Dear Friends,
Greetings of the day! Welcome to the 16th edition of weekly newsletter by OneQuantum India.
At present, we are celebrating Ganpati Festival, a religious festival. We all look forward to celebrate and socialize with friends and family. This week we have launched two new chapters in Ghana and Cameroon. While being the voice of the industry, we are expanding to new geographies to build a community.
We are almost a month away from the IEEE Quantum Week 2021. The IEEE Quantum Week Panels include illuminating and meaningful debates among experts on many aspects of quantum computing and engineering. Hardware-software co-design, hybrid quantum-classical computing, NISQ applications, post-quantum cryptography, fault-tolerant quantum computers, quantum systems engineering, quantum programming education & training, quantum workforce training, or frontiers of quantum information science & algorithms are among the panel topics. The panelists, a varied group of scholars and practitioners, hope to provide insightful insights and engage the larger community in a lively debate. Andre Konig & Denise Ruffner would be joining the panel discussion on “Supporting Diversity in Quantum Computing” on 18th October.
The goal of this panel is to emphasize the need for diversity in Quantum Tech and demonstrate diverse career path options via the personal experiences of our panelists. The session will begin with an overview of diversity in Quantum Tech as it presently exists. We will examine gender, racial, and regional patterns, as well as current initiatives to remedy the lack of diversity. We will next focus on educating the audience on the many positions in quantum and the type of education required, as seen through the perspective of our panelists. Finally, we'll talk about career guidance from a top technical recruiter.
This panel discussion is ideal for an audience of all backgrounds, particularly students, post-docs, and professionals who want to make a career in Quantum Tech despite not having graduated from a traditional Ivy League institution. Throughout the event, we will post polls to get to know our audience better and incorporate your feedback. Our objective is for you to leave feeling inspired and confident, as well as having a better knowledge of the many positions in quantum technology, how you can utilize your unique education to work in this industry and receiving recruitment tips and guidance from a seasoned recruiter. We look forward to meeting you at the event.
I continue to meet various professionals / founders / academia / government officials from the Quantum Community and look forward to set up a one-on-one interaction with you soon.
Stay Safe,
Regards,
Chintan Oza
President India Region, OneQuantum
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chintanoza
A team from IIIT-Hyderabad has developed a novel method for doing quantum chemistry computations
Researchers at IIIT Hyderabad have designed a novel way to perform quantum chemistry calculations. Under guidance of Harjinder Singh, Utkarsh Azad a dual degree student have attempted to demonstrate the novel method. Their research titled “Quantum Chemistry Calculations using energy derivatives on Quantum Computers” was featured in NISQ Computing Newsletter.
Graphene, which is atomically thin and twisted, has unique properties that might advance quantum computing
Researchers reveal how electrons travel through two-dimensional layered graphene, which might lead to improvements in the architecture of future quantum computer platforms. A new study published in Physical Review Letters explains how electrons travel across two distinct configurations of bilayer graphene, an atomically thin type of carbon. This research, conducted in collaboration with Brookhaven National Laboratory, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of New Hampshire, Stony Brook University, and Columbia University, provides insights that researchers can use to create more powerful and secure quantum computing platforms in the future.
Researchers Make Significant Advances in Quantum Computer Scalability
The researchers created a three-qubit state using silicon quantum dots. In February of this year, researchers at the University of Chicago transmitted entangled qubit states across a communication wire from one quantum network node to another, making a significant quantum computing achievement. According to a new paper published in Nature Nanotechnology, researchers from Japan's Riken Center for Emergent Matter Science have made another significant advance in boosting quantum computer scalability. They accomplished this by employing silicon quantum dots, which are small blobs of silicon. These dots have numerous features that make them ideal for usage as qubits, including lengthy coherence periods and a high potential for scaling. However, in order to properly link silicon-based spin qubits, the ability to entangle more than two qubits is required. Until now, physicists have been unable to do this.
Australia and India elevate cyber and critical technology cooperation
Australia and India have launched the second round of the Australia-India Cyber and Critical Technology Partnership (AICCTP) funding initiative to help build a safer and more secure global environment. The open call for applications comes on the heels of discussions on cyber and critical technologies with my Indian colleague, External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar, during the inaugural Australia-India 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue. The discussion focused on progress toward Australia and India's shared goal of an open, inclusive, and resilient Indo-Pacific region, as supported by the three funds given in Round 1. This second phase is looking for proposals that will focus on improving knowledge of ethical frameworks, creating best practices, and supporting the establishment of technical standards for key technologies such as quantum computing and artificial intelligence.
The US Department of Energy is funding a center to lay the groundwork for quantum chemistry
Three-year, $3 million project unites chemists from UChicago, Purdue, Harvard. The mechanism by which a plant converts a ray of sunlight into a new leaf is more intricate than the next SpaceX mission, the stock market, or brain surgery. This process, which takes place inside a molecule known as the photosynthetic center, requires hundreds of thousands of atom and electron motions. For scientists attempting to simulate it on a standard computer, that might be the equivalent of 100 years of processing time. According to Prof. David Mazziotti, a theoretical chemist at the University of Chicago, “the underlying mathematics grows in complexity exponentially.” “Trying to fit all that information into a traditional computer will rapidly run out of space.” Mazziotti is part of a team of scientists attempting to develop ways to perform these types of simulations using an altogether new tool: a quantum computer. The team, led by Purdue University Prof. Sabre Kais, has now secured a second round of funding from the US Department of Energy for $3 million over three years as part of the department's program supporting quantum information science research. In addition to providing insights that may lead to new chemical discoveries, the team wants to establish the basis for quantum computing in general. “There's something basic about issues in quantum chemistry space; if we can solve some of these problems, that's frequently regarded to be a landmark area with potentially revolutionary influence on the way computing is done in the future,” said Kais.
How Horizon Plans to Bring Quantum Computing to mainstream
Consider Horizon to be a translation service. If you write a program to achieve a certain result on a conventional computer, Horizon's translation tool will convert it into a program that can achieve the same result on a quantum processor. Even better, the tool will figure out the best method to translate that information so that it can use the power of quantum computing to provide your results as quickly as feasible. Horizon Quantum Computing creator Joe Fitzsimons feels he is well-positioned to assist here. Fitzsimons stepped away from academia in 2018 after years of research at Oxford University and the Quantum Information and Theory group in Singapore, recognizing an opportunity. “We're developing tools to enable individuals take advantage of these advancements in the actual world,” he says. Horizon intends to fill this void. “Our mission is to make quantum computing accessible by developing tools that anyone can utilize in the real world,” he says. “If there is an issue that can be solved using quantum computing, we need to make it easier to do so.”
EU officially issues Digital Europe Regulation
The European Union has officially issued the new Digital Europe Regulation 2021/694, which will be in effect from 2021 until 2027. Quantum computing and artificial intelligence are two of the goals. The importance of intellectual property protection in innovation is also emphasized.
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32021R0694&from=EN#d1e1447-1-1
Video of the week
Weekly Quantum World Detangled | Season 5 Episode 1 | Rob Hays
Rob is the CEO of ATOM Computing an upcoming startup. Rob also spent almost two decades with Intel & Lenovo in various strategic roles. Rob is a product person, a people person, and high-tech executive with a strong sense of curiosity. Rob is always looking for ways to push the limits of computing performance and accelerate innovation. His passion is to build talented, diverse teams who can tackle complex problems and deliver products that customers love. Andre and Denise recently interacted with Rob. Let’s have a look at the discussion…