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Helgoland

Carlo Rovelli

Allen Lane, pp. 240, 14.99

Helgoland is a craggy German island in the North Sea. Barely bigger than a few fields, it reaches high above the water on precipitous cliffs and is famous for its sweet air. It has a town and a harbour, and the 1,000-odd inhabitants speak a distinct dialect. In the summer of 1925, the 23-year-old physicist Werner Heisenberg went there to sort out hishay fever and solve the problem of reality.

Helgoland is a slightly misleading title for Carlo Rovellis inspiring, chaotic, delightfully unsatisfactory book of popular quantum physics. It isnt about Heisenbergs months there or his mathematical insights; Helgoland is Rovellis shorthand for Heisenbergs pellucid state of mind. On Helgoland, says Rovelli, Heisenberg almost got the philosophical approach to quantum theory right. Ever since, weve been getting it wrong.

The discovery of a quantum world began with experimental results. Certain things were taking place in German physics labs that should not be. Atoms were misbehaving. When scientists in Gttingen and Berlin crouched in front of the latest clever electronic instruments and peered, Alice-like, into the wonderland of the very small, what they saw shocked them bolt upright. Wonderland was ridiculous. There, logic was (and still is) fundamentally different.

Translated up to our size, the following nonsense was apparently perfectly possible: throw a full tankard across the hall in a Bierstube, let somebody notice (as it passes overhead) that this tankard has, say, a picture of a stag on it, and the beer inside turns green. That simple observation hey, look, theres a stag on the tankard and ping! the contents of the mug changes colour. But if nobody notices the decoration, the beer stays brown. In the quantum world, two defining qualities that have nothing to do with each other (tankard decoration and beer colour) can influence one another just because somebodys looked at them. Its a place for hucksters, not respectable people. Even Einstein, who got his Nobel Prize for figuring out the existence of this strange new world, was appalled: God does not play dice! he said. Dont you tell God what to do, retorted the Danish theoretician Niels Bohr, who was less prudish.

Heisenberg worked for Bohr, and on Helgoland started to make sense of this wayward behaviour of small things. The central point was, he discovered, that everything in quantum land works with exactly the same logic as it does up here except in one particular: the order in which you look at things matters. In the quantum world, if the observer had only kept his mind focused on the beer, and paid no attention to the pretty decoration, it would have stayed brown. Some physicists tried to get round the metaphysical implications of this idea by insisting that there were hidden things secretly linking the subatomic equivalents of beer colour and mug decoration. Others have given up all pretence of common sense and believe ideas much more outlandish than God, such as the existence of multiple worlds in which all possible beer mug decorations and beer colours get to exist somewhere, really and truly, all at once.

Rovelli has a different idea. He says reality doesnt exist. The reason physicists have been led astray by bonkers theories in the 100 years since Helgoland is because they cant bear the thought of not being real.

It was at this point a third of the way through the book that I mimicked Heisenberg and took my first long, befuddled walk. Reality doesnt exist? What on earth does that mean? Rovellis favourite example is a red chair. Red doesnt exist, for sure everyone knows that philosophical chestnut: its just the way our brains make sense of light of a certain wavelength. But Rovelli also insists that nothing else about the chair exists either its weight, its shape except in its relationship to the person looking at it. And you can keep banging away at this type of argument until you get to the level of the atoms forming the chair. Insisting that anything about this red chair needs to exist outside of relationships is metaphysical neediness.

Part of the fun of Rovellis book is that your immediate reaction to his ideas repugnance or delight isnt meaningless. Without mathematics or experiment, by page 81 your thoughts are at the frontier of quantum theory, and its time for your second brain-cudgeling walk. If things exist only by virtue of their interaction with other things, what happens to them between times? Do they vanish? Do instants of time also not exist? Does it even make sense to talk this way? Oh dear, oh dear.

Rovelli devotes a precious chapter to the work of the second-century Buddhist philosopher Nagarjuna, who also insists there is no ultimate layer of real things. Another chapter 15 pages, getting on for a tenth of this short book is as unexpected as green beer: its about a fierce philosophical argument Lenin had in 1909 with Aleksandr Bogdanov, the co-founder of the Bolshevik party.

I have digressed, says Rovelli, once this exuberant and not particularly helpful passage is over, then promptly tips off the other side of his bar stool and quotes Douglas Adams:

The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas-covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.

In other words, its our skewed perspective, not the scientific evidence, that makes us want to believe in the reality of red chairs and atoms.

Rovelli is not a kook. Hes a world-famous professor of quantum gravity. His relational interpretation of quantum theory is discussed seriously by leading philosophers and physicists. Hes ebullient about his ideas, not crazed by them. He doesnt do a particularly good job of describing in laymans terms the fundamental oddity of quantum theory hes too easily distracted and too poetical; his metaphors are a little too breathless. But that shouldnt put you off. Do what I did after my third Helgoland walk: read the opening pages of Leonard Susskinds superb popular science book Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum. Anybody who can use fractions can understand them. Then set back to work with Helgoland. What follows is joyous excitement.

It feels exactly right that Rovelli teaches at the University of Marseille. In the same spirit as hes written this book, I imagine him strolling along the quai, his sleeves rolled up, hailing the devil-may-care crowd by the boats and then, with a quick glance to either side, slipping into that crazy little bar where the tankards are flying and the beer turns green if you look at it funny.

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Jackson Butler, a junior studying physics in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, received the Barry Goldwater Scholarship, a prestigious award that honors students who conduct research in the natural sciences, mathematics and engineering.

Butler is researching the magnetic material -RuCl3, a layered and insulating system widely thought to host an exotic form of matter called a quantum spin liquid. He ultimately would like to earn a PhD in condensed-matter physics and conduct research in the private sector.

Doing research in the private sector will allow me to not only continue to investigate many different types of physical phenomena but also to begin to apply it to real-world applications, Butler wrote in his application. Condensed matter physics has many potential applications such as quantum computing, super conductivity and many other applications that will greatly impact tomorrows technology.

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WALTHAM, Mass., April 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) today announced Connect Up, a 10-year, $500 million corporate responsibility initiative to drive transformative, generational impact on critical societal challenges. This focused philanthropy expands upon and elevates the company's legacy of community investment through lifelong learning, veteran and military family support, and localized community engagement.

"The measure of business success must include community growth," said Greg Hayes, Raytheon Technologies' chief executive officer. "The Connect Up program leverages our global reach, the expertise and passion of more than 180,000 employees, a heritage of era-defining engineering and technology ingenuity, with a track record of solving some of society's biggest challenges. Through focused investments, volunteer commitment and strategic partnerships, we will create lasting, multi-generational impact in education opportunity, armed services support and local community relief."

To meet the pressing needs of communities, today and into the future, Connect Up combines philanthropic capital, public/private partnership and employee volunteerism to support underserved communities by:

In addition to philanthropy, employee volunteerism is central to the mission of Connect Up, and the company today launched an enterprise-wide employee volunteer initiative to provide opportunities for employees to connect with and give back to their communities. Raytheon Technologies will challenge the company's 180,000 global employees to unlock the power of connections through 1 million acts of service in 2021, starting with the launch of its first-ever Global Month of Service in April.

For more information on Raytheon Technologies' social impact initiatives and to stay updated on programs and investments, please visit us at RTX.com/social-impact

About Raytheon TechnologiesRaytheon Technologies Corporation is an aerospace and defense company that provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers worldwide. With four industry-leading businesses Collins Aerospace Systems, Pratt & Whitney, Raytheon Intelligence & Space and Raytheon Missiles & Defense the company delivers solutions that push the boundaries in avionics, cybersecurity, directed energy, electric propulsion, hypersonics, and quantum physics. The company, formed in 2020 through the combination of Raytheon Company and the United Technologies Corporation aerospace businesses, is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.

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WALTHAM, Mass., April 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) will issue its first quarter 2021 earnings on Tuesday, April 27, prior to the stock market opening. A conference call will take place at 8:30 a.m. ET.

A presentation corresponding with the conference call will be available on the company's website at http://www.rtx.com for downloading prior to the call. To listen to the earnings call by phone, dial (866) 219-7829 between 8:10 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. ET. Please limit your use of the phone's speaker mode to optimize the audio quality of the call for all participants.

Analysts who wish to ask a question following the prepared remarks should press "1" on their phone during the call. Your name will be placed in queue. To remove yourself from the queue, press "#." If you need assistance, press "*0" to reach the conference operator.

The call will be broadcast live on the Internet at http://www.rtx.com. A recording will be archived on the site and will be available for replay by phone from 11:30 a.m. ET Tuesday, April 27th, to 11:30 a.m. ET Tuesday, May 11th. For a replay, dial (855) 859-2056. At the prompt for a conference ID number, enter 9535368.

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Raytheon Technologies Corporation is an aerospace and defense company that provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers worldwide. With four industry-leading businesses Collins Aerospace Systems, Pratt & Whitney, Raytheon Intelligence & Space and Raytheon Missiles & Defense the company delivers solutions that push the boundaries in avionics, cybersecurity, directed energy, electric propulsion, hypersonics, and quantum physics. The company, formed in 2020 through the combination of Raytheon Company and the United Technologies Corporation aerospace businesses, is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.

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Article By : Maurizio Di Paolo Emilio

Let's leave our universe behind and dive into a parallel one, where we come upon three scientiststwo physicists and an engineer whos fond of high voltagewho are deep in conversation.

Quantum mechanics and relativity show us that parallel worlds are a possibility. In 1935, Einstein and Rosen first represented electrons as black holes, bridging relativity with quantum mechanics and thereby avoiding the contradiction of black hole singularity. In doing so, they opened the door and societys imagination to the idea of the wormhole, or a connection between parallel universes. A spacetime tunnel called the Einstein-Rosen bridge (wormhole) would allow traveling and moving through space and time.

Thats where our interstellar journey begins. Lets leave our universe behind and dive into a parallel one, where we come upon three scientists two physicists and an engineer whos fond of high voltage who are deep in conversation. The scientists are surrounded by a crowd of people, who are listening to their amiable discussion and asking them questions. Lets see if we can hear what theyre saying.

Weve traveled to this parallel world from one where artificial intelligence is seen as a great hope for the future of humanity. We are already using it without even realizing it. According to some in the social sciences, however, AI may also be a great danger, as it is capable of replacing humans as the dominant species. Are you basically saying that the next Einstein will be using artificial intelligence? comments the famous relativity physicist. Humans cannot travel through time, but somehow, if artificial intelligence were able to solve some quantum knots, man could even end up arguing, in a parallel universe, with his alter ego without imagining what might happen.

In all honesty, Newton comments, I can say that my only alter ego is me.

The universe we see is just a fragment nested in timelessness, rather than a single material world magically rising out of nothing from some primordial event. All universes exist without beginning or end in the final arena of time, and every moment we experience exists forever. The energy of the universe around us is an asset to this planet, Tesla comments. Since ancient times, the demand for new energy sources has been an ongoing theme. The more energy that can be stored or produced through alternative renewable methods, the less of a burden traditional power-generation systems will place on them.

The universe is not just energy. Says Newton: My Principia formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation, which have dominated the science of the universe. By deriving Keplers laws from his mathematical description of gravity, and then using the same principles to explain the trajectories of comets, tides, the precession of the equinoxes, and other phenomena, I cleared the last doubts about the validity of the heliocentric model of the solar system. This work has also shown that the motion of objects on Earth and of celestial bodies can be described by the same principles. We are accustomed to seeing the world at a macroscopic level; our eye does not perceive what is really there at its microscopic level.

Every day, we humans dance the same quantum dance dictated by the physical laws that scientists such as Heisenberg, Bohr, Schrdinger, and De Broglie described during the 20th century. Heisenberg laid the foundations during his stay on the island of Helgoland, where he managed to calculate the matrix of numbers without first even understanding what that would mean, notesEinstein. Heisenberg likely appreciated the peace of that remote, rocky place, where seagulls screech in the distance and the dominant sound is the sound of the waves.

We must have a microscope or some other technology to detect the behavior of the smallest part of matter, the atom. The best description we have of the nature of the particles that make up matter is described by quantum mechanics subatomic particles such as electrons, neutrons, protons, quarks, and so on. Electrons can jump from one orbit to another, and we see this as observation; in theory, we humans could also jump from one planet to another, though doing so would require a considerable expenditure of energy.

The first quanta we know well are photons, the particles of the sun, says Tesla. These are the elementary constituents of quantum mechanics simple massless particles that bombard and heat us every day, and through which we can also produce electricity by exploiting the photoelectric effect with photovoltaic panels.

Quantum physics has a reputation as a strange science because its predictions differ so dramatically from our everyday experience (at least, this is the case for humans, though perhaps not for extraterrestrials). This is because the effects involved get smaller as objects get bigger: If you want to see unambiguous quantum behavior, you basically want to see particles behaving like waves.

Improvements in quantum computer technology will require a new way of thinking, and experts will have to be able to collaborate across multidisciplinary domains of knowledge, science, and technology.

This article was originally published onEE Times Europe.

Maurizio Di Paolo Emilio holds a Ph.D. in Physics and is a telecommunication engineer and journalist. He has worked on various international projects in the field of gravitational wave research. He collaborates with research institutions to design data acquisition and control systems for space applications. He is the author of several books published by Springer, as well as numerous scientific and technical publications on electronics design.

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An Interstellar Trip with Einstein, Newton, and Tesla - EE Times India

Particle physicists use lattice quantum chromodynamics and supercomputers to search for physics beyond the Standard Model.

Peer deeper into the heart of the atom than any microscope allows and scientists hypothesize that you will find a rich world of particles popping in and out of the vacuum, decaying into other particles, and adding to the weirdness of the visible world. These subatomic particles are governed by the quantum nature of the Universe and find tangible, physical form in experimental results.

Some subatomic particles were first discovered over a century ago with relatively simple experiments. More recently, however, the endeavor to understand these particles has spawned the largest, most ambitious and complex experiments in the world, including those at particle physics laboratories such as the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Europe, Fermilab in Illinois, and the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) in Japan.

These experiments have a mission to expand our understanding of the Universe, characterized most harmoniously in the Standard Model of particle physics; and to look beyond the Standard Model for as-yet-unknown physics.

This plot shows how the decay properties of a meson made from a heavy quark and a light quark change when the lattice spacing and heavy quark mass are varied on the calculation. Credit: A. Bazavov (Michigan State U.), C. Bernard (Washington U., St. Louis), N. Brown (Washington U., St. Louis), C. DeTar (Utah U.), A.X. El-Khadra (Illinois U., Urbana and Fermilab) et al.

The Standard Model explains so much of what we observe in elementary particle and nuclear physics, but it leaves many questions unanswered, said Steven Gottlieb, distinguished professor of Physics at Indiana University. We are trying to unravel the mystery of what lies beyond the Standard Model.

Ever since the beginning of the study of particle physics, experimental and theoretical approaches have complemented each other in the attempt to understand nature. In the past four to five decades, advanced computing has become an important part of both approaches. Great progress has been made in understanding the behavior of the zoo of subatomic particles, including bosons (especially the long sought and recently discovered Higgs boson), various flavors of quarks, gluons, muons, neutrinos and many states made from combinations of quarks or anti-quarks bound together.

Quantum field theory is the theoretical framework from which the Standard Model of particle physics is constructed. It combines classical field theory, special relativity and quantum mechanics, developed with contributions from Einstein, Dirac, Fermi, Feynman, and others. Within the Standard Model, quantum chromodynamics, or QCD, is the theory of the strong interaction between quarks and gluons, the fundamental particles that make up some of the larger composite particles such as the proton, neutron and pion.

Carleton DeTar and Steven Gottlieb are two of the leading contemporary scholars of QCD research and practitioners of an approach known as lattice QCD. Lattice QCD represents continuous space as a discrete set of spacetime points (called the lattice). It uses supercomputers to study the interactions of quarks, and importantly, to determine more precisely several parameters of the Standard Model, thereby reducing the uncertainties in its predictions. Its a slow and resource-intensive approach, but it has proven to have wide applicability, giving insight into parts of the theory inaccessible by other means, in particular the explicit forces acting between quarks and antiquarks.

A plot of the Unitarity Triangle, a good test of the Standard Model, showing constraints on the , plane. The shaded areas have 95% CL, a statistical method for setting upper limits on model parameters. Credit: A. Ceccucci (CERN), Z. Ligeti (LBNL) and Y. Sakai (KEK)

DeTar and Gottlieb are part of the MIMD Lattice Computation (MILC) Collaboration and work very closely with the Fermilab Lattice Collaboration on the vast majority of their work. They also work with the High Precision QCD (HPQCD) Collaboration for the study of the muon anomalous magnetic moment. As part of these efforts, they use the fastest supercomputers in the world.

Since 2019, they have used Frontera at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) the fastest academic supercomputer in the world and the 9th fastest overall to propel their work. They are among the largest users of that resource, which is funded by the National Science Foundation. The team also uses Summit at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (the #2 fastest supercomputer in the world); Cori at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (#20), and Stampede2 (#25) at TACC, for the lattice calculations.

The efforts of the lattice QCD community over decades have brought greater accuracy to particle predictions through a combination of faster computers and improved algorithms and methodologies.

We can do calculations and make predictions with high precision for how strong interactions work, said DeTar, professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Utah. When I started as a graduate student in the late 1960s, some of our best estimates were within 20 percent of experimental results. Now we can get answers with sub-percent accuracy.

Frontera was the fifth most powerful supercomputer in the world and fastest academic supercomputer, according to the November 2019 rankings of the Top500 organization. Frontera is located at the Texas Advanced Computing Center and supported by National Science Foundation. Credit: TACC

In particle physics, physical experiment and theory travel in tandem, informing each other, but sometimes producing different results. These differences suggest areas of further exploration or improvement.

There are some tensions in these tests, said Gottlieb, distinguished professor of Physics at Indiana University. The tensions are not large enough to say that there is a problem here the usual requirement is at least five standard deviations. But it means either you make the theory and experiment more precise and find that the agreement is better; or you do it and you find out, Wait a minute, what was the three sigma tension is now a five standard deviation tension, and maybe we really have evidence for new physics.'

DeTar calls these small discrepancies between theory and experiment tantalizing. They might be telling us something.

Over the last several years, DeTar, Gottlieb and their collaborators have followed the paths of quarks and antiquarks with ever-greater resolution as they move through a background cloud of gluons and virtual quark-antiquark pairs, as prescribed precisely by QCD. The results of the calculation are used to determine physically meaningful quantities such as particle masses and decays.

One of the current state-of-the-art approaches that is applied by the researchers uses the so-called highly improved staggered quark (HISQ) formalism to simulate interactions of quarks with gluons. On Frontera, DeTar and Gottlieb are currently simulating at a lattice spacing of 0.06 femtometers (10-15 meters), but they are quickly approaching their ultimate goal of 0.03 femtometers, a distance where the lattice spacing is smaller than the wavelength of the heaviest quark, consequently removing a significant source of uncertainty from these calculations.

Each doubling of resolution, however, requires about two orders of magnitude more computing power, putting a 0.03 femtometers lattice spacing firmly in the quickly-approaching exascale regime.

The costs of calculations keeps rising as you make the lattice spacing smaller, DeTar said. For smaller lattice spacing, were thinking of future Department of Energy machines and the Leadership Class Computing Facility [TACCs future system in planning]. But we can make do with extrapolations now.

Among the phenomena that DeTar and Gottlieb are tackling is the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon (essentially a heavy electron) which, in quantum field theory, arises from a weak cloud of elementary particles that surrounds the muon. The same sort of cloud affects particle decays. Theorists believe yet-undiscovered elementary particles could potentially be in that cloud.

A large international collaboration called the Muon g-2 Theory Initiative recently reviewed the present status of the Standard Model calculation of the muons anomalous magnetic moment. Their review appeared in Physics Reports in December 2020. DeTar, Gottlieb and several of their Fermilab Lattice, HPQCD and MILC collaborators are among the coauthors. They find a 3.7 standard deviation difference between experiment and theory.

While some parts of the theoretical contributions can be calculated with extreme accuracy, the hadronic contributions (the class of subatomic particles that are composed of two or three quarks and participate in strong interactions) are the most difficult to calculate and are responsible for almost all of the theoretical uncertainty. Lattice QCD is one of two ways to calculate these contributions.

The experimental uncertainty will soon be reduced by up to a factor of four by the new experiment currently running at Fermilab, and also by the future J-PARC experiment, they wrote. This and the prospects to further reduce the theoretical uncertainty in the near future make this quantity one of the most promising places to look for evidence of new physics.

Gottlieb, DeTar and collaborators have calculated the hadronic contribution to the anomalous magnetic moment with a precision of 2.2 percent. This give us confidence that our short-term goal of achieving a precision of 1 percent on the hadronic contribution to the muon anomalous magnetic moment is now a realistic one, Gottlieb said. The hope to achieve a precision of 0.5 percent a few years later.

Other tantalizing hints of new physics involve measurements of the decay of B mesons. There, various experimental methods arrive at different results. The decay properties and mixings of the D and B mesons are critical to a more accurate determination of several of the least well-known parameters of the Standard Model, Gottlieb said. Our work is improving the determinations of the masses of the up, down, strange, charm and bottom quarks and how they mix under weak decays. The mixing is described by the so-called CKM mixing matrix for which Kobayashi and Maskawa won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics.

The answers DeTar and Gottlieb seek are the most fundamental in science: What is matter made of? And where did it come from?

The Universe is very connected in many ways, said DeTar. We want to understand how the Universe began. The current understanding is that it began with the Big Bang. And the processes that were important in the earliest instance of the Universe involve the same interactions that were working with here. So, the mysteries were trying to solve in the microcosm may very well provide answers to the mysteries on the cosmological scale as well.

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Searching for New Physics in the Subatomic World - SciTechDaily

LEESBURG, Va., April 06, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Quantum Computing Inc. (OTCQB: QUBT) (QCI), a leader in bridging the power of classical and quantum computing, has expanded its executive team with sales and marketing leaders that position the company for immediate and long-term growth. QCI named iconic tech sales leader, Dave Morris, as its chief revenue officer, and tech marketing veteran Rebel Brown as vice president of marketing. With these hires, the company plans to accelerate the integration of quantum into enterprise problem solving, an effort thats already well underway.

It is extremely validating for QCIs business model to attract such accomplished professionals leading our sales and marketing efforts, said Robert Liscouski, CEO of QCI. Both bring a wealth of experience with the worlds largest computing companies and most exciting startups. The combination makes them so incredibly powerful for our efforts. Equally significant, both Dave and Rebel have broken ground in new areas of software and emerging technologies like QCI is doing in quantum. We are confident that the expanded team will accelerate our growth and advance quantum computing in the enterprise ahead of industry predictions.

Dave Morris has over 20 years of success leading regional, national, and international sales strategy, business development and execution, including significant roles with Cisco Systems and Intel. He previously was chief revenue officer of Airspace Systems, Inc., a leader in the drone detection and analytics space. Dave has a proven ability to set a clear vision and deliver meaningful results. He has prepared and adapted large sales teams to drive change and exploit technology evolution, both critical elements in quantum computing.

I am excited to join a team of accomplished professionals who are blazing the path to bring real value to the business community through QCIs ready-to-run quantum software, explained Morris. I am honored to be QCIs face to the business community at this pivotal inflection in the evolution of quantum computing. It is a rare opportunity to change computing at a fundamental level and apply it to real-word business problems. I look forward to working with progressive businesses who appreciate the potential of quantum to drive competitive advantage and boost results.

Rebel Brown has helped myriad U.S. and European advanced tech companies create, enter and lead markets.She brings deep expertise in strategy, product marketing/management and positioning. Rebel has helped raise more than $500M in startup funding, launched innovative technologies in software systems, development and HPC, and supported successful exits to companies like Apple, IBM, EMC, SGI and BEA. Along the way, Rebel helped introduce Unix to the commercial marketplace, launched the first open systems management platforms and put C++ objects on the map.

Ive successfully launched some of the most advanced tech throughout my career and have never seen a shift as potentially impactful as quantum computing, said Rebel Brown. QCI has quickly established itself as the market leader in ready-to-run quantum software. Like any early market, the hardest part can be separating hype from reality. I am excited to join the QCI team because of the companys commitment to demystifying the technology, and bringing the power of quantum to all users, not just quantum scientists, through real-world solutions that improve business results today.

QCIs flagship quantum software, Qatalyst, puts the power of quantum techniques for classical computing into the hands of non-quantum experts for solving critical business problems today. Qatalyst is the first to drive computational results on any quantum or classical computer without any new programming or low-level coding, quantum experts or exorbitantly long and costly development cycles. Qatalyst is now commercially available to support the QikStart Program, QCIs initiative to accelerate the real-world use cases for quantum computing.

QCI is unique in its capability to access a variety of quantum computers, including D-Wave, IonQ, and Rigetti, through Amazons Braket.

To learn more about QCI and how Qatalyst can deliver results for your business today, go to http://www.quantumcomputinginc.com.

About Quantum Computing Inc.Quantum Computing Inc. (OTCQB: QUBT) (QCI) is focused on accelerating the value of quantum computing for real-world business solutions. The companys flagship product, Qatalyst, is the first software to bridge the power of classical and quantum computing, hiding complexity and empowering SMEs to solve complex computational problems today. QCIs expert team in finance, computing, security, mathematics and physics has over a century of experience with complex technologies; from leading edge supercomputing innovations, to massively parallel programming, to the security that protects nations. Connect with QCI on LinkedIn and @QciQuantum on Twitter. For more information about QCI, visit http://www.quantumcomputinginc.com.

Important Cautions Regarding Forward-Looking StatementsThis press release contains forward-looking statements as defined within Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. By their nature, forward-looking statements and forecasts involve risks and uncertainties because they relate to events and depend on circumstances that will occur in the near future. Those statements include statements regarding the intent, belief or current expectations of Quantum Computing (Company), and members of its management as well as the assumptions on which such statements are based. Prospective investors are cautioned that any such forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties, and that actual results may differ materially from those contemplated by such forward-looking statements.

The Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise forward-looking statements to reflect changed conditions. Statements in this press release that are not descriptions of historical facts are forward-looking statements relating to future events, and as such all forward-looking statements are made pursuant to the Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Statements may contain certain forward-looking statements pertaining to future anticipated or projected plans, performance and developments, as well as other statements relating to future operations and results. Any statements in this press release that are not statements of historical fact may be considered to be forward-looking statements. Words such as "may," "will," "expect," "believe," "anticipate," "estimate," "intends," "goal," "objective," "seek," "attempt," aim to, or variations of these or similar words, identify forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, those described in Item 1A in the Companys Annual Report on Form 10-K, which is expressly incorporated herein by reference, and other factors as may periodically be described in the Companys filings with the SEC.

Qatalyst and QikStart are trademarks of Quantum Computing Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Company Contact:Robert Liscouski, CEOQuantum Computing, Inc.+1 (703) 436-2161info@quantumcomputinginc.com

Investor Relations Contact:Ron Both or Grant StudeCMA Investor Relations+1 (949) 432-7566Email Contact

Media Relations Contact:Seth MenackerFusion Public Relations+1 (201) 638-7561qci@fusionpr.com

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