Quantum Computing 2020 Update

Quantum computing review, including Google’s quantum supremacy claims, quantum cloud developments (QCaaS), trapped ion quantum computing, and a brief look at Python quantum coding!

More information on quantum computing can be found on my web page at https://www.explainingcomputers.com/quantum.html

Specific references for the content included in this video are as follows:

QUANTUM SUPREMACY:

John Preskill’s 2012 paper in which he proposed the idea of quantum supremacy: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1203.5813.pdf

Google’s October 2019 paper in Nature in which it claimed that it had achieved quantum supremacy: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1666-5

IBM’s October 2019 response to Google’s quantum supremacy claim: https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2019/10/on-quantum-supremacy/

QUANTUM CLOUD COMPUTING:

IBM Quantum Experience: https://quantum-computing.ibm.com/

Alibaba & CAS March 2018 announcement of their cloud computing services: https://www.alibabacloud.com/press-room/alibaba-cloud-and-cas-launch-one-of-the-worlds-most

The CAS / Alibaba Quantum Computing Cloud: http://quantumcomputer.ac.cn/

D-Wave Systems October 2018 announcement of its LEAP cloud services: https://www.dwavesys.com/press-releases/d-wave-launches-leap-first-real-time-quantum-application-environment

Rigetti Quantum Cloud Services: https://qcs.rigetti.com/

Amazon December 2020 quantum cloud services announcement: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-braket-get-started-with-quantum-computing/

Amazon Bracket: https://aws.amazon.com/braket/

Amazon Quantum Solutions Lab:
https://aws.amazon.com/quantum-solutions-lab

Microsoft’s May 2020 announcement of Azure Quantum:
https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/quantum/2020/05/19/azure-quantum-preview-new-developer-training-learning-tools/

Microsoft Azure Quantum:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/services/quantum

TRAPPED ION QUANTUM COMPUTING:

University of Oxford “Introduction to Ion Trap Quantum Computing”: https://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/research/ion-trap-quantum-computing-group/intro-to-ion-trap-qc#

IonQ funding announcement, October 2019:
https://ionq.com/news/october-22-2019-new-funding

IonQ technology webpage: https://ionq.com/technology [TOP RESOURCE]

Honeywell June 2020 announcement - “The Most Powerful Quantum Computer is Here”: https://www.honeywell.com/en-us/newsroom/news/2020/06/the-worlds-highest-performing-quantum-computer-is-here

Honeywell Quantum Solutions:
https://www.honeywell.com/en-us/company/quantum

ZNet article on Honeywell quantum computing and JP Morgan Chase: https://www.zdnet.com/article/honeywell-claims-to-have-worlds-highest-performing-quantum-computer-according-to-ibms-benchmark/

QISKIT PYTHON CODING:

IBM Quantum Computing: https://www.ibm.com/quantum-computing/

IBM Qiskit Python coding example “Estimating Pi Using Quantum Phase Estimation Algorithm”: https://qiskit.org/textbook/ch-demos/piday-code.html

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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:41 Quantum basics
01:56 Quantum supremacy
05:19 Quantum cloud computing
08:10 Trapped ions
09:53 Quantum coding
11:09 Getting there!

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