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Diagram of NobleAI's Science Based AI (SBAI) Approach That Will Be Used with Microsoft Azure's Quantum Elements NobleAI is a software company that uses AI to provide customized materials discovery platforms for the chemical and materials industry. Examples of models they have created include NobleChemistry to create commercial  chemical formulations, NobleBattery for battery development and performance evaluation, and NobleEnergy to solve complex problems for the energy industry. Their customers include large enterprises in the chemical and energy industries and they help these organizations improve their product development by shortening development times, help identify ways of improving the performance of the materials, [...]

QuEra Computing, a company that develops neutral-atom quantum computers, has received two grants from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) as part of the Imagining Practical Applications for a Quantum Tomorrow (IMPAQT) program. The program aims to explore novel quantum algorithms and applications that can be implemented on near-term quantum platforms. The first grant is for a project on “Quantum Reservoir Learning using Neutral Atoms and its Applications”. This project will extend QuEra’s previous work on quantum machine learning, where they demonstrated how to classify handwritten digits using their neutral-atom hardware. The project will scale up the method and apply it to [...]

An expanded collaboration between Boeing, a global aerospace company, and the Chicago Quantum Exchange (CQE), a network of academic institutions and national labs that work on quantum information science and engineering (QISE) has been announced. The collaboration aims to support early-career scientists, seed new research projects, and develop next-generation quantum sensors and networks. The collaboration also renews Boeing’s corporate partnership with the CQE, which started in 2019. The collaboration involves a $3.5 million investment from Boeing, which will fund technical workshops, graduate student and postdoctoral fellowships, and an award for innovative researchers in the field of QISE. The funding will also [...]

By Dr Chris Mansell, Senior Scientific Writer at Terra Quantum Shown below are summaries of a few interesting research papers in quantum technology that we have seen over the past month. Hardware Title: Fault-Tolerant One-Bit Addition with the Smallest Interesting Colour CodeOrganizations: QuTech; University of Stuttgart; QuantinuumSummary: To build a fault-tolerant circuit, you can select a quantum error-correcting code and then decide which operations to directly implement in a fault-tolerant way and which to perform via the code’s associated error-correction gadgets. For the colour code, the usual choice is for the Clifford gates to have a direct, fault-tolerant implementation with the non-Clifford [...]

Q-CTRL has previously developed an online quantum learning platform called Black Opal to teach students about quantum technology and make quantum computing accessible to everyone. The program teaches fundamental concepts needed to understand quantum computing and includes an interactive visual coding environment that allows students to better understand qubit operations. There is a basic version available for free, but the Pro version is priced at $19.99 per month or about $120 for a full year license. In order to promote diversity and inclusion to make the technology more accessible, Q-CTRL has teamed up with the Quad Investors Network to provide fully [...]