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Zapata Computing has announced that Jeff Huber will be joining its Board of Directors. Jeff is the founding CEO of GRAIL, a breakthrough cancer screening company and was previously a Senior Vice President at Google. Ionq announced that Tom Jones has joined as Chief People Office, Jordan Shapiro as Vice President of Financial Planning and Analysis, Mark Solomon as Director of Sales and Kevin Caimi as Controller. These gentlemen have a variety of experience at companies including Blue Origin, Microsoft, Honeywell, RoundGlass, IBM, and Caliburn International. And Classiq Technologies has announced that Professor Tal Mor and Professor Robert Willie have joined [...]

By Carolyn Mathas Although quantum computing technology is in its infancy stage, a recent report from the Boston Consulting Group estimates that quantum computing could create value of $450 billion to $850 billion in the next 15 to 30 years to users and providers.  Development of scalable quantum computers and practical applications for its use requires the creation of a quantum workforce and recruiting that workforce has its own set of challenges. Unique Quantum Recruiting Challenges Recruiters in the quantum industry face such unique challenges as the small size of the market, setting realistic expectations, how to ready applicants for an [...]

By Dr. Chris Mansell Shown below are summaries of a few interesting research papers in quantum computing and communications that have been published over the past month. Hardware Title: Accurately computing electronic properties of a quantum ringOrganizations: Google Quantum AI; University of Massachusetts; University of California, Santa Barbara; University of California, Riverside; University of ChicagoSmall errors in the numerical analysis of quantum materials can lead to large deviations in our predictions of their most interesting observable properties. The key insight of this paper is to perform experimental work in the Fourier domain. They first do this with individual pairs of superconducting [...]

Quantum Machines has announced that it is joining researchers at the University of Innsbruck, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Mines ParisTech, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation and Romanian National Institute for Research and Development of Isotopic and Molecular Technologies on a three year project called QuCoS (Quantum Computation with Schödinger cat states) funded by the QuantERA consortium. The significance of an error correction scheme based upon the Schrödinger cat state approach is that it potentially can be more efficient than other alternatives, such as the surface code. Whereas IBM [...]

The round was led by funds and accounts managed by Blackrock with participation from existing investors Baillie Gifford and M12 (Microsoft's venture fund) along with new investors Blackbird Ventures and Temasek. This brings the total amount of funding to date to $665 million with a reported company valuation of $3.15 billion. PsiQuantum has a stated goal of building a 1 million physical qubit error corrected quantum computer by the middle of the decade using their photonic qubit technology. Unlike most other quantum hardware companies, PsiQuantum is planning to skip over the NISQ era and go directly to creating an fully error [...]

Recently, two organizations have developed substantial white papers that discuss the status of quantum computing and provide insights of how it can create value in the future. The IBM Institute of Business Value has produced a report titled The Quantum Decade and the Boston Consulting Group's (BCG) report is titled What Happens When 'If" Turns to 'When' in Quantum Computing? Both of these may be particularly helpful to corporate executives, data analysts and IT professionals who are wondering if, why, when, and how their organization should get involved with quantum computing. One topic of particular interest discussed in both white papers [...]