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Quantum Cryptography can Help Reduce Vulnerability of Grid Control Systems

Los Alamos National Laboratory Director Charlie McMillan told a gathering of energy executives today that securing the electrical grid is a major concern now and it’s only becoming more serious.

22 May 2013

Oxford Instruments' Dilution Refrigerator System to be Supplied to New Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab in the US

Oxford Instruments’ world leading cryofree™ dilution refrigerator system, Triton®, is an important component in the latest quantum computer to be supplied by D-Wave Systems Inc to the new Quantum Artifici...

From Oxford Instruments 20 May 2013

D-Wave’s 512-Qubit Quantum Computer to be Installed at Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab

D-Wave Systems Inc., the world's first commercial quantum computing company, today announced that its new 512-qubit quantum computer, the D-Wave Two, will be installed at the new Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab, a collaboration among NASA, Google and the Universities Space Research Association (USRA).

17 May 2013

Boson Sampling Computer Utilizes High Mobility Feature of Photons

Quantum computers work by manipulating quantum objects as, for example, individual photons, electrons or atoms and by harnessing the unique quantum features. Not only do quantum computers promise a dramatic increase in speed over classical computers in a variety of computational tasks; they are designed to complete tasks that even a supercomputer would not be able to handle.

14 May 2013

Novel Portable Method to Produce Ultracold Atoms for Quantum Technology

In a joint project between the Universities of Strathclyde and Glasgow, Imperial College London and the National Physical Laboratory, researchers have developed a portable way to produce ultracold atoms for quantum technology and quantum information processing.

13 May 2013

Amherst Professor Tests Quantum Computing Against Conventional Computing

A computer science professor at Amherst College who recently devised and conducted experiments to test the speed of a quantum computing system against conventional computing methods will soon be presenting a paper with her verdict: quantum computing is, “in some cases, really, really fast.”

9 May 2013

Breakthrough towards Diamond-Based Quantum Network

Element Six, the world leader in synthetic diamond supermaterials and member of the De Beers Group of Companies, today announced in collaboration with Delft University of Technology the entanglement of electron spin qubits (quantum bits) in two synthetic diamonds separated in space.

4 May 2013

U.S. Business Launched by Quantum Computing Company, D-Wave Systems

D-Wave Systems Inc., the world's first commercial quantum computing company, today announced the formal launch of its U.S. business. Industry expert and supercomputing veteran, Robert "Bo" Ewald will lead the U.S. business as President and will head up global customer operations as the company's Chief Revenue Officer. New offices and R&D facilities have opened in Palo Alto, California and others are expected in the near future.

3 May 2013

Global Quantum Internet Closer to Reality

An Australian team led by researchers at the University of New South Wales has achieved a breakthrough in quantum science that brings the prospect of a network of ultra-powerful quantum computers - connected via a quantum internet –closer to reality.

2 May 2013

Novel Technique to Manipulate Electronic Spin of Qubits Using Light Pulses

By using light, researchers at UC Santa Barbara have manipulated the quantum state of a single atomic-sized defect in diamond –– the nitrogen-vacancy center –– in a method that not only allows for more unified control than conventional processes, but is more versatile, and opens up the possibility of exploring new solid-state quantum systems. Their results are published in the latest edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences.

2 May 2013