Federal funding of $25 million has been awarded to semiconductor manufacturer GlobalFoundries and quantum development company PsiQuantum for quantum computing research and development. This funding, secured as a part of the recently passed Fiscal Year 2022 spending package, is intended to expand research conducted by the Air Force Research Laboratory in Rome, New York to […]
Quantum: CEA and C12 Partner for Multi-Qubits at Wafer Scale
March 24, 2022 by
GRENOBLE & PARIS – March 24, 2022 – CEA, the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, and C12 Quantum Electronics, a startup developing quantum computers using carbon nanotubes, today announced a partnership to produce the first multi-qubit chips at wafer scale. Building on the breakthrough of manufacturing quantum chips on 200mm silicon wafers using […]
Quantum Start-up Alice&Bob Raises Є27M; Claims Error Correction Breakthrough
March 10, 2022 by
PARIS, 10 March, 2022: — French quantum computing startup Alice&Bob today announced what it said is an advance towards the first marketable quantum computer. “In a major scientific breakthrough, Alice&Bob has eliminated one of the main barriers to, and significantly reduced the complexity of, delivering a functional quantum computer – a goal that could now […]
IonQ’s Barium Systems Demonstrate Qubit Readout Performance
March 3, 2022 by
COLLEGE PARK, MD – March 3, 2022 – Quantum computing company IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) today published results from its new barium-based quantum computer showing its state detection fidelity. The results reflect a 13x reduction in state preparation and measurement (SPAM) errors, a metric core to producing accurate and reliable quantum computers. On a per-qubit basis, […]
Riken Claims Quantum Breakthrough: Entanglement of Three Spin Qubits
September 17, 2021 by
Researchers at Japan’s RIKEN scientific research institute have claimed a breakthrough in quantum computing, increasing the number of silicon-based qubits that can be entangled to three from two, which they say improves the potential of spin qubits for realizing multi-qubit quantum algorithms and effectively addressing quantum error correction. Reporting recently in SciTechDaily, the five researchers […]
Seeqc’s Naples Team Claims 2-Qubit Gate Quantum Milestone
April 6, 2021 by
Naples, Italy–April 6, 2021– Digital quantum computing company Seeqc today announced its Naples team, lead by Marco Arzeo, Ph.D., has developed and measured a two-qubit gate. According to the organization, Seeqc’s is the first team in Italy and one of a few international quantum computing firms to achieve this critical engineering milestone. The two-qubit gate […]
New EU Consortium Launches 4-year Quantum Scaling Project
February 4, 2021 by
A European consortium has been launched with the goal of scaling silicon quantum technologies. Named QLSI (Quantum Large-Scale Integration with Silicon), it’s a four-year four-year, €15 million ($17.7 million) EU project coordinated by CEA-Leti, the Grenoble, France-based electronics and IT research institute, and it aims to lay the foundation for industrial-scale semiconductor quantum processors. The […]
Quantum Superiority: How Far Away?
June 25, 2020 by
Some technologies, it’s said, are “always 10 years away” – we hear this in reference to autonomous vehicles and quantum computing. Of course, how far away we think they are has a lot to do with how they’re defined. Semi-autonomous cars are here today and becoming smarter with each new model year. As for quantum […]
New Paper: A novel error-correction scheme for quantum computers
March 12, 2020 by
By taking advantage of the infinite geometric space of a particular quantum system made up of bosons, the researchers, led by Dr Arne Grimsmo from the University of Sydney, have developed quantum error correction codes that should reduce the number of physical quantum switches, or qubits, required to scale up these machines to a useful size. “The beauty of these codes is they are ‘platform agnostic’ and can be developed to work with a wide range of quantum hardware systems,” Dr Grimsmo said.
Stepping up Qubit research at the DOE
February 11, 2020 by
To use quantum computers on a large scale, we need to improve the technology at their heart – qubits. Qubits are the quantum version of conventional computers’ most basic form of information, bits. The DOE’s Office of Science is supporting research into developing the ingredients and recipes to build these challenging qubits.
