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I don’t cover partnership announcements, because news archives are graveyards of examples that went nowhere. I also don’t cover claims of “utility-scale, fault-tolerant systems by the end of the decade.” This announcement from Monarch Quantum and Oratomic strikes different, though, because of the inclusion of Prof. John Preskill.

This week’s IQT News:

• IQT Nordics: By the Numbers

This week’s premium content:

• Qubits Brasil’s (Q-Bra) LEONTI
• PQC-Atlas
• QuEra’s Bloqade (Digital)
• Artificial Brain’s Planck

This week’s Friends of The Quantum Dragon:

• Future superconducting quantum systems will be built on QuantWare. by Kike Miralles, Intel Capital

In this edition:

• US Marines Commander Approach to PQC Migration
• Transmons are the divas of the quantum world.
• Non-physicists take the wheel.
• 6U vs 65,000 sq ft
• You definitely have no idea what that means.
• How quick are your <bra|ket> skills?
• World-Class Facial Hair
• Not one reference to Star Wars?!?!?
• A Murderers’ Row of Quantum Computing Researchers
• Happy Fourth Anniversary of Classiq’s Second Birthday
• Phasecraft is speedrunning…
• Why did it have to be snakes?
• Quantum Noise Detector

US Marines Commander Approach to PQC Migration

Quantum Formalism offers up a downright fascinating explanation as to why so many cybersecurity executives seem reluctant to migrate to PQC.

Transmons are the divas of the quantum world.

Bloq Quantum compared superconducting qubits to “cold, distant, and high-maintenance” romantic partners. This link may require a LinkedIn account.

Non-physicists take the wheel.

Delta.g deployed a quantum gravity gradiometer at the National Buried Infrastructure Facility, and after being controlled by on-site physicists and then remote support, it was left in the hands of the physicist-free field team. A brief slideshow is included. This link may require a LinkedIn account.

6U vs 65,000 sq ft

On the same day that I spoke with Jason Lynch, CEO of Equal1, about cramming millions of silicon spin qubits into a 6U form factor, I saw PsiQuantum tweet about the 65,000+ sq ft quantum computer it is currently building at the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park in Chicago. This link may require a Twitter account.

You definitely have no idea what that means.

The Quantum Insider used the National Quantum Initiative Reauthorization Act to poke fun at how little Americans generally know about how our national government works. My degree is in political science, and I can tell you that the governmental mechanics in this newsletter isn’t taught. This link may require a LinkedIn account.

How quick are your <bra|ket> skills?

Prof. Chris Ferrie created a game based on… you guessed it… bra-ket notation. It is easy to download, easy to play, and apparently easy to be awful at. After a convincing losing streak, I eked out one win and quit while on top. This link may require a LinkedIn account. This link does not.

World-Class Facial Hair

I’m not sharing this post for the potentially helpful resources for learning quantum computing. No, no, no, no, no. I’m including it because of the video, in which Dr. Javier Mancilla Montero introduces us to characters with mighty beards that match his own. This link may require a LinkedIn account.

Not one reference to Star Wars?!?!?

I’m linking to IBM’s blog, but this news is literally everywhere. Somehow, I have not seen one post that associated the decade-ago launch of IBM’s first quantum computer on the cloud with Star Wars Day. How do they expect to build utility-scale systems if they don’t trust the will of the Fourth?

Oratomic is led by a murderers’ row of quantum computing researchers from Caltech — including Dolev Bluvstein, Manuel Endres, and John Preskill — and universities like the University of Illinois and Harvard.

A Murderers’ Row of Quantum Computing Researchers

Bill Bell of Quantum Campus has a unique way of heaping praise upon the Oratomic team. I assume this is meant to be a compliment, anyway.

Happy Fourth Anniversary of Classiq’s Second Birthday

They couldn’t give the cats lightsabers? Classiq is celebrating being around for 6 years, and I’ve been following them just about the entire time, but I didn’t know until this week that the company was founded on Star Wars Day. Even a blue cat versus a red cat would’ve been a nice subtle nod. This link may require a Twitter account.

Phasecraft is speedrunning…

Phasecraft joined the Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI) to help DARPA answer the question: Is utility-scale quantum computing possible by 2033? But have you wondered aloud, or to yourself: Why Phasecraft?

Why did it have to be snakes?

As the 2nd least qualified person in quantum, I’ll leave judgement of Q-CTRL’s “Fast, accurate, high-resolution simulation of large-scale Fermi-Hubbard models on a digital quantum processor” to others, but this is the first time I’ve encountered the term “snake layout” so I’ll include it for that. I’ve used worm layouts, I guess.

Quantum Noise Detector

Alan Ho and Prof. Michael Biercuk inspired the Resuscitated Quantum Bullshit Detector, but the original(?) has resurfaced on Bluesky. It’s back to reposting a simple “bullshit” or “not bullshit,” so The Quantum Dragon will continue to monitor for challenges, controversies, and debates under this new name from Dr. Bob Sutor.