Quantum computing annual review. This non-technical video includes developments at IBM, Intel and Microsoft that may help to scale up the technology for future commercial application.
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REFERENCES
Specific sources shown or cited in this video are as follows:
Xanadu photonic quantum computing page:
https://xanadu.ai/photonics
Matthew Collins & Zachary Vernon (2020) “On the Road to Room Temperature Quantum Computation”, Medium, June 2nd 2020:
https://medium.com/xanaduai/on-the-road-to-room-temperature-quantum-computation-d1bd356dcf57
IBM quantum computing website:
https://www.ibm.com/quantum
IBM (2022) “Expanding the IBM Quantum roadmap to anticipate the future of quantum-centric supercomputing”, news release May 10th 2022:
https://research.ibm.com/blog/ibm-quantum-roadmap-2025
IBM (2022) “IBM Unveils New Roadmap to Practical Quantum Computing Era; Plans to Deliver 4,000+ Qubit System”, news release May 10th 2022:
https://newsroom.ibm.com/2022-05-10-IBM-Unveils-New-Roadmap-to-Practical-Quantum-Computing-Era-Plans-to-Deliver-4,000-Qubit-System
IBM (2022) “At what cost can we simulate large quantum circuits on small quantum computers?” [article on circuit knitting and other scaling techniques], May 10th 2022:
https://research.ibm.com/blog/circuit-knitting-with-classical-communication
IBM (2022) “IBM scientists help develop NIST’s quantum-safe standards, news release July 6th 2022:
https://research.ibm.com/blog/nist-quantum-safe-protocols
NIST (2022) “NIST Announces First Four Quantum-Resistant Cryptographic Algorithms”, news release, July 5th 2022:
https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2022/07/nist-announces-first-four-quantum-resistant-cryptographic-algorithms
Intel quantum computing web page:
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/research/quantum-computing.html
Intel (2022) “Intel and QuTech Collaborate to Produce Silicon Qubits at Scale”, news release, April 14th 2022:
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/intel-qutech-produce-silicon-qubits-at-scale.html#gs.6e4xts
A.M.J. Zwerver et al “Qubits made by advanced semiconductor manufacturing”, Nature Electronics, March 19th 2022). Page includes link to download pdf of complete article:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41928-022-00727-9
Microsoft Azure Quantum website:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/services/quantum/
Jennifer Langston (2022) “In a historic milestone, Azure Quantum demonstrates formerly elusive physics needed to build scalable topological qubits”, Microsoft Innovation story, March 14th 2022:
https://news.microsoft.com/innovation-stories/azure-quantum-majorana-topological-qubit/
Chetan Neyak (2022) “Microsoft has demonstrated the underlying physics required to create a new kind of qubit”, Microsoft research blog post of March 14th:
Microsoft has demonstrated the underlying physics required to create a new kind of qubit
Google Quantum AI website:
https://quantumai.google/
D-Wave Systems website:
https://www.dwavesys.com/
D-Wave (2022) “Ahead of the Game: D-Wave Delivers Prototype of Next-Generation Advantage2 Annealing Quantum Computer”, press release, 16th June 2022:
https://www.dwavesys.com/company/newsroom/press-release/ahead-of-the-game-d-wave-delivers-prototype-of-next-generation-advantage2-annealing-quantum-computer/
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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:43 Quantum Basics (and applications)
04:10 Quantum at IBM
08:10 Quantum Fabrication (Intel)
09:57 Topoligical Qubits (Microsoft)
11:47 Quantum Pioneers
13:21 Quantum Reality (scepticism)
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