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In a pre-print research paper titled "QNLP in Practice: Running Compositional Models of Meaning on a Quantum Computer" and posted on arXiv, Cambridge Quantum Computing (QLP) they were able to show how they can create representations for sentences that have a natural mapping to quantum circuits. The paper describes two datasets consisting of 130 and 105 sentences that were converted to representations in quantum circuits. The experiments were performed on a 5 qubit IBM NISQ quantum computer, so the algorithms could also be simulated on a classical computer. But as the complexity and scope of the data sets get scaled up, the [...]

The capabilities of quantum computers are growing very fast and we expect to see announcements in the near future that a few real world applications have achieved quantum advantage, when an application can be processed faster or better or cheaper on a quantum computer than it could be done on a fast classical computer. Some believe that when the technology reaches this state for a few initial examples, the technology will have reached an inflection point and there will be an avalanche of additional applications that will turn to quantum computing and result in a “Surging Growth” adoption rate as shown [...]

By Dr. Chris Mansell Shown below are summaries of a few interesting research papers related to quantum computing that have been published over the past month. Title: Quantum machine learning models are kernel methodsOrganization: Xanadu Kernel methods were very popular in classical machine learning before the advent of deep neural networks. Insightful researchers, including the author of the present paper, Maria Schuld, had previously noted a connection between kernels and the mathematical structure of quantum mechanics. In this paper, she clarifies and formalises the connection, before using it to arrive at some important results for the field. You can view the published [...]

Bloomberg has published an article indicated that IonQ is in talks to merge with a Special Purpose Acquisition Corporation (SPAC) corporation called DMY Technology Group Inc. III. A SPAC is sometimes known as a "blank check company" is a company formed with no commercial operations or physical assets with a goal to acquire other companies. These companies will go public based and then acquire private companies to form their operations. For the investors and employees of the private companies, this can have an advantage since the shares they own will be able to be publicly traded without the private company going [...]

Something that doesn't get as much attention in the quantum world as it should is the significant amount of work in Japan to develop quantum and quantum-inspired systems to solve various types of combinatorial optimizing problems. These problems have a tremendous number of potential real world use cases and could provide a very valuable advantage over classical computers with a specialized machine that has a high number of qubits (or spins) with high quality and high connectivity. Part of the reason Japanese researchers have been so active in this area is because the original concept was proposed in 1998 by Tadashi [...]