Topological Quantum Computing Market 2020: Latest Analysis

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Top Players of Topological Quantum Computing Market are Studied: Microsoft, IBM, Google, D-Wave Systems, Airbus, Raytheon, Intel, Hewlett Packard, Alibaba Quantum Computing Laboratory, IonQ

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With the slowdown in world economic growth, the Topological Quantum Computing industry has also suffered a certain impact, but still maintained a relatively optimistic growth, the past four years, Topological Quantum Computing market size to maintain the average annual growth rate of XXX from (2014 Market size Microsoft, IBM, Google, D-Wave Systems, Airbus, Raytheon, Intel, Hewlett Packard, Alibaba Quantum Computing Laboratory, IonQ) million $ in 2014 to (2019 Market size Microsoft, IBM, Google, D-Wave Systems, Airbus, Raytheon, Intel, Hewlett Packard, Alibaba Quantum Computing Laboratory, IonQ) million $ in 2019, Our analysts believe that in the next few years, Topological Quantum Computing market size will be further expanded, we expect that by 2024, The market size of the Topological Quantum Computing will reach (2024 Market size Microsoft, IBM, Google, D-Wave Systems, Airbus, Raytheon, Intel, Hewlett Packard, Alibaba Quantum Computing Laboratory, IonQ) million $.This Report covers the manufacturers data, including: shipment, price, revenue, gross profit, interview record, business distribution etc., these data help the consumer know about the competitors better. This report also covers all the regions and countries of the world, which shows a regional development status, including market size, volume and value, as well as price data.Besides, the report also covers segment data, including: type segment, industry segment, channel segment etc. cover different segment market size, both volume and value. Also cover different industries clients information, which is very important for the manufacturers.

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Global Topological Quantum Computing Market is estimated to reach xxx million USD in 2020 and projected to grow at the CAGR of xx% during 2020-2026. According to the latest report added to the online repository of Report Hive Research the Topological Quantum Computing market has witnessed an unprecedented growth till 2020. The extrapolated future growth is expected to continue at higher rates by 2026.

Our exploration specialists acutely ascertain the significant aspects of the global Topological Quantum Computing market report. It also provides an in-depth valuation in regards to the future advancements relying on the past data and present circumstance of Topological Quantum Computing market situation. In this Topological Quantum Computing report, we have investigated the principals, players in the market, geological regions, product type, and market end-client applications. The global Topological Quantum Computing report comprises of primary and secondary data which is exemplified in the form of pie outlines, Topological Quantum Computing tables, analytical figures, and reference diagrams. The Topological Quantum Computing report is presented in an efficient way that involves basic dialect, basic Topological Quantum Computing outline, agreements, and certain facts as per solace and comprehension.

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The Essential Content Covered in the GlobalTopological Quantum Computing Market Report:

* Top Key Company Profiles.* Main Business and Rival Information* SWOT Analysis and PESTEL Analysis* Production, Sales, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin* Market Share and Size

The report provides a 6-year forecast (2020-2026) assessed based on how the Topological Quantum Computing market is predicted to grow in major regions like USA, Europe, Japan, China, India, Southeast Asia, South America, South Africa, Others.

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What is the overall market size in 2019? What will be the market growth during the forecast period i.e. 2020-2026?

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Table of Contents

Market Overview: This is the first section of the report that includes an overview of the scope of products offered in the global Topological Quantum Computing market, segments by product and application, and market size.

Market Competition by Player: Here, the report shows how the competition in the global Topological Quantum Computing market is growing or decreasing based on deep analysis of market concentrate rate, competitive situations and trends, expansions, merger and acquisition deals, and other subjects. It also shows how different companies are progressing in the global Topological Quantum Computing market in terms of revenue, production, sales, and market share.

Company Profiles and Sales Data: This part of the report is very important as it gives statistical as well as other types of analysis of leading manufacturers in the global Topological Quantum Computing market. It assesses each and every player studied in the report on the basis of main business, gross margin, revenue, sales, price, competitors, manufacturing base, product specification, product application, and product category.

Market Status and Outlook by Region: The report studies the status and outlook of different regional markets such as Europe, North America, the MEA, Asia Pacific, and South America. All of the regional markets researched about in the report are examined based on price, gross margin, revenue, production, and sales. Here, the size and CAGR of the regional markets are also provided.

Market by Product: This section carefully analyzes all product segments of the global Topological Quantum Computing market.

Market by Application: Here, various application segments of the global Topological Quantum Computing market are taken into account for research study.

Market Forecast: It starts with revenue forecast and then continues with sales, sales growth rate, and revenue growth rate forecasts of the global Topological Quantum Computing market. The forecasts are also provided taking into consideration product, application, and regional segments of the global Topological Quantum Computing market.

Upstream Raw Materials: This section includes industrial chain analysis, manufacturing cost structure analysis, and key raw materials analysis of the global Topological Quantum Computing market.

Marketing Strategy Analysis, Distributors: Here, the research study digs deep into behavior and other factors of downstream customers, distributors, development trends of marketing channels, and marketing channels such as indirect marketing and direct marketing.

Research Findings and Conclusion: This section is solely dedicated to the conclusion and findings of the research study on the global Topological Quantum Computing market.

Appendix: This is the last section of the report that focuses on data sources, viz. primary and secondary sources, market breakdown and data triangulation, market size estimation, research programs and design, research approach and methodology, and the publishers disclaimer.

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The Global Quantum Software Market report provides thorough insights and also announcesvarious significant factors that are enhancing the growth of the global Quantum Software market, along with available opportunities that cloud be used by the producers and current trends that is influencing the global Quantum Software market. Moreover, the global Quantum Software market report also covers fluctuating tendencies that directly or indirectly impact the market. These tendencies are evaluated and incorporated in the report which helps to give the complete information that is related to the market and assist in better decision making. In addition to this, the market report also highlights the Quantum Software market drivers, restrains and future opportunities that influencethe growth of the global Quantum Software market.To know more contact: [emailprotected] or call us on +1-312-376-8303.

The report covers profiles of top players that are functioning in the Quantum Software Market: Origin Quantum Computing Technology, D Wave, IBM, Microsoft, Intel, Google, Ion Q

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Global Quantum Software Market Segmentation: By RegionGlobal Quantum Software market report categorized the information and data according to the major geographical regions which are expected to impact onthe industry in forecast period. North America (U.S., Canada, Mexico)Europe (U.K., France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Central & Eastern Europe, CIS)Asia Pacific (China, Japan, South Korea, ASEAN, India, Rest of Asia Pacific)Latin America (Brazil, Rest of L.A.)Middle East and Africa (Turkey, GCC, Rest of Middle East)

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The Quantum Software market report offers a segment which covers country-wise response for the Quantum Software and also offers a market outlook. Along with this, new technological developments are examine in this report as well as a competitive landscape is also involved that helps to provide audiences with a dashboard view. Moreover, the report study also considers key manufacturers for exploring comprehensive market share analysis of Quantum Software market. In addition to this, the report offers detailed information of the manufacturers which includes their business and growth strategies, current development and crucial offerings in the global Quantum Software market.

Global Quantum Software Market Report: Research MethodologySecondary research is used in the report for analysing the market, which is authorised and confirmed by primary interviews. These primary interviews are investigatedand reconfirmed prior to including it in the report.The weighted average price and price of Quantum Software is calculated across all the evaluated regions, along with this, the market worth of the global Quantum Software market is also considered from that data which is assumed from the average selling price and market volume.

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The future of the market is predicted based on the various macroeconomic factors and changing trends that are observed in the global Quantum Software market. Other significantfactors that is covered in the report are demand of the market, supply chain, current trends in the market and other dynamic scenarios of the market. In addition to this, other important measures like year-on-year growth and dollar opportunity is also provided in the report which gives clear insights and upcomingprospects.Impact of Covid-19 in Quantum Software Market

The current utility-owned Quantum Software marketis affected mainly by the COVID-19 (Corona Virus Disease) pandemic. There has been delay in most ofthe projects that are in China, the US, Germany and South Korea, as well as companies in these regions are also facing temporaryoperative issues due to absence of site access and constrains in the supply chain. Due to the outburst of COVID-19 in china, Japan and India, Asia-Pacific region is predicted to get extremely affected by the spread of the COVID-19. China is the epic centrefor Corona virus disease and is a major country in terms of the chemical industry.

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But the countrys answer to Americas Nasdaq is not for the faint of heart

Jul 22nd 2020

SHANGHAIS STAR market, a stock exchange for Chinas home-grown technology firms, celebrates its first birthday today. It has much to cheer about. Launched with an ambition to rival Nasdaq, a venue in New York where many American tech giants are listed, the toddler has surpassed the older ChiNext exchange in Shenzhen and already ranks second globally by capital raised in IPOs so far this year. And it just received a lovely present. On July 20th Ant Group, the financial-services arm of Alibaba, an e-commerce giant, said it had chosen STAR as one of two exchanges on which it is planning its long-awaited listing (the other winner is Hong Kong, which has also grown popular among fast-growing Chinese companies). Though the exact size and timing of the offering are still unknown, it could well turn out to be the largest IPO ever. Ant was last valued at $150bn in 2018; listing even a small portion of its shares could place it above Saudi Aramcos IPO last year, the largest yet at $26bn.

Two factors explain STARs appeal to issuers. First, it enjoys rock-solid political backing. Chinas government sees it as a way to channel capital towards young technologies it wants to nurture, from high-tech sensors to quantum computing. To help money flow, it has loosened restrictions that apply to stock offerings elsewhere (eg, on other Chinese exchanges, an informal price cap of 23 times earnings and a 44% ceiling on first-day gains). It has also fast-tracked IPO approvals, which can take years on other exchanges. Second, the mood has soured against Chinese companies in America, where many promising companies from the mainland would have traditionally considered listing. America has threatened to impose sanctions on Chinese officials. Earlier this year, the Senate also passed legislation that could force American-listed Chinese firms to delist if they fail to show their audit work papers to American regulators for three consecutive years. That makes Asian alternatives more palatable.

It helps that investors like STAR too. Some offerings have attracted orders amounting to thousands of times the quantum of shares up for sale; some stocks have rocketed tenfold within hours of listing. But STAR is not for the faint-hearted. The prices of shares listed there are sometimes way off those of similar securities listed on more mature markets, hinting that they may be divorced from company fundamentals. The Shanghai price of Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation, a chipmaker that raised 53.2bn yuan ($7.6bn) in early July through a dual IPO, is more than three times its Hong Kong price, for example. Such inconsistencies can exist on the way down, as well as on the way up. As investors sell older stocks to pile into the newest and flashiest offerings, prices can slide by double-digit percentages, suggesting the market may not have the liquidity yet to absorb large IPOs in quick succession.

This creates a conundrum for Chinas rulers. Investors positive reaction to STAR may prompt regulators to ease stockmarket rules on other mainland exchanges, leading to more efficient, liquid markets and allowing the government to funnel capital to strategic sectors. But untamed speculation by fickle punters makes bubbles more likely, and the political, PR and financial risks of market crashes rank among the things that keep Chinas masters awake at night. If it proves little else than a fashionable casino, STARs allure could dim fast.

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Newswise Addressing the mystery of how reproduction is shaped by childhood events and environment, Professor Philippa Melamed, together with PhD student Ben Bar-Sadeh, Postdoctorate Dr. Sergei Rudnizky, and colleagues Dr. Lilach Pnueli and Professor Ariel Kaplan, all from the Technion Faculty of Biology, and collaborators from the UK, Professor Gillian R. Bentley from Durham University and Professor Reinhard Stger from the University of Nottingham, have just published a paper in Nature Reviews Endocrinology on the role of epigenetics in human reproduction.

Epigenetics refers to the packaging of DNA, which can be altered in response to external signals (environment) through the addition of chemical tags to the DNA or the histone proteins that organize and compact the DNA inside the cell. This packaging affects the ability of a gene to be accessed and thus also its expression levels. So environmentally induced changes in this epigenetic packaging can lead to major variations in the phenotype (observable characteristics or traits) without changing the genetic code. This re-programming of gene expression patterns underlies some of our ability to adapt.

Reproductive characteristics are highly variable and responsive particularly to early life environment, during which they appear to be programmed to optimize an individuals reproductive success in accordance with the surroundings. Although some of these adaptations can be beneficial, they also carry negative health consequences that may be far-reaching. These include the age of pubertal onset and duration of the reproductive lifespan for women, and also the levels of circulating reproductive hormones; not only is fertility affected, but also predisposition to hormone-dependent cancers and other age-related diseases.

While epigenetic modifications are believed to play a role in the plasticity of reproductive traits, the actual mechanisms are mostly still not clear. Moreover, reproductive hormones also modify the epigenome and epigenetic aging, which complicates distinguishing cause from effect, particularly when trying to understand human reproductive phenotypes in which the relevant tissues are inaccessible for analysis. Integrated studies are needed, including observations and whatever measurements are possible in human populations, incorporation of animal models, cell culture, and even single-molecule studies, in order to determine the mechanisms responsible for the human reproductive phenotype.

The review emphasizes that there is a clinical need to understand the characteristics of epigenetic regulation of reproductive function and the underlying mechanisms of adaptive responses for properly informed decisions on treating patients from diverse backgrounds. In addition, this knowledge should form the basis for formulating lifestyle recommendations and novel treatments that utilize the epigenetic pathway to alter a reproductive phenotype.

Prof. Melamed emphasizes that a multifaceted cross-disciplinary approach is essential for elucidating the involvement of epigenetics in human reproductive function, spanning the grand scale of human cohort big data and anthropological studies in unique human populations, through animal models and cell culture experiments, to the exquisitely high resolution of single-molecule biophysical approaches. This will continue to require collaboration and cooperation.

For more than a century, the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology has pioneered in science and technology education and delivered world-changing impact. Proudly a global university, the Technion has long leveraged boundary-crossing collaborations to advance breakthrough research and technologies. Now with a presence in three countries, the Technion will prepare the next generation of global innovators. Technion people, ideas and inventions make immeasurable contributions to the world, innovating in fields from cancer research and sustainable energy to quantum computing and computer science to do good around the world.

The American Technion Society supports visionary education and world-changing impact through the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. Based in New York City, we represent thousands of US donors, alumni and stakeholders who invest in the Technions growth and innovation to advance critical research and technologies that serve the State of Israel and the global good. Over more than 75 years, our nationwide supporter network has funded new Technion scholarships, research, labs, and facilities that have helped deliver world-changing contributions and extend Technion education to campuses in three countries.

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Quantum computers have the potential to solve hard computational problems more efficiently than their classical counterparts. Applications notably encompass computational drug design, materials science, machine learning, and optimization problems. With the rapid developments of quantum hardware, practical quantum advantage is within reach.

With many cities turning to e-mobility to tackle environmental challenges, electric utilities have to account for a growing and more complex load to manage for their production facilities and the grid. One example is the need to schedule resource allocation for shared electric vehicles while taking into considerations their expected and real time availability as well as charging constraints. This class of problem is computationally hard to solve even with large supercomputers and it is expected that a quantum algorithm called Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) could improve its resolution.

EDF made smart charging and the development of its infrastructures one of the strong point of its Electric Mobility Plan, launched in October 2018. EDF views smart charging as a true asset for electric vehicles users and for the electrical system. Through its subsidiaries, IZIVIA and DREEV, the EDF Group already provides V2G solutions.

Through its Pulse Explorer Program, EDF R&D routinely reaches out to start-ups to explore new ideas in a collaborative way. EDF and Pasqal have formalized a partnership to explore how this algorithm could be implemented on the neutral atoms quantum processor developed at Pasqal and take benefit from its unique properties.

The core of the partnership is to finely tune the algorithms according to the hardwares possibilities and to mitigate the impact of the errors. The level of performance will be gauged on a classical emulator, prior to a real hardware implementation.

Loc Henriet, head of software development at Pasqal explained: we have developed our full software stack with specific tools for generic optimization problems, but it is very important that we engage directly with partners working on applications. We need to focus on practical use cases to show that quantum processors can provide a real advantage.

Marc Porcheron, head of EDF R&Ds Quantum Computing project, said: utilities such as EDF have to be at the forefront of innovation in high performance computing. It is great to collaborate with Pasqal to explore the new possibilities opened by Quantum Computing for hard optimization problems like the ones we face in the decisive field of smart-charging. I am impressed with the results that have already been achieved with Pasqal, and look forward to implement on their upcoming hardware the quantum algorithms we investigate together.

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Canadian quantum computing company D-Wave Systems is launching its cloud service in India, giving developers and researchers in the country real-time access to its quantum computers.

Through this geographic expansion, D-Waves 2000Q quantum computers, hybrid solvers and the application environment can be used via its cloud platform Leap to drive development of business-critical and in-production hybrid applications.

Quantum computing is poised to fundamentally transform the way businesses solve critical problems, leading to new efficiencies and profound business value in industries like transportation, finance, pharmaceuticals and much more, Murray Thom, VP of Software and Services at D-Wave, said in a statement.

The future of quantum computing is in the cloud. Thats why we were eager to expand Leap to India and Australia, where vibrant tech scenes will have access to real-time quantum computers and the hybrid solver service for the first time, unlocking new opportunities across industries.

As part of this rollout, users in India and Australia can work on the D-Waves Leap and Leap 2 platforms.

The two cloud platforms offer updated features and tools, including hybrid solver service that can solve large and complex problems of up to 10,000 variables; and integrated developer environment that has a prebuilt, ready-to-code environment in the cloud configured with the latest Ocean SDK for quantum hybrid development in Python.

D-Waves systems and software have been used in financial modelling, machine learning and route optimization.

Its latest launch in India comes about a year after the countrys Department of Science and Technology (DST) chalked out plans to build its own quantum computers.

In early 2019, DST launched a programme focused on quantum computing, called Quantum-Enabled Science and Technology (QuEST). As part of QuEST, India earmarked 80 crore investment to be spent over a span of three years to facilitate research in setting up quantum computers.

A year later, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, in her Union Budget 2020 Speech, announced a National Mission on Quantum Technologies and Applications (NM-QTA) with an outlay of 8,000 crore for the next five years.

Quantum technology is opening up new frontiers in computing, communications, cyber security with wide-spread applications, Sitharaman said in her Budget Speech.

It is expected that lots of commercial applications would emerge from theoretical constructs which are developing in this area.

NM-QTAs focus, as outlined by the minister, will be in fundamental science, translation, technology development and, human and infrastructural resource generation.

Other areas of quantum computing applications will include aero-space engineering, numerical weather prediction, simulations, securing communication and financial transactions, cyber-security, and advanced manufacturing.

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As he settles into his role as Director of National Intelligence, John Ratcliffe has the opportunity to lead the intelligence community through a series of unprecedented national crises and position it to thrive in the new normal. Given laws on civil service hiring, handling classified information, and other requirements unique to the national security apparatus, intelligence agencies may be less able than private companies to reinvent their business models on the fly. However, adversity often presents opportunity.

In the wake of 2020s transformative events, U.S. intelligence agencies must challenge longstanding institutional habits and embrace new ways to meet the nations strategic challenges.

DNI Ratcliffe should consider new approaches to four vital functions that support the ICs core missions.

First, enable more unclassified work and expand remote work polices. The public health emergency has demonstrated that the IC must change the way it works with information. Currently, intelligence personnel work in secure facilities where they process sensitive data to produce classified reports. The COVID crisis has prevented full staffing in these cramped secure spaces and highlighted the need for secure mobile communications that could enable some types of classified work at home. After years of discussing the potential of secure remote work, the Army is launching a program to allow remote access to certain types of classified data. With telework proving to be a critical tool to contain the spread of COVID-19, now is the time to turn these ideas into reality.

Due to the current health crisis, many IC analysts are working remotely, drawing on open source information like social media trend analysis and satellite imagery. Why not keep them at home, where they can produce insightful unclassified evaluations of threats like foreign disinformation, sanctions-busting, and threats to critical infrastructure? Until remote classified access becomes widespread, analysts working in secure spaces can add nuance to unclassified analyses by incorporating sensitive data. This way, the IC can produce the comprehensive all-source intelligence assessments senior policymakers expect while also generating unclassified reports that can be shared with private sector partners, allies, and the public.

Second, embrace collaboration with non-government partners to protect critical sectors of the economy from cyberattack and economic espionage. Given the importance of critical infrastructure services to Americans health and safety, the intelligence community, which typically serves senior government decision makers, needs to think of these private entities as customers as well. If the NSA collects intelligence that indicates foreign hackers plan to attack the healthcare sector, for example, it must provide warnings to sector representatives at a classification level that enables prompt action. At present, a private sector target could only be warned after a lengthy declassification process or after a Homeland Security component lacking all of the original intelligence developed a releasable assessment.

Third, enhance collaboration with the private sector to develop advanced technologies. We no longer live in a world where we have to hunt for data. Instead, drowning in data, we must use technical tools to find value in the information we already possess. The IC must be a leader in the application of game-changing technologies like artificial intelligence and quantum computing, but it must partner closely with private sector innovators to get there.

Fourth, ensure opportunities for underrepresented groups. As widespread rage over systemic racism and social injustice has shown, all organizations must take steps to ensure all voices are heard, valued, and incorporated. Agency leaders must commit to recruiting more minority candidates, ensuring minority employees have equal opportunities for career advancement, and increasing diversity in their leadership ranks. The security clearance process must develop more sophisticated ways of evaluating first- and second-generation Americans foreign ties so more immigrants and children of immigrants can be hired.

Previous transformational events, such as the end of the Cold War and the 9/11 terrorist attacks, forced agencies to adopt new missions and adapt to new threats. The men and women of the intelligence community rose to the challenge then, and they will do so again in response to the unprecedented events of 2020. As DNI Ratcliffe sets his priorities, we encourage him to seize the moment and make these needed reforms to position the intelligence community for the years ahead.

Letitia A. Long, the former director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, is chairman of the board of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance, an association promoting public-private collaboration on intelligence matters. Tish can be reached at tlong@insaonline.org.

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Written by AZoQuantumJul 17 2020

Everyone knows that the quantum world can transform communication technology. Quantum technology offers the potential of impenetrable security and unparalleled performance, and is taking its initial steps towards the decisive goal of applications such asextremely encrypted yet virtually fast-as-light financial transactions.

But the potential for quantum computers to interact with each other has been restricted by the resources needed for such kinds of exchanges. This has consequently limited the proportion of data that can be traded, and also the amount of time it can be preserved.

Now, Japan-based researchers have taken a significant step toward dealing with such limitations in resources. The team has published its findings in the Physical Review Letters journal on May 27th, 2020.

To connect remote quantum computers together, we need the capacity to perform quantum mechanical operations between them over very long distances, all while maintaining their important quantum coherence.

Kae Nemoto, Study Author, Professor and Director, Global Research Center for Quantum Information Science, National Institute of Informatics

Nemoto continued, However, interestingly, while quantum computers have emerged at the small scale, quantum communication technology is still at the device level and has not been integrated together to realize communication systems. In this work, we show a route forward.

Quantum data needs to be protected from the considerable level of noise surrounding it, and data is also likely to be lost from the preliminary message. Such a protection process is referred to as quantum error correction, which intertwines a single piece of data over several qubits. Qubits happen to be the most fundamental unit of quantum data.

Individuals can envision a letter shredded into nine pieces, with each piece placed inside an envelope and each envelope delivered to the same kind of destination to be again organized and read.

Similarly, in the quantum realm, the envelopes are sent through photons and each envelope contains a sufficient amount of data to reproduce the whole letter if any of the delivered envelopes are damaged or lost.

The overhead to protect quantum information from noise and loss will be large, and the size of the required devices to realize this will cause serious problems, as we have started to see in today's quantum computer development. As the efforts to realize the quantum internet are occurring worldwide, it is important to think of it as a system, and not simple devices.

Kae Nemoto, Study Author, Professor and Director, Global Research Center for Quantum Information Science, National Institute of Informatics

Along with her research team, Nemoto tackled this problem by employing a procedure known as quantum multiplexing, where they decreased the noise and also the number of resources required to relay the data.

In multiplexing, the data stored inside a pair of individual photons is integrated into a single photon, similar to a couple of envelopes being delivered in a portfolio, and therefore, the data is still protected individually but only a single stamp is required to transmit the information.

In this system, quantum error correction will play an essential role, not only of protecting the quantum information transmitted, but also for significantly reducing the necessary resources to achieve whatever tasks one needs. Quantum multiplexing enables significant resource reduction without requiring new technology to be developed for such quantum communication devices.

William J. Munro, Study Co-Author and Researcher, Basic Research Laboratories, NTT

At present, the scientists are extending their study to large-scale quantum complex network situations.

The quantum revolution has allowed us to design and create new technologies previously thought impossible in our classical world, added Nemoto. Small-scale quantum computers have already shown computing performance better than todays largest supercomputers.

However, many other forms of quantum technology are emerging and one of the most profound could be the quantum internet a quantum-enabled version of todays internetwhich will allow us to network devices together, including quantum computers, Nemoto further stated.

The scientists will next build on the initial steps that they have already adopted to boost the amount of data as well as the storage time.

The study was partly funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and the John Templeton Foundation.

Others who contributed to the study are Nicol Lo Piparo, Michael Hanks, Claude Gravel, and William J. Munro, all affiliated with the National Institute of Informatics. In addition, Munro is affiliated with the NTT Basic Research Laboratories as well as the NTT Research Center for Theoretical Quantum Physics.

Lo Piparo, N., et al. (2020) Resource Reduction for Distributed Quantum Information Processing Using Quantum Multiplexed Photons. Physical Review Letters. doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.210503.

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As we all know, graphene is a revolutionary material consisting of a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb lattice.

Since its discovery, it has been a material of great interest because of its properties, making it useful for a broad range of potential next-gen applications, including several in electronics. These properties include excellent electrical conductivity as well as high strength and rigidity.

Today, research teams worldwide are working around the clock to build on these characteristics by substituting the carbon atoms in graphene's crystal lattice with atoms of different elements.

Professor Ernst Meyer leads one of these teams at the University of Basel, which, along with colleagues from the University of Bern, claim to have succeeded in producing the world's first graphene ribbons whose crystal lattice contains both periodic pores and a regular pattern of nitrogen atoms.

The team's material structure takes the form of a ladder, with each rung on this "ladder" containing two atoms of nitrogen. The researchers heated the individual building blocks in a step-by-step process on a silver surface in a vacuum to synthesize these porous, nitrogen-containing graphene ribbons.

It is only when temperatures hit 220C that graphene ribbons are formed. By using atomic force microscopy, the researchers were able to monitor the individual steps in the synthesis of the material and confirm the perfect ladder structure and its stability.

Individual building blocks are heated on a silver surface in order to synthesize a porous graphene ribbon that exhibits semiconducting properties and a ladder-like structure, in each rung of the ladder, two carbon atoms have been replaced with nitrogen atoms (blue). Image credited to University of Basel

Furthermore, through scanning tunneling microscopy, the research team also demonstrated that their new graphene ribbons were no longer electrical conductors like pure graphene, but rather that they behaved as semiconductors. These findings were confirmed by researchers at the University of Bern and the University of Warwick through additional theoretical calculations of the electronic properties.

"The semiconducting properties are essential for the potential applications in electronics, as their conductivity can be adjusted specifically," said Dr. Rmy Pawlak.

And although further research is yet to be carried out, we know that a high concentration of nitrogen atoms in the crystal lattice causes the graphene ribbons to magnetize when exposed to a magnetic field.

"We expect these porous, nitrogen-doped graphene ribbons to display extraordinary magnetic properties," says Ernst Meyer. Thus, it is thought that the ribbons could be of interest for potential applications in the field of quantum computing.

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BOSTON, MA July 14, 2020 New survey results fromthe Pistoia Alliance, the Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C) and QuPharm show almost one-third (31 percent) of life science organizations polled are set to begin quantum computing evaluation this year. A further 39 percent are planning to evaluate next year or have quantum computing on their radar, while 30 percent have no current plans to evaluate.

The three organizations have collaborated to establish a cross-industry Community of Interest (CoI) to explore the opportunities for quantum computing to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of biopharma R&D. The CoI aims to support companies that need help navigating the pathway to quantum computing and will facilitate collaboration between stakeholders, propose new ideas for quantum computing projects, and help interested parties define and articulate potential use cases.

The interest in quantum computing across many sectors is high, yet most biopharmaceutical companies are only just beginning the journey and exploring the potential for accelerating discovery, commented Emir Roach, one of the leaders of QuPharm. Quantum computing is a completely new paradigm of computing, and our mission is to accelerate its implementation in life sciences. We are looking forward to working with the Pistoia Alliance and QED-C to help educate the life science and health care industry on the benefits.

The survey showed that more than four out of five respondents (82 percent) believe quantum computing will impact the industry within the next decade. The same proportion of respondents believe discovery and development will be first to benefit from quantum computing deployments in the biopharmaceutical industry.

Quantum computing is likely to have a profound impact on precision medicine, enabling accelerated genomics and proteomics correlation, as well as the calculation of multiple probabilities and outcomes. It will also help organizations deliver new molecules and therapies to market faster by streamlining the discovery process and enabling quantum energy calculations for molecules, as predicted in the Pistoia Alliances 2030 vision report. In the future, such technology could help the industry more quickly and accurately model disease pathways caused by novel coronaviruses.

The CoI has come together to help organizations address the key issues that need to be solved if the extraordinary benefits of quantum computing are to be realized. Potential barriers identified in the survey include a shortage of skills and a lack of access to quantum computing infrastructure (both cited by 28 percent of respondents) and the need for clearly defined use cases (31 percent).

There are myriad opportunities for quantum computing in life sciences and health care, and through this community of interest the pharmaceutical and quantum computing sectors can work together to identify and communicate areas of early and high potential, commented Celia Merzbacher, deputy director at QED-C. While quantum computing is still emerging, now is the time to jointly define use cases and challenges in pharmaceutical discovery and development that quantum computing can address. Better understanding of the pharmaceutical bottlenecks can accelerate quantum computing hardware and software development for overcoming those.

Given the interest in quantum computing amongst our members, we wanted to create the community of interest to address their needs and questions. We are now looking for more companies to get involved and commit resources to help us explore use cases, commented John Wise, a member of the Pistoia Alliance Operations Team supporting the new quantum computing CoI. The shared-risk, shared-reward advantages of pre-competitive collaboration are an ideal way for companies to explore the opportunities and challenges of quantum computing. Those organisations that do not begin to evaluate quantum computing now are at risk of being left behind once its value is realized. Those that are equipped to adopt the technology when it matures will be significantly ahead.

The research survey was conducted at the Community of Interests inaugural webinar in June 2020. More than 240 attendees from life science and quantum computing organisations across the US and Europe participated. To find out more about the CoI and help to steer future projects on quantum computing, please contact John Wise at the Pistoia Alliance via john.wise@pistoiaalliance.org or Celia Merzbacher via celia.merzbacher@sri.com.

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