NEWS

New Superposition Records

October 12, 2014
Two distinct types of qubits, representing two pathways for building a quantum computer in silicon, have been created that process quantum data with error rates lower than 1%. One team from UNSW Australia made a silicon “artificial-atom” qubit with a device similar to the transistors in consumer electronics, while another from the same university has achieved an accuracy approaching 99.99% with a two-qubit phosphorus atom.
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CNN Talks Supercomputing and Finance

October 3, 2014
In CNN’s story on portfolio optimization and risk management problems being “huge workloads” on Wall Street, D-Wave points to other areas of finance that could reap the rewards of quantum computing: developing trading strategies, mapping market correlations, pricing structured asset-backed securities, and capital project budgeting.
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Quantum Computing and Cryptography

September 30, 2014
Brad Templeton, Board Member and Former Chair of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Track Chair for Computing at Singularity University, discusses the implications of a theoretical quantum computer that could crack current cryptographic methods by quickly solving the extremely difficult mathematical problems involved.
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