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Princeton-Joint Quantum Institute Collaboration Successfully Excites Spin Qubit Using Resonant Cavity

Qubit-based computing exploiting spooky quantum effects like entanglement and superposition will speed up factoring and searching calculations far above what can be done with mere zero-or-one bits. To domesticate quantum weirdness, however, to make it a fit companion for mass-market electronic technology, many tricky bi-lateral and multi-lateral arrangements---among photons, electrons, circuits, cavities, etc.---need to be negotiated.

18 Oct 2012

Qubits Can Successfully Exist in Topological Superconductor Materials

If quantum computers are ever going to perform all those expected feats of code-breaking and number crunching, then their component qubits---tiny ephemeral quantum cells held in a superposition of internal states---will have to be protected from intervention by the outside world. In other words, decoherence, the loss of the qubits' quantum integrity, has to be postponed.

10 Oct 2012

Researchers at Centre for Quantum Technologies Create and Probe Single Barium Ions

All the apparatus that fills the laboratory of the Microtraps group at the Centre for Quantum Technologies — three heavy metal optical benches densely packed with lasers, lenses, mirrors and above them shelves full of electronics — has been put into service to produce and probe single ions of Barium.

5 Oct 2012

World’s First Commercial Quantum Computing Firm Closes $30 Million Round of Equity Funding

D-Wave Systems, Inc. today announced that it has closed a $30 million round of equity funding. Bezos Expeditions and In-Q-Tel (IQT) have joined the investment round. Bezos Expeditions is the personal investment company o...

5 Oct 2012

Study Findings Provide Insights into Topological Quantum Computation

A research group at the International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) investigated theoretically the charge-neutral Majorana fermions, and proposed a method for their manipulation.

5 Oct 2012

Researchers Propose Quantum Analogues of Classical Randomness Extractors for First Time

Stephanie Wehner from the Centre for Quantum Technologies together with Omar Fawzi from McGill University, Canada, and Mario Berta from ETH Zurich, Switzerland, have explored a new method to create randomness, hypothesizing quantum analogues of classical randomness extractors for the first time.

1 Oct 2012

IQC, WIN Celebrate Opening of Quantum-Nano Centre

The new headquarters of the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) at the University of Waterloo was opened on 21, September 2012. Over 1,000 guests and dignitaries attended the opening ceremony of the Mike & Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum-Nano Centre.

24 Sep 2012

Key Step for Realizing Silicon Quantum Computers Based on Single Atoms

A team of scientists from the University College, London, and University of Melbourne, headed by Professor Andrew Dzurak and Dr Andrea Morello from the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications at University of New South Wales (UNSW), has developed the first functional quantum bit (qubit) based on a single silicon atom.

21 Sep 2012

Quantum Technologies Will Play Key Role in Future Economics and Society

At the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2012 held in Tianjin, China, Professor Jeremy O’Brien, Director of the Centre for Quantum Photonics at the University of Bristol, discussed about the future of information and communications technology (ICT) and how quantum technologies revolution will impact the future economics and society.

15 Sep 2012

University of Waterloo to Dedicate Mike + Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum-Nano Centre this Month

The University of Waterloo has reported that the Mike & Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum-Nano Centre (QNC) will be officially opened on September 21, 2012, in the new building at the center of the university campus.

13 Sep 2012

Quantum Computing News

Princeton-Joint Quantum Institute Collaboration Successfully Excites Spin Qubit Using Resonant Cavity

Qubits Can Successfully Exist in Topological Superconductor Materials

Researchers at Centre for Quantum Technologies Create and Probe Single Barium Ions

World’s First Commercial Quantum Computing Firm Closes $30 Million Round of Equity Funding

Study Findings Provide Insights into Topological Quantum Computation

Researchers Propose Quantum Analogues of Classical Randomness Extractors for First Time

IQC, WIN Celebrate Opening of Quantum-Nano Centre

Key Step for Realizing Silicon Quantum Computers Based on Single Atoms

Quantum Technologies Will Play Key Role in Future Economics and Society

University of Waterloo to Dedicate Mike + Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum-Nano Centre this Month

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