OneQuantum USA West Coast - December 15th Newsletter
In the West Coast chapter region, we have the city of Pasadena (Los Angeles County, CA). Pasadena has an iconic city hall and other beautiful buildings. Next to the beauty of the city, the university “California Institute of Technology” is located there.
https://www.cityofpasadena.net/
Caltech, how the university if mostly called, has an outstanding profile. To date, already 47 Nobel Prizes have been awarded to Caltech alumni or faculty. https://www.caltech.edu/about/legacy/awards-and-honors/nobel-laureates
In the tech scene, at least William B. Shockley should be well known. He was one of the fathers of Silicon Valley, if not “the father of Silicon Valley”.
“Shockley is the man who brought silicon to Silicon Valley”, this is how it was apparently declared.
https://engelsbergideas.com/portraits/william-shockley-accidental-inventor-of-silicon-valley/
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1956/shockley/facts/
https://cosmosmagazine.com/technology/william-shockley-gets-lost-in-silicon-valley/
Another Nobel Laureate of Caltech, Richard P. Feynman, should be especially well known in the quantum tech scene. In 1965, Feynman, Sino-Itiro Tomonaga, and Julian Schwinger were awarded with the Nobel Prize “for their fundamental work on quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles”.
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1965/feynman/facts/
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1965/summary/
https://www.nature.com/articles/milephotons06
Peter Shor, a Caltech alumnus, created the quantum algorithm to factor large numbers in a very short time. He recently won the “2023 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics” together with David Deutsch (University of Oxford), Charles Bennett (IBM Research), and Gilles Brassard (University of Montreal).
https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/caltech-physicists-win-new-horizons-in-physics-prize
https://quantum-computing.ibm.com/composer/docs/iqx/guide/shors-algorithm
https://news.mit.edu/2022/shor-spielman-breakthrough-prize-0922
John Preskill, Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at Caltech, said about Shor’s Algorithm: “When I heard about this, I was awestruck”. He got hooked into “the theory of quantum information, quantum computing, and quantum error correction” around the mid-1990s.
https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/notes-back-row-quantum-entanglement-and-quantum-computing-39378
https://pma.caltech.edu/people/john-p-preskill
http://theory.caltech.edu/~preskill/
https://magazine.caltech.edu/post/iqim-quantum-john-preskill
In 1998, Jeff Kimble, William L. Valentine Professor of Physics Emeritus, achieved “quantum teleportation”. It was the “first true teleportation of a quantum state”.
In October 2021, Caltech and Amazon partnered to establish a “Hub of Quantum Computing”.
https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/caltech-and-amazon-partner-to-create-new-hub-of-quantum-computing
In March 2022, Caltech hosted the largest “Quantum Information Conference”.
https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/caltech-hosts-largest-quantum-information-conference
https://qipconference.org/previousqips
In November 2022, Caltech published that Maria Spiropulu, Shang-Yi Ch’en Professor of Physics at Caltech, participated in research to “observe wormhole dynamics using a quantum computer”. Outcome is that “a special kind of theoretical wormhole” can be studied.
https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/physicists-observe-wormhole-dynamics-using-a-quantum-computer
https://www.pma.caltech.edu/people/maria-spiropulu
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05424-3
Caltech has various quantum related activities
Quantum science related topics are explained at this page from quantum physics to quantum technologies:
https://scienceexchange.caltech.edu/topics/quantum-science-explained
Institute for Quantum Information and Matter:
Caltech Quantum Information Association:
https://www.caltechquantum.com/
Quantum Science and Engineering:
https://qse.caltech.edu/qse-research-groups
Events at the U.S. West Coast region
12/6 - 12/8 - The Q2B was held in Silicon Valley at Santa Clara Convention Center this year and various speakers were from West Coast based organizations.
https://q2b.qcware.com/2022-conferences/silicon-valley/speakers/
News of the U.S. West Coast region
11/18 - U.S. Air Force is partnering with SandboxAQ to work on quantum cryptography.
https://venturebeat.com/security/us-air-force-post-quantum-cryptography/
11/18 - Google is introducing quantum safe protection for internal communications.
11/23 - Intel is progressing towards manufacturing of quantum chips.
11/28 - Tata Consultancy Services opened the “TCS Quantum Computing Lab on AWS”. TCS customers can explore quantum computing with this new service.
https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/aws-re-invent-tcs-aws-partner-on-quantum-computing
12/1 - PsiQuantum announced a breakthrough to implement a more fault tolerant quantum computation.
12/6 - Bleximo Corp. is expanding from Berkeley, CA to the Albany NanoTech Complex in Albany, NY.