It's a short week for many, but the quantum news cycle never sleeps. Here are a few tasty quantum bits suitable for pairing with Thanksgiving leftovers:
...It could be many years before we see quantum computing become a mainstream part of everyday life, so it makes sense for a company like Dell Technologies to lean into a strategy of hybrid classical-quantum computing. Dell has been positioning itself in the hybrid realm for months, but this week advanced its efforts by revealing that it had worked with trapped-ion quantum computing firm IonQ to test a hybrid platform that pairs Dell’s EMC PowerEdge R740xd server with IonQ’s simulation engine and quantum processing unit (QPU) “to better enable the journey to hybrid classical-quantum solutions,” Dell said in a blog post. “With the platform, classical and quantum simulation workloads can execute on-premises, while quantum workloads, such as modeling larger, more complex molecules for pharmacological development, can be executed remotely on IonQ QPUs. Further, wait time for each quantum circuit execution is reduced significantly by IonQ’s reservation API…”
...The Guardian reported that England wants to “go big” on quantum computing, with plans to secure 50% of the global market by 2040. It’s not really clear what that means, but it is clear that the phrase “space race” still applies to the quantum market, with individual countries trying to promote the achievements of their universities, research institutions and naive commercial firms. Looking forward to when this matures to cold, unforgiving, it’s-business-not-personal competition between corporate giants…
...Speaking of foreign affairs, some Chinese companies from the quantum realm made the U.S. Department of Commerce’s updated blacklist…
...A Brown University research team is taking a closer look at “quasi-particles” called anyons to see if they might be of use in quantum computing…
...Bluefors, the Finnish company that earned a partnership with IBM to be a big part of Big Blue quantum computing future, officially unveiled its new Kide platform, which IBM will be using in its Quantum System Two platform…
...DARPA and NASA are working together on quantum technologies that could be used in new military sensor systems, among other things…
Watch for our weekly quantum update reports on future Friday afternoons...