OneQuantum USA West Coast - September 15th Newsletter
Hello from the West Coast Chapter to mid-September
Time is passing fast, the quantum scene is developing to next levels. Many global quantum news were published globally during the last couple of weeks and new breakthroughs to expect. There were some talks about a “quantum winter”, my statement to this topic is that compared to the general technology lifecycle, we are at the very early “quantum spring”. Spring has of course colder days and warmer days, but the long term tendency is definitely upwards!
An interesting article is expressing the lifecycle similar but with a comparison to the petrol car in the early 1900s and was published in the Financial Times 9/8:
https://www.ft.com/content/d039137c-0825-40c1-84db-30e7027d8aff
The World Economic Forum just published the latest state of quantum computing in a detailed study 9/13:
https://www.weforum.org/reports/state-of-quantum-computing-building-a-quantum-economy/
General words said, now moving on to the chapter region.
Information about the U.S. West Coast region
Santa Barbara, CA
Why has this city a specific meaning for the quantum technology field in the West Coast region? The city is located just about 2 hours north of LA and has a total population of less than 100.000. A quite small city and it could or should be assumed not too much is going on there. We will check now:
Nr. 1 - University of California Santa Barbara
The Quantum Foundry at UCSB was created through the Q-AMASE-i initiative of the National Science Foundation in 2019 and is working on natively entangled materials, interfaced topological states, and coherent quantum interfaces. Additionally, UCSB has the Microsoft Station Q lab at its campus, see Nr. 3.
https://quantumfoundry.ucsb.edu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,_Santa_Barbara
Nr. 2 - Google Quantum AI Lab
Google has its Quantum AI Campus and first quantum data center on-site at Santa Barbara.
https://quantumai.google/hardware/our-lab
https://quantumai.google/research
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Artificial_Intelligence_Lab
Nr. 3 - Microsoft
As mentioned above in Nr. 1, at the campus of UCSB, Microsoft has its Station Q Lab where they work on a topological quantum computing approach.
https://news.microsoft.com/stories/stationq/
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/research-area/quantum-computing/?
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/solutions/quantum-computing/#quantum-impact
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/topological-quantum-computing/
It is obvious now, Santa Barbara is an important hub for quantum technologies at the West Coast. Not only the university’s Quantum Foundry itself, but two big tech companies and key players in quantum computing are located in the city with quantum labs and development. It can be stated that the impact towards quantum technologies has far more reach than just the region.
Events at the U.S. West Coast region
9/16 - 9/17 Transatlantic Quantum Forum
For two days, the Transatlantic Quantum Forum will be hosted at different locations with a virtual connection. One location is the University of California Los Angeles. An existing event for the chapter region with transatlantic scale.
https://samueli.ucla.edu/upcoming-events/transatlantic-quantum-forum-2022/
https://law.ucla.edu/events/transatlantic-quantum-forum
https://law.yale.edu/isp/events/transatlantic-quantum-forum
https://www.hfp.tum.de/hfp/aktuelles/article/tum-think-tank-transatlantic-quantum-forum/
News of the U.S. West Coast region
8/17 - Physicists met in Vancouver, CA to talk about quantum mechanics and general relativity. The goal was to find ways to unite both theories to one quantum gravity theory which is also called “theory of everything”.
https://globalnews.ca/news/9067468/physicists-quantum-gravity-conference-vancouver/
8/18 - SandboxAQ, the Alphabet (Google) spin-off headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, is making an effort to hire previous military members for tech careers.
8/24 - An interesting read in Physics Today about “neutral atoms” used to build a quantum computing platform. One paragraph is referring to the Berkeley, CA based company Atom Computing. The company published a relevant pater to the subject in May earlier this year.
https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/pt.6.1.20220824a/full/
8/24 - Q-CTRL, based in Pasadena, CA, launched a new division to work on advanced software defined quantum sensors.
8/30 - A talk about Microsoft’s path towards quantum advantage and a scalable quantum computer.
9/9 - D-Wave, based in Burnaby, BC, was mentioned as quantum computing systems leader in the Digital Journal.
https://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/d-wave-quantum-nyse-qbts-heralding-next-wave-of-computing
9/12 - A new research alliance between Harvard University and Amazon Web Services (AWS) is working on technology to realize the quantum internet.
9/14 - SandboxAQ acquired Cryptosense Security Solutions to accelerate their roadmap and to deliver enhanced AI and quantum technology solutions.
https://www.sandboxaq.com/post/why-cryptosense-is-joining-sandboxaq
