Dilution refrigeration needs hydrogen bombs.
Where did YOU think Helium-3 came from?
That’s probably not supposed to be the key takeaway of “Cold Rush,” an article in which Zack Savitsky of Science Magazine interviews Dr. David Gunnarsson of Bluefors, but it sure sticks out. Many are concerned with what quantum computers might be used for without necessarily asking where they’re coming from.
This week’s premium content:
- EuroHPC JU Launches €8.5M “Lucy”
- QuEra’s Tsim
- blueqat’s blueqatSDK
- IQM and Fraunhofer FOKUS: Qrisp vs Shor
This week’s Friends of The Quantum Dragon:
- We must prepare to use fault-tolerant quantum computers effectively.by Victor Peng, PsiQuantum Interim Chief Executive Officer
- “Our customers can leverage quantum-centric supercomputing to achieve real-world outcomes.” by Bruno Lecointe, SVP, Global Head of HPC, AI and Quantum at Bull
- “Governments will keep discoveries like that secret.” by Denis Mandich, CTO and Co-Founder at Qrypt
This week’s IQT Event News:
- IQT NORDICS Early Bird Arrives April 29
- IQT NORDICS (June 22-24) Attracting Record Exhibiting Interest as QSIP Pavilion Added to Networking Hall
- ANNOUNCING THE RETURN OF IQT NORDICS IN COPENHAGEN 2027!
In this edition:
- Quantum in Space: Why It Matters
- “If you read 4-5 pages a day, you’ll understand quantum in just one year”
- Quantum Courage
- A twice-failed film student-turned-physicist is a billionaire.
- It’s not THAT Voyager.
- The funding is real, anyway.
- Never give up. Never surrender.
- Yeah, but who does Nvidia namedrop?
- Why do submarines need quantum sensors?
- Quantum Energy Advantage
- Beardhero
- 5 SciFi-seeming Technologies and What the Future Holds
- The greatest thing since sliced bread?
Quantum in Space: Why It Matters
This is an unusually interesting video by Dr. Dana Anderson, Infleqtion’s Founder & Chief Science Officer.
“If you read 4-5 pages a day, you’ll understand quantum in just one year”
Dr. Anastasia Marchenkova summarizes Olivier Ezratty’s encyclopedia more eloquently than I ever could. This link may require a LinkedIn account.
Quantum Courage
I need to remember to ask Candace Gillhoolley how she made the infographic for this episode of her Women in Quantum Podcast. If you see me start sharing infographics all of a sudden, you know in advance who to credit for it. This link may require a LinkedIn account. This link does not.
A twice-failed film student-turned-physicist is a billionaire.
Social media lit up with news that Xanadu’s (XNDU) CEO Christian Weedbrook became a billionaire on the coattails of Nvidia news, and all of the announcements were the same except for TheStreet, which turned it into some sort of rags-to-riches story. The Quantum Dragon rushed to enroll and hopes to flunk out in record time.
It’s not THAT Voyager.
Voyager Technologies and IBM are apparently securing communications between the Earth and the ISS. And while that would normally be interesting enough to share in its own right, I’m sharing it because the headline reads “Voyager and IBM.” I thought IBM was securing communication between the Voyager team and the space probes.
The funding is real, anyway.
After a brief lull, “Ghost Murmur” suddenly dominated my news feeds once again. I have not yet seen anyone in quantum jump up and down about it, not even within quantum sensing, but one thing that does appear to be real is $5M in seed funding for Deteqt which appears to be attributable to all of the hubbub.
Never give up. Never surrender.
After Quantum Research Sciences, llc won a “significant” contract with the US government’s Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), I spoke with CEO & Founder Ethan Krimins about the process of getting a federal government contract. Maybe others would find that sort of thing valuable, you know what I mean?
Yeah, but who does Nvidia namedrop?
Everyone in quantum likes to namedrop Nvidia, but who does Nvidia namedrop when it makes its big announcements? In the case of NVIDIA Ising, the company namedropped 7 quantum companies in the above video, and 3 of them, interestingly, are Atom Computing. In the order they appear:
- Microsoft
- Atom Computing
- Rigetti
- SDT Inc. & Anyon Technologies
- Atom Computing
- Atom Computing
Why do submarines need quantum sensors?
I obviously don’t have an answer to that but, fortunately, Infleqtion’s CEO, Matthew Kinsella, does in this 48-second video short.
We can see that, although for a small number of qubits the Rydberg atom quantum computer has an energy expenditure orders of magnitude higher than either supercomputer, due to the slower scaling of the energy cost in the Rydberg platform, a quantum energy advantage is achieved above 39 qubits.
Quantum Energy Advantage
“Energetics of Rydberg-atom Quantum Computing” asserts that “quantum computers can only be a viable alternative if their energy cost scales favorably” and sets forth the initial steps toward understanding the energy efficiency of Rydberg atom systems. It claims that advantage is realized with only 39 qubits, fewer than everyone has.
Beardhero
Laurentiu Nita of Quarks Interactive shared this channel and I can’t resist sharing its name. He’d probably want me to share it because it shows “Quantum Odyssey” gameplay, but I’ve already played the game so “Beardhero” is new and exciting to me. Watch the videos or, better yet, just download the game and play it already.
5 SciFi-seeming Technologies and What the Future Holds
Is “Quantum Murmur” real? Russ Fein doesn’t answer that question in “Did the US Pilot Downed in Iran get Rescued with Quantum Sensors?” Instead, he offers up 5 technologies that also don’t sound real, yet they are. He also shares his thoughts on what the future may hold.
The greatest thing since sliced bread?
Okay, okay, Forbes didn’t go THAT far, but it did compare the size of Q-CTRL’s quantum navigation system to a loaf of bread. I’m just saying that if I get a chance to write about it again, don’t be surprised to see The Quantum Dragon with a sliced loaf of bread making this comparison.
