Quantum computing

06 Dec 23

Artificial Intelligence is a Top Priority for Tech Leaders in 2024

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

With all the concern surrounding artificial intelligence, it’s no surprise that top tech leaders surveyed by IEEE chose AI as the most important technology for 2024.“The Impact of Technology in 2024 and Beyond: An IEEE Global Study” consulted 350 CIOs, CTOs, IT directors, and other technology leaders in Brazil, China,…

02 Dec 23

IBM Offers Quantum Error Suppression Out Of The Box

Computer & Information Technology

The error-prone nature of today’s quantum computers can make doing any useful computation on them a major headache. IBM has announced that, as of this past week, they have integrated error suppression technology from Q-CTRL into IBM cloud quantum services, letting users slash error rates by simply flicking a switch.…

15 Nov 23

Better Machine-Learning Models With Quantum Computers

Computer & Information Technology

Researchers at the quantum-computing company Terra Quantum have demonstrated improved training of machine-learning models by using a new method that combines the best features of classical and quantum computers. These results are a promising sign for the young field of quantum machine learning, which is slow to get off the…

13 Nov 23

Imperfect Clocks Limit Quantum Computers

Computer & Information Technology

The quantum computers that IBM, Google, Amazon and others are developing face daunting challenges on the road to practical applications. Now it turns out they may face a fundamental limit to large-scale performance—the imperfect nature of all clocks.Quantum computing can theoretically find answers to problems that classical computing would take…

30 Oct 23

Researchers Simplify Switching for Quantum Electronics

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Metallurgy & Material Science

A quantum cousin of the Hall effect could open the door to energy-efficient electronics, better sensors, and more-powerful quantum computers. Researchers have now broken a key barrier to its practical application by controlling the phenomenon electrically, rather than magnetically, for the first time. The Hall effect, discovered by physicist Edwin…

05 Oct 23

IonQ Unveils Rack-Mounted Quantum Computers

Computer & Information Technology

Today’s most powerful quantum computers are elaborate, bespoke machines that can take up entire rooms. IonQ says its new devices will be mounted in standard server racks and can slot seamlessly into any data center. Last week at Quantum World Congress in Tysons, Va. (just outside Washington, D.C.), the company…

05 Oct 23

Your Guide to the Newest Nobel Prize: Quantum Dots

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Today, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to scientists from MIT, Columbia University, and the New York–based company Nanocrystals Technology for “the development of quantum dots, nanoparticles so tiny that their size determines their properties.”It’s a welcome development. IEEE Spectrum has been following…

04 Oct 23

How Researchers Use Nvidia’s GPUs to Simulate Qubits

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Between integrating its Grace Hopper chip directly with a quantum processor and showing off the ability to simulate quantum systems on classical supercomputers, Nvidia is making waves in the quantum computing world this month.Nvidia is certainly well positioned to take advantage of the latter. It makes GPUs that supercomputers use,…

14 Sep 23

Smart Utility Meter Security Takes a Quantum Leap

Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Quantum computing has found a perhaps surprising new use: utility meters. Quantinuum, a merger between Honeywell Quantum Solutions and Cambridge Quantum that specializes in quantum computing, is helping build quantum-hardened cryptographic keys to secure Honeywell’s smart utility meters. The service, called Quantum Origin, uses quantum computers to generate large random…

13 Sep 23

How Tiny Schrödinger’s Cats Could Upend Quantum Again

Computer & Information Technology

The building blocks of quantum computers are often thought to imitate the famous thought experiment known as Schrödinger’s cat, in which quantum physics essentially suspends a cat in a box in a nebulous state between life and death: The cat only definitely becomes alive or dead when someone looks in…