A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about quantum computing. News, Articles, and Analyses The Long-Term Forecast for Quantum Computing Still Looks Bright – Boston Consulting Group Authors: Jean-François Bobier; Matt Langione; Cassia Naudet-Baulieu; Zheng Cui; and Eitoku Watanabe “Is quantum computing finally nearing the point where it can fulfill its…
Category: Quantum Computing
Notable and Interesting Recent Quantum News, Articles, and Papers for Wednesday, July 17, 2024
A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about quantum computing. News, Articles, and Analyses Infleqtion Leads the Way with First Quantum Computer Installation at NQCC — Infleqtion (Tuesday, July 16, 2024) “We’re thrilled to announce the installation of our state-of-the-art neutral atom quantum computer at the National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC)….
Notable and Interesting Recent Quantum News, Articles, and Papers for Saturday, July 13, 2024
A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about quantum computing. News and Articles A breakthrough on the edge: One step closer to topological quantum computing (Wednesday, July 10, 2024) “Researchers at the University of Cologne have achieved a significant breakthrough in quantum materials, potentially setting the stage for advancements in topological…
Notable Recent Quantum News, Articles, and Papers for Thursday, July 11, 2024
A selection of the most important recent news and articles about #quantumcomputing. Fourier Quantum Process Tomography | npj Quantum Information (Thursday, May 09, 2024) “The characterization of a quantum device is a crucial step in the development of quantum experiments. This is accomplished via Quantum Process Tomography, which combines the outcomes of different projective measurements…
Notable and Interesting Recent Quantum News, Articles, and Papers for Tuesday, July 9, 2024
planqc Announces €50 Million Series A (Monday, July 08, 2024) “Digital atom-based quantum computing company planqc announced that the company has secured €50 million financing in a Series A round.” Zapata AI and D-Wave Quantum Announce Expanded Partnership for Advanced Generative AI Solutions “BOSTON and PALO ALTO, Calif., July 8, 2024 — Zapata Computing Holdings…
Notable and Interesting Recent Quantum News, Articles, and Papers for Monday, July 1, 2024
Quantum technology companies set for big tax incentives under new law (Thursday, June 27, 2024) “Economic development package also expands film, EV industry tax breaks” Canada Amends Export Control List to Include Goods and Technology Related to Quantum Computing and Advanced Semiconductors (Thursday, June 27, 2024) “On June 19, 2024, Global Affairs Canada issued a…
Quick update
Since I last posted, I left IBM after 39 years and joined ColdQuanta, a quantum sensing, computing, and manufacturing company based in Boulder, CO USA. My initial role was Vice President of Corporate Development, but with the influx of extraordinary leaders on the business side, I shifted to Vice President and Chief Quantum Advocate in…
New video and podcast page
Since I do a lot of talking for a living, I’ve revamped my Videos and Podcasts page to include many more of the recordings I’ve done with folks over the last several years about quantum computing. Whatever else it is, it’s a gallery of strange frozen expressions on my face in the cover images.
From classical FLOPS to quantum CLOPS
This week IBM Quantum introduced a new quantum computing architecture-neutral performance speed metric called CLOPS. CLOPS is short for “Circuit Layer Operations per Second.” For those of you familiar with measuring the speed of high performance classical computers, the acronym is a nod to the metric FLOPS, or “Floating point Operations per Second.” CLOPS joins…
Availability of my book Dancing with Python and its table of contents
My new book Dancing with Python: Learn Python software development from scratch and get started with quantum computing is now available for purchase from Amazon and Packt Publishing. Develop skills in Python by implementing exciting algorithms, including mathematical functions, classical searching, data analysis, plotting data, machine learning techniques, and quantum circuits. Key Features Learn Python…
And the subtitle of Dancing with Python will be …
Almost two weeks ago, I put up a poll on LinkedIn asking for opinions on what should be the subtitle of my next book, Dancing with Python. Here are the poll results: The choices were: Learn to code using traditional and quantum computing techniques A unified introduction to classical and quantum Python software development Learn…
Poll on the subtitle of my next book, Dancing with Python
Packt will be publishing my next book, Dancing with Python, sometime around early September. From the draft preface: Once you have the philosophy, syntax, structure, and idioms of the classical programming language understood, you then learn quantum computing on top of that. For example, you could use the Qiskit open-source quantum computing software development kit…
A #QuantumComputing mini-quiz for 2021-04-11
What Quantum Computing circuit is this in the IBM Quantum Composer? What is it doing? Name the parts. I think the Composer is extraordinarily elegant.
Photo: Close-up of an IBM Quantum cryostat
IBM Quantum Composer and Lab – New tools to use now
The IBM Quantum Experience is now two tools: the IBM Quantum Composer and the IBM Quantum Lab. In the first, you can create circuits by drag and drop, run them on a range of hardware and simulators backends, and visualize the results in several ways. The IBM Quantum Lab is Jupyter-based and gives you the…
Video of my Q-munity Tech Workshop talk: Quantum Computing – The Next Five Years
My Q-munity Tech Workshop talk from February 25th is now on YouTube. The abstract for the talk was: There’s a lot of work to be done before quantum computing can reach the scale and performance it must reach to be part of production workloads. In this talk, I’ll describe the IBM Quantum roadmap for the…
Call for papers: Education, Research, and Application of Quantum Computing – HICSS 2022
My IBM Quantum colleague Dr. Andrew Wack and I are hosting a minitrack at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) 2022. The description of the minitrack is: There is no question that quantum computing will be a technology that will spur breakthroughs in natural science, AI, and computational algorithms such as those used…
“How to use interference to your advantage – a quantum computing catch up”
My IBM Quantum colleague Blake Johnson and I had a great conversation with Ben Popper of StackOverflow about software and quantum computing.
Introduction to Quantum Computing and Quantum Hardware
This online course is a great way to go deeply into what makes quantum computing work. Join thousands of your global colleagues and get hands-on knowledge about IBM Quantum and Qiskit. Introduction to Quantum Computing and Quantum Hardware
Dancing with Qubits: Quantum Computing and Finance update
In section 1.5 of my quantum computing book Dancing with Qubits, I discuss potential applications of the technology to financial services. An excellent survey article by my IBM Quantum colleagues is now on arXiv that updates and goes into much greater detail than what I covered. “Quantum computing for Finance: state of the art and…
