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Quantum Computing Modalities
Quantum Computing Modalities: QA With Digital Boost (“Bang-Bang” Annealing)
Digital Boost (“Bang-Bang” Annealing) refers to augmenting or replacing the continuous, gradual annealing schedule with discrete pulses or abrupt changes in the control parameters – essentially applying bang–bang control to quantum annealing. In control theory, a bang–bang controller is one…
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Quantum Computing Modalities: Dissipative QC (DQC)
Dissipative Quantum Computing (DQC) is a model of quantum computation that leverages open quantum system dynamics – in other words, it uses controlled dissipation (interaction with an environment and irreversible processes) as a resource for computing.
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Quantum Computing Modalities: Majorana Qubits
Majorana qubits are quantum bits encoded using Majorana zero modes, exotic quasiparticles that are their own antiparticles. These modes emerge in certain superconducting systems as zero-energy states bound to defects or boundaries. Uniquely, information stored in a pair of Majorana…
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Quantum Computing Modalities: Biological QC
Biological Quantum Computing refers to speculative ideas that biological systems might perform quantum computations or that we could harness biological processes to implement quantum computing. This paradigm is highly exploratory and not yet realized in any form, lying at the…
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Quantum Computing Modalities: Boson Sampling QC (Gaussian & Non-Gaussian)
Boson Sampling is a specialized, non-universal model of quantum computation where the goal is to sample from the output distribution of indistinguishable bosons (typically photons) that have passed through a passive linear interferometer. In simpler terms, one prepares multiple photons,…
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Quantum Computing Modalities: Quantum Cellular Automata (QCA)
Quantum Cellular Automata are an abstract paradigm of quantum computing where space and time are discrete and quantum information processing happens in many parallel identical cells interacting with neighbors under a uniform rule. It’s a quantum counterpart to classical cellular…
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Quantum Computing Modalities: Time Crystals’ Potential QC Use
Time crystals are an exotic state of matter that spontaneously breaks time-translation symmetry, meaning the system’s lowest-energy state exhibits periodic motion in time. This is analogous to how ordinary crystals break spatial translation symmetry by arranging atoms in a repeating…
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Society 5.0
Will the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) beat Japan to Society 5.0?
Ask most people what they remember from 2016 – if they remember anything at all – and there are usually two big events that float to the front of their minds: Britain voted to leave the European Union and the…
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Quantum Computing Modalities: DNA-Based QIP
DNA-based quantum information processing envisions using DNA – the molecule of life – in roles within a quantum computer. This could mean DNA acting as qubits, facilitating quantum interactions, or serving as a structural scaffold for other qubits. It's an…
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Quantum Computing Modalities: One-Clean-Qubit Model (DQC1)
The One-Clean-Qubit model, also known as Deterministic Quantum Computation with One Qubit (DQC1), is a restricted quantum computing paradigm where only a single qubit starts in a pure (or “clean”) state while all other qubits are in a completely mixed…
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Quantum Computing Modalities: Exotic and Emerging QC
Overview of “exotic and emerging” quantum computing paradigms and discuss why they exist, what common themes link them, how they compare to mainstream quantum computers, and what implications they might hold for the future. We also introduce each paradigm in…
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Quantum Computing Modalities: Photonic Continuous-Variable QC (CVQC)
Photonic continuous-variable quantum computing (CVQC) is an approach to quantum computation that uses quantum states with continuously varying quantities (like the amplitude or phase of an electromagnetic field) instead of discrete two-level systems (qubits).
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Quantum Computing Modalities: Hybrid QC Architectures
Hybrid quantum computing architectures refer to combining different types of quantum systems or integrating quantum subsystems with one another (and often with classical systems) to create a more powerful or versatile computer. This can mean hybridizing physical qubit modalities (e.g.,…
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Quantum Computing Modalities: Quantum Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) & Cluster States
Quantum Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) codes are a class of quantum error-correcting codes characterized by “sparse” parity-check constraints, analogous to classical LDPC codes. In a Quantum LDPC code (which is typically a stabilizer code), each stabilizer generator (parity-check operator) acts on…
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5G Security
Is 5G security being sacrificed at the altar of profit, politics and process?
Homo sapiens is an incredibly adaptable species, arguably the most adaptable ever. But it is also a forgetful one, quick to take things for granted. Many of us can remember when cell phones first emerged, when the internet first became…
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