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by Amara Graps Cancer Use Cases For social impact, there is no greater human health challenge than cancer, for Use Cases of today’s quantum technology. Solving cancer is a multidisciplinary grand challenge for the past several decades, and a natural fit for the HPC community, as seen in this 1992 USA, HPC example. This grand challenge has grown to cross international borders, for example, the Cancer Grand Challenges Org from the Cancer Research UK and the National Cancer Institute in the US. An inherent ‘multidisciplinary’ and ‘HPC’ theme of any human challenge inspires a quantum approach, as seen in last year’s [...]

Quantum Brilliance (QB) has announced a strategic collaboration with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to integrate QB’s diamond-based quantum accelerators with ORNL's high-performance computing (HPC) systems. This partnership aims to advance parallel and hybrid quantum computing, exploring how quantum and classical processors can work together to tackle complex problems that current classical computing cannot solve alone. The collaboration will focus on developing new computational methods and software tools that will enable users to leverage the combined power of quantum and classical computing. By integrating quantum accelerators into ORNL's HPC infrastructure, the project seeks to pioneer advancements that will shape the future [...]

SDT, South Korea's sole quantum computing company, has secured a 10 billion won ($7.47M USD) pre-IPO investment from Shinhan Venture Investment, aiming to raise a total of 20 billion won. The remaining funds are expected to come from global companies and existing shareholders. SDT specializes in manufacturing equipment that controls quantum phenomena like entanglement and superposition, essential for quantum computing. With this new investment, the company plans to commercialize quantum computers in Korea and build a quantum computing data center for quantum cloud services in collaboration with the government and KISTI. Additionally, SDT is working with Seoul National University and the [...]

by Amara Graps Health became a number one global issue during the height of the pandemic, with covid-19 becoming the most studied disease in human history (438,953 publications as of August 28, 2024). Human health was on everyone’s minds in the quantum technology field too, with quantum chemistry providing a valuable application focus for the quantum computing field. For the first-generation, quantum computing annealing architecture: D-Wave, optimization problems (see GQI’s Quantum Solvers Focus Report: Optimization) were, and are, the ‘low-hanging fruit’.  The quantum algorithms company: 1QBit,  after broadening its algorithms to work on gate-based computers, spun out in 2022, the company: [...]

Part 2: Australia’s Quantum Ecosystem by Amara Graps Australia’s Quantum Ecosystem To support the Australian quantum industry communication with the Australian government, let’s see GQI’s  Australian quantum ecosystem strengths via their Heat Map.  In GQI’s Quantum Ecosystem PESTEL Report, Environmental is Australia’s quantum strength compared to its American and UK partners.  Internationally, Australia’s quantum ecosystem is ranked #10, but in its Environmental dimension, it is ranked #1. With respect to Export Controls, those policies are included in the Legal dimension of the PESTEL analysis, where Australia is ranked in the top third of the listed 32 countries, but near the bottom [...]

Researchers at the Duke Quantum Center are spearheading an effort to develop a 256-qubit quantum computer, a system that could significantly outperform classical computers in scientific applications. The project, named Quantum Advantage-Class Trapped Ion system (QACTI), is funded by a one-year, $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) National Quantum Virtual Laboratory (NQVL) program. This initiative builds on the successes of the previous Software-Tailored Architectures for Quantum co-design (STAQ) project, which laid the groundwork for this ambitious quantum computing endeavor. The QACTI project unites a team of collaborators from Duke, the University of Chicago, North Carolina State University, Tufts [...]

Part 1: Export Control by Amara Graps It’s a significant milestone, in the development of any nascent technology, to be recognized by policy makers as important for national security. Australia is one of a group of countries across the world which have recently imposed export controls on quantum technology, while some of the field’s leaders, such as Michael Biercuk, founder and CEO of quantum startup: Q-CTRL, questions the need from a technical perspective.    Export Control: Double-Edged Sword Export Control is a double-edged sword, switching between the pros of: 1) national security protection, 2) meeting international obligations, 3) national economic interests, and [...]

Fujitsu and Osaka University have disclosed some new innovations for fault tolerant quantum computers (FTQC) that are aimed at reducing both the number of qubits as well as the runtime for running useful applications with error correction. Diagram of Classical vs. New Methods for Implementing a Universal Gate Set. Credit: Fujitsu The first innovation would change how a universal gate set is implemented. Quantum scientists have known for a long time that to run any quantum program, one needs to have available a few basic gates, called the universal gate set. One such set as shown in the picture above on [...]

Oxford Instruments NanoScience has joined Rigetti’s Novera QPU Partner Program, an initiative that brings together leading quantum computing hardware, software, and service providers. The partnership aims to enhance on-premises quantum computing by leveraging Oxford Instruments NanoScience’s expertise in cryogenic systems, particularly their Proteox family of dilution refrigerators. These systems are crucial for maintaining the ultra-low temperatures necessary for quantum operations, and their modular design allows for quick deployment and global shipping, ensuring compatibility with future advancements in quantum processing units (QPUs). Rigetti's Novera QPU, based on their fourth-generation Ankaa-class architecture, features a 9-qubit quantum processing unit designed for high performance and [...]

South Dakota Mines has received a $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to establish a Quantum Materials Institute focused on advancing quantum computing and secure quantum communications. The institute will collaborate with the NSF-funded MonArk Quantum Foundry to develop compact, efficient nonlinear optical systems from atomically thin 2D materials and metasurfaces. These innovations are expected to play a significant role in chip-scale integrated photonics and quantum networks. The award period will start on October 1, 2024 and is expected to continue until September 30, 2029. The research team, led by Dr. Steve Smith, includes experts from nanoscience, biomedical [...]