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This has been a great week to process all the news from last week -- and, for some of us, it serves as a nice pivot toward the holidays.
At the end of the year, we like to take stock of our accomplishments, put our challenges in perspective and prepare for opportunities that present themselves in the new year.
I sense the whole quantum community might be doing this with me. We have certainly had our challenges. This year's investment climate was a bit on the dry side and probably added more stress to the already incredibly stressful job as a deep-tech founder or staffer. But, as for accomplishments, the research advances have been -- with full knowledge I am using a loaded term -- historic.
I expect 2024 to be much of the up-and-down roller coaster -- Qoaster? -- ride, but, in the decades or so experience I have in covering science and technology, I have never had the confidence in an industry quite like I do in the people of quantum.
Looking forward to the ride.
Speaking of ride -- I'll pause here for you to take in this amazing segue -- Airbus and 宝马 's Quantum Computing Challenge want to tap into that can-do quantum spirit to solve the challenges facing the aviation and automotive industries with The Quantum?Mobility Quest.
You can learn more about it here.
Have a great weekend!
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Quantum Quotes
Rigetti Computing announced the launch of its Novera? QPU, a 9-qubit quantum processing unit (QPU) based on the Company’s fourth generation Ankaa?-class architecture. It's an important step for the company and the industry.
“With the launch of the Novera QPU, quantum computing professionals and students can now have on-premise access to years of Rigetti’s internal R&D within a matter of weeks. Rigetti has been pioneering full-stack quantum computing technology for 10 years. This is an exciting moment for us to equip the quantum computing ecosystem with the same caliber of hardware and engineering that we use on our most powerful QPUs.” -- David Rivas, Rigetti CTO.
In a meeting at the intersection of science and religion, the Pontifical Academy of Sciences hosted a three-day workshop on quantum technology. The workshop attracted leading researchers in the field to the Vatican and served as a between the realms of advanced scientific inquiry and ethical considerations.
“We normally talk about this revolution in a scientific and technical sense. We call it a revolution because it concerns certain aspects of quantum mechanics, such as entanglement. This is a quantum effect that is considered paradoxical, that is, it is one of the things that Einstein considered completely impossible and that could not be part of a scientific theory. And now we don’t see them as problems or as philosophical problems, but we see them as resources, in the sense of how we can create them measurably, how we can manipulate them and how we can use them to build better sensors, better computers and so on." -- Dr. Antia Lamas-Linares, who leads the Center for Quantum Networking at Amazon Web Services (AWS) via Vatican News
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QuickBits Spotlight
Rigetti Computing , a pioneer in full-stack quantum-classical computing, announced the launch of its Novera? QPU, a 9-qubit quantum processing unit (QPU) based on the Company’s fourth generation Ankaa?-class architecture featuring tunable couplers and a square lattice for denser connectivity and fast 2-qubit operations. The Novera QPU is manufactured in Rigetti’s Fab-1, the industry’s first dedicated and integrated quantum device manufacturing facility.
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With the upcoming installation of its first quantum computer, Goethe-Universit?t Frankfurt will join the list the leading German universities in the field of applied quantum computing: Based on the technology of nitrogen vacancies in a synthetic diamond, Frankfurt’s first quantum computer, named “Baby Diamond”, will start as a pilot system with five qubits. Ulm-based start-up XeedQ is scheduled to deliver the device in the first quarter of 2024, with initial pilot users expected to come from Goethe University Frankfurt and the National High Performance Computing NHR Alliance.
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QNu Labs has successfully closed a $6.5 million funding round in its Pre-Series A1, according to a press release and sources in India.
The round was led by Ashish Kacholia of Lucky Investments, along with Speciale Invest and a unnamed family fund. Company officials said that the newly acquired capital will help fuel the company’s growth phase, focusing on enhancing its quantum technology solutions. The Times of India reports the company will specifically use funds to advance R&D, expand its customer base in Europe and the U.S. and building partnerships for satellite-based Quantum Key Distribution technology.
Classiq Technologies , a leading quantum software company, and Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC) (OQC), a pioneering quantum computing hardware company, announced a partnership that aims to make advanced quantum computing more accessible and streamlined for users across research and industry. Classiq provides an end-to-end quantum software platform that automates the process of developing quantum software and executing it on quantum processors.
A Chinese quantum computing company reportedly notched its first delivery of a domestically developed superconducting quantum chip to a scientific research institute in the Middle East, according to Chinese state media and the South China Morning Post.
More than just a sale, Chinese officials are touting this event as a pivotal moment in China’s growing influence in the quantum computing sector.
The quantum chip was developed by SpinQ Technology Inc. , a leading company based in the technological hub of Shenzhen. Details on the sale to the research institute remain undisclosed.
QuickBits Research
Physicists have made the first step towards building quantum computers out of individual molecules trapped with laser devices called optical tweezers. Two teams report their results in Science in both cases making pairs of calcium monofluoride molecules interact so that they became entangled?—?a crucial effect for quantum computing.
Researchers at @the University of Sydney Nano Institute have invented a compact silicon semiconductor chip that integrates electronics with photonic, or light, components. The new technology significantly expands radio-frequency (RF) bandwidth and the ability to accurately control information flowing through the unit.
A nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center is a defect in the crystal structure of diamond, where a nitrogen atom replaces a carbon atom in the diamond lattice and a neighboring site in the lattice is vacant. This and other fluorescent defects in diamond, known as color centers, have attracted researchers’ attention owing to their quantum properties, such as single-photon emission at room temperature and with long coherence time. Their many applications include quantum information encoding and processing, and cell marking in biological studies.
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