Qiskit-Braket provider v0.11: New Primitives and Flexible Circuit Compilation We recently released v0.11 of the Qiskit-Braket provider, which brings more Qiskit features to Amazon Braket users, improves access to Braket backends through Qiskit, and also enables compilation on the Braket SDK or with OpenQASM Programs. With v0.11, the Qiskit-Braket provider now: Supports flexib

Qiskit-Braket provider v0.11: New Primitives and Flexible Circuit Compilation

This update represents a significant step toward quantum software interoperability, allowing developers to seamlessly use Qiskit's powerful development tools while accessing Amazon Braket's diverse...

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Ultrafast laser pulses bring diamond-based quantum internet closer to reality The controlled generation of single photons is an essential element of numerous quantum technology applications, such as quantum networks and quantum computing. A research team has now demonstrated the successful application of the new SUPER (Swing-UP of the quantum EmitteR population) method. The a

Ultrafast laser pulses bring diamond-based quantum internet closer to reality

This breakthrough in controlled single photon generation using diamond-based quantum emitters represents a significant step toward practical quantum networks, as reliable single photon sources are...

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Local droplet etching yields more symmetric quantum dots for integrated photonics Light-based quantum technologies, such as quantum communication and photonic quantum computing, require reliable sources of individual photons and, ideally, pairs of entangled photons. Semiconductor quantum dots are promising candidates for this purpose. These nanostructures have electrical conducti

Local droplet etching yields more symmetric quantum dots for integrated photonics

This breakthrough in quantum dot fabrication addresses a critical bottleneck in scaling photonic quantum systems - the challenge of creating identical, high-quality single photon sources that can...

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IonQ | IonQ Awarded Spot on $151B MDA SHIELD IDIQ Defense Contract IonQ joins the Missile Defense Agency’s SHIELD IDIQ contract to provide advanced quantum computing, networking, and sensing solutions for U.S. national security.

IonQ | IonQ Awarded Spot on $151B MDA SHIELD IDIQ Defense Contract

This contract award signals quantum computing's rapid transition from research curiosity to critical national security infrastructure, with IonQ's trapped-ion systems now positioned to tackle...

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Pathways to a career in quantum: what skills do you need?

This article captures insights from a timely careers event that addresses one of quantum computing's most pressing challenges: building a skilled workforce for the rapidly expanding industry.

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Washington Begins to Treat Quantum Technology as a Strategic Priority

This article signals a crucial shift as quantum technology moves from research curiosity to national security imperative in Washington's policy circles.

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Getting the Most from Your Quantum Measurements: Adaptive Shot Allocation on Amazon Braket With current noisy quantum hardware, every quantum circuit evaluation is precious. Variational quantum algorithms like the Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) require repeated estimation of expectation values of quantum observables—each requiring multiple shots, or measurements of quantum states.

Getting the Most from Your Quantum Measurements: Adaptive Shot Allocation on Amazon Braket

This AWS article tackles one of the most practical challenges facing quantum algorithm developers today: how to squeeze maximum value from limited quantum measurements...

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Quantum Cryptography Pioneers Win Turing Award Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard were recognized for their foundational work in quantum information science. The post Quantum Cryptography Pioneers Win Turing Award first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Quantum Cryptography Pioneers Win Turing Award

This recognition marks a pivotal moment for quantum computing, as Bennett and Brassard's groundbreaking BB84 protocol from 1984 essentially birthed the field of quantum cryptography and demonstrated the first practical...

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Einstein’s recoiling slit experiment realized at the quantum limit

This fascinating experiment brings one of Einstein's century-old thought experiments into the quantum realm, using a single trapped atom to demonstrate the fundamental wave-particle duality that lies at the...

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Majorana qubits decoded in quantum computing breakthrough Scientists have developed a new way to read the hidden states of Majorana qubits, which store information in paired quantum modes that resist noise. The results confirm their protected nature and show millisecond scale coherence, bringing robust quantum computers closer to reality.

Majorana qubits decoded in quantum computing breakthrough

This breakthrough represents a crucial step toward fault-tolerant quantum computing, as Majorana qubits have long been theorized to offer natural protection against the noise that plagues current...

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A tiny light trap could unlock million qubit quantum computers A new light-based breakthrough could help quantum computers finally scale up. Stanford researchers created miniature optical cavities that efficiently collect light from individual atoms, allowing many qubits to be read at once. The team has already demonstrated working arrays with dozens and even h

A tiny light trap could unlock million qubit quantum computers

This breakthrough tackles one of quantum computing's most stubborn scaling challenges: how to efficiently read information from large arrays of qubits without losing precious quantum data in the...

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On the stability to noise of fermion-to-qubit mappings

This research tackles a crucial challenge for near-term quantum computers simulating fermionic systems like molecules and materials: how different ways of encoding fermions onto qubits affect their...

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Neural Belief-Matching Decoding for Topological Quantum Error Correction Codes

This research tackles one of quantum computing's most fundamental challenges by applying neural networks to improve error correction in topological quantum...

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Scalable quantum circuit generation for iterative ground state approximation using Majorana Propagation

This work tackles one of quantum computing's most promising near-term applications - finding ground states of molecular systems - by...

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Sub-nanometer resolution of the nitrogen-vacancy center by Fourier magnetic imaging

This breakthrough in nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center imaging achieves an extraordinary feat: localizing individual quantum spins in diamond with sub-nanometer precision, roughly the size of a few...

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Dynamical Evolution of Quantum Correlations and Decoherence in Coupled Oscillators Interacting with a Thermal Reservoir

This research provides crucial insights into how quantum information degrades in realistic noisy environments, which is fundamental to understanding the...

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Quantum-Guided Cluster Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization This post was contributed by Peter Eder, Aron Kerschbaumer, Jernej Rudi Finžgar, Raimel Medina, Martin Schuetz, Helmut Katzgraber, Sarah Braun, and Christian Mendl. Optimizing complex systems is a major challenge in science and industry. Many tasks – such as scheduling, routing, portfolio selection,

Quantum-Guided Cluster Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization

This AWS research introduces a promising hybrid approach that leverages quantum algorithms to guide classical cluster-based optimization methods, potentially offering a practical pathway to quantum advantage in...

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IonQ | IonQ & University of Cambridge Launch Quantum Innovation Centre

This partnership represents a significant milestone for UK quantum research infrastructure, as Cambridge gains access to one of the most advanced trapped-ion quantum systems currently...

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Walton Institute at SETU And Q*Bird Deploy Ireland’s First QKD Network With Expandable Architecture

This deployment marks a significant milestone for Ireland's quantum infrastructure development, establishing the country's first operational...

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SEEQC Reports Integrated Qubit Control Logic Operating at Millikelvin Temperatures

This breakthrough represents a significant step toward solving one of quantum computing's most persistent engineering challenges: the massive overhead of classical control...

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Building advanced quantum chemistry calculations with Kvantify Qrunch on Amazon Braket Quantum computing promises breakthroughs in chemistry simulations. However, building scalable calculations on today’s noisy quantum hardware remains challenging. This blog introduces Kvantify Qrunch software on Amazon Braket. It enables advanced chemistry calculations using efficient hybrid quantum

Building advanced quantum chemistry calculations with Kvantify Qrunch on Amazon Braket

This article highlights a crucial step toward making quantum chemistry simulations practical on today's NISQ devices, addressing one of quantum...

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The Download: Quantum computing for health, and why the world doesn’t recycle more nuclear waste

This article highlights a significant $5 million prize competition aimed at demonstrating quantum computing's potential to tackle real-world healthcare challenges, marking a...

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Google Quantum AI Adopts Dual-Modality Strategy with Neutral Atom Expansion

Google's decision to pursue both superconducting and neutral atom quantum computing platforms represents a significant strategic pivot that acknowledges the...

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Error mitigation on Amazon Braket with program sets and Mitiq To get the most out of today’s noisy quantum computers, quantum computational experiments commonly utilize quantum error mitigation (QEM) techniques. These methods include discarding known noisy results (post selection), modifying underlying pulse sequences, amplifying noise within a quantum circuit

Error mitigation on Amazon Braket with program sets and Mitiq

This article highlights Amazon's integration of Mitiq, an open-source quantum error mitigation library, with their Braket cloud platform, making advanced noise reduction techniques more accessible to quantum...

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Reservoir computing on an analog Rydberg-atom quantum computer This post shows how quantum reservoir computing (QRC) can tackle machine learning challenges using Rydberg-atom quantum computers. Readers will learn how QRC works, see its performance on image classification and time series prediction tasks, and understand when it outperforms classical methods—part

Reservoir computing on an analog Rydberg-atom quantum computer

This article demonstrates a fascinating convergence between quantum computing and machine learning through quantum reservoir computing, a technique that leverages the natural dynamics of quantum systems...

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‘Quantum Telepathy’ Could Tap Near-Term Quantum Computers For Real-World Applications

This article highlights how quantum entanglement could transition from a fundamental physics phenomenon to a practical tool for coordination problems in distributed systems.

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Designing Intuitive Dashboards for Hybrid Quantum-Classical Operations

This article addresses a crucial but often overlooked aspect of quantum computing's practical deployment: the human interface challenge that emerges as hybrid quantum-classical workflows...

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Can quantum computers now solve health care problems? We’ll soon find out. I’m standing in front of a quantum computer built out of atoms and light at the UK’s National Quantum Computing Centre on the outskirts of Oxford. On a laboratory table, a complex matrix of mirrors and lenses surrounds a Rubik’s Cube–size cell where 100 cesium atoms are suspended in grid formation b

Can quantum computers now solve health care problems? We’ll soon find out.

This article highlights a pivotal moment where quantum computing is transitioning from laboratory curiosity to real-world problem solving, with healthcare emerging as one of the most promising application...

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Superconducting quantum processor performs well with significantly less wiring Quantum computers, computing systems that process information using quantum mechanical effects, could outperform classical computers on some computational tasks. These computers rely on qubits, the basic units of quantum information, which can exist in multiple states (0, 1 or both simultaneously),

Superconducting quantum processor performs well with significantly less wiring

This breakthrough addresses one of quantum computing's most pressing engineering challenges: the "wiring problem" where each qubit traditionally requires multiple control and readout lines, creating...

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Low Latency GNN Accelerator for Quantum Error Correction

This work tackles one of quantum computing's most pressing bottlenecks: the microsecond deadline for quantum error correction in superconducting systems, where any delay means...

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