by Jonathan Baker and Fred Chong on Aug 31, 2021 | Tags: Quantum Computing
Despite quantum computing (QC) being an emerging technology, it is critical to consider new emerging technologies for this paradigm. Current machines, constructed from superconducting transmons or trapped ions, have demonstrated impressive success recently but it is...
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by Gokul Subramanian Ravi, Kaitlin N. Smith, and Fred Chong on Feb 4, 2021 | Tags: Conference, Quantum Computing, Workshop
In the three years since our first quantum computing Sigarch blog post, there have been considerable disruptive advancements across the quantum computing stack, coupled with widespread increase in enthusiasm across the classical community. On the technological...
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by Yongshan Ding and Fred Chong on Jul 21, 2020 | Tags: Quantum Computing
Recent progress in quantum computer (QC) systems has been impressive — state-of-the-art devices offer increasing memory size (qubit count) and reliability (decoherence time). A most recent example is from IBM’s announcement on their six new superconducting...
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by Bill Fefferman and Fred Chong on Feb 11, 2020 | Tags: Emerging Technology, Quantum Computing
Much of the recent explosion in interest in quantum computing has been driven by the arrival of the “Near-term Intermediate Scale Quantum” era (abbreviated “NISQ”), in which several experimental groups in academic and industrial labs are now able to implement quantum...
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by Yunong Shi, Chris Chamberland, Andrew Cross, and Fred Chong on Sep 23, 2019 | Tags: Quantum Computing, Reliability
Continuing with our thread on looking past abstractions in quantum computing, guest bloggers Yunong Shi from EPiQC and Christopher Chamberland and Andrew Cross from IBM examine how to make qubits fault tolerant by exploiting more of the physical state space available...
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