QUROPE Quantum Information Processing and Communication in Europe

A realization of a scalable Shor algorithm, as proposed by Kitaev, is presented, factoring the number 15 by effectively employing and controlling seven qubits and four “cache qubits” and by implementing generalized arithmetic operations, known as modular multipliers.

The China's Quantum Experiments at Space Scale (QUESS) satellite, to be be launched in July 2016, will complete China's growing quantum communications network, which includes a 2,000-kilometer-long network between Beijing and Shanghai.

How soon will we have quantum computers? In what ways will they transform our lives? Listen in as some of the top experts from tech companies working on quantum computing weigh in.

IOP Publishing is announcing the launch of Quantum Science and Technology, a new, high-impact journal designed to serve the full range of subject disciplines, extending across academia and industry, now engaged with advances in fundamental quantum information science and related quantum-enabled technologies.

At this year's Annual Lecture of Science and Technology Options Assesment panel of the European Parliament, Prof. Haroche emphasised that Europe has to maintain its leading role in science, and must pioneer research, innovation and creativity.

To acknowledge outstanding achievements in the foundations of quantum physics, Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) in Vienna introduces the Paul Ehrenfest Best Paper Award for the best quantum foundations publication in a given year.

The QUROPE Virtual Institutes and Facilities have produced a document aimed at understanding what is the take away message of the last preprint of Google researchers about the D-Wave machine (see this news).

The document can be downloaded following this link

The Physics World 2015 Breakthrough of the Year goes to Jian-Wei Pan and Chaoyang Lu of the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei, for being the first to achieve the simultaneous quantum teleportation of two inherent properties of a fundamental particle – the photon.

On December 7, researchers at Google have reported evidence for significant quantum effects on the latest D-Wave 2X device using problem instances that are designed to be hard for thermal annealing algorithms but easy for quantum annealers (http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.02206).

Yesterday, During the visit at QuTech, Delft, Commissioner for the Digital Economy and Society, Gunther H. Oettinger, and Minister of Economic Affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Henk Kamp, stated that action is needed to ensure Europe remains a world leader in Quantum Technology.