(ScienceDaily) Researchers at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, have demonstrated a record setting quantum protocol for sharing a secret amongst many parties. The team created an 11-dimensional quantum state and used...

(EurekaAlert) An Army-funded project marks a turning point in the field of scalable quantum processors, producing the largest quantum chip of its type using diamond-based qubits and quantum photonics.
Millions of quantum processors will be needed...

(IBM.Quantum.blog) IBM researchers has discovered a new mathematical proof of quantum advantage – the elusive threshold at which quantum computers outperform classical machines in certain use cases.
Sergey Bravyi and Dmitri Maslov are authors of...

(TechnologyReview) NIST launched a competition in 2016 to develop new standards for cryptography that will be more quantum-proof. The race is long, with the winners set to be announced in 2022, but last week the organization announced that it had...

(NSF.gov) Quantum Leap Challenge Institutes are large-scale interdisciplinary research projects that aim to advance the frontiers of quantum information science and engineering. Research at these Institutes will span the focus areas of quantum...

(IBM.ResearchBlog) Abe Asfaw, Quantum Education Lead, IBM Quantum, writes here that while IBM targeted early quantum tech lessons at graduate-level physics students, it ha realized that quantum computing’s success both in the laboratory and the...

(Phys.org) The Department of Energy (DOE) is preparing for the first exascale computer to be deployed in 2021. Two more will follow soon after. Yet quantum computers may be able to complete more complex calculations even faster than these...

(IFSEC.Global) Julian Hall explores how quantum computing is set to dramatically impact upon the security sector.
The huge capacity of a quantum computer means a massive encryption capability. “One of the fundamental building blocks for making...

(Pickr.au) The University of New South Wales (UNSW) has set up a world first, developing an undergraduate degree in the field of quantum engineering, allowing students keen on entering this field and innovating a place to start.
“As it stands,...

(QuantumXchange) Quantum Xchange recently released version 2.0 of the Phio Trusted Xchange (TX) appliance. As the first quantum-safe key exchange that provides crypto agility and defense-in-depth countermeasures in a single package, Phio TX is a...

(APS.org) Researchers at Russia's Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology have proposed a variational quantum algorithm which merges quantum simulation and quantum machine learning to classify phases of matter.
Machine learning has emerged as...