Xanadu, a photonic quantum computing company, has secured up to $10 million in additional DARPA funding through the Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI). This one-year contract extension will support Xanadu's hardware and software development, particularly for its fault-tolerant photonic architecture and the PennyLane open-source quantum software framework. The funding aims to…
Quantinuum has demonstrated a 99.9995% logical memory fidelity on its Helios trapped-ion quantum computer, achieving a logical error rate of 5 × 10-6 per syndrome-extraction round on a distance-7 code. This performance shows exponential error suppression with increasing code distance, with a suppression factor of 12. These results align with…
A new review paper by Hoong Chuin Lau examines the intersection of AI and quantum computing for combinatorial optimization, categorizing research into three paradigms: AI-for-Quantum Optimization (AI-for-QO), Quantum-for-AI (Q-for-AI), and AI-Quantum Co-Optimization. The study, which analyzed 119 papers, concludes that AI-assisted quantum optimization shows promise, while quantum-assisted AI models are…
