Who reads this stuff anyway?
Let's look at the map....
Not including IQT emails, insidequantumtechnology.com, LinkedIn, Medium, and a smattering of podcast platforms, but on Substack alone, The Quantum Dragon is read and/or listened to in 41 US states and 85 countries, with the United States, India, the United Kingdom, Australia, and then Germany rounding out the top 5. Thank you!
This week’s IQT News:
- QMill turns a new quantum-powered encryption method into an added layer of security for critical networks
- QuintessenceLabs went gold!
- IQT’s The Quantum Dragon’s Most Listened-To Podcast, featuring Oded Melamed, CEO, and Nati Bar Grinman, Director of Marketing, Quantum Source
- IQT Sunday Edition
This week’s premium content:
- Quantum Volcanology
- Quantum on the Go
- HPE’s Quantum Scaling Alliance
- Quantum Ready Solutions’ qCoder
This week’s Friends of The Quantum Dragon:
- Chipmakers could save hundreds of millions of dollars. by Dr. Fleming Bruckmaier, Co-Founder and CTO, QuantumDiamonds
- The 2028 target raises interesting questions. by Shawn Helms, Co-Head Technology & Outsourcing Practice, McDermott Will & Schulte
- “We’re investing in the leadership needed to build the global quantum ecosystem alongside our technology.” by Don Mattrick, CEO of Photonic Inc.
In this edition:
- The Kansas Quantum Ecosystem
- From Black Sheep Bagel to Oratomic
- Your Environment Has a Longer Memory Than You’d Like
- The Quantum Kid’s All-Star Lineup
- “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.”
- Another Alice & Bob?
- What’s a Hamiltonian?
- Open Access to Pasqal Quantum Computer at TGCC
- Quantum Meow
- #79: A Quantum Computer as a Sewing Machine
- The First Quantum Market Doesn’t Need a Quantum Computer
- Quantum computers are missing their senses.
- What the heck did I just watch?
- #86: Millions of Qubits in a 6U Form Factor
- Qilimanjaro’s page decohered.
- A 14:16 Look Inside PsiQuantum
- Diraq missed an opportunity.
- The One Thing Dr. Olivia Lanes Doesn’t Want You to Know
- Real estate. It’s the same thing.
- NSFW: One-Minute Time Machine (2013)
The Kansas Quantum Ecosystem
That’s probably not supposed to be the key takeaway of “The Quantum Computing Landscape in 2026: What It Means for Healthcare’s Future,” but I can’t say that the great State of Kansas appears on my timeline all that often. Or ever, for that matter. This link may require a LinkedIn account.
From Black Sheep Bagel to Oratomic
Leeor Mushin, Co-Founder / GP of Formation VC and Co-Founder of Project Eleven, tells the tale of how he and Finn Murphy met with Dolev Bluvstein and became first-round co-lead investors in Oratomic through Formation VC. The story both enlightened me and made me hungry. This link may require an X account.
Your Environment Has a Longer Memory Than You’d Like
Prof. Amit Hagar managed to weave together the rolling of dice, the walking of gold retrievers, the memories of teenagers, and something about a mother-in-law at a barbeque all into one article about Markovian and non-Markovian environments. That’s just masterful, right there.
The Quantum Kid’s All-Star Lineup
This 9:02 video features clips from conversations with 18 all-stars from just his first year of podcasting. The thumbnail alone features Prof. Peter Shor of MIT, Prof. John Preskill of Caltech and Oratomic, Nobel Laureate Prof. John Martinis of UC Santa Barbara and Qolab, and Prof. Scott Aaronson of UT Austin.
“I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.”
Russ Fein’s “What and When is Q-Day?” includes the subtitle “The Government to the Rescue?” which somehow reminded me of one of President Ronald Reagan’s many famous quotes. As always, Mr. Fein included a history lesson in his article, although I assure you it’s not political.
Another Alice & Bob?
There’s cryptography’s Alice and Bob, and there’s France-based quantum computer builder Alice & Bob, and now there’s the author duo Alice & Bob. Alice Flarend and Bob Hilborn’s pending second book is titled “Quantum Computing and Quantum Physics.” This link may require a LinkedIn account.
What’s a Hamiltonian?
Surely you know by now that Yuval Boger’s “Quantum Bits” explains common terms such as superposition and entanglement, but it also explains terms that you couldn’t possibly hazard a guess as to their meaning. Terms like “Hamiltonian,” after all, are named after people and are not as descriptive as, say, “total energy.”
Open Access to Pasqal Quantum Computer at TGCC
TGCC–GENCI is hosting “Orion,” a 100-qubit neutral atom quantum computer by Pasqal, and they’re willing to give you up to 100 hours of open access to it. The upside is that you can be in either Academia or Industry. The downside is that you have to be in the EU, which means it might not apply to you.
Quantum Meow
Thanks to Tom Bustamante for sharing this IBM Partner, which I have faithfully added to the Quantum Animal Registry. With at least one campus being at Columbia University, “Quantum Meow is a quantum research community connecting students, researchers, and startups at the intersection of quantum computing and AI.”
#79: A Quantum Computer as a Sewing Machine
Quantum Source popped up on my radar, and I noticed the company is doing things a little differently. It’s using two modalities instead of one. It’s using 3D measurement-based quantum computing, which I’ve only been aware of in 2D. And it addresses one of my long-term concerns about large-scale quantum computers: physical footprint. I had questions about all this and more, and now you’ve got the answers.
The First Quantum Market Doesn’t Need a Quantum Computer
Farai Mazhandu of the Africa Quantum Consortium wrote this article for HKA seemingly to make the point that the market for post-quantum cryptography is preceding that for quantum computing. About halfway down, we get a geopolitical point about PQC migration that doesn’t get enough attention.
Quantum computers are missing their senses.
Dr. Pranav Gokhale begins to answer a Thinking On Paper podcast question with something that would seem to be from Infleqtion’s marketing department, but if you keep listening for just a few more seconds, the classical analogy he follows that up with makes a really interesting point.
What the heck did I just watch?
As a general rule, if there’s a timelapse video of anyone building a quantum computer, I share it. That said, this 35-second clip of IQM’s 20-superconducting-qubit “Pathfinder” Radiance system being assembled at Oak Ridge National Laboratory was taken at a bad angle and gave me whiplash. This link may require an X account.
#86: Millions of Qubits in a 6U Form Factor
I spoke with Jason Lynch, CEO of Equal1, about the actual size of the Bell-1 silicon spin quantum computer, when we’ll see a breakthrough in qubit counts, quantum networking the devices together, shrinking the system from 22U to 6U, power consumption, democratization, and more.
Qilimanjaro’s page decohered.
One of the things that we don’t talk about enough in quantum is the creativity we often find with 404 error pages. I’m thinking about dedicating a page to it.
A 14:16 Look Inside PsiQuantum
Dr. Pete Shadbolt provides a guided tour, though it is spliced together with a sit-down interview, unnecessary side commentary, and some thick hype for good measure. But if you show off your tech, I’m morally obligated to share it, so here ya go. This link may require an X account.
Diraq missed an opportunity.
When I see an article titled “One Million Qubits Is Table Stakes,” I expect to read a poker analogy. Sadly, there isn’t one. Including the phrase “a seat at the table” just doesn’t cut it. Therefore, I encourage the author to edit the piece and try to make a decent article legendary.
The One Thing Dr. Olivia Lanes Doesn’t Want You to Know
This is great. I’m not even going to tease anything about it; just click on this and read it. You’re welcome. This link may require a LinkedIn account.
Real estate. It’s the same thing.
Laurent Prost is getting ready to give a talk about how being a product manager in quantum computing is not all that different from being in real estate. If a recording surfaces anywhere, it’s virtually guaranteed to end up in this newsletter. Curious minds want to know. This link may require a LinkedIn account.
NSFW: One-Minute Time Machine (2013)
As the 2nd least qualified person in quantum, I certainly don’t want to start a debate over time travel, Many Worlds, or any scientific or pseudoscientific theory. That said, this video, which I accidentally discovered today, is vulgar. It’s inappropriate. And it’s hilarious. I can’t not share it.
