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Ben Bloom has been named interim CEO of Atom Computing succeeding Rob Hays who has left the company. Dr. Bloom founded the company in 2018 and served as its initial CEO. He has been the CTO since 2021. Before Atom Computing, he has previous experience at Rigetti Computing, Intel, and JILA where he helped to build the first Optical Lattice Clock. An updated web page showing the company's current executive leadership has been posted on the company's website here. Charles Tahan has joined Microsoft Quantum where he will be leading a technical team in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. Previously, Dr. [...]

by André M. König As the leading analyst firm in quantum technology, we are privileged to learn a lot from and about many of the leading vendors, large and small, in our ecosystem. It is this trust that enables Global Quantum Intelligence to define industry frameworks, put reliable data against it and produce insightful analysis. We’re immensely grateful to have been doing this since 2015, when our predecessor, the Quantum Computing Report, saw the light of day. IBM, one of our longstanding clients, took this a step further and we hope that this trip account can serve as inspiration and reference [...]

Microsoft has added on new capabilities to their Azure Quantum Elements software announced last year. Quantum Elements is a software platform that makes it easier for chemists, material scientists, and pharmaceutical researchers to investigate new drugs and materials and speed up discovery. A goal expressed by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, is to compress 250 years of chemistry into the next 25. It uses AI and high-performance computing tools. Currently, this software platform is base upon what we would call quantum-inspired, but Microsoft does have an eventually goal to introduce quantum computing into the mix to make the software even more powerful, [...]

.Conceptual Diagram Showing Clockwise Braiding with Two Genons. Credit: Quantinuum We reported last year about Quantinuum's research into non-Abelian topological states to develop more efficient error correction codes. They now have further implemented further research to develop a new error correction code that they call Genon Braiding. The goal is to find a code that provides a more efficient Physical-to-Logical qubit ratio (lower is better) that is well-suited to the physical characteristics of their hardware. Achieving this can allow them to get to quantum advantage sooner, because it would allow a user to implement a useful algorithm with fewer physical qubits. [...]

One of the issues with scaling up superconducting or spin qubit quantum processor chips is that in order to control the qubits, one needs to route individual connections to each of the qubits to carry the electrical control signals. So when the number of qubits gets into the thousands, tens of thousands, or more, the quantum hardware engineers run into a major mechanical engineering challenge on how to route those wires. Several companies including Microsoft, Google, and others have been working on cryoCMOS control chips that operate inside the dilution refrigerator so they can be near the qubit chips. But often, [...]