OneQuantum USA West Coast - October 15th Newsletter
General quantum achievements this month
On October 4th, the Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to three quantum physicists. Their outstanding research achievements in the field of quantum entanglement made them eligible to win the grand price of physics. This is definitely impressive, especially as of the huge progress quantum technologies made during the last years. It may be a science based recognition and starting shot for the coming quantum age!
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2022/press-release/
https://www.quantamagazine.org/pioneering-quantum-physicists-win-nobel-prize-in-physics-20221004/
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/04/science/nobel-prize-physics-winner.html
Another impressive quantum announcement on October 4th was “The Quantum Quarterly Q3 2022” report (published by “The Quantum Insider”). It reported a $1 billion-plus investment of private capital into the quantum industry.
Events / participation at events related to U.S. West Coast Chapter
IQT Quantum Cybersecurity in New York from 10/25 - 10/27
One special speaker and highlight, not only for the West Coast Chapter, but for OneQuantum global is the OneQuantum Founder and Chairman André M. König. He will speak about “Quantum Security at Banks and Financial Services: A Look at the Ecosystem, Funding, Trends & Projections”
West Coast directly related speakers are:
Tommy Gardner, Chief Technology Officer, HP Federal
Paul Kassebaum, Technical Director Public Sector, SandboxAQ
Corey McClelland, Vice President, Qubitekk
Andrew Mollner, Senior Project Leader - Electronics and Photonics Laboratories, The Aerospace Corporation
John Prisco, President and Chief Executive Officer, Safe Quantum
News of the U.S. West Coast region
9/15 - A paper written by scientists of D-Wave Systems, University of Southern California, Tokyo Institute of Technology, and Saitama Medical University was published in the journal Nature Physics Sept 15th. The paper is titled “Coherent quantum annealing in a programmable 2,000 qubit Ising chain” and is demonstrating “large-scale coherent quantum annealing” for the first time.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-022-01741-6
9/20 - The CEO of Sandbox AQ is optimistic about the quantum future if managed correctly and people should not have fear of it.
https://cybernews.com/tech/dont-fear-quantum-computers-rejoice-in-their-coming-says-tech-ceo/
9/20 - The Nvidia CEO sees quantum computing still two decades away and states that efforts are needed to be pre-quantum.
9/20 - A previous Caltech alumnus created an experiment to proof that quantum entanglement is really existing.
https://pma.caltech.edu/news/proving-that-quantum-entanglement-is-real
9/21 - Silicon Valley company PsiQuantum has a million qubit photonic quantum computer on its roadmap and wants to “outperform every supercomputer on the planet”. The statement shows that the startup is very confident in its own capabilities to deliver the announced solution.
9/28 - Atom Computing, another Bay Area startup, announced a new research and development facility in Boulder, CO. It is a huge step for the startup and Boulder towards the future of quantum computers. The announced $100 million investment was widely reported in tech, global and local press.
https://www.denverpost.com/2022/09/29/boulder-quantum-computing-atom-technology/
9/29 - Google’s QuantumAI lab was mentioned with an own article in https://phys.org/ to report about the activities of the lab and the utilization of quantum mechanics and application to quantum computing.
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-uncertainty-google-harnesses-quantum-mechanics.html
9/29 - The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) had a reason to celebrate as a first functioning superconducting qubit was developed. This success will now set a key milestone and help the field of quantum information science to get a further development boost.
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-superconducting-qubit-testbed-benefits-quantum.html
9/29 - What do women need to become successful in the quantum industry? Denise Ruffner of Atom Computing explains the five things to succeed.
10/5 - SandboxAQ is participating as investor in Qunnect’s Series A round as part of its “Strategic Investment Program”.
10/12 - Another woman of a West Coast quantum company was mentioned in the IQT “Women of Quantum Technology” article a few days ago. Jen Sovada of SandboxAQ has a huge impact on the public quantum sector in her role as Public Sector President and hopefully will push the U.S. to speed up in the quantum race against the competition.
10/12 - AWS and Goldman Sachs are partnering to work on “efficient ways to load data into quantum computers”.
10/14 - Keysight is testing different quantum technologies in their lab to work on innovations in the field and scale up for the future.
https://venturebeat.com/programming-development/quantum-computing-lab-testing-keysight-world/
There were a couple of different news about Intel’s quantum activities during the last month which are given here as a link summary.
https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/06/intel_spin_qubit_chips/
https://www.hpcwire.com/2022/10/11/intels-road-to-a-universal-quantum-computer-is-via-chiplets/