Dear Friends,
We have announced our next monthly event on 17th July. The theme of the event is What’s New at the intersection of Quantum Computing & Cyber Security. This is going to be a confluence of professionals from the quantum computing and cyber security domains. Vivek Shenoy CTO of QNu Labs would be bringing in the view from the industry while Devika Sharma, a researcher would be bringing in the viewpoint from the research/academia. Once the talks are over, we would have a panel discussion between Speakers and industry leaders Sony Anthony, Deepak Talwar and Balaji Venkateshwar. You can register for the event by clicking here.
Enclosing our latest weekly update, hope you like it. Have your read anything interesting during the week and feel that it should be part of our newsletter? Do contact me over LinkedIn and we would be happy to include the news update.
I continue to meet various professionals / founders / academia / government officials from the Quantum Community and look forward to setting up a one-on-one interaction with you soon.
Stay Safe,
Regards,
Chintan Oza
President India Region, OneQuantum
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chintanoza
Harvard led team creates the world's biggest simulator with 256 qubits.
A group of scientists from the Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms and other institutions have built a programmable quantum simulator that can operate with 256 quantum bits, or "qubits." Mikhail Lukin, the George Vasmer Leverett Professor of Physics, co-director of the Harvard Quantum Initiative, and one of the senior authors of the work published today in the journal Nature, stated, “This takes the science into a new area where no one has ever been before.” “In the quantum world, we are entering a whole new realm.” “The amount of quantum states that may be created with only 256 qubits exceeds the number of atoms in the solar system,” explained Sepehr Ebadi, a physics student in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the lead author of the study.
Register for the fifth Women in Quantum Summit – July 19th & 20th
The fifth Women in Quantum virtual summit on July 19th & 20th, once again featuring more than one dozen noted speakers and panelists and this time adding a unique career fair that will pair employers in the emerging quantum industry with women desiring or progressing in careers in quantum computing. With an expanded schedule & features Keynotes, Networking, Talks, Cocktail Hour, Group selfies & Career Fair, get benefited by attending…
An Intro learning session into quantum tech to kick off every day
A career fair with employers dedicated to diversity in quantum tech
A Quantum Communications track on Day 1
In our Women in Quantum Summit in one more week we will have a career fair for women who want to progress or start their career in #quantum. If you are interested in boosting your career in quantum. Please send your CV to brooke@onequantum.org. No matter if you are searching for an internship, a post doc position or a position as a professional taking part in our career pitch event is your opportunity to boost your career.
This is a gender agnostic event; you are welcome to register at:
https://www.runtheworld.today/app/invitation/25685
Is Million Qubit Quantum Computer on the horizon now?
In many ways, quantum computing is the holy grail of high-performance computing. The technique has the potential to drastically speed up simulations, machine learning, and, most terrifyingly, render existing encryption systems useless. That is, at least, the hope — or dread, depending on your perspective.
Making good on these promises, like the holy grail, remains elusive. According to Peter Shadbolt, chief strategy officer of PsiQuantum, while progress is being made in the sector, there are still numerous unresolved issues.
“We're at a really exciting period for quantum computing, where a lot of people have been successful developing tiny systems on a few of qubits,” he said, adding that while these efforts have been successful, they still require error correction to be commercially viable at scale. And that will necessitate the use of millions of qubits.
In GlobalFoundries' facilities, PsiQuantum is currently mass-producing the first of many essential components, a single-photon detector. The detector transforms messages supplied as photons — or light — into electrical impulses.
China shows off the world's most powerful quantum computer.
A Chinese research team has beaten Google to the punch, developing a quantum computer that performed a computation in just over an hour that would have taken traditional computers more than eight years to complete. Zuchongzhi is a two-dimensional programmable computer capable of manipulating up to 66 qubits at the same time. This challenge was 100 times more difficult than the one solved in 2019 by Google's Sycamore processor. While Sycamore utilized 54 qubits, Zuchongzhi uses 56, demonstrating that a processor's efficiency increases exponentially as the number of qubits rises.
https://cosmosmagazine.com/science/physics/china-demonstrates-most-powerful-quantum-computer/
Terra Quantum reports a quantum cryptography breakthrough of 40,000 kilometres.
So far, the longest quantum key distribution distance has been 421 kilometres (in 2018), with a Chinese research group pushing it to 509 kilometres last year. Terra Quantum, a Swiss quantum technology firm, recently announced a quantum cryptography breakthrough with a technique that allows quantum cryptography keys to be sent across a distance of more than 40,000 kilometres – the Earth's circumference. It improves on all existing quantum cryptography distance records by over 100 times, potentially resolving the greatest obstacle preventing quantum encryption from becoming widely used.
https://sifted.eu/articles/40000km-quantum-cryptography-breakthrough/
Google Quantum Summer Symposium 2021
The Quantum Summer Symposium (QSS) is Google Quantum AI’s annual conference. It brings together experts in academia, industry and government to discuss progress in quantum computing research. This year’s event is virtual. If you are interested in learning more about what we are doing, please register here and join us on July 21 and 22.
Quantum computing is at an inflection point because we now have the components in hand from which to build a large fault tolerant quantum computer. The next few years our community is poised to lay the foundation for an emerging industry based on new computational capabilities. While we are working hard to demonstrate a long-lived error-corrected qubit, we are also keen to learn what can be done with near-term Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) processors. What could you do with a few hundred noisy physical qubits that cannot be done with 40 ideal simulated qubits?
https://events.withgoogle.com/2021-quantum-summer-symposium/
Video of the week:
This Quantum Computer BREAKTHROUGH would forever revolutionize space travel
Have you heard of the phrase quantum computing? You have, as it is a concept that is becoming increasingly popular, mainstream, and common. It sounds like something from a science fiction movie, and, in a lot of ways, it is.
But despite the growing interest and prominence of quantum computing in many industries and sectors across the world, many people still do not know what it is, how it works, or why it is so important. It is a complicated matter, a sort of science that is hard to grasp and even harder to explain in simple terms. Therefore, it's difficult to figure out how it will impact the world we live in.