Tokyo, March 17, 2022 – NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) has developed the world’s first LHZ scheme (*1) unit cell facilitating scaling up to a fully-connected architecture using superconducting parametron (*2) quantum bits (qubits). NEC has succeeded in demonstrating quantum annealing operations using these qubits, which will enable high accuracy calculations. Via this achievement, NEC has made […]
NEC: First Unit Cell for Scaling up to a Fully-connected Quantum Annealing Architecture
March 17, 2022 by
D-Wave, CaixaBank Group Collaborate on Quantum for Finance Industry
March 3, 2022 by
Valencia, Spain and Burnaby, BC, Canada – March 3, 2022 – CaixaBank, a financial group in Spain, and D-Wave Systems Inc., a quantum computing systems, software and services company, today announced the business results for two significant financial quantum hybrid computing applications for investment portfolio optimization and investment hedging calculation. The quantum hybrid applications have […]
Toshiba, JPMorgan Chase, Ciena Announce Quantum-secure Network for Blockchain
February 17, 2022 by
Feb. 17, 2022 — JPMorgan Chase, Toshiba and networking systems company Ciena announced today they have demonstrated a viable quantum key distribution (QKD) network for metropolitan areas that is resistant to quantum computing attacks and capable of supporting 800 Gbps data rates. “The research team demonstrated the ability of the newly developed QKD network to […]
Sandia ML Model Shows Diamond Melting at High Pressure
January 27, 2022 by
ALBUQUERQUE, Jan. 26, 2022 — A Sandia National Laboratories supercomputer simulation model called SNAP that rapidly predicts the behavior of billions of interacting atoms has captured the melting of diamond when compressed by extreme pressures and temperatures. At several million atmospheres, the rigid carbon lattice of the hardest known substance on Earth is shown in SNAP […]
@HPCpodcast: The Recent Rush of Quantum News – Tech Advances, Partnerships, Investments
January 27, 2022 by
A recent rush of quantum news is the topic of the latest episode of @HPCpodcast, including the melding of quantum and desktop computing, quantum error correction (a problem that not long ago led to assertions that quantum “will never work”), quantum investment, M&A and partnerships, and the connection between quantum computing and HPC.
Cambridge Quantum Releases Quantum NLP Toolkit and Library
October 13, 2021 by
CAMBRIDGE, UK — Cambridge Quantum today announced the release of what it said is the world’s first toolkit and library for Quantum Natural Language Processing (QNLP). The toolkit is called lambeq, named after the late mathematician and linguist Joachim Lambek. CQ said lambeq converts sentences into a quantum circuit and is designed to accelerate the development […]
Quantum Company Rigetti Computing to Go Public via SPAC
October 6, 2021 by
BERKELEY, Calif. — Oct. 6, 2021 — Rigetti & Co., Inc. (“Rigetti”), a pioneer in full-stack quantum computing, announced today it has entered into a definitive merger agreement with Supernova Partners Acquisition Company II, Ltd. (“Supernova II”) (NYSE:SNII), a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company. When the transaction closes, the publicly traded company will be named Rigetti […]
NSF Funds $1.8M for Univ. of Michigan Research for Room Temperature, Controllable Quantum Nanomaterials
September 29, 2021 by
An effort to create quantum semiconductors that operate at room temperature has been awarded $1.8 million by the National Science Foundation. The success of the University of Michigan team could lead to the integration of quantum information and communications technologies with conventional computers—as well as advances in high-precision sensing and more sustainable UV lamps for […]
Arqit and Juniper Networks in Alliance to Address Quantum Security Threats to Networks
September 15, 2021 by
London – September 15, 2021 – Arqit Quantum Inc. (“Arqit”), developer of quantum encryption technology and Juniper Networks, maker of AI-driven networks, have signed a ‘Technology Alliance Partner Connect’ agreement to explore network security technology that will protect against quantum security threats. Cyber-attackers regularly target networks to disrupt business operations. Arqit and Juniper will explore how network […]
$61M Awarded by DOE for Quantum Information Science Research
August 19, 2021 by
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $61 million in funding awarded to infrastructure and research projects to advance quantum information science (QIS). The selected projects include: Strengthening U.S. competitiveness in QIS: Awards to five DOE Nanoscale Science Research Centers (NSRC) will support the development of cutting-edge infrastructure and capabilities for nanoscience-based research to strengthen America’s competitiveness in QIS to enable […]
