technology. It shows up twice in the…
Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. Today’s Brief Commentary Today’s links include three to press releases for planned Q3 2024 earnings reports for D-Wave, IonQ, and Rigetti Computing. All have announced deals this quarter and some interesting results. The big news was the US Air Force…
Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. Today’s Brief Commentary I tweaked today’s edition’s title to insert the word “useful.” After all, we want our computing systems, classical or quantum, to be useful, don’t we? Most of today’s quantum computers are deployed for research, experimentation, and education….
Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. Today, we look at quantum sensing and communication, material simulation, and continuous-variable approaches for analog quantum computing. Today’s Brief Commentary Here’s a story idea for journalists: Given the gate-and-circuit “digital” model of hashtag#quantumcomputing, ask vendors two things about their eventual…