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IBM aims to construct a 100,000-qubit quantum computer within the next decade, marking a significant leap from their current 433-qubit system. This ambitious project will involve partnerships with the University of Tokyo and the University of Chicago.

Dive into the collaborative efforts of IBM's Quantum Working Groups as they aim to bring quantum computing closer to real-world applications. These groups focus on healthcare, materials science, high-energy physics, optimization, and sustainability, seeking to leverage quantum algorithms for tangible benefits.

Explore the groundbreaking Prov-GigaPath, a whole-slide pathology foundation model renaissanceizing digital pathology with state-of-the-art performance. Trained on over a billion image tiles, this model is set to transform cancer diagnostics and more.

Researchers at MIT CSAIL and Project CETI have discovered a sperm whale 'alphabet' using machine learning technologies. The study, titled 'Contextual and Combinatorial Structure in Sperm Whale Vocalizations,' points to key breakthroughs in understanding cetacean communication by analyzing sperm whale codas in context.

A research team supported by Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has utilized Quantinuums H1-1 quantum computer to simulate complex quantum states, potentially surpassing classical computing capabilities with 70 qubits. This advancement marks a significant step in quantum computing, targeting practical applications in modeling complex systems.

The European Commission is set to infuse 112 million into research and innovation across artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum technologies. This funding, part of the Horizon Europes 2023-2024 work programme, aims to advance Europe's competitiveness in these critical high-tech areas.

IBM researchers have demonstrated a quantum advantage in machine learning, revealing that quantum kernels can identify patterns in data sets that appear as random noise to classical computers, offering a new pathway for quantum machine learning.

Unlocking the Quantum Internet: A Leap Forward by Stony Brook University is a captivating blog post discussing a recent breakthrough by Stony Brook University's research team in quantum computing. This post delves into the team's significant advancement towards a functioning quantum internet. By demonstrating a foundational quantum network measurement using room-temperature quantum memories, the team has paved the way for more secure, efficient communication networks and powerful scientific algorithms. This milestone is a critical step in realizing the dream of a quantum internet, showcasing the potential to renaissanceize our approach to data transmission and processing.

LOS ANGELES, January 16, 2024 - In a significant advancement for geophysics with resource exploration impacts, Q-CTRL, a global leader in developing useful quantum technologies through quantum control infrastructure software, has entered a pioneering partnership with the United States Geological Survey (USGS) to explore potential quantum computing and sensing applications for geological sciences.

Quantum communication transmission rates have long been limited by the dead time inherent to the single-photon detectors used in the field. Now, researchers at LG Electronics in South Korea have unveiled a new protocol that promises to improve transmission rates, as well as heighten transmission security.

PRESS RELEASE Following the 2024 Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Rescale, the leader in high performance computing (HPC) built for the cloud to accelerate engineering innovation and scientific discovery, announced it is teaming with quantum computing leader IonQ to merge the raw processing power of accelerated cloud computing with the unique problem-solving potential of quantum computing. This partnership forges a new path to tackle the most intricate challenges facing product development, healthcare, life sciences, financial services, materials research, logistics optimization, and national research labs.

There is a very good chance you are thinking of the gold chandelier often found in a large dilution refrigerator that quantum computing players like IBM and Google use to cool and operate a superconducting qubit. However, there is one core technology that is often overlooked when we talk about quantum computers And thats photonics. Dr. Bob Sutor who spent more than two decades at IBM Research in New York working and leading IBMs efforts in quantum computing knows the large cyrostats very well. Currently Dr. Sutor is the vice president and chief quantum advocate at Infleqtion where at an event he stated:

Dr. Rebekka Garreis, Dr. Chuyao Tong, Dr. Wister Huang and their colleagues in the group of Professors Klaus Ensslin and Thomas Ihn from the Department of Physics at ETH Zurich have been looking into bilayer graphene (BLG) quantum dots, known as a potential platform for spin qubits, to find out if another degree of freedom of BLG can be used to encode quantum information.

Researchers have been able to achieve quantum coherence at room temperature this is the ability of a quantum system to maintain a well-defined state without being affected by external disturbances. This breakthrough is an important step forward in the development of quantum computers. It is easier to work with them if you do not have to cool them down to incredibly low temperatures.

Chinese scientists have achieved a significant breakthrough in e-commerce security, developing the worlds first five-user online trading platform utilizing advanced quantum technology, Xinhua News Agency reports. Th research, detailed in a recent publication in the journal Science Advances, has the potential to improve online transaction security.

Topological defects play a central role in dynamical systems undergoing a non-adiabatic transition. In solids, topological defects as a result of femtosecond laser excitation have attracted increasing interest not only because they are key to understanding phase transitions but also because they can generate a variety of hidden orders that are not accessible in thermal equilibrium. Despite the common occurrence of these defects in a non-equilibrium system, the fundamental limit on how fast they can emerge in solids and the generic pathway for defect creation at such fast timescales have remained open questions. Here we apply ultrafast electron diffraction to study the reciprocal-space signatures of transient defects in a two-dimensional charge density wave, where simultaneous measurements of both defect and phonon dynamics yield a microscopic view of defect formation in the femtosecond regime. We find that one-dimensional domain walls are generated well within 1ps following photoexcitation, during which the defect growth is not dictated by the amplitude of the order parameter, but is mediated by a non-thermal population of longitudinal optical phonons. Our work provides a framework for the ultrafast engineering of topological defects that are coupled to specific collective modes, which will prove useful for the dynamical control of non-equilibrium phases in correlated materials.

Various systems can be employed to implement qubits, with one approach being the utilization of intrinsic spin a quantum property related to a particles magnetic moment of an electron. Electrons have two spin states: spin up and spin down. Qubits based on spin can exist in a combination of these states and can be entangled, allowing the state of one qubit to be inferred from another. By leveraging the extremely sensitive nature of a quantum entangled state to environmental noise, quantum sensing technology is expected to enable sensing with higher resolution and sensitivity compared to traditional techniques. However, so far, it has been challenging to entangle four electrons and make them respond to external molecules, that is, achieve quantum sensing using a nanoporous MOF.

With funding in hand, FQF is now armed with the necessary resources to broaden interdisciplinary quantum expertise and translate it beyond the scientific community. This is important. Finland is one of the known forerunners in quantum technologies, and our national collaboration is flexible. Although global competition is getting fierce, the spirit of collaboration among Finnish universities, research institutions, government agencies, and industrial partners is what sets us apart from other countries. The launching of this flagship will serve as a catalyst in bolstering Finlands excellency in education, research, and industrial development in quantum technologies, says FQF Director Peter Liljeroth, a professor of physics at Aalto University.

For a Harvard-led team of researchers, the solution to this challenge, relying on the natural strengths of the design of the neutral atom quantum computer, was to take a group of logical qubits on a train ride to what they called an entanglement zone, where they can perform calculations. Think of this approach as a quantum computational bullet train that brings these all-important qubits to their destination together.

Researchers at Google have created an algorithm that can translate complex physical problems into the language of quantum mechanics, which could make quantum computers able to tackle more tasks.

POLARISqb was the first company to develop a drug discovery platform that utilizes the well-documented optimization power of todays quantum computers, stated Bill Shipman, CTO and Co-Founder of POLARISqb. We look forward to working with the team at Scientist.com to make this platform available to their vast network of scientists and researchers, who can use our tools to accelerate the search for novel drug candidates. POLARISqb uses quantum annealing computers that complete calculations more than 500x faster than conventional computers

AI and quantum software-as-a-service provider SandboxAQ has already won several government contracts. These include researching quantum navigation systems with the U.S. Air Force and providing its quantum-resistant cryptography solution SandboxAQ Security Suite to the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Researchers working with the Optimization with Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (ONISQ) program say they have created the worlds first quantum circuit using logical quantum bits (qubits). The innovation marks a significant stride towards fault-tolerant quantum computing, promising to renaissanceize the design of quantum computer processors.

Entanglement is a property of quantum physics that is manifested when two or more systems interact in such a way that their quantum states cannot be described independently. In the terminology of quantum physics, they are said to be entangled, i.e. strongly correlated. Entanglement is of paramount importance to quantum computing. The greater the entanglement, the more optimized and efficient the quantum computer.

Researchers have achieved a significant advance in real-time quantum computing with the development of Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum Reservoir Computing, NISQRC, according to a study posted on the pre-print server ArXiv. This novel algorithm enables quantum machines to learn from continuously flowing data streams, overcoming a major hurdle that has previously limited their applicability to dynamic real-world scenarios.

Its been an eventful year for Frances quantum experts and enthusiasts. We have seen French scientists significantly advance research that is bringing the quantum era closer and closer. French entrepreneurs have built businesses that are in global leadership positions for quantum tech.

Proposed updates to the federal governments legal framework on quantum technology and agency research and development efforts have both moved to prioritize the near-term impacts of what has long been seen as a still-emerging technology. On Thursday, government officials spoke in Palo Alto about the growing presence of quantum information systems research and development at a federal level, illuminating both the congressional and agency-led initiatives that stand to push the governments QIST agenda further.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to three researchers who harnessed the quantum behaviors of semiconductor nanocrystals.

A team of four prominent mathematicians, including two Fields medalists, proved a conjecture described as a holy grail of additive combinatorics. Within a month, a loose collaboration verified it with a computer-assisted proof.

Critical Quote: The homogeneity of Rydberg qubits allows them to scale rapidly and also allows them to be manipulated and moved around easily using lasers on a quantum circuit. This overcomes the current error-prone methods of performing qubit operations by having to connect them sequentially, which propagates errors throughout the chip. Dr. Mukund Vengalattore, ONISQ program manager, DARPAs Defense Sciences Office.

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