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Quantum Class 25, Mon 2021-11-29

1 Quantum News

  1. https://news.slashdot.org/story/21/11/24/1933200/us-blacklists-chinese-quantum-computing-companies

  2. https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/29/china_quantum_ai_offensive/

2 Homework presentation

  1. Misha will talk on the transmond qubit question.

3 Actual course material

3.1 IBM Eagle

  1. IBM's 127 qubit Eagle quantum computer breakdown and reaction to release (25:22) Nov 20, 2021

    NYU Quantum Technology Lab. We take a look at IBM's new 127 qubit Eagle quantum computing chip, and look at its specifications, ranging from decoherence times, gate fidelities, and other available information from their website

    We'll continue at 8 minutes.

3.2 Dr. Tristan Meunier, CNRS – Néel Institute

The Quantum Spin Grenoble Initiative For Large Scale Quantum Computing

https://ny-creates.org/dr-tristan-meunier-cnrs-neel-institute/

This is the recent talk that I mentioned. He has kindly made his slides available; they are linked on the above page.

The talk starts with an excellent hi-level summary of quantum computing.