October 24, 2023

University of Central Florida: New UCF Project is Harnessing Virtual Reality to Teach Quantum Computing

University of Central Florida: New UCF Project is Harnessing Virtual Reality to Teach Quantum Computing. “Researchers from the University of Central Florida, University of Texas at Dallas and Vanderbilt University have received a three-year, $927,203 grant for advancing future quantum education by using virtual reality (VR) and machine learning to identify and address misconceptions regarding quantum information science (QIS).”

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July 12, 2023

University of Copenhagen: Extreme measuring device can bring quantum technology to your smartphone

University of Copenhagen: Extreme measuring device can bring quantum technology to your smartphone. “University of Copenhagen researchers have invented a ‘quantum drum’ that can measure pressure, a gas leak, heat, magnetism and a host of other things with extreme precision. It can even scan the shape of a single virus. The invention has now been adapted to work at room temperature and may be finding its way into our phones.”

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March 26, 2023

University of Arizona: Confused by quantum computing? Students are developing a puzzle game to help

University of Arizona: Confused by quantum computing? Students are developing a puzzle game to help. “University of Arizona students have developed a computer game to make complex quantum computation concepts easier to grasp. The game challenges users to arrange puzzle pieces into a shape that models a quantum computing circuit. The game was designed to teach students, and even quantum researchers, an unconventional model of quantum computation.”

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January 19, 2023

MIT News: Can you trust your quantum simulator?

MIT News: Can you trust your quantum simulator?. “At the scale of individual atoms, physics gets weird. Researchers are working to reveal, harness, and control these strange quantum effects using quantum analog simulators — laboratory experiments that involve super-cooling tens to hundreds of atoms and probing them with finely tuned lasers and magnets. Scientists hope that any new understanding gained from quantum simulators will provide blueprints for designing new exotic materials, smarter and more efficient electronics, and practical quantum computers. But in order to reap the insights from quantum simulators, scientists first have to trust them.”

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December 11, 2022

MIT News: MIT researchers use quantum computing to observe entanglement

MIT News: MIT researchers use quantum computing to observe entanglement. “For the first time, researchers at MIT, Caltech, Harvard University, and elsewhere sent quantum information across a quantum system in what could be understood as traversing a wormhole. Though this experiment didn’t create a disruption of physical space and time in the way we might understand the term ‘wormhole’ from science fiction, calculations from the experiment showed that qubits traveled from one system of entangled particles to another in a model of gravity.”

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September 22, 2022

Caltech: Conventional Computers Can Learn to Solve Tricky Quantum Problems

Caltech: Conventional Computers Can Learn to Solve Tricky Quantum Problems. “A new Caltech-led study in the journal Science describes how machine learning tools, run on classical computers, can be used to make predictions about quantum systems and thus help researchers solve some of the trickiest physics and chemistry problems. While this notion has been proposed before, the new report is the first to mathematically prove that the method works in problems that no traditional algorithms could solve.”

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September 13, 2022

Harvard Gazette: New research alliance brings quantum internet closer to reality

Harvard Gazette: New research alliance brings quantum internet closer to reality. “Harvard University and Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Monday launched a strategic alliance to advance fundamental research and innovation in quantum networking. This effort provides significant funding for faculty-led research at Harvard and will build capacity for student recruitment, training, outreach, and workforce development in this key emerging technology field.”

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August 28, 2022

CISA: Action required now to prepare for quantum computing cyber threats (ZDNet)

ZDNet: CISA: Action required now to prepare for quantum computing cyber threats. “Action must be taken now to help protect networks from cybersecurity threats that will emerge in the advent of power of quantum computing, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has warned. While quantum computing could bring benefits to computing and society, it also brings new cybersecurity threats – and the CISA alert warns that critical infrastructure in particular is at risk.”

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August 6, 2022

TechCrunch: Google’s ‘quantum supremacy’ usurped by researchers using ordinary supercomputer

TechCrunch: Google’s ‘quantum supremacy’ usurped by researchers using ordinary supercomputer. “To be clear, no one is saying Google lied or misrepresented its work — the painstaking and groundbreaking research that led to the quantum supremacy announcement in 2019 is still hugely important. But if this new paper is correct, the classical versus quantum computing competition is still anybody’s game. You can read the full story of how Google took quantum from theory to reality in the original article, but here’s the very short version. Quantum computers like Sycamore are not better than classical computers at anything yet, with the possible exception of one task: simulating a quantum computer.”

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July 20, 2022

Google Blog: Our new Quantum Virtual Machine will accelerate research and help people learn quantum computing

Google Blog: Our new Quantum Virtual Machine will accelerate research and help people learn quantum computing. “At Google Quantum AI, we have a long history of making tools we build for our own research available to the public free of cost. Today we are adding the Quantum Virtual Machine to the list. The Quantum Virtual Machine (QVM) emulates the experience and results of programming one of the quantum computers in our lab, from circuit validation to processor infidelity.”

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July 6, 2022

Ars Technica: The cryptopocalypse is nigh! NIST rolls out new encryption standards to prepare

Ars Technica: The cryptopocalypse is nigh! NIST rolls out new encryption standards to prepare. “In the not-too-distant future—as little as a decade, perhaps, nobody knows exactly how long—the cryptography protecting your bank transactions, chat messages, and medical records from prying eyes is going to break spectacularly with the advent of quantum computing. On Tuesday, a US government agency named four replacement encryption schemes to head off this cryptopocalypse.”

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