Quantum – Thursday, February 13, 2025: Commentary with Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

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…

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Quantum – Tuesday, December 17, 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 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…

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Quantum – Tuesday, December 10, 2024: Commentary with Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

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…

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Quantum – Monday, December 2, 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 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)….

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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 – Tuesday, October 15, 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 Merging Atomic Clocks with Quantum Computers – www.caltech.edu https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/merging-atomic-clocks-with-quantum-computers Author: Whitney Clavin (Wednesday, October 9, 2024) “Now, as reported in the journal Nature, a Caltech team led by Professor of Physics Manuel Endres has developed a new…

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Quantum – Tuesday, September 03, 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. Quantum compass could soon make GPS-Free navigation a reality – Electronic Products & TechnologyElectronic Products & Technology https://www.ept.ca/2024/08/quantum-compass-could-soon-make-gps-free-navigation-a-reality/ (Thursday, August 22, 2024) “A milestone in quantum sensing is drawing closer, promising greater accuracy” 2. Quantum Network…

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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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