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Infleqtion has appointed Alok Gupta as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). As part of his responsibilities he will Gupta will oversee the company's strategic financial initiatives as it enters its next phase of growth. Mr. Gupta has experience at both manufacturing as well as financial companies and has been involved in many different types of financial transactions. He previously served as the Chief Financial Officer at Hyperfine and has previously spent time with Halio, Inc., Mizuho, Standard Chartered Bank, Citi, Honeywell, Northrup Grumman, and Denso. A press release from Infleqtion announcing his joining the company is available here. The Quantum Algorithms Institute [...]

Although PsiQuantum's quantum processor is based upon using photonic based technology, there is one component, the photon detectors that requires cooling to cryogenic temperatures in order to operate properly. Although these components do not need to be cooled to the millikelvin temperature levels that would be needed for superconducting systems, they will would need to be cooled to a temperature of a few Kelvin. Reaching that temperature is not a major problem when working with a small system, but PsiQuantum is looking to put together very large fault-tolerant processor complexes with a size in the neighborhood of a million qubits. Cooling [...]

Wellcome Leap is a non-profit organization funded by the Wellcome Trust with a mission to be the "Global ARPA for Health". They fund bold, unconventional programs that aim to deliver breakthroughs in human health over 5 – 10 years. One of their latest programs is called Quantum for Bio (Q4Bio) which is a challenge program with a goal of identifying, developing, and demonstrating biology and health applications that will benefit from the quantum computers expected to emerge in the next 3-5 years. The program has budgeted $40 million in funding for research that will progress along three phases and another $10 [...]

A collaboration between EPB, Qubitekk, and Aliro Quantum has announced that the EPB Quantum Network Powered by Qubitekk is now open for customers and includes a software configuration capability for flexibility. The quantum-as-a-service network currently includes 216 dedicated, managed dark fibers with capacity for 10 quantum interconnected nodes across downtown Chattanooga as shown in the diagram above. It can also utilize a separate 9000-mile fiber optic network located in the Chattanooga metropolitan area for additional scalability. It is currently intended for use by both commercial and non-commercial organizations to test out applications, develop new products, validate equipment performance, and experiment with [...]

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: Fast, High-Fidelity Addressed Single-Qubit Gates Using Efficient Composite Pulse SequencesOrganizations: University of OxfordThe number of logic gates that can be implemented in a quantum computer is limited either by the gate duration (compared to the decoherence time) or by the fidelity (compared to the acceptable precision in the output). Single-qubit gates on trapped-ion qubits already have some of the highest fidelities achieved across all varieties of hardware platforms. In [...]

The Art of Science Communication Host Veronica Combs asks Kenna Hughes-Castleberry about quantum marketing and communications, what's new at the emerging quantum hub of Boulder, Colorado and her fascinations with octopuses and crows. Transcript Host Veronica Combs: Hello, I'm Veronica Combs and this is The Quantum Spin podcast by HKA Marketing Communications. I am super excited to be talking with Kenna Hughes-Castleberry. She is the Science Communicator at JILA, which is a physics research institute. She’s also the Editor-in-Chief of their journal Light & Matter. She is a freelance science journalist, and she writes for everybody, it seems: Inside Quantum Technology, [...]