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U.S. Business Launched by Quantum Computing Company, D-Wave Systems

D-Wave Systems Inc., the world's first commercial quantum computing company, today announced the formal launch of its U.S. business. Industry expert and supercomputing veteran, Robert "Bo" Ewald will lead the U.S. business as President and will head up global customer operations as the company's Chief Revenue Officer. New offices and R&D facilities have opened in Palo Alto, California and others are expected in the near future.

3 May 2013

Global Quantum Internet Closer to Reality

An Australian team led by researchers at the University of New South Wales has achieved a breakthrough in quantum science that brings the prospect of a network of ultra-powerful quantum computers - connected via a quantum internet –closer to reality.

2 May 2013

Novel Technique to Manipulate Electronic Spin of Qubits Using Light Pulses

By using light, researchers at UC Santa Barbara have manipulated the quantum state of a single atomic-sized defect in diamond –– the nitrogen-vacancy center –– in a method that not only allows for more unified control than conventional processes, but is more versatile, and opens up the possibility of exploring new solid-state quantum systems. Their results are published in the latest edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences.

2 May 2013

GridCOM to Develop Future-Proof Quantum Encryption Communications Solution with Seed Funding

GridCOM Technologies, Inc. has secured seed funding to develop its "future-proof" quantum encryption solution that protects vulnerable communications between millions of automation devices currently controlling the electrical grid.

26 Apr 2013

New Protocol Supports 'Noisy Network' Approach for Advancing Quantum Computers

Quantum physics promises faster computations but today's most advanced quantum computers operate with fewer than 20 quantum bits (qubits). To realise the technology's full potential will require much larger machines, and researchers are busy planning how to build them. A new protocol designed by researchers in Singapore and the UK lends support to a 'noisy network' approach. The work is published in Nature Communications.

24 Apr 2013

UNSW Engineers Demonstrate Quantum Bit Based on Nucleus of Single Atom

A team of Australian engineers at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) has demonstrated a quantum bit based on the nucleus of a single atom in silicon, promising dramatic improvements for data processing in ultra-powerful quantum computers of the future.

18 Apr 2013

Control of Quantum State Provides a Viable Path towards a Practical Quantum Computer

To maneuver a car into a parking spot parallel to the road can be quite a challenge. It would be an easy task, of course, if only the vehicle could move sideways.

18 Apr 2013

TEDMEDLive Bristol to Discuss Role of Quantum Computing in Drug Development

Could the quantum computing revolution transform drug development, are there new approaches for improving sleep and do people benefit from being diagnosed with early-stage dementia? These are some of the questions that will be discussed at the first TEDMEDLive Bristol event at the MShed on Thursday [18 April].

17 Apr 2013

UChicago Spintronics Researcher Elected to the European Academy of Sciences

David D. Awschalom is a newly elected member of the European Academy of Sciences. The Academy, which elects relatively few non-European scientists, bases its selections on pioneering new research fields that have substantial scientific impact.

12 Apr 2013

Researchers Determine Time Needed for Quantum Information to Propagate across Bose-Einstein Condensates

Quantum computers promise to perform certain types of operations much more quickly than conventional digital computers. But many challenges must be addressed before these ultra-fast machines become available, among them, the loss of order in the systems – a problem known as quantum decoherence – which worsens as the number of bits in a quantum computer increases.

12 Apr 2013