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CERN openlab Identifies ICT Challenges of High Luminosity-LHC

A white paper identifying the key ICT challenges that face CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, and other ‘big science’ projects in the upcoming years has been published by CERN openlab.

22 Sep 2017

Progressing Towards Economical and Secure Quantum Networks

Canadian and US Researchers have made a crucial breakthrough towards enabling quantum networks to be economical and really secure from attack.

20 Sep 2017

Researchers Develop High-Speed Single-Photon Sources for Quantum Communication Networks

Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and the University of Siegen have explained the mechanism of single-photon generation in diamond diodes.

19 Sep 2017

The Downside of Quantum Computers

The era of totally fledged quantum computers lurks to destroy internet security that we are familiar with. Researchers are hurriedly trying to prepare new cryptographic methods before the influx of quantum computers, as cryptographers Tanja Lange and Daniel J. Bernstein explain today in the Nature journal.

15 Sep 2017

Australia’s First Hardware Quantum Computing Company Launches at UNSW

Silicon Quantum Computing, which holds the distinction of being Australia’s first hardware quantum computing company, has been launched at the University of New South Wales (UNSW).

12 Sep 2017

Novel Flip-Flop Qubits Make Large-Scale Manufacture of Quantum Chips Dramatically Easier

UNSW engineers have invented a radical new architecture for quantum computing, based on novel ‘flip-flop qubits’, that promises to make the large-scale manufacture of quantum chips dramatically easier.

12 Sep 2017

Microsoft Collaboration to Develop General-Purpose, Scalable Quantum Computer

PARTNERSHIP The University of Copenhagen plays a vital role in an aspiring ambitious Microsoft multi-million dollar investment. On 06 September 2017, the tech company and the University signed a long-term collaboration agreement on the development of a general-purpose, scalable quantum computer.

From Microsoft 7 Sep 2017

USRA Upgrades Current Quantum Annealing Computer to D-Wave 2000Q System

The Universities Space Research Association (USRA), as part of joint an ongoing joint collaboration with NASA and Google Inc. to operate a Quantum Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, has upgraded its current quantum annealing computer to a D-Wave 2000Q system.

1 Sep 2017

Phosphorus Enclosed Silicon May Brighten the Future of Quantum Computing

A research carried out by scientists from the University of Surrey headed by Dr. Steve Chick and Professor Ben Murdin has achieved major advancement in the field of quantum computing.

10 Aug 2017

Ultracold Molecules Could Hold Quantum Information for Longer Time

Researchers have taken an important step toward the long-sought goal of a quantum computer, which in theory should be capable of vastly faster computations than conventional computers, for certain kinds of problems.

28 Jul 2017