In a surprising new study, University of California, Berkeley, researchers show that heat energy can travel through a complete vacuum thanks to invisible quantum fluctuations. To conduct the challenging experiment, the team engineered extremely thin silicon nitride membranes, which they fabricated in a dust-free clean room, and then used optic and electronic components to preciselyContinue reading “Heat energy leaps through empty space, thanks to quantum weirdness”
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John Martinis, Former Head of Google’s Quantum Initiative and Tony Uttley, President of Honeywell Quantum Solutions discuss where the industry is heading
Quantum computing pioneer John Martinis may have moved on from Google’s quantum computing project, but he hasn’t moved on from his belief that quantum computers will take on real world challenges. The University of California Santa Barbara physicist told the participants of the BCI Summit, a virtual conference on the latest advances in quantum computing held yesterday, that, while challenges remain,Continue reading “John Martinis, Former Head of Google’s Quantum Initiative and Tony Uttley, President of Honeywell Quantum Solutions discuss where the industry is heading”
Quantum Workshop – 2 (4/12/2020)
活动介绍： 上次讨论会我们聊了量子计算的硬件的介绍，这次我们来聊一聊量子计算几个基本的算法：主要从量子傅里叶变换和Grover’s search两个算法来展开。大家如果有什么想要聊的其他话题，或者是想要跟大家分享的内容，也欢迎在这里提出来。考虑到特殊时期，我们这一次会在网上进行。 活动安排： 会议号 306 887 583 会议链接 https://meeting.tencent.com/s/5y2RNbKb54d9 电话入会 +8675536550000 (中国大陆) +85230018898 (中国香港) 开始时间 2020年04月12日 14:00 EST 预备知识： 话题按知识进阶顺序排序 同一个话题下阅读材料按详细程度由简到繁排序 基础阅读 1. unitary operations – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitary_matrix 2. quantum logic gates – https://www.quantiki.org/wiki/quantum-gates – https://towardsdatascience.com/demystifying-quantum-gates-one-qubit-at-a-time-54404ed80640 – Nielsen & Chuang Ch. 1.3 3. universal quantum gates – classical universal gates https://faculty.kfupm.edu.sa/COE/abouh/Lesson2_6.pdf – https://www.scottaaronson.com/qclec/16.pdf – Nielsen & ChuangContinue reading “Quantum Workshop – 2 (4/12/2020)”
Announcing TensorFlow Quantum: An Open Source Library for Quantum Machine Learning
“Nature isn’t classical, damnit, so if you want to make a simulation of nature, you’d better make it quantum mechanical.” — Physicist Richard Feynman Machine learning (ML), while it doesn’t exactly simulate systems in nature, has the ability to learn a model of a system and predict the system’s behavior. Over the past few years, classical MLContinue reading “Announcing TensorFlow Quantum: An Open Source Library for Quantum Machine Learning”