Let me tell ya ’bout the birds and the bees…
...and missed opportunities....
I read the University of Osaka’s “Cobalt honeycombs open a new path to quantum computing” and somehow realized that IBM’s old heavy hex topology resembled honeycombs. With its bird-named quantum computers, bee branding, and honeycomb-like topology, we should’ve been telling dad jokes about the birds and the bees.
This week’s IQT News:
This week’s premium content:
- Half-Off Rigetti Thru Quantum Rings
- But when will Nvidia invest in THIS?
- Moth’s Quantum Backrooms
- Quantastica’s AI Assistant
This week’s Friends of The Quantum Dragon:
- “This innovation reduces heat dissipation from amplifiers to almost zero.” by Jerome Bourassa, Founder and CEO of Qubic
- Smaller, Cheaper, Easier to Deploy QKD by Kevin Füschel, CEO of Quantum Optics Jena
In this edition:
- Not THAT Scott Aaronson
- Keysight’s Simu-Letter
- Quantum Entanglement for Dummies with Senator Schiff
- TOPTICA’s Photonics Friday
- Celebrating 250 years of breakthroughs.
- A Feline Time-bin Qubit System
- Whitepaper: Hyperscaling Quantum Processors with VIOTM
- See no evil, see no evil, see no evil.
- More Than Meets the Eye
- Quantum Computational Disadvantage
- Quantum is bread.
- Quantum Noise Detector
Not THAT Scott Aaronson
I saw “Scott Aaronson, Former Edison Electric Institute SVP, Joins Qtonic Quantum as Senior Advisor for Critical Infrastructure and Energy Sector Cybersecurity” and immediately assumed that I need to closely follow this company. It seemed like an awfully strange background for Prof. Aaronson, though, and that’s because it ain’t him!
Keysight’s Simu-Letter
I can’t seem to find a link to it on Keysight’s website, but I somehow received a Keysight EDA Newsletter | Simu-Letter. With all the organizations and all the researchers throughout all the land, it’s hard to imagine that no one has thought to send a simu-letter until now.
Quantum Entanglement for Dummies with Senator Schiff
We say quantum is unintuitive, but nothing has been more unintuitive than this. Here’s a United States Senator likening his questions to the “for Dummies” franchise, yet asking CalTech’s Prof. John Preskill and President Thomas Rosenbaum good questions. He also uses humor to make the topic presentable.
TOPTICA’s Photonics Friday
Does Yuval Boger have competition? TOPTICA isn’t posting comics as consistently, but I caught this one, did some scrolling, and it’s definitely not the first. If it hasn’t happened yet, I posit that someone from TOPTICA needs to appear on Yuval’s The Superposition Guy’s Podcast. This link may require a LinkedIn account.
Celebrating 250 years of breakthroughs.
IonQ is onto something here, but probably inadvertently. Wouldn’t it be great if every American quantum technology company tuned their hype bubblemakers to Uncle Sam’s 250th? I realize not every reader is American, but if you are, c’mon now, wouldn’t that be awesome? This link may require a LinkedIn account.
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A Feline Time-bin Qubit System
“Time Bin Quantum Communication,” by Mark McGuire of Quickly Quantum, is about networked quantum computers and sensors, told through the lens of recent quantum key distribution (QKD) research. More importantly, for this newsletter anyway, there are half a dozen cats helping(?) to illustrate the author’s point.
Whitepaper: Hyperscaling Quantum Processors with VIOTM
QuantWare published a freely downloadable whitepaper. Well, it costs an email address, but whatever. More importantly, it provides an opportunity for me to shamelessly re-share “#83: This podcast has an open architecture.” with Matt Rijlaarsdam, QuantWare’s CEO and Co-Founder.
See no evil, see no evil, see no evil.
In “The Month the Government Put a Price on the Problem the Industry Decided to Stop Mentioning,” Dr. Amit Hagar wrote about the US Departments of Energy and Commerce and took a few swings at Q-CTRL. Normally that would go under “Quantum Noise Detector,” but the twist on the 3 wise monkeys belongs here.
More Than Meets the Eye
Imagine a quantum computer that actually transforms. Infleqtion’s Sqale doesn’t transform into a robot, yet, but it does transform between two modes.
Quantum Computational Disadvantage
Dr. Saesun Kim shared a preprint that has me scratching my head hard. Multiverse Computing spent 4 hours, 24 minutes to do something a GPU can do in less than 1 second. That’s 15,840 seconds versus <1. Where are the PopSci headlines for this one? This link may require a LinkedIn account.
The word quantum is thrown around like the old man throwing bread.
And the pigeons flock.
Quantum is bread.
I see a reference to the “self help world,” so it’s not meant to be about quantum technologies. That said, the punchline applies to quantum technologies. Disclaimer: NO, I do not search out this stuff. When you search for “quantum” across social media platforms, this is an unfortunate sample of what’s out there.
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.
- Katie Mack of the Perimeter Institute tried to answer “What is the difference between a regular computer and a quantum computer?” but took some flack in the comments from Dr. John Watrous, Dr. Olivia Lanes, and others.
- Microsoft’s Majorana 2. Need I say more?
