Quantum Computing Now

In which Matthew Weiss and I talk about quantum spheres and Amir Ebrahimi and I talk about visualizing pulse generation. Spheres on Github: https://github.com/heyredhat/spheres Matt’s website: https://heyredhat.github.io/ Brooklyn Quantum Computing Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/brooklyn_quantum/ IBM Open Science Prize: https://www.ibmquantumawards.com/#/event Qiskit Pulse: https://qiskit.org/textbook/ch-quantum-hardware/calibrating-qubits-pulse.html Rigetti Quil-T Waveforms: https://pyquil-docs.rigetti.com/en/stable/quilt_waveforms.html Q-CTRL: https://q-ctrl.com/ Qonduit: https://github.com/adgt/qonduit Pulsemaker tool (part of Amir’s project): https://github.com/adgt/pulsemaker pyQuirk: https://github.com/adgt/pyQuirk Episode 43 of That’s Cool News: https://thatscoolnews.com/episode/43-quantum-computing-basics-future-and-mixing-with-other-tech-ethan-hansen/ Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com https://www.minds.com/1ethanhansen/ 1ethanhansen@protonmail.com https://thequantumdaily.com/ QRL: Q0106000c95fe7c29fa6fc841ab9820888d807f41d4a99fc4ad9ec5510a5334c72ef8d0f8c44698 Monero: 47e9C55PhuWDksWL9BRoJZ2N5c6FwP9EFUcbWmXZS8AWfazgxZVeaw7hZZmXXhf3VQgodWKwVq629YC32tEd1STkStwfh5Y Ethereum: 0x9392079Eb419Fa868a8929ED595bd3A85397085B

In which Brandon and I spend a while chatting about his experience with the Quantum Open Source Foundation Mentorship program (which you can apply for now!), and the project he worked on as part of that. Make sure you listen until we start trying to describe code over audio ;) APPLY FOR THE QOSF MENTORSHIP PROGRAM NOW: https://qosf.org/qc_mentorship/ Coding with Qiskit Season 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1NZC5rqQD8&list=PLOFEBzvs-Vvp2xg9-POLJhQwtVktlYGbY SuperPostion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UvtyzMrqII&list=PLOFEBzvs-VvqBTjGFWzqc632tYTWst_CH QC Opporunities: https://gitlab.com/1ethanhansen/Quantum-Computing-Opportunities Tequila Dev Branch: https://github.com/aspuru-guzik-group/tequila/tree/devel Tequila+Tensorflow Tutorial: https://github.com/aspuru-guzik-group/tequila-tutorials/blob/main/Tensorflow_Interface.ipynb Tequila arXiv paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.03057 QCN with Abraham Asfaw: https://anchor.fm/quantumcomputingnow/episodes/Abraham-Asfaw--Episode-11-Interview-ecsvmf QCN with Michał: https://anchor.fm/quantumcomputingnow/episodes/Micha-Stchy-and-QOSF--Episode-21-Hybrid-ej5e2u QCN with Amira: https://anchor.fm/quantumcomputingnow/episodes/Amira-Abbas---Episode-6-Interview-e8n2ud QCN with Mike: https://anchor.fm/quantumcomputingnow/episodes/Mike-Strike-and-the-Quantum-Resistant-Ledger--Episode-26-Hybrid-eo9m78 QCN with John: https://anchor.fm/quantumcomputingnow/episodes/John-Prisco-and-Quantum-Cryptography--Episode-20-Hybrid-eit1s1 Brandon’s github profile: https://github.com/MIBbrandon QCN AMA Strawpoll: https://strawpoll.com/sud1jou4d Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com https://www.minds.com/1ethanhansen/ 1ethanhansen@protonmail.com https://thequantumdaily.com/ QRL: Q0106000c95fe7c29fa6fc841ab9820888d807f41d4a99fc4ad9ec5510a5334c72ef8d0f8c44698 Monero: 47e9C55PhuWDksWL9BRoJZ2N5c6FwP9EFUcbWmXZS8AWfazgxZVeaw7hZZmXXhf3VQgodWKwVq629YC32tEd1STkStwfh5Y Ethereum: 0x9392079Eb419Fa868a8929ED595bd3A85397085B

In which Mike and I talk about the reasons trust is so important in bitcoin & blockchain, how quantum computers could erode that trust, and why QRL allows that trust to be maintained, even in the face of a quantum threat. Blog with a little talk about quadratic speedup maybe not being enough: https://www.zapatacomputing.com/q2b-2020-in-8-minutes/ QRL YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/QRLedger QRL Website: https://www.theqrl.org/ QRL Discord: https://discord.gg/jBT6BEp VQA overview: https://web.archive.org/web/20201218173159/https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.09265.pdf I’ve started the Quantum Computing guild on Ruqqus, a reddit alternative: https://ruqqus.com/+QuantumComputing Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com https://www.minds.com/1ethanhansen/ 1ethanhansen@protonmail.com https://thequantumdaily.com/ QRL: Q0106000c95fe7c29fa6fc841ab9820888d807f41d4a99fc4ad9ec5510a5334c72ef8d0f8c44698 Monero: 47e9C55PhuWDksWL9BRoJZ2N5c6FwP9EFUcbWmXZS8AWfazgxZVeaw7hZZmXXhf3VQgodWKwVq629YC32tEd1STkStwfh5Y Ethereum: 0x9392079Eb419Fa868a8929ED595bd3A85397085B

In which David Gunnarsson and I talk about Dilution Refrigerators and what Bluefors does. What does Bluefors do? They make Dilution Refrigerators. Bluefors on thequantumdaily.com: https://thequantumdaily.com/?s=bluefors Bluefors website: https://bluefors.com/ Bluefors Twitter: https://twitter.com/bluefors_ltd Bluefors YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCazdtsAB-MFq3uyDEY7Ttdg/videos Dilution Refrigerators on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilution_refrigerator Bluefors horizontal fridge: https://bluefors.com/products/lh-horizontal-dilution-refrigerator/ Cool technology enables quantum computing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Dx8TusDMB8 Bluefors LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bluefors-cryogenics Bluefors Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bluefors_oy/ Bluefors Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Bluefors-Cryogenics-Oy-1379443058756958/ Spotify Wrapped: https://wrappedforpodcasters.byspotify.com/?id=fdbc91264dbd6155485a54d7fae73c4b265d9402a71ca1157e8f3833a240a351&utm_source=share_link&utm_medium=referral Quantum Chess: https://quantumchess.net Quantum Chess on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/453870/Quantum_Chess/ Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com https://www.minds.com/1ethanhansen/ 1ethanhansen@protonmail.com https://thequantumdaily.com/ QRL: Q0106000c95fe7c29fa6fc841ab9820888d807f41d4a99fc4ad9ec5510a5334c72ef8d0f8c44698 Monero: 47e9C55PhuWDksWL9BRoJZ2N5c6FwP9EFUcbWmXZS8AWfazgxZVeaw7hZZmXXhf3VQgodWKwVq629YC32tEd1STkStwfh5Y Ethereum: 0x9392079Eb419Fa868a8929ED595bd3A85397085B

Amir (VP of R&D at Classiq, a quantum software startup) and I talk about how Quantum Volume is measured and how we in the public should interpret the results that come from it. While the metric does have some flaws, it’s still a good general-purpose single-number way to compare devices. IBM announces 65 qubit machine: https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2020/09/hardware-aware-quantum/ IBM Planning on 1000 (physical) qubits by 2023: https://thequantumdaily.com/2020/09/15/ibms-quantum-roadmap-points-toward-1000-qubit-quantum-computer-by-2023/ IBM, Honeywell, and IonQ are in a running gun battle for “highest quantum volume device” https://thequantumdaily.com/2020/08/20/ibm-says-company-achieved-highest-quantum-volume-to-date/ https://thequantumdaily.com/2020/10/01/honeywell-reports-achieving-quantum-volume-128-on-companys-quantum-computer/ https://thequantumdaily.com/2020/10/02/ionq-unveils-new-32-qubit-quantum-computer/ Megaprocessor: https://hackaday.com/2016/07/06/42300-transistor-megaprocessor-is-complete/ From NAND to Tetris on Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/learn/build-a-computer IBM Quantum Volume Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1811.12926.pdf Classiq Website: https://www.classiq.io/ Amir’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amir-naveh-6bb61571 Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com https://www.minds.com/1ethanhansen/ 1ethanhansen@protonmail.com https://thequantumdaily.com/ QRL: Q0106000c95fe7c29fa6fc841ab9820888d807f41d4a99fc4ad9ec5510a5334c72ef8d0f8c44698 Monero: 47e9C55PhuWDksWL9BRoJZ2N5c6FwP9EFUcbWmXZS8AWfazgxZVeaw7hZZmXXhf3VQgodWKwVq629YC32tEd1STkStwfh5Y Ethereum: 0x9392079Eb419Fa868a8929ED595bd3A85397085B

An excellent talk with an excellent person! Learn all about what IBM’s been up to recently! Link to QCN show type poll: https://surveyjs.io/published?id=559dac01-5ce1-450a-8aea-b639311758cb IBM and Unitary Fund: https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2019/11/ibm-and-the-unitary-fund-unite-for-open-source-projects-for-quantum-computing/ Qiskit quantum optimization module: https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2020/07/quantum-optim-module/ Qiskit Metal: https://thequantumdaily.com/2020/10/19/qiskit-metal-ibm-community-building-a-computer-aided-program-for-quantum-device-design/ Qiskit: https://qiskit.org/ Qiskit Metal: https://qiskit.org/metal/ IBM Q Experience: https://quantum-computing.ibm.com/ Will Zeng Jungle slides: http://willzeng.com/shared/QCE2020_QuantumJungle.pdf IBM Roadmap: https://thequantumdaily.com/2020/09/15/ibms-quantum-roadmap-points-toward-1000-qubit-quantum-computer-by-2023/ Quantum Aviary: https://thequantumaviary.blogspot.com Episode w/ Zlatko: https://anchor.fm/quantumcomputingnow/episodes/Zlatko-Minev--Error-Correction--Episode-19-Hybrid-ehu3q5 Episode w/ Nathan: https://anchor.fm/quantumcomputingnow/episodes/Nathan-Shammah--Unitary-Fund---Episode-17-eglrsq Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com https://www.minds.com/1ethanhansen/?referrer=1ethanhansen 1ethanhansen@protonmail.com https://thequantumdaily.com/ QRL: Q0106000c95fe7c29fa6fc841ab9820888d807f41d4a99fc4ad9ec5510a5334c72ef8d0f8c44698 Monero: 47e9C55PhuWDksWL9BRoJZ2N5c6FwP9EFUcbWmXZS8AWfazgxZVeaw7hZZmXXhf3VQgodWKwVq629YC32tEd1STkStwfh5Y Ethereum: 0x9392079Eb419Fa868a8929ED595bd3A85397085B

QED-C survey of life sciences companies: https://quantumconsortium.org/almost-one-third-of-life-science-companies-set-to-begin-quantum-computing-evaluation-this-year/ NSF starting 3 quantum institutes: https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/announcements/072120.jsp QED-C website: https://quantumconsortium.org/ Zapata Computing website: https://www.zapatacomputing.com/ IBM Q Experience: https://quantum-computing.ibm.com/ MIT OpenCourseWare QC course: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-435j-quantum-computation-fall-2003/ Quantum.country QC: https://quantum.country Orquestra Commercial Release: https://thequantumdaily.com/2020/09/24/zapata-announces-commercial-release-of-orquestra-the-workflow-based-modular-toolset-for-applied-quantum-computing/ Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com https://www.minds.com/1ethanhansen/ 1ethanhansen@protonmail.com https://thequantumdaily.com/

What is the role of higher education in QC?: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.16444.pdf QOSF mentorship program open for applications: https://www.qosf.org/qc_mentorship Optimization on Sycamore processor paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.04197.pdf Reachability Deficits in quantum approximation paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2007.09148.pdf Michał’s email: michal@qosf.org Michał’s blog: https://www.mustythoughts.com/ Michał’s Github: https://github.com/mstechly Michał’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/micha%C5%82-st%C4%99ch%C5%82y-a032b5a5/ Michał’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/mstechly How I got a job in QC: https://www.mustythoughts.com/how-i-got-a-job-in-qc How to get started in QC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp7N-BaDxIs Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com QCN gather.town (thursday at 1 UTC) https://gather.town/fh5g7HpuMejUUhSg/quantum-computing-now https://www.minds.com/1ethanhansen/ 1ethanhansen@protonmail.com https://thequantumdaily.com/

Quantum Xchange website: https://quantumxc.com/ Quantum Xchange linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/quantum-xchange/ Quantum Xchange twitter: https://twitter.com/Quantum_Xchange NIST PQC enters selection round: https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2020/07/nists-post-quantum-cryptography-program-enters-selection-round China’s Micius satellite sets new record: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/china-reaches-new-milestone-in-space-based-quantum-communications/ DOE quantum internet blueprint: https://repub.li/department-of-energy-blueprint-for-domestic-quantum-internet/ Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com https://www.minds.com/1ethanhansen/ 1ethanhansen@protonmail.com https://thequantumdaily.com/

I had a great time talking with Dr. Zlatko Minev in this episode! We got to talk about new quantum physics, error correction, and qiskit community, as well as quantum mechanics for doing the dishes Qiskit community: https://github.com/qiskit-community Zlatko’s twitter: https://twitter.com/zlatko_minev Zlatkos’s website: https://www.zlatko-minev.com/ Open Labs’ website: https://theopenlabs.org/ Computerphile error correction series: https://invidio.us/playlist?list=PLvc8eb5AdU4fPkWSJVLip-g9wcSO6MhAC Qiskit now runs on AQT trapped ion machines: https://www.aqt.eu/aqt-now-supports-qiskit/ Qiskit Global Summer School: https://qiskit.org/events/summer-school/ Quantum Information Science Seminar Series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOFEBzvs-Vvr0uEoGFo08n4-WrM_8fft2 Zlatko Minev’s website: https://www.zlatko-minev.com/ QCN gather.town:   https://gather.town/fh5g7HpuMejUUhSg/quantum-computing-now Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com https://www.minds.com/1ethanhansen/ 1ethanhansen@protonmail.com https://thequantumdaily.com/

I had an excellent, thoroughly entertaining, and long chat with Peter Johnson from Zapata Computing. We got to talk a lot about VQE, quantum advantage, and new algorithms that try to squeeze performance out of quantum hardware.  Zapata Paper Announcement video (MUST WATCH): https://youtube.com/watch?v=RifDO1zBYjI  arXiv link to paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.09350  A Quantum Festschrift for David Poulin: https://www.cifar.ca/cifarnews/2020/06/17/a-quantum-festschrift-for-david-poulin  Qiskit blog about quantum advantage: https://medium.com/qiskit/this-proof-demonstrates-a-quantum-advantage-even-for-noisy-quantum-computers-b44a738801ad  QCN gather.town: https://gather.town/fh5g7HpuMejUUhSg/quantum-computing-now  Time zone converter for QCN Gather meetup: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20200807T010000&p1=tz_pt&p2=1440  My Zapata blog post on Why Workflows? https://www.zapatacomputing.com/quantum-enabled-workflows/  Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com  https://www.minds.com/1ethanhansen/  1ethanhansen@protonmail.com  https://thequantumdaily.com/

Ethan talks with Nathan Shammah about unitary fund, open science, and science communication  Unitary Fund link: https://unitary.fund/  Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com  https://minds.com/1ethanhansen  1ethanhansen@protonmail.com  https://thequantumdaily.com/

In this episode I sit down with Johan Vos to talk about his new book Quantum Computing for Developers Manning affiliate link: http://www.manning.com/?a_aid=Quantum-Computing-Now  Johan’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/johanvos  Affiliate link to book: https://www.manning.com/books/quantum-computing-for-developers?a_aid=Quantum-Computing-Now&a_bid=8d4decc3  Strange on Github: https://github.com/qcjava/strange  Quantum Computing for the Very Curious: https://quantum.country/  Paper on higher education and skills in quantum industry: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.16444.pdf  Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com  https://www.minds.com/1ethanhansen  1ethanhansen@protonmail.com  https://thequantumdaily.com/

Ethan and Anisha Musti chat about what’s going on in the world of quantum, and Ethan learns a thing or two about quantum machine learning.  Anisha’s Medium: https://medium.com/@anishamusti Anisha’s Website: http://anishamusti.com/ Anisha’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/anishamusti Q-munity website: https://www.qmunity.tech/ Anisha on The Quantum Daily: https://thequantumdaily.com/user/anisham/?profiletab=posts AlphaZero for Quantum: https://phys.org/news/2020-01-alphazero-quantum-world.html Tensorflow Quantum: https://www.tensorflow.org/quantum Microsoft Quantum Impact: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFPUGjQjckXFsOEBvvaDeIk5GxctP0ZhX Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com https://twitter.com/1ethanhansen 1ethanhansen@protonmail.com https://thequantumdaily.com/

In this episode Ethan relinquishes the reigns to a guest: Quantum Intuition! Quantum Intuition channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-2knDbf4kzT3uzWo7iTJyw  My first video on Quantum Intuition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NulBqfeWHPc  My takeover video on Quantum Intuition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DF1uAOubPc  Daniel on The Quantum Daily: https://thequantumdaily.com/user/dncolomer/?profiletab=posts  Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com  https://twitter.com/1ethanhansen  1ethanhansen@protonmail.com  https://thequantumdaily.com/ Also funny side-note: I tried to get a transcript using DeepSpeech and their default trained model. It went less than well

I had the opportunity to sit down (virtually) with Anastasia Marchenkova, a QC researcher/programmer/does-everything-extraordinaire at Bleximo to talk about how quantum computing has progressed, where it's going, and how it can be leveraged in the short term with NISQ devices Anastasia’s website: https://www.amarchenkova.com/ Anastasia’s twitter: https://twitter.com/amarchenkova  Bleximo’s website: https://bleximo.com/ Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com https://twitter.com/1ethanhansen 1ethanhansen@protonmail.com https://thequantumdaily.com/

In this episode I sit down with Junye Huang, a Quantum Developer Advocate for Qiskit and IBM. We talked a bit about hackathons, a bit about quantum materials, a bit about topological qubits, really a bit about everything! Junye on twitter: https://twitter.com/HuangJunye Qiskit on Twitter: https://twitter.com/qiskit Join the Qiskit slack and send me a ‘hi’ : https://qiskit.slack.com/ Qiskit YouTube (invidious mirror): https://www.invidio.us/channel/UClBNq7mCMf5xm8baE_VMl3A My TQD article: https://thequantumdaily.com/2020/04/28/why-create-a-quantum-computing-podcast/ Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com https://twitter.com/1ethanhansen 1ethanhansen@protonmail.com https://thequantumdaily.com/

In this episode I sit down with Abe Asfaw to talk about all things qiskit, quantum computing education, and quantum programming. Oh and I hope you like interviews because I have a lot coming up :) Qiskit Textbook: https://qiskit.org/textbook/preface.html Coding with Qiskit: https://www.invidio.us/playlist?list=PLOFEBzvs-Vvp2xg9-POLJhQwtVktlYGbY Pulse Level Programming with Lauren Capelluto: https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=ZvipHRY-URs Qiskit website: https://qiskit.org/ Abe on Twitter: https://twitter.com/abe_asfaw Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com https://twitter.com/1ethanhansen 1ethanhansen@protonmail.com https://thequantumdaily.com/

 The world is ending! I’m quitting podcasting! Quantum computing is still cool! Wait what do you mean we aren’t playing two truths and a lie? Oh and I forgot to mention, my brother did the updated cover art for season 2. Thank you! https://twitter.com/1ethanhansen 1ethanhansen@protonmail.com https://thequantumdaily.com/ Happy April Fools’ Day!

Dancing with Qubits by Robert Sutor: https://www.robertsutor.com/dancing-with-qubits/ Blog post on IBM Q readout: https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2020/01/quantum-limited-amplifiers/ AXIOM: The Scientific Computation System https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0387978550/acmorg-20 The Quantum Daily’s review of Dancing with Qubits: https://thequantumdaily.com/2020/01/09/dancing-with-qubits-serves-as-a-guide-for-the-quantum-curious-and-the-quantum-serious/ Follow me on twitter: https://twitter.com/1ethanhansen Produced in partnership with The Quantum Daily: https://thequantumdaily.com/

Can you even call it "news" if it's 3 months old? Maybe it should be tagged with [olds] Blanket of light https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6463/369 https://phys.org/news/2019-10-blanket-quantum.html Volkswagen https://www.volkswagen-newsroom.com/en/press-releases/volkswagen-optimizes-traffic-flow-with-quantum-computers-5507 Google’s Paper: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1666-5 https://youtu.be/FklMpRiTeTA IBM’s response: https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.09534v2 https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2019/10/on-quantum-supremacy/ Microsoft Azure Quantum https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/quantum/ Qiskit 0.13 has support for trapped ion qubits https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2019/11/qiskit-for-multiple-architectures/ Horse Ridge https://newsroom.intel.com/news/intel-introduces-horse-ridge-enable-commercially-viable-quantum-computers/#gs.s23jo0 Amazon Braket https://aws.amazon.com/braket/ IBM Quantum Volume 32 w/ Raleigh https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2020/01/quantum-volume-32/ PennyLane and Strawberry Fields https://pennylane.ai/ https://strawberryfields.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ Yao http://docs.yaoquantum.org/stable/ https://github.com/QuantumBFS/Yao.jl/blob/master/docs/src/benchmarks.md Quantum Inspire https://www.quantum-inspire.com/ Quantum Frameworks lists https://quantiki.org/wiki/list-qc-simulators https://qosf.org/project_list/ Distributed Quantum Computing https://phys.org/news/2013-02-efficient-quantum.html https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspa.2012.0686 The Quantum Daily https://thequantumdaily.com/

From Qiskit to QuTiP, from Cirq to Ocean SDK, there are a lot of different frameworks to start with quantum computing out there. Which one you should start with can get confusing. In this episode I hope to break down and give an overview of the major players that you’ll hear about in the quantum community. Qiskit https://qiskit.org/ https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-textbook QuTiP http://qutip.org/ https://github.com/qutip Q# https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/quantum/language/?view=qsharp-preview https://github.com/Microsoft/Quantum https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/quantum/?view=qsharp-preview https://github.com/microsoft/qsharp-compiler Pyquil https://github.com/rigetti/pyquil https://github.com/rigetti/quilc http://docs.rigetti.com/en/stable/index.html Cirq https://github.com/quantumlib/Cirq https://cirq.readthedocs.io/en/stable/index.html Ocean SDK https://docs.ocean.dwavesys.com/en/latest/index.html https://github.com/dwavesystems/dwave-ocean-sdk Q.js https://stewdio.github.io/q.js/index.html https://github.com/stewdio/q.js

Qiskit Camp 101 by Amira Abbas: https://medium.com/@amyami187/qiskit-camp-101-b386e9377e4f Follow Amira Abbas on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AmiraMorphism Supervised Learning with Quantum Computers: https://www.amazon.com/Supervised-Learning-Quantum-Computers-Technology/dp/3319964232 QuantumFight2019 stuff: https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2019/10/on-quantum-supremacy/ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1666-5

Google Quantum Supremacy: Full paper here: https://www.inverse.com/article/59507-full-quantum-supremacy-paper Fortune report: https://fortune.com/2019/09/20/google-claims-quantum-supremacy/ The Verge report: https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/23/20879485/google-quantum-supremacy-qubits-nasa John Preskill on Quantum Supremacy: https://quantamagazine.org/john-preskill-explains-quantum-supremacy-20191002/ IBM 53 qubit machine https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/18/ibm-will-soon-launch-a-53-qubit-quantum-computer/ https://www.hpcwire.com/2019/09/19/ibm-opens-quantum-computing-center-announces-53-qubit-machine/ https://www.cnet.com/news/ibm-new-53-qubit-quantum-computer-is-its-biggest-yet/ Probabilistic bits: Original paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1557-9 https://phys.org/news/2019-09-poor-qubit-quantum-problems.html https://indorecording.com/hardware/poor-mans-qubit-first-hardware-of-a-probabilistic-computer-now-available/ New material: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6462/238 https://in.mashable.com/science/7546/researchers-discover-a-material-that-might-power-quantum-computers https://www.inverse.com/article/60021-quantum-game-changer https://thequantumdaily.com/

    • General Info on post-quantum cryptography         ◦ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography      • Open Quantum Safe         ◦ https://openquantumsafe.org/         ◦ https://github.com/open-quantum-safe      • Bitcoin         ◦ https://medium.com/fintech-kellogg/quantum-computing-is-it-the-end-of-the-blockchain-10fa7e222b0a     • How many qubits to run Shor’s Algorithm         ◦ https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/87345/how-many-qubits-are-needed-to-factor-2048-bit-rsa-keys-on-a-quantum-computer         ◦ https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/35137/how-many-qubits-are-required-to-break-rsa-2048-or-4096-with-a-universal-quantum         ◦ https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613596/how-a-quantum-computer-could-break-2048-bit-rsa-encryption-in-8-hours/         ◦ https://www.entrust.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/WP_QuantumCrypto_Jan09.pdf         ◦ https://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1118&context=forum_lectures      • Quantum-resistant Cryptocurrencies         ◦ http://www.cryptomorrow.com/2017/10/21/quantum-resistant-cryptocurrencies/         ◦ IOTA: http://www.tangleblog.com/2017/01/25/the-tech-behind-iota-explained/         ◦ QRL: https://medium.com/the-quantum-resistant-ledger/quantum-supremacy-and-the-case-for-quantum-security-today-in-blockchain-390fe55daab5         ◦ Ethereum: https://coindoo.com/ethereum-will-be-quantum-resistant-in-three-to-five-year-time-says-danny-ryan/     • If you want to donate some IOTA to me:         ◦ BCLIGDITATGZBUFRLYIYFQK9BJETNSDPXCDEDEAGQVAKQFMWPWTHEBXWUQKQONORFSCGG9HWKUFOVALOXLUSAJWGEA

Link to Dr. James Wootton’s Medium page:  https://medium.com/@decodoku Link to Qiskit’s Medium page: https://medium.com/qiskit Link to Qiskit textbook: https://community.qiskit.org/textbook/ Produced in partnership with The Quantum Daily https://thequantumdaily.com

We've got a lot of news this week, some of which we couldn't get to because of time constraints. However, this episode contains a lot and a lot of it is really interested, so stay tuned! On two qubit speedy gates: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1381-2 https://phys.org/news/2019-07-two-qubit-gate-speediest-quantum.html https://youtu.be/BcsdCMix1ns On Neven's law: https://www.desmos.com/calculator/kocfkckguq On qudits: https://futurism.com/forget-qubits-quantum-scientists-building-qudits On limitations: https://phys.org/news/2019-07-limitation-exposed-quantum-material.html https://www.azoquantum.com/News.aspx?newsID=6593 On quantum-classical transition:  https://phys.org/news/2019-07-quantum-classical-worlds.html 

What even is a Quantum Computer? What is a qubit? Does Ethan even know what he's talking about? {SPOILER} No one does... Frame of Essence video on how QC works: https://youtu.be/ZoT82NDpcvQ Minutephysics video on Shor’s Algorithm: https://youtu.be/lvTqbM5Dq4Q  Hello Quantum from IBM: https://helloquantum.mybluemix.net/ Decodoku - Quantum Error Correction: https://decodoku.itch.io/decodoku Crash Course Computer Science:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpIctyqH29Q&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtNlUrzyH5r6jN9ulIgZBpdo  If you're interested in learning more about Quantum Decoherence, check this out:  https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-decoherence/

Bloch Sphere: https://www.clipartsfree.net/clipart/3560-qubit-bloch-sphere-clipart.html Dwave website: https://www.dwavesys.com/resources/media-resources