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The Alpha Cat of the Clowder

Brian Siegelwax
The Alpha Cat of the Clowder

I missed this back when AWS announced its cat qubits. There’s a blog post about the architecture, and I missed the name Lescanne in the citations. If you open the link to the paper, you’ll also find the name Peronnin. Why is that interesting? AWS is citing the founders of Alice & Bob, the only other cat qubit provider.

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qplaylearn needs to be resurrected.

How did this not take off? Photonic Trail looks like an interesting game, adding a story to Quantum Flytrap’s Virtual Lab. Q|Cards is still available on Google Play. Sort of. There is no one else online to play against. And Quantum Pills is a heck of a name for short videos. Unfortunately, it all seems long abandoned.

There can be only one.

You may have read that there is a novel “‘work around’ of the no-cloning theorem.” Not that I’ve followed this too closely, but this article by Bill Bell of Quantum Campus is the first I’ve seen that points out that you can only decrypt one of the copies. So, yes, this has applications, but in the end, there can be only one.

National Quantum Initiative Reauthorization Act of 2026 – Section Summary

Thanks to Paul Stimers, Partner at Holland & Knight LLP, for sharing this section summary of the National Quantum Initiative Reauthorization Act of 2026.

Welcome… to SPAComania!

If you’re a paid subscriber of Dr. Bob Sutor’s Sutor Group, you’ve already seen this. But if you’re not, you can at least enjoy the title. Better yet, you can subscribe.

Here’s some news out of China… Wait, what?!?!?

I never share news out of China unless I’ve hunted down a hyped-up quantum computer, in which case I’m probably criticizing it as being hot garbage. But this is the first article I’ve seen that’s actually well grounded. Take, for example, the expression “significant domestic breakthrough.” That’s actually reasonable.

What does “early FTQC” mean?

Once upon a time, I nominated Prof. John Preskill to develop the official glossary of all things quantum. In the continued absence of such a document, here are Dr. James “The Dungeon Master of Quantum Computing” Wootton, Craig Gidney, and a few others trying to hash this one out.

Diamonds are a quantum computer’s best friend?

I’m primarily sharing this Forbes article about Quantum Brilliance because of the title, but I’m awarding admittedly worthless bonus points for the phrase “traditional quantum computing.” Interestingly, Quantum Art is the only other named quantum computing company in the article.

Henry Ford might be proud.

IQM is investing over €40M to hire quantum dragons and expand its production facility. Disclaimer: they’re only acknowledging half of that statement.

Barbie and The Sims

Congratulations to Dr. Aggie Branczyk and her Quantum Salon for invoking two major franchises, neither of which I’ve used before, in one article. She then wrapped them up in a cooking analogy, which I’ve only touched upon unless you count Quantum Ice Cream.

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.

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