Quantum News Briefs 31. oktober: Kina tager 'hack-sikker' kvantesatellitteknologi til mellemjordskredsløb, DOE annoncerer $11.4M til forskning i kvanteinformationsvidenskab til fusionsenergividenskab; USA kan ikke føre alene på kvantecomputere + MERE – Inside Quantum Technology

Quantum News Briefs 31. oktober:

DOE announces $11.4M for research on quantum information science for fusion energy sciences

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $11.4 million for six projects in quantum information science (QIS) with relevance to fusion and plasma science on October 30. Quantum News Briefs summarizes.
The Fusion Energy Sciences (FES) program supports fundamental research to expand the understanding of matter at very high temperatures and densities and to build the scientific foundation needed to develop a fusion energy source. The QIS portfolio within FES supports research opportunities outlined in the 2018 Fusion Energy Sciences Roundtable on Quantum Information Science report. It includes science and technology thrusts where QIS might have a transformative impact on FES mission areas, including fusion and discovery plasma science. It also includes exploring fundamental science supported by FES to advance the field of Quantum Information Science beyond FES’ applications.
Jean Paul Allain, Associate Director of Science for FES, explained, “The convergence of quantum science, fusion energy, and plasma science is an exciting and revolutionary emergent area of discovery and broader impact.”
Projects funded in this announcement will advance quantum algorithms relevant to fusion and plasma physics on existing and near‐term quantum computers, develop novel high-sensitivity measurement techniques for plasmas, and explore the use of high energy density physics methods for novel QIS materials discovery and synthesis. The list of projects and more information can be found on the FES program page
The projects were selected by competitive peer review under the DOE Funding Opportunity Announcement for Quantum Information Science Research for Fusion Energy Sciences. They will last up to three years, with total funding of $11.4 million: $3.8 million in FY23 and $7.6 million in outyear funding contingent on congressional appropriations. The list of projects and more information can be found on the FES program page.  Click here to read entire announcement.

The U.S. can’t lead alone on quantum computing

The United States must work to mitigate the risks that quantum computers pose to national and economic security according to a Bronte Munro, an analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute in Washington, D.C.C. in a comprehensive October 25 article in Foreign Policy summarized below by Quantum News Briefs.
Australia is a natural partner for the United States on quantum computing. Despite having only 0.3 percent of the global population, Australia is home to 10 percent of the world’s quantum scientists; these scientists are supported by a national quantum strategy.
Meanwhile, China is ranked second to the United States in terms of research about this technology, according to the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s Critical Technology Tracker, and the race to achieve quantum supremacy is intensifying.
The United States must work to mitigate the risks that quantum computers pose to national and economic security. However, he United States can’t safeguard its leadership on quantum computing by acting alone. In a similar situation to the semiconductor industry, there is a limited global talent pool of expertise in the sector, and Washington needs to coordinate the human capital, research and development, and the advanced manufacturing capabilities needed to bring quantum computing online in a time frame conducive to the pacing threat that China poses.
The United States has already acknowledged the pressing need to secure advanced technology supply chains through the passing of the CHIPS and Science Act in August 2022. As the country looks to place similar export controls on advanced technologies such as quantum computing, it must not cut its allies out. Instead, Washington needs to leverage the complementary strengths of each nations’ advanced technology ecosystems. That collaboration must begin with semiconductors.
Conversations on the security of advanced semiconductor supply chains and the importance of investment in quantum computing often occur independently. Yet, Washington’s ability to maintain global leadership in the quantum computing industry hinges on secure access to advanced semiconductor manufacturing.
Collaboration between the United States and Australia in quantum computing sciences dates to the late 1990s, when there was engagement between the U.S. Army Research Office and Australian quantum computing research centers. Alongside the U.S.-Australia bilateral relationship, the AUKUS security arrangement offers the two nations an endorsed pathway to deepen innovation ties and achieve scalability alongside the United Kingdom. Click here to read the Foreign Policy article in-entirety.

IBM har annonceret, at Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-Madras) bliver den første indiske institution, der tilslutter sig IBM Quantum Network for at fremme udvikling og forskning i kvantecomputerfærdigheder i Indien. Quantum News Briefs opsummerer meddelelsen den Fotonik online.
Som medlem af IBM Quantum Network vil IIT Madras få cloud-baseret adgang til IBMs mest avancerede kvantecomputersystemer og IBMs kvanteekspertise til at udforske praktiske applikationer og realisere de vidtrækkende fordele ved denne teknologi for erhvervslivet og samfundet.
IIT Madras' Center for Quantum Information, Communication and Computing (CQuICC) vil fokusere på at fremme kernealgoritmer inden for forskningsområder som Quantum Machine Learning, Quantum Optimization og applikationsforskning inden for finans. De vil bruge IBM Quantum-tjenester sammen med open source Qiskit-rammerne til at udforske områder som kvantealgoritmer, kvantemaskinelæring, kvantefejlkorrektion og fejlreduktion, kvantetomografi og kvantekemi, og til også at fremme og udvikle kvantecomputerøkosystemet i landet. Forskere fra IIT Madras vil bidrage til fremme af forskning i anvendelsen af ​​kvantecomputere med støtte fra IBM Research India på sådanne områder, der er relevante for Indien.
IIT Madras slutter sig til mere end 180 medlemmer af IBM Quantum Network, et globalt fællesskab af Fortune 500-virksomheder, nystartede virksomheder, akademiske institutioner og forskningslaboratorier, der arbejder med IBM Quantum-teknologi for at fremme kvantecomputere og udforske praktiske anvendelser.

Sandra K. Helsel, ph.d. har forsket og rapporteret om grænseteknologier siden 1990. Hun har sin ph.d. fra University of Arizona.

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