Researchers and companies have developed an increasing number of devices that deliver proofs-of-concept for the practical application of quantum hardware (see for example Almudever et al. 2020). However, research does not only push ahead concerning the production of quantum hardware. The development of applicable quantum software that can run on these quantum machines, enabling quantum advantage, sees progress as well. You may be surprised to learn that our enterprise customers have already built hundreds of quantum applications across many industries. Blockchain is a record-keeping technology designed to make it impossible to hack the system or forge the data stored on… Read More

In the next 10 years, quantum computing will transform business and society. Qubits can be made by manipulating atoms, electrically charged atoms called ions, or electrons, or by nanoengineering so-called artificial atoms, such as circuits of superconducting qubits, using a printing method called lithography. Securing the world’s digital infrastructure for the era of quantum computing. Achieving quantum advantage will require new methods of suppressing errors, increasing speed, and orchestrating quantum and classical resources. Entanglement particles are entangled pairs of qubits that exist in a state where changing one qubit directly changes the other. Knowing the spin state of one entangled… Read More

New fabrication techniques are also explored, to ensure high-quality surfaces and interfaces. Qiskit includes a comprehensive set of quantum gates and a variety of pre-built circuits so users at all levels can use Qiskit for research and application development. Metrology, the study of measurements, is a science with applications primarily in scientific instrumentation. High-quality measurement devices like atomic clocks, magnetic resonance imaging, and electron microscopes fall under the umbrella of metrology, and all stem from discoveries in quantum physics. So far, the Turing machines we have been discussing have been deterministic; for such machines, their behaviour at any given time… Read More

As an example, suppose that a customer visits a website for information on renting. The customer can’t decide between a studio or one-bedroom apartment, so she searches for more information on both and cannot find any definitive information. In this case, the “next best offer” could be to create a personalized email with links to articles and videos from both types of apartments, so the customer can decide which one is better for her. A loyalty program is a reward program that gives points or other awards to customers who shop at a particular establishment. A typical example might be… Read More