Dear Friends,
Greetings of the day! Welcome to the 23rd edition of weekly newsletter by OneQuantum India. Hope you had a great Diwali festival along with friends and family.
Video of the week section has the recording of our event held on 30th Oct. Hope you would like revisit the recording. Feel free to share it with likeminded professionals. We are now in phase to plan our next monthly event. Stay tuned for more updates. This event was jointly hosted by OneQuantum India and OneQuantum Argentina. Our speaker Dr. Mark Jackson, a Quantum Evangelist from Cambridge Quantum Computing delivered a talk on Quantum Computing in Healthcare. Participants from India, Argentina, USA, UK, UAE, Zimbabwe, Israel, the Netherlands & Colombia joined the event. You can find out our social media coverage on following link.
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.
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Chintan Oza
President India Region, OneQuantum
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Toyota is developing better batteries using quantum computing
Toyota's battery-improvement aims look to be gaining traction with the integration of quantum computing. According to Nikkei Asia, Toyota Motor teamed with Tokyo-based QunaSys, a startup with experience in quantum computing software, last month. The cooperation will employ QunaSys' quantum computing tools to conduct research into novel materials that will optimize and improve the performance of Toyota's batteries. These machines operate mostly through simulations that identify the characteristics of a wide range of materials. The machine will simulate electrical structures of a wide range of materials in a brief period of time using a technique known as density-functional theory (DFT). Toyota Motors and QunaSys' primary aims are to achieve reduced mistake rates with better or quicker analysis speeds. Conventional, or standard, supercomputers might take months to calculate DFT simulations. However, because DFT is more precise, quantum computers can use it in less time. The two are thinking of employing Japan's first commercial quantum computer, which was founded by the University of Tokyo.
https://techwireasia.com/2021/11/toyotas-making-better-batteries-with-quantum-computing/
Sydney's transportation network will be run by quantum computers
Cutting-edge quantum computing will one day power Sydney's huge transportation network as part of a world-first proposal to employ the technology, which experts claim can solve complicated issues in seconds rather than years. The NSW government will brief the technology industry in the coming weeks on a proposal to construct a quantum technology center near Central Station to operate the city's transportation network, with contracts expected to be granted in 2022.
IBM recently developed a new method for measuring the speed of quantum computers
Big Blue has introduced a new measure, CLOPS, that quantifies the speed of a quantum computer. CLOPS (Circuit Layer Operations Per Second) is the first metric to quantify the number of quantum circuits a quantum processing unit (QPU) can execute per unit of time, and it is intended to offer an objective knowledge of how much work a quantum system can accomplish in each period. According to IBM, speed is only one of three essential qualities that indicate the performance of a quantum computer, the other two being size and quality. The number of qubits supported by the quantum processor determines scale, whereas quantum volatilities govern quality.
Quantum Sensor Breakthrough Paves Way For GPS-Free Navigation
Quantum physics, one of the Pentagon's top research objectives, may be on the verge of fulfilling its long-standing promise of providing an alternative to GPS. A Sandia National Laboratory team of scientists has built a quantum sensor that does not require the power or huge support gear of prior prototypes and has addressed durability worries by functioning for a year and a half in the lab. This might pave the way for a wide range of civil and military applications, such as drones that can navigate in the air, underwater, and even underground without relying on weak and spoof able satellite signals. Atom interferometry is a technique used in quantum navigation. You can fool atoms into a quantum superposition by cooling them to a millionth of a degree above absolute zero and then hitting them with light beams. Each atom exists in two states at the same time: moving and stationary. Each condition has a unique reaction to forces such as gravity and acceleration. This enables you to estimate distances more precisely than GPS—and without the need for a hackable signal from space.
Qrypt Provides Quantum Security for Enterprises over the Cloud
Qrypt, a provider of quantum-enabled cryptographic security solutions, announced the release of two new products today: the Cloud Enterprise Portal and Digital Quantum Key Distribution (Digital QKD). This complements Qrypt's Entropy-as-a-Service (EaaS) portfolio, which offers high-quality quantum random numbers as well as the tools to assure Everlasting Security. Enterprises may now include quantum encryption into their software services using tools that are quick, simple to use, highly scalable, and do not necessitate the use of expensive hardware. Businesses must secure themselves and their customers' data in a world where system vulnerabilities and data breaches are a near-constant threat. Every business has some form of high-value data, yet the security measures in place are frequently ineffective against determined attackers. A bad actor, for example, may estimate seeds based on previously undiscovered patterns in what appeared to be a random source. Furthermore, a "harvest now, decode later" assault, in which encrypted data is taken in anticipation of quantum computers being able to decrypt it in the future, may occur. The endeavor to safeguard data can only be effective if high-quality random numbers are used, which are based on the quantum effect. Qrypt's technology is ideal for any company that wants to safeguard and secure critical data, whether by integrating a trusted QRNG into an existing encryption infrastructure or implementing a comprehensive cryptographic solution. The possibility of a data breach is fully eliminated since stolen data can never be decrypted forcibly — even by quantum computers. Qrypt's technologies may be incorporated into chat and email systems, file sharing services, and even ISP and financial institution network architecture.
The Development of a New Quantum Search Algorithm Could pave the Way for Next-Generation Wireless Networks
A proposed strategy for vastly improving the energy efficiency of wireless networks is also one of the most computationally difficult issues to tackle. However, a computer scientist has proved for the first time that the quantum search method can solve this issue quicker than a classical machine. On August 9, a report outlining his results was published in the journal IEEE Access. The introduction of 5G wireless networks provides a significant increase in bandwidth and data rates, possibly enabling a wide range of new mobile data applications such as self-driving cars and the internet of things (IoT). At the same time, the increase in traffic needs an enhancement. Index modulation is an innovative way for enhancing energy efficiency that has received a lot of interest in wireless communications circles in recent years. For most of the twentieth century, the term frequency modulation (FM) or amplitude modulation (AM) was used to describe how information such as voices or music was broadcast over space via radio waves. The frequency or amplitude of the 'carrier' radio wave was immediately adjusted ('modulated') by the transmitter at the sending end in order to impress information on that wave, analogous to how telegraph operators in the nineteenth century imprinted information in the wave. Decoding, or 'demodulation,' of the carrier wave at the receiving end extracted the information stored in its form, generating noises that could subsequently be perceived by human ears. Aside from changing the frequency or amplitude of a radio wave, another option to modulate it is to change its phase. Index modulation (IM) provides a fourth technique, or fourth dimension, of impressing information, this time by utilizing the on or off condition of its indices. In this situation, the term index merely refers to the infrastructure and operational building pieces of the communications system, such as transmission antennas, subcarriers, time slots, and radio frequency mirrors.
https://www.azoquantum.com/News.aspx?newsID=8526
Video of the week
Quantum Computing in Healthcare – Dr Mark Jackson
Video of the week section has the recording of our event held on 30th Oct. Hope you would like revisit the recording. Feel free to share it with likeminded professionals. We are now in phase to plan our next monthly event. Stay tuned for more updates. This event was jointly hosted by OneQuantum India and OneQuantum Argentina. Our speaker Dr. Mark Jackson, a Quantum Evangelist from Cambridge Quantum Computing delivered a talk on Quantum Computing in Healthcare. Participants from India, Argentina, USA, UK, UAE, Zimbabwe, Israel, the Netherlands & Colombia joined the event.