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Since time immemorial, red dragons have hoarded gold. The Quantum Dragon still does. However, the launch of the Melbourne Quantum Diamond Hub (MQDH) has opened his mind to diversifying his interests. Fortunately, he has tough skin, and he has already discovered that he can roll around in diamonds as easily as he can gold.
This week’s IQT News:
- What Are the Capabilities the Financial Services Industry Is Looking for in Quantum Technology?
- SEALSQ Returns as Titanium Sponsor at IQT Q+AI 3.0 PQC
- The MRI of Electronics
- DecaQ went silver!
- IQT Sunday Edition
- The Incomparable QSimulate
- Future Product Development in Quantum Chemistry & Quantum Life Sciences & Expected Timelines to Market
This week’s The Premium Quantum Dragon (Substack):
- Bull’s Qaptiva
- Finally! Pasqal in 3D.
- These numbers are wrong.
- AQT’s Product Finder for Instruments
- Quantum Circuit Repository
- A look inside the Xanadu algorithms team
This week’s Friends of The Quantum Dragon (inline):
- Identify bottlenecks, reduce hardware requirements and prepare for FTQC. by Simon Fried, VP of Corporate Communications, Classiq
- The Culmination of Two Years of Extensive Development Work by Christina Hausman, VP of Product Growth at Quantum XChange
In this edition:
- Experimental: Ask Inside Quantum Technology
- Chronos, Synchronos, and Kairos walk into a bar.
- Identify bottlenecks, reduce hardware requirements and prepare for FTQC.
- The MRI of Electronics
- DecaQ went silver!
- “If you arrive in Tokyo, it was not a flight simulator.”
- Dr. Thomas Ehmer’s analogy is intentionally backward.
- How can a single photon encode more than one qubit?
- Quantum Sensors, Explained, @3blue1brown Style
- What’s shakin’?
- Busan’s Quantum Magic Exhibition
- Not no. Hell no.
- The Second Casualty of War
- Support The Quantum Kid
- Definitely don’t judge a book by its cover.
- Whisper Down the Lane
- The promise of quantum remains… promising
- The Culmination of Two Years of Extensive Development Work
- When the Pipeline Fails, the Damage Isn’t Digital
Experimental: Ask Inside Quantum Technology
We’re still actively building an AI knowledge base of quantum information. No, still not that kind of quantum information. Still this kind of quantum information. You can ask questions about our news archives, upcoming conferences, and the quantum technologies industry more broadly. We’re continuously adding more to it, so try it out and let us know if you find it helpful.
Chronos, Synchronos, and Kairos walk into a bar.
This article, by Xairos, is easily the most awesome article I’ve ever read about timing. The bigger picture pertains to quantum networks, but first you get a mythological bartender joke, complete with illustration. I’m not sure the bartender should look irritated, though, because he served a beer with absolutely zero effort. On the other hand, no money is visible…
Identify bottlenecks, reduce hardware requirements and prepare for FTQC.
Following the announcement of Classiq’s Fault Tolerance Engine, which extends the company’s Functional Model to logical quantum circuits, Simon Fried, VP of Corporate Communications, Classiq, provided this exclusive comment:
“Quantum software is entering a new phase, connecting application design with the physical requirements of reliable execution. Our Fault Tolerance Engine translates quantum programs into execution plans and assesses resource needs and reliability, accounting for error correction and hardware noise. It helps developers, enterprise quantum teams and hardware builders identify bottlenecks, reduce hardware requirements and prepare for the upcoming fault tolerant quantum computing era.”
Editor’s note: Yes, I have requested playtime. Stay subscribed for that…
The MRI of Electronics
It’s not easy for The Quantum Dragon to find work. After all, good luck telling a firebreather what to do. Fortunately, however, he recently found one way to commercialize his quantum talents. It’s not in his personality to sit around counting time like decades-old atomic clock technologies, but, apparently, the next real-world application of “quantum” is in quantum-sensing-based semiconductor inspection, the diagnostic step fabs turn to when they need to find out why chips are failing before a process is ready for volume production…
DecaQ went silver!
The Quantum Dragon welcomes DecaQ as a Silver Sponsor (Wi-Fi Sponsor) of Q+AI 2026 (3.0): Uncovering the Coming Wave of Quantum + AI, which will be held October 25-27, 2026, in New York City, alongside its companion PQC+IQT conference on October 25-26. DecaQ, of course, does digital oracle quantum computing.
“If you arrive in Tokyo, it was not a flight simulator.”
Speaking of DecaQ, here’s an analogy from Co-Founder and CEO Miki Lumnitz to follow up on last week’s article, “Is digital music still music?” It continues the argument over whether “computing” is defined by your process or by what you use to execute it. This link may require a LinkedIn account.
Dr. Thomas Ehmer’s analogy is intentionally backward.
We use analogies to explain quantum physics, people. That’s just how it works. The Quantum Dragon literally lives and dies by this principle. Dr. Ehmer decided to cut against the grain, however, and use quantum physics as the analogy. So, if you understand quantum physics more than you do music, this article might be right for you.
How can a single photon encode more than one qubit?
I remember speaking with the fine folks over at Rotonium about this, see “Rotonium’s Fortress of Photonic Solitude,” but I don’t recall seeing an illustration of how they actually do it. I have now, and you have the opportunity to see it, too. This link may require a LinkedIn account.
Quantum Sensors, Explained, @3blue1brown Style
Dirac Labs is in the process of visually explaining “quantum sensors,” specifically nitrogen vacancy center (NVC) magnetometers. Episode 1 is about optically detected magnetic resonance, Episode 2 explains how signals are gathered, and Episode 3 will cover the electronics. These links may require an X account.
What’s shakin’?
This video wasn’t ready when last week’s newsletter, “What’s shakin’?,” was published, but please enjoy it retroactively. If it’s not obvious what The Quantum Dragon is supposed to be vibrating to, this is Google’s rendition of dubstep. Heck, it may not even be obvious that The Quantum Dragon is supposed to be vibrating.
Busan’s Quantum Magic Exhibition
Marketed as a school, yet characterized as an exhibition, the point is that ladies and gentlemen and children of all ages can go there to “easily” learn about quantum mechanics. The key takeaway is November 22, because if you’d like to check it out as fun for the whole family, that’s the last day you’ll be able to do it.
Not no. Hell no.
Sergio Gago is pulling his Quantum Pirates ship into drydock?!?!? When I received the wonderful compliment to start a newsletter, there was a problem: Quantum Pirates was already out there. That’s what I was reading, so there was no point duplicating the news, and there was even less of a point in stepping on Mr. Gago’s toes. I don’t remember how many years I’ve known Sergio, but I’m a fan, not a competitor. And that is precisely why, ladies and gentlemen, The Quantum Dragon is wackadoodle: subscribe to Quantum Pirates for the news and subscribe to me for entertainment. To his point, however, there are an awful lot of newsletters today. I subscribe to most of them so that I can curate their wackadoodlediddlydo. But Quantum Pirates, as the originator of the genre, is one of the select few must-reads. In fact, The Quantum Dragon just flew out of his cave like a bat outta hell, and Uncle Sergio might want to look up right about… now. I think he really, really still wants to read your musings.
“THE FIRST casualty of war is truth. But a reliable GPS signal comes a close second.”
The Second Casualty of War
I’m not 100% certain, but I believe the opener to this article is paraphrased. Nevertheless, this paywalled article presumably spends some time on quantum sensors, and that makes it worth sharing. Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to find my old World War II encyclopedia and see what it says about GPS signals…
Support The Quantum Kid
This doesn’t really need a call-to-action, does it? When a 10-year-old expresses interest in quantum, you encourage it. At an absolute minimum, you can subscribe to the channel and “like” all the videos. In fact, do that now. I’ll wait. And when you come back, click on this link and consider supporting him further.
https://a.co/d/07IJjYvD
Definitely don’t judge a book by its cover.
As I started getting ready to dig into Dr. Constantin Gonciulea’s and Charlee Stefanski’s “Building Quantum Software in Python: A developer’s guide,” it occurred to me that I’ve never asked about the meaning of the book cover. Appropriate for quantum, it turns out it’s just a random sampling from Manning.
The promise of quantum remains… promising
Mike Kilroy of HKA Marketing Communications coins an excellent phrase: “promise fatigue.” If you’re in this industry long enough, you definitely see slow and steady progress, but the hype beats down on you like running the Gauntlet on the show Gladiators. Quantum can feel like a full contact sport, ladies and gentlemen.
https://a.co/d/0i1fndcr
Whisper Down the Lane
Yuval Boger’s “Quantum Bits” does a great job of comparing qubit connectivity to the old children’s game, although he calls it “telephone.” If you can’t cause remote qubits to interact, quantum information has to be moved. As it moves from ear to ear, or rather qubit to qubit, there is a relatively high probability of errors creeping in.
The Incomparable QSimulate
The Quantum Dragon is a role-player. The goal of every featured image is to illustrate, in “a picture is worth a thousand words” fashion, the key point being made by the article. But for the first time ever, I’ve got nothin’ for ya. According to QSimulate, no one is doing anything like this, and I don’t have a challenge for that.
The Culmination of Two Years of Extensive Development Work
Following the announcement that Quantum XChange joined the Cisco Networking App Marketplace as a Cisco Technology Partner, Christina Hausman, VP of Product Growth at Quantum XChange, provided this exclusive comment:
“Our inclusion as a Cisco technology partner is the culmination of two years of extensive development work to put our best thinking into Cisco’s customer networks. As the dawn of the quantum age rapidly approaches, we look forward to our continued work together to meet the moment.”
When the Pipeline Fails, the Damage Isn’t Digital
Mark McGuire makes an argument that I haven’t seen before: the vulnerability of critical infrastructure to attacks by future cryptographically relevant quantum computers (CRQC). I don’t know much about the sector, but if you like to read about doom-and-gloom scenarios, this article might be right for you.
