TQI QuickBits: Quantum Community Building, Will Quantum Crack Classical? And More Quantum News
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The new year is off to an impressive research start.
Israel is putting about $32 million (US) more into that nation's quantum computer project. Those funds are driving research into two modalities specifically -- superconducting and trapped ion -- and, ultimately, Israel hopes to have their own quantum computer in a few years.
The companies involved in the effort are some of Israel's research and quantum leaders: IAI Group's Elta Systems division, Quantum Art, Classiq, Qedma and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, CTech reports.
Speaking of ecosystems -- please check out James Dargan 's overview of Canada's quantum community.
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Quantum Quotes
Israel is a research leader in the Middle East quantum ecosystem -- and investing to become a world leader. The country announced more funding for a project to build a quantum computer -- one that Israeli quantum experts believe could change the world.
“The quantum computer will fundamentally change the world we live in, in a similar scale and perhaps with greater intensity than the changes that arose from the introduction of computers into our daily lives over the past fifty years. Quantum computers are of the utmost importance to the State of Israel's resilience and the ability of the Israeli economy to continue its growth.” -- Dr. Ami Appelbaum, Chairman of the Innovation Authority.
The OpenSuperQ project is an initiative that includes ten international partners from academia and industry involved in the European FET Flagship project. The goal of the project is to design, build and operate a quantum information processing system of up to 100 qubits and sustainably making it available at a central site for external user.
“In the OpenSuperQ project, the great opportunity is that we have the best minds and the best researchers of Europe working together towards a common goal. We have a team of researchers building a quantum computer based on superconducting integrated circuits that are large enough to outperform classical computers at least in some tasks. So, in such a collaborative project, different kinds of organizations come together." -- Wilhem-Mauch, OpenSuperQ’s Coordinator and Professor of Quantum and Solid State Theory at Saarland University.
Quick Looks
Governments around the world understand the importance of nurturing quantum startups. These governments form institutes and consortia to distribute funding and bolster these ecosystems. Unfortunately, this increasingly bifurcating network is incredibly complicated to understand and track. The Quantum Insider's Intelligence Platform offers sensible mapping of these networks for funders, investors, entrepreneurs and others interested in the quantum ecosystem. Here's a quick look at the Israel Innovation Authority, mentioned above.
Quantum Papers
Although TQI reported last week on Chinese research team's study that revealed an algorithm that could potentially give late NISQ-era quantum computers the ability to crack common cryptographic schemes, the study is making a big stir this week. Some of the reactions seem overblown, some of the skeptical reactions seem to discount the implications a little too much. So. Kind of typical for the research community.
Here's the paper this story is based on: Factoring integers with sublinear resources on a superconducting quantum processor. The team included scientists from State Key Laboratory of Mathematical Engineering and Advanced Computing, Tsinghua University,?Zhejiang University,?Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences,?Information Engineering University and?Frontier Science Center for Quantum Information.
Quantum Books
As I put together the whole 2022-in-review thing, I began to see patterns of convergence in deep tech. Quantum Biology. Quantum AI. VR for space exploration. Climate-Space-And-Quantum Computing. Etc.
Turns out, that Convergence: Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Computing: Social, Economic, and Policy Impacts is examining emerging convergence in depth, specifically the quantum-AI connection. The book features Greg Viggiano, PhD PMP and noted science fiction writer David Brin as editors.
Alexander Butler -- of the Hudson Institute 's Quantum Alliance Initiative and a friend of TQI -- is also one of the contributors.
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QuickBits
After a quick launch and rapid ascent in 2021, the quantum industry may not have reached the heights of investment in 2022. However, in many respects, the industry showed hints of maturity and offered signs that this frontier technology is earning respect from both the scientific and business communities.
Chinese quantum computer developers and scientists may now have access to a laser annealer to increase production of quality quantum chips, according to Global News. The news outlet, based on Chinese media reports, said that engineers have developed the country’s first MLLAS-100 laser annealer, which will help solve instability and increase production quality as quantum bit numbers increase.
University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering researchers received a $450,000 grant from the Air Force Research Laboratory to develop a quantum-inspired computing program to study turbulence.
Canada is one of the leading countries when it comes to research and the commercial aspects of quantum computing (QC).
The precise control of micro-mechanical oscillators is fundamental to many contemporary technologies, from sensing and timing to radio frequency filters in smartphones. Over the past decade, quantum control of mechanical systems has been firmly established with atoms, molecules, and ions in the first wave of development and superconducting circuits in the second quantum revolution.
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2 年Regarding the factorization paper: see Scott Aaronson’s response https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=6957