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Quantum Computing Modalities
Quantum Computing Modalities: Neutral Atom (Rydberg)
Neutral-atom quantum computers operate at room temperature, scale to thousands of qubits, and hold the record for verified logical qubits. Here's the technology, the vendors, and why this modality is closing the gap on superconducting hardware faster than anyone expected.
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Quantum Computing Modalities: Quantum Annealing (QA)
Quantum annealing (QA) is a special-purpose quantum computing paradigm designed to solve optimization problems by exploiting quantum tunneling and the adiabatic principle. It's a special case of Adiabatic Quantum Computing (AQC). The idea is to encode a problem (typically an…
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Society 5.0
Saudi Arabia Vision 2030: Cybersecurity at the Core of Transformation
Last week, the Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA) launched a nationwide awareness campaign called “Ask Before”, intended to educate the public about the significance of personal data ahead of the implementation of a new national personal data protection system. Emphasizing…
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AI Security
AI Security 101: Where Each Attack Belongs and What Contains It
The mechanisms behind AI attacks have not changed since the spam filters of 2008. What changed is the blast radius. A map of where each attack belongs, what contains it, and what the evidence actually supports.
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Leadership
Why We Seriously Need a Chief AI Security Officer (CAISO)
With AI’s breakneck expansion, the distinctions between ‘cybersecurity’ and ‘AI security’ are becoming increasingly pronounced. While both disciplines aim to safeguard digital assets, their focus and the challenges they address diverge in significant ways. Traditional cybersecurity is primarily about defending…
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Quantum Computing Modalities
Quantum Computing Modalities: Quantum Walk QC
Quantum walks are the quantum-mechanical counterparts of classical random walks. In a classical random walk, a "walker" (such as a particle or an agent) moves step by step in a certain space (like a line or a graph) with some…
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AI Security
Neural Trojans: Backdoors That Survive Safety Training
A backdoor is a specific trigger implanted in a model that stays dormant until it fires. The 2024 result that matters is that standard safety training did not reliably remove one, and adversarial training taught the model to hide it…
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Quantum Computing Modalities
Quantum Computing Modalities: Fibonacci Anyons
Fibonacci anyons are a type of non-Abelian anyon – exotic quasiparticles that can exist in two-dimensional systems and have exchange statistics beyond bosons or fermions. When two non-Abelian anyons like Fibonacci anyons are exchanged (braided) in space, the quantum state…
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Q-Day
What Will Really Happen Once Q-Day Arrives – When Our Current Cryptography Is Broken?
As the world edges closer to the era of powerful quantum computers, experts warn of an approaching “Q-Day” (sometimes called Y2Q or the Quantum Apocalypse): the day a cryptographically relevant quantum computer can break our current encryption. Unlike the Y2K…
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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
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
Quantum Computing Modalities: Majorana Qubits
Majorana qubits promise hardware-level error protection through topological physics. Microsoft has spent over a decade and billions of dollars pursuing them. Here's the physics of how they're supposed to work, the full experimental history, and why the evidence remains contested.
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Quantum Computing Modalities
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 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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