Program, run, repeat Software development, like many creative activities, is an iterative process. You try to figure something out, have an initial thought about the correct way to go about things and give it a first go. In quantum algorithm development the same principle applies. You should start with a small model, see if it works and then work your way up in complexity. At the moment you can’t easily access a quantum processor with more than a few tens of qubits.

This post was originally posted on the Classiq blog. Written with Ariel Smoler. Depending on who you ask, the size of the cyber security market is currently (as of August 2023) estimated at a few hundred billion USD/year. It’s harder to estimate the size of the internet-of-things market as the definitions are more vague than those of cyber-security. Is a web-connected-toaster an Internet-Of-Things (IOT) device? Sure, maybe, but what about a Radio-Frequency (RF) identification tag with a microchip embedded stuck on an egg carton?

This post was originally posted on the Classiq blog. Have you ever solved a Sudoku puzzle? It was pretty popular at some point in the early 2000s. For some reason, everyone was solving them all the time. Mind you, this is a time well before smartphones. People just didn’t have better things to do. If you haven’t heard of it, in a Sudoku, the goal is to fill a 9X9 grid with digits such that in each row and each column, each digit appears only once.

So many qubits, so little time At the time of writing this there are at least five competing technologies vying for the quantum computing throne. Superconducting qubits, trapped ions, neutral atom arrays and silicon (CMOS) qubits are the top contenders. The various so-called “color centers”, a prominent example of which are Nitrogen-Vacancy centers in diamonds, arguably lagging behind. Using an eye-rollingly terrible expression, it’s ‘The Zoo of Qubits’ 🙄. They only reason I am willing to use it is because I do believe some of them are cute but useless, some are scary and may bite you, and It’s very likely most of them will be extinct soon.

Apprenticeship The education system in the UK has an apprenticeship path built into it. This path allows young people who wish to finish the purely academic chapter of their studies at 16 to acquire vocational skills. I’ve never done an apprenticeship myself, but I was enamored by the idea when I heard about it as a schoolboy. How I imagine an apprenticeship, which may be very different from what a British apprenticeship actually looks like, is like a movie montage.

This post was originally posted on qubit.il, the israeli quantum community. זה ההייפ של הרגע. זו הבהלה לזהב של שנות ה20 של המאה ה-21. כתבות מחמיאות על חברות פורצות דרך, גיוסי כסף גדול ע"י צוותים קטנים שמתגבשים להם בחללי עבודה ברחבי הארץ והעולם ואפילו כמה הנפקות. הטכנולוגיה היא אינפורמציה קוונטית. זו עשויה להיות המהפכה הטכנולוגית הגדולה ביותר מאז מהפיכת האינפורמציה הקודמת, זו שהולידה מחשבים אישיים, טלפונים ניידים ואת האינטרנט. בקיצור: בהחלט יש פה סיפור שיכול להיות ביג דיל.

A very short intro to bosonic codes (Cats) This is an informal introduction to Bosonic qubits in circuit QED greatly inspired by: Atharv Joshi et al 2021 Quantum Sci. Technol. 6 033001 Bosons 🤡? It’s not strictly important we understand what bosons are. However, I know that at least for me seeing a funny word I don’t know is a distractor when reading something new. I just have to know what the word means.

How do you calculate 1+1 on a quantum computer? Uri Levy’s question There’s something about being part of a group that’s wonderfully transformative. You drink coffee with some people, day in, day out, for a few years, and start speaking a common language. You work with them, commute with them, and walk past them in the halls. And you end up being like them or at least trying to be. Working in the Weizmann Institute’s (WIS) complex system department was indeed a very transformative environment.