Quantum News
When a Quantum Computer Is Able to Break Our Encryption, It Won't Be a Secret
13 Sep 2023: There is already more than enough reason to upgrade our communications systems to resist attacks from quantum computers as soon as possible. Even if completely unexpected attacks from a black-swan quantum computer are unlikely, attacks from known or suspected quantum computers would already be plenty bad enough.
read moreLaser Precision Qubit Control: Leap in Reliable Quantum Information Processing
11 Sep 2023: Researchers have pioneered a groundbreaking technique utilizing laser light to control individual qubits made of barium more robustly than any other method currently known. Reliably controlling qubits is a critical step towards actualizing functional quantum computers of the future.
read moreChinese breakthrough a step towards scalable quantum computation: paper
10 Sep 2023: Chinese scientists have made a significant breakthrough in the development of practical processors for quantum computers. Previous studies were only able to entangle two atoms at a time, but the team was able to entangle eight and 10 ultracold atoms in two-dimensional blocks and one-dimensional chains respectively.
read moreCheckmate! Quantum Computing Breakthrough Via Scalable Quantum Dot Chessboard
04 Sep 2023: Researchers at QuTech, a collaboration between the Delft University of Technology and TNO, have developed a new method for addressing quantum dots that could enable the operation of larger gate-defined quantum dot systems. The method uses a chessboard-like approach, where quantum dots are addressed using a combination …
read moreIBM makes major leap in quantum computing error-detection
29 Aug 2023: IBM researchers have developed a system that improves error-detection in quantum computing, a major obstacle to its advancement. Quantum computers are highly sensitive to noise and prone to errors in their qubits. Unlike standard computer bits, qubits cannot be cloned without introducing errors. The researchers have …
read moreQuantum Machines Introduces OPX1000: The Quantum Control Solution for Large-Scale Quantum Computing
29 Aug 2023: Quantum Machines has launched its new advanced quantum control solution, OPX1000, which offers industry-leading performance metrics including feedback capabilities, runtime, analog performance, and channel density. The modular quantum controller is designed to scale control of quantum computers to 1000 qubits and …
read morePost-Quantum Cryptography: CISA, NIST, and NSA Recommend How to Prepare Now
21 Aug 2023: The National Security Agency (NSA), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) warned that cyber actors could target our nation’s most sensitive information now and leverage future quantum computing technology to break traditional …
read moreFederal Reserve Warns Congress About Quantum Threats
16 Aug 2023: The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System sees a host of emerging technological threats to the financial system — quantum computing’s ability to crack current cybersecurity schemes is one of them.
read moreIndia to get "million qubit" quantum computing-focused data center
14 Aug 2023: The Uttar Pradesh Government in India has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Innogress and GAN Tech UK to establish the Indraprastha Quantum Data Center (IQDC), a new data center dedicated to quantum computing. The IQDC aims to house a million-qubit-powered quantum computer, although no exact deadline for the …
read moreGoogle Chrome to shield encryption keys from promised quantum computers
12 Aug 2023: Google is deploying a hybrid key encapsulation mechanism (KEM) in its Chrome browser to protect the sharing of encryption secrets during the establishment of secure network connections. The new system, called X25519Kyber768, combines the X25519 elliptic curve algorithm and Kyber-768, a quantum-resistant cryptographic …
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