What does mobile QKD look like?
"Mobility" comes in varying classes.
Germany has apparently achieved hybrid quantum key distribution across mobile and fiber channels. I made the mistake of wondering aloud if a future-generation unit might have wheels to further enhance its mobility, and The Quantum Dragon hasn’t stopped laughing at me since.
This week’s premium content:
In this edition:
- The 1st Quantum Challenge Coin
- MythBusters, Round 2
- Who is Brian Siegelwax? Draw him.
- PQC you there!
- MIT’s Superman Analogy
- Top View of Josephson Junction
- Hold my beer.
- There’s still 1 month left.
- #77: How to Train Your Unicorn
- The Quantum-Safe Fruit Salad
The 1st Quantum Challenge Coin
I have a challenge coin or two in my collection, but QuEra’s is the first I’ve seen in quantum. It commemorates 3 years of having the 256-qubit “Aquila” neutral atom quantum computer on the cloud (specifically AWS). All these years later, it is STILL the largest publicly accessible device. This link may require a LinkedIn account.
MythBusters, Round 2
Here’s QuEra, again, with a MythBusters-inspired post, again. This is more marketing than information, but for the clever use of a pop culture reference, I’ll allow it. Obviously, every QC provider is going to “bust” this myth differently. To its credit, QuEra does have a relevant deployment. This link may require a LinkedIn account.
Who is Brian Siegelwax? Draw him.
At the bottom of this Impact Quantum podcast with Frank La Vigne and Candace Gillhoolley, there’s a link to Brian Lenahan’s episode. Consequently, Gemini thinks that I’m the chair of the Quantum Strategy Institute. I am not. I also don’t look anything like that, but I wouldn’t mind upgrading my office to look like that.
PQC you there!
I see a new conference on the horizon, and I hope to PQC you there!
MIT’s Superman Analogy
The analogy is intuitive. The lack of a link to an article or something isn’t. This link may require a Twitter account.
Top View of Josephson Junction
If you’ve never enjoyed a bird’s-eye view of a Josephson junction, now you can. Without measuring precisely, it looks like the width of the image is about 2 micrometers. Dr. Michaela Eichinger provides some commentary, of course, as well as an angled illustration. This link may require a LinkedIn account.
Hold my beer.
It’s not possible to exclude this expression from this newsletter, and not just because it’s from The Quantum Dragon’s uncle, Quantum Pirate Sergio Gago.
There’s still 1 month left.
I’m officially including Q-CTRL’s “2025 year in review” because it was published on December 1. I guess everybody’s got the rest of the year off? All joking aside, Prof. Biercuk’s digest is worth a read. I’ve been writing about Black Opal and Fire Opal literally for years, and I seem to recall writing about some of this stuff this year.
#77: How to Train Your Unicorn
In September, IQM announced an over-$300M Series B, which I suspected made the company a unicorn, so I emailed and got confirmation of that. Then on October 7, I published an article titled “IQM’s Unicorn-Smelling Dragon.” One of the responses to the article was to inquire how IQM did it. So, I reached out to Dr. Jan Goetz, CEO and Co-Founder of IQM, and I asked him.
The Quantum-Safe Fruit Salad
Kudos to Michael Cubeddu of Aliro for coming up with a fruit salad analogy for cybersecurity. He definitely could’ve delved deeper into the analogy, but the article is sufficiently interesting that he didn’t really need to. The fruits still serve a helpful illustrative purpose.
Filed under: Quantum Cryptography • Quantum Networking • Quantum Computing
