Quantum – Wednesday, February 19, 2025: Commentary with Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

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…

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Quantum – Wednesday, February 5, 2025: Commentary with Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

Today’s Brief Commentary: At the Inside Quantum Technologies Quantum + AI conference in October, I gave the talk “Quantum AI: A Quantum Computing Industry Perspective.” In it, I included the following slide:   Now, I was joking, sort of, but this notion of combining the two technologies is not new. While I was at IBM…

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Quantum – Friday, January 24, 2025: Commentary with Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. Today’s Brief Commentary This last week has been the first of 2025 when the stock prices for public quantum companies have not dominated discussions. That topic is not going away, but we are beginning to see more announcements of solid…

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Quantum – Monday, November 25, 2024: Commentary with Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

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,…

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Quantum – Wednesday, November 20, 2024: Commentary with Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

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…

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Quantum – Friday, November 15, 2024: Commentary with Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

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…

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Quantum + AI Together – Saturday, October 26, 2024: Commentary with Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. Today’s Brief Commentary I’m speaking on Tuesday, October 29, at the Inside Quantum Technology Quantum+AI conference in New York City. The title is “Quantum AI: A Quantum Computing Industry Perspective.” On the occasion of this event, today’s edition of the…

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Quantum – Friday, October 4, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. Today’s collection has a special focus on quantum networking and communication, plus some teleportation and error correction. General News, Articles, and Analyses Quantinuum achieves moonshot years ahead of schedule, demonstrating fault-tolerant high-fidelity teleportation of a logical qubit https://www.quantinuum.com/blog/quantinuum-achieves-moonshot-years-ahead-of-schedule-demonstrating-fault-tolerant-high-fidelity-teleportation-of-a-logical-qubit (Friday, September 20, 2024)…

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Quantum – Monday, September 23, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. General News, Articles, and Analyses Data Centers Getting Secure Connections via Quantum | AI Business https://aibusiness.com/cybersecurity/data-centers-getting-secure-connections-via-quantum Author: Berenice Baker (Tuesday, September 17, 2024) “BT Group, Equinix and Toshiba have announced plans to provide quantum secure connectivity between Equinix data centers in London…

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Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) – Thursday, September 19, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC). General News, Articles, and Analyses Post-Quantum Cryptography Coalition Publishes Comparison of International PQC Standards https://www.mitre.org/news-insights/news-release/post-quantum-cryptography-comparison-international-pqc-standards Author: MITRE (Thursday, September 5, 2024) “The coalition surveyed international regulatory bodies that are defining the quantum-resistance requirements to be followed by technology vendors used…

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Quantum – Tuesday, September 10, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. General News, Articles, and Analyses 1. Neutral atom innovations by quantum systems accelerator mark quantum computing milestones https://phys.org/news/2024-09-neutral-atom-quantum-milestones.html Author: Keri Troutman (Friday, September 6, 2024) “Before quantum computers can solve complex problems, researchers must develop technologies that manage larger numbers of qubits…

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Quantum – Monday, August 26, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. General News, Articles, and Analyses IBM’s Quantum-Centric Supercomputing Vision Is Coming – IEEE Spectrum https://spectrum.ieee.org/ibm-quantum-computer-2668978269 Authors: Ryan Mandelbaum; Antonio D. Corcoles; and Jay Gambetta (Wednesday, August 21, 2024) “For decades, quantum computers have struggled to reach commercial viability. The quantum behaviors that…

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Quantum – Thursday, August 22, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. News, Articles, and Analyses IonQ – IonQ Delivers First Overseas Ion Trap to Switzerland, Progressing Development of Quantum Innovation Hub for EMEA https://investors.ionq.com/news/news-details/2024/IonQ-Delivers-First-Overseas-Ion-Trap-to-Switzerland-Progressing-Development-of-Quantum-Innovation-Hub-for-EMEA/default.aspx (Tuesday, August 13, 2024) “IonQ (NYSE: IONQ), a leader in the quantum computing industry, today announced the delivery of…

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Quantum – Monday, August 05, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about quantum computing. News, Articles, and Analyses Testing spooky action at a distance | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology https://news.mit.edu/2024/testing-spooky-action-distance-0731 Author: School of Engineering | Department of Mathematics | Department of Physics | Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Wednesday, July…

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Dr. Bob Sutor on the Economist Impact: Commercializing Quantum Panel “What Is the True Near-Term Commercial Promise of Quantum for the Major Industry Verticals?”

Understanding the scope of the opportunity for quantum to generate value across key sectors. What key use cases offer the greatest near-term return and how well do we understand them? Is cross-industry collaboration the key to commercialisation? Moderator: Tamzin Booth, Partner, Brunswick Group Thierry Botter, Executive director, European Quantum Industry Consortium (QuIC) Dave Fleming, Executive…

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