Qunnect is building pink hardware to transform telecommunications infrastructure into scalable quantum networks. The modular units need no extreme cooling or vacuum, are low loss and multiplexed, and will culminate in the quantum internet. If you have them, you can also use hand-holding pink dragons over short distances.
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Quantum AI will be “listening to [your] brain”
Playing Quantum Lego
Einstein and Bohr at a Coffee Shop
Do quantum circuits look alien to you?
Come and get your [quantum] love.
I mean, if Prof. Shor says it…
Inside Google’s Quantum AI Lab: Talking to Qubits
Brian Lenahan’s Quantum Frontier
QUANTUM + AI 2025 ANNONCES ISMAEL FARO OF IBM AS KEYNOTER
The Fallacy of Workforce Development
Will the real quantum computing leader please stand up?
How to Explain QFT to Make Sure Nobody Understands
Dr. Sutor’s Best “Daily Quantum Links” Yet
QuEra’s Non-Optical Tweezers
Happy Majorana Day!
Zapata AI Job Seekers… only 1 left on this list!
Quantum AI will be “listening to [your] brain”
Prof. Eduardo R. Miranda has worked with brain-computer interfaces, helping those who have lost the physical ability to play music to continue to do, and he currently uses Quantum AI to compose music. The notion of combining the two to reproduce music is intriguing. This link might require a LinkedIn account.
Playing Quantum Lego
Subtitled “Why Ultracold Atoms Are The Ultimate Tool to Engineer Basically Anything You Want,” this article by Dr. Paolo Molignini is well-illustrated and downright fascinating. This link might require a Medium account, but you get a few free reads per month, so if you don’t have an account, use one of your freebies on this.
Einstein and Bohr at a Coffee Shop
Dr. Oswaldo Zapata posted about superposition and entanglement, but what got my attention was the eerily good image that he generated for it. I zoomed in, and the level of detail is impressive, almost photographic in quality. This link might require a LinkedIn account.
Do quantum circuits look alien to you?
I’m sharing Dr. Frank C. Zickert’s post for its illustrations. Nicely done. That said, if quantum circuits still looked alien to me, I think this post would discourage me from asking any questions. Clearly, I need a PhD for this. Fortunately, however, my intro was gentle, and here I am today. This link might require a LinkedIn account.
Come and get your [quantum] love.
Sadly, it’s too late to register for this year’s Quantum L.O.V.E. (Literacy, Outreach, Versability, Engagement) seminar, but I’m sharing it so you can watch out for it next year. I’m not 100% on the translation, but I think the topic was quantum machine learning (QML) using Pasqal’s neutral atom quantum computers.
I mean, if Prof. Shor says it…
Thanks to Dr. Victor Galitski for sharing this photo of Prof. Peter Shor. YES, that “Shor.” When he says that “factoring a sufficiently large number… is probably several decades away,” it’s worth listening. Prepare, of course. Panic, not quite yet. This link might require a LinkedIn account.
“I’m never wrong. I once thought I was wrong, but I was mistaken.”
- Bobby “The Brain” Heenan
Inside Google’s Quantum AI Lab: Talking to Qubits
This looks familiar. I’m fairly certain I’ve shared this breakdancing move before. But the date is recent, so I’m sharing it just in case I’m mistaken. Even if I am not mistaken, I’m a child of the 80s, and I dare say a breakdancing move is worthy of a second share. This link might require a Twitter account.
Brian Lenahan’s Quantum Frontier
Associating a horse-drawn carriage in any way with quantum computing is worthy of inclusion here. Appropriately, the horse would leave a trail of “road apples” (manure, if you will) along the journey. After all, how many players would you say are currently blazing trails of some kind of fecal matter?
QUANTUM + AI 2025 ANNONCES ISMAEL FARO OF IBM AS KEYNOTER
Ismael Faro, vice president of quantum services and data at IBM will be a keynoter on 20 October at Quantum + AI 2025 in New York City. Faro has recently been working how to combine Quantum + AI at IBM and leading a team that handles the IBM Quantum Services and data associated from Cloud and Collocated environments. Faro is part of the 80+ faculty at the upcoming Q+AI conference. Additional information can be found at www.iqtevent.com
The Fallacy of Workforce Development
The quantum community evangelizes that workforce development is needed, but I recently concluded that it is not. Enterprises are getting around it.
Will the real quantum computing leader please stand up?
You’re a leader. I'm a leader. We’re all self-proclaimed leaders of something. So, who's the actual leader of quantum computing? IQT Research knows.
How to Explain QFT to Make Sure Nobody Understands
With a title like this, I have to share Dr. Frank Zickert’s post. Personally, though, I like to use a completely non-quantum analogy. I’ve never had deer-in-headlight stares using a microphone, a computer, and a speaker as my only props. This link might require a LinkedIn account.
Dr. Sutor’s Best “Daily Quantum Links” Yet
This is my favorite edition thus far of Quantum Tech, Investment, and Applications – Sutor Group’s Daily Quantum Links. The word “dragon” appears not once, not twice, not even three or four times, but five times. It’s missing Dr. Bob Sutor’s commentary, but rest assured I continue to campaign privately for more of that.
QuEra’s Non-Optical Tweezers
This might be the most creative swag I’ve ever seen. QuEra’s neutral atom quantum computers use optical tweezers, so why not give away tweezers? I have to rank this above QuEra’s “quantum error corrector” eraser, which is now in second place. This link might require a LinkedIn account.
Happy Majorana Day!
During his keynote at Microsoft Ignite 2017, on September 25, to be precise, Satya Nadella proclaimed “Majorana Day.” On behalf of The Quantum Dragon, me, and our families, we wish you the happiest day executing your favorite algorithms on Microsoft’s… er, ah… topological… um… qubits?
Zapata AI Job Seekers… only 1 left on this list!
If you were laid off by Zapata AI and would like a free listing in this newsletter, please reach out and let me know. I’ll maintain a list in The Quantum Dragon until everyone on the list has been gainfully employed elsewhere or is otherwise no longer actively job seeking. I might extend this offer to all job seekers, but I’ll start with these layoffs.
Shawn Gibford Industrial PHDc: Quantum Applications in the Life Sciences
Image generated by OpenAI's DALL·E.