Dear Friends,
Greetings of the day! Welcome to the 17th edition of weekly newsletter by OneQuantum India. At present, we just concluded celebrating Ganpati Festival, a religious festival in Mumbai.
We are now gearing up for the IEEE Quantum Week 2021 due next month. 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. 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. 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 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. We look forward to meeting you at the event.
Should you have any news to share or authored an article or have delivered a talk or participated in a panel discussion related to Quantum Computing and would wish us to cover the same, feel free to ping me on LinkedIn.
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
How Quantum Computing can help in our mission to save the plant, here’s how
Although the intersection of quantum research and climate science is still uncommon, experts are increasingly urging scientists to investigate the technology's long-term applications. From quicker and better medication plan to tackling the mobile sales rep issue at the size of worldwide stock chains, Quantum Computers are raising expectations that the present most complex issues, the greater part of which are difficult to address with existing innovations, could one day be broken – in minutes. However, things are gradually evolving. For instance, driving quantum programming organization Zapata Computing has set up that the innovation could affect different objectives laid out by the United Nations for supportable turn of events, going from clean water and sterilization to reasonable and clean energy. Q4Climate has additionally assembled a report which talks about certain spaces where quantum PCs could have a major effect. There is an admonition. Quantum figuring is an early innovation – one that hasn't cultivated any helpful computation at this point – and thusly, any evaluation of its future abilities must be placed into viewpoint.
What’s common between Quantum Magnets & Water? Can we expect a breakthrough?
Water can freeze from fluid to strong ice or bubble into gas. In the kitchen these "stage advances" aren't smooth, yet their broken nature is streamlined at high strain. A global group of physicists drove by EPFL has now found similar conduct in certain quantum magnets, which might have ramifications for the innovation of qubits. In material science, things exist in "stages," like strong, fluid, gas. When something crosses starting with one stage then onto the next, we talk about a "stage progress" – ponder water bubbling into steam, abandoning fluid to gas.
Accenture-IonQ partnership seeks to accelerate Quantum adoption in Enterprise
Coalitions have started to arise around quantum registering, with organizations like Accenture and Quantum Computing Inc. building accomplice connections. Accenture this week uncovered a multi-year relationship with IonQ, which offers its quantum PC frameworks through the Amazon Braket oversaw quantum figuring administration, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. The joint effort draws upon Accenture's examination in quantum innovation and industry ability with IonQ's innovation. The Accenture-IonQ organization tries to speed up quantum figuring business experimentation, which happens inside and related to clients.
Update on funding received by Quantum Computing Startups
Quantum computing is a fundamentally different approach to computation compared with the kinds of calculations that we do on today’s laptops, workstations, and mainframes. It won’t replace these devices, but by leveraging the principles of quantum physics it will solve specific, typically very complex problems of a statistical nature that are difficult for current computers. Several new startups are built up to research more on quantum computing and here are some of the top fundings they have received over the year.
https://www.analyticsinsight.net/top-recent-quantum-computing-funding-to-know-about/
A unusual 'time crystal' created inside Google's quantum computer might forever alter physics
Scientists working in association with Google might have recently utilized the tech goliath's quantum PC to make a totally new period of issue — a period precious stone. With the capacity to everlastingly cycle between two states while never losing energy, time precious stones avoid quite possibly the main laws of physic — the second law of thermodynamics, which expresses that the problem, or entropy, of a segregated framework should consistently increment. These strange time gems stay stable, opposing any disintegration into irregularity, regardless of existing in a steady condition of motion. As indicated by an examination article presented July 28 on the preprint data set arXiv, researchers had the option to make the time gem for about 100 seconds utilizing qubits (quantum figuring's form of the conventional PC bit) inside the center of Google's Sycamore quantum processor. The presence of this bizarre new matter stage, and the completely new domain of actual practices it uncovers, is unimaginably energizing to physicists, particularly as time gems were simply first anticipated to exist only nine years prior.
Can Governments Use Quantum Computers to Block Bitcoin?
Most governments like Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) however much we like strolling with rocks from our point of view. Late ransomware assaults, where programmers designated weak framework, for example, gas pipelines and requested payment as Bitcoin, add yet more investigation of the digital currency. There's additionally a lot of administrative examination of the utilization of Bitcoin for unlawful exercises and illegal tax avoidance. Also, the energy utilization of Bitcoin mining has spiraled wild lately and represents an immediate danger to environmental change drives. The ascent of quantum figuring may before long give governments a way to take action against Bitcoin and different sorts of digital forms of money. Data encoded in super "quantum" PCs, known as qubits, exists in limitless states because of something many refer to as superposition, as there are endless decimal numbers somewhere in the range of 0 and 1, fundamentally improving their speed over double PC frameworks. Governments might actually decode computerized monetary forms or dispatch hash assaults to assume control over their organization for an administrative closure with these machines. How about we examine this danger exhaustively.
In Silicon Valley, quantum computing is the newest megatrend
In the rarefied world of quantum physics, the magic of quantum computing lies in incredibly powerful yet bizarre--and even slightly grotesque--machines which look more like a steampunk chandelier than anything remotely computer-esque. IBM is just one of the players in this moon shot and esoteric industry. Microsoft, Google and Intel have been building their own quantum devices over the past few years. So are federal governments, corporations and venture capitalists who have been investing in the technology. Lesser known startups in the space include Rigetti Computing, IonQ and PsiQuantum. On a national scale, the EU, UK, Canada and Australia are all investing in quantum technologies. But in the race to quantum supremacy, two nations have emerged as the early leaders: the US and China. Of course, the tech companies mentioned here are all proudly American. IBM has a working prototype, while Google seems to be making impressive progress. Then there’s the Los Alamos National Laboratory for Quantum Information Science, where government agencies are beginning to invest. Meanwhile, Alibaba, Tencent and Baidu are all investing heavily in the technology and starting to attract top talent.
Video of the week
Quantum Computational Supremacy by Scott Aaronson
In fall 2019, a team at Google made the first-ever claim of "quantum computational supremacy"—that is, a clear quantum speedup over a classical computer for some task—using a 53-qubit programmable superconducting chip called Sycamore. Since then, a group at USTC in China has made additional claims of quantum supremacy, using both superconducting qubits and "Boson Sampling" (a proposal by me and Alex Arkhipov from 2011) with ~70 photons in an optical network. In addition to engineering, these experiments built on a decade of research in quantum complexity theory. This talk will discuss questions like: what exactly were the contrived computational problems that were solved? How does one verify the outputs using a classical computer? And crucially, how confident can we be that the problems are really classically hard?
Weekly Quantum World Detangled S5E2 | Denis Mandich
I am not saying he used to be a spy, but I am saying that he knows his way around encryption. Speaking with Denis Mandich, CTO of Qrypt, offers fascinating insights into the world of security and what we can do to safeguard our data. Join our discussion to learn about #qkd, #entropy as a service, social score and the solutions that he and his team are bringing to market - and why he recommends stronger collaboration amongst #quantumcomputing vendors. We thank Denise Ruffner and IonQ.