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An engineer adjusts a laser to test chips with waveguides for quantum computing. (Photo by THOMAS KIENZLE / AFP)

Quantum computing applications may not be particularly mainstream now, although quantum computing as a field has been growing at an accelerated rate these past few years.

While the frequently-bandied about term may sound intimidating, quantum computing is essentially computing that can be performed at speeds and efficiencies far, far superior to what typical computers can do today. In short computing on steroids.

Aside from university labs, were already seeing it being used in a few sectors, such as cybersecurity, pharmaceuticals, and even logistics. Indeed, quantum computing has come a rather long way, in a short amount of time, mainly because of the immense benefit it can give to quickly compute and thus, analyze massive sets of data at breakneck speeds.

The rise of quantum computing has Big Tech to thank giants such as Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and IBM have been heavily investing in developing quantum computing and related technologies in recent years. The same has gone for governments such as China, South Korea, India, and Japan, all of whom have invested in or are planning to invest in developing this technology.

Just last month, UK-based Oxford Quantum Circuits launched the worlds first commercially available QCaaS (Quantum Computing as a Service), even. Prior to OQC, both Amazon and Honeywell had worked on developing and piloting commercial QCaaS.

Earlier this week, the National University of Singapores (NUS) Singapores Quantum Engineering Programme (QEP) announced that they would be working with Thales to develop and test quantum technologies for industry use.

The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed on 29 September marks the start of a two-year partnership to jointly develop and test quantum technologies for commercial applications.

A Memorandum of Understanding was inked by (front row, from left) Professor Chen Tsuhan, Deputy President (Research and Technology), National University of Singapore, and Mr Kevin Chow, Country Director and Chief Executive, Thales in Singapore. The signing was witnessed by (back row, from left) Mr Ling Keok Tong, Director (Smart Nation and Digital Economy), National Research Foundation, Singapore, and Mr Chen Guan Yow, Vice President and Head (New Businesses), Economic Development Board. (IMG/Thales)

Under the MoU, Singapores Quantum Engineering Programme (QEP) and Thales aim to advance quantum technologies and prepare industry players for their arrival. The partnership will see industry and academic experts from Thales and QEP develop capabilities to test and evaluate interdisciplinary quantum security technologies.

They will also explore potential research collaboration opportunities in the fields of new materials and design for quantum sensing. Additionally, they will organise joint activities such as seminars and conferences to share their expertise and showcase their research outcomes.

The Quantum Engineering Programme (QEP) is an initiative launched in 2018 by the National Research Foundation, Singapore (NRF) and hosted at NUS. The projects under the collaboration span technologies for security and sensing, and involve QEP researchers across Singapores institutes of higher learning and research centres.

Professor Chen Tsuhan, NUS Deputy President (Research & Technology), said, Building on this momentum, QEPs partnership with Thales, a forerunner in the quantum revolution, will accelerate innovation and development of quantum solutions that are commercially attractive locally and globally.

With its track record in developing security and cybersecurity equipment, Thales will make available its SafeNet Luna Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) and high-speed network encryptors that support interfaces to quantum devices for research use.

The algorithms and quantum random number generation technology in these types of equipment provide the crypto-agility to easily implement quantum-safe crypto and combat the threats of quantum computing. This equipment would be deployed for proof-of-concept trials and testbeds in Singapore.

In May 2021, Thales launched a network encryption solution capable of protecting enterprise data from future quantum cyber-attacks. It supplements standard encryption with a scheme resistant to quantum computing that is under consideration for international standards.

Quantum technologies open almost infinite possibilities for the future and our researchers see real potential in three types of quantum applications, namely in sensors, communications and post-quantum cryptology, shared Mr Kevin Chow, Country Director and Chief Executive, Thales in Singapore.

Thales, which has 33,000 engineers across the world, also aims to be a key player in what is often called the second quantum revolution, which exploits subtle properties of quantum physics and requires mastery of the associated technologies.

Thales collaboration with QEP is a strong testament to the companys approach towards using quantum technologies to solve real-world, end-user challenges.

According to Chow, while this initial partnership will involve their network encryption technology to provide crypto-agility and cybersecurity, Thales will continue to work with the R&T ecosystem in Singapore to explore new topics, including using novel materials for quantum sensing or in secured communications in quantum technologies.

Additionally, the joint team of scientists and engineers will also develop devices that tap on quantum physics for higher performance. According to QEP, this is an area of focus under Singapores Research, Innovation and Enterprise 2025 Plan (RIE2025).

Mr Ling Keok Tong, Director (Smart Nation and Digital Economy) at NRF shared that quantum communications and security, as well as quantum devices and instrumentation, are two significant focus areas under the QEP.

Jamilah Lim| @TechieKitteh

Jam (she/they) is the editor of Tech Wire Asia. They are a humanist and feminist with a love for science and technology. They are also cognizant of the intersectionality of the above with ethics, morality, and its economic/social impact on people, especially marginalized/underdeveloped communities.

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A Boulder Company Is Leading the Next Technology Revolution - 5280 Photo courtesy of Cold Quanta Compass

ColdQuanta is ready to take the next step in quantum computing.

Although still in their infancy, quantum computers are already big business, with IBM, Microsoft, Google, and state actors like China cumulatively investing billions to develop the superfast number crunchers. But ColdQuanta, a relatively tiny Boulder firm, may beat them all to a major milestone later this year: releasing a 100-qubit quantum computer.

That would be a big step toward quantum advantage (QA), the point at which these machines will be able to compute in seconds certain kinds of useful problems that would take traditional supercomputers thousands of years to solve. How? Where your laptop must try each possible solution in turn to find the answer, quantum computers can test solutions simultaneously. To do this, they swap bits for qubits made of atoms or subatomic particles chilled to just above absolute zero, where the laws of physics get freaky. While a bit can only be a one or a zero, heads or tails, qubits can be both heads and tails at once.

ColdQuantas advantage lies in how it chills those atoms. Unlike many of its competitors, who use bulky liquid helium refrigeration, ColdQuanta uses lasers and traps them in a sleek glass prism. The technique is so effective, says Paul Lipman, ColdQuantas president of quantum computing, that it may only take a few more years to reach the hundredsor even thousandsof qubits necessary to achieve QA. Once its realized, QA could accelerate scientific discovery, from modeling new cancer drugs on a molecular level to mapping the state of the universe seconds after the Big Bang.

This article appeared in the October 2021 issue of 5280.

Nicholas writes and edits the Compass, Adventure, and Culture sections of 5280 and writes for 5280.com.

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Scientists performed transmission electron microscopy and x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) at Brookhaven Labs Center for Functional Nanomaterials and National Synchrotron Light Source II to characterize the properties of niobium thin films made into superconducting qubit devices at Princeton University. A transmission electron microscope image of one of these films is shown in the background; overlaid on this image are XPS spectra (colored lines representing the relative concentrations of niobium metal and various niobium oxides as a function of film depth) and an illustration of a qubit device. Through these and other microscopy and spectroscopy studies, the team identified atomic-scale structural and surface chemistry defects that may be causing loss of quantum informationa hurdle to enabling practical quantum computers. Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory

Brookhaven Lab and Princeton scientists team up to identify sources of loss of quantum information at the atomic scale.

Engineers and materials scientists studying superconducting quantum information bits (qubits)a leading quantum computing material platform based on the frictionless flow of paired electronshave collected clues hinting at the microscopic sources of qubit information loss. This loss is one of the major obstacles in realizing quantum computers capable of stringing together millions of qubits to run demanding computations. Such large-scale, fault-tolerant systems could simulate complicated molecules for drug development, accelerate the discovery of new materials for clean energy, and perform other tasks that would be impossible or take an impractical amount of time (millions of years) for todays most powerful supercomputers.

An understanding of the nature of atomic-scale defects that contribute to qubit information loss is still largely lacking. The team helped bridge this gap between material properties and qubit performance by using state-of-the-art characterization capabilities at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) and National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II), both U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facilities at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Their results pinpointed structural and surface chemistry defects in superconducting niobium qubits that may be causing loss.

Anjali Premkumar

Superconducting qubits are a promising quantum computing platform because we can engineer their properties and make them using the same tools used to make regular computers, said Anjali Premkumar, a fourth-year graduate student in the Houck Lab at Princeton University and first author on the Communications Materials paper describing the research. However, they have shorter coherence times than other platforms.

In other words, they cant hold onto information very long before they lose it. Though coherence times have recently improved from microseconds to milliseconds for single qubits, these times significantly decrease when multiple qubits are strung together.

Qubit coherence is limited by the quality of the superconductors and the oxides that will inevitably grow on them as the metal comes into contact with oxygen in the air, continued Premkumar. But, as qubit engineers, we havent characterized our materials in great depth. Here, for the first time, we collaborated with materials experts who can carefully look at the structure and chemistry of our materials with sophisticated tools.

This collaboration was a prequel to the Co-design Center for Quantum Advantage (C2QA), one of five National Quantum Information Science Centers established in 2020 in support of the National Quantum Initiative. Led by Brookhaven Lab, C2QA brings together hardware and software engineers, physicists, materials scientists, theorists, and other experts across national labs, universities, and industry to resolve performance issues with quantum hardware and software. Through materials, devices, and software co-design efforts, the C2QA team seeks to understand and ultimately control material properties to extend coherence times, design devices to generate more robust qubits, optimize algorithms to target specific scientific applications, and develop error-correction solutions.

Andrew Houck

In this study, the team fabricated thin films of niobium metal through three different sputtering techniques. In sputtering, energetic particles are fired at a target containing the desired material; atoms are ejected from the target material and land on a nearby substrate. Members of the Houck Lab performed standard (direct current) sputtering, while Angstrom Engineering applied a new form of sputtering they specialize in (high-power impulse magnetron sputtering, or HiPIMS), where the target is struck with short bursts of high-voltage energy. Angstrom carried out two variations of HiPIMS: normal and with an optimized power and target-substrate geometry.

Back at Princeton, Premkumar made transmon qubit devices from the three sputtered films and placed them in a dilution refrigerator. Inside this refrigerator, temperatures can plunge to near absolute zero (minus 459.67 degrees Fahrenheit), turning qubits superconducting. In these devices, superconducting pairs of electrons tunnel across an insulating barrier of aluminum oxide (Josephson junction) sandwiched between superconducting aluminum layers, which are coupled to capacitor pads of niobium on sapphire. The qubit state changes as the electron pairs go from one side of the barrier to the other. Transmon qubits, co-invented by Houck Lab principal investigator and C2QA Director Andrew Houck, are a leading kind of superconducting qubit because they are highly insensitive to fluctuations in electric and magnetic fields in the surrounding environment; such fluctuations can cause qubit information loss.

For each of the three device types, Premkumar measured the energy relaxation time, a quantity related to the robustness of the qubit state.

The energy relaxation time corresponds to how long the qubit stays in the first excited state and encodes information before it decays to the ground state and loses its information, explained Ignace Jarrige, formerly a physicist at NSLS-II and now a quantum research scientist at Amazon, who led the Brookhaven team for this study.

Ignace Jarrige

Each device had different relaxation times. To understand these differences, the team performed microscopy and spectroscopy at the CFN and NSLS-II.

NSLS-II beamline scientists determined the oxidation states of niobium through x-ray photoemission spectroscopy with soft x-rays at the In situ and Operando Soft X-ray Spectroscopy (IOS) beamline and hard x-rays at the Spectroscopy Soft and Tender (SST-2) beamline. Through these spectroscopy studies, they identified various suboxides located between the metal and the surface oxide layer and containing a smaller amount of oxygen relative to niobium.

We needed the high energy resolution at NSLS-II to distinguish the five different oxidation states of niobium and both hard and soft x-rays, which have different energy levels, to profile these states as a function of depth, explained Jarrige. Photoelectrons generated by soft x-rays only escape from the first few nanometers of the surface, while those generated by hard x-rays can escape from deeper in the films.

At the NSLS-II Soft Inelastic X-ray Scattering (SIX) beamline, the team identified spots with missing oxygen atoms through resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS). Such oxygen vacancies are defects, which can absorb energy from qubits.

At the CFN, the team visualized film morphology using transmission electron microscopy and atomic force microscopy, and characterized the local chemical makeup near the film surface through electron energy-loss spectroscopy.

Sooyeon Hwang

The microscope images showed grainspieces of individual crystals with atoms arranged in the same orientationsized larger or smaller depending on the sputtering technique, explained coauthor Sooyeon Hwang, a staff scientist in the CFN Electron Microscopy Group. The smaller the grains, the more grain boundaries, or interfaces where different crystal orientations meet. According to the electron energy-loss spectra, one film had not just oxides on the surface but also in the film itself, with oxygen diffused into the grain boundaries.

Their experimental findings at the CFN and NSLS-II revealed correlations between qubit relaxation times and the number and width of grain boundaries and concentration of suboxides near the surface.

Grain boundaries are defects that can dissipate energy, so having too many of them can affect electron transport and thus the ability of qubits to perform computations, said Premkumar. Oxide quality is another potentially important parameter. Suboxides are bad because electrons are not happily paired together.

Going forward, the team will continue their partnership to understand qubit coherence through C2QA. One research direction is to explore whether relaxation times can be improved by optimizing fabrication processes to generate films with larger grain sizes (i.e., minimal grain boundaries) and a single oxidation state. They will also explore other superconductors, including tantalum, whose surface oxides are known to be more chemically uniform.

From this study, we now have a blueprint for how scientists who make qubits and scientists who characterize them can collaborate to understand the microscopic mechanisms limiting qubit performance, said Premkumar. We hope other groups will leverage our collaborative approach to drive the field of superconducting qubits forward.

Reference: Microscopic relaxation channels in materials for superconducting qubits by Anjali Premkumar, Conan Weiland, Sooyeon Hwang, Berthold Jck, Alexander P. M. Place, Iradwikanari Waluyo, Adrian Hunt, Valentina Bisogni, Jonathan Pelliciari, Andi Barbour, Mike S. Miller, Paola Russo, Fernando Camino, Kim Kisslinger, Xiao Tong, Mark S. Hybertsen, Andrew A. Houck and Ignace Jarrige, 1 July 2021, Communications Materials.DOI: 10.1038/s43246-021-00174-7

This work was supported by the DOE Office of Science, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, Humboldt Foundation, National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship, Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, and Army Research Office. This research used resources of the Electron Microscopy, Proximal Probes, and Theory and Computation Facilities at the CFN, a DOE Nanoscale Science Research Center. The SST-2 beamline at NSLS-II is operated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

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IBM is one of the best-known names in technology, and yet most people would struggle to explain exactly what the company does. Thats understandable. The Armonk, New York-based tech mainstay has often reinvented itself, and is in the process of becoming a hybrid cloud company that serves artificial intelligence servicesa core business resembling Amazons AWS or Microsofts Azure.

Going from tabulating machines to electronic calculators to the first semiconductor-based computers to todays day of hybrid cloud and AI . . . that is a remarkable series of revolutions, not just evolutions, IBM chairman and CEO Arvind Krishna told Fast Company technology editor Harry McCracken during an interview recorded for theFast CompanyInnovation Festival.

At a practical level IBM makes its money selling business software and middleware, hosting the data and content of enterprises, helping enterprises manage data that lives on their own servers, and providing a range of services related to everything from healthcare AI to nanotechnology.

Krishna boiled down IBMs work as an effort to help businesses and organizations apply technology to their processes and systems. He gave examples, noting that IBM helped the Social Security Administration figure out peoples incomes so that it knew what to pay beneficiaries. It also helped a credit card company authorize payments without fraud, and it helps the federal reserve move trillions of dollars through the economy each day, he said.

Fast Company named IBM to its Most Innovative Companies list in 2020 for the companys on-location incubators, which are helping small startups and organizations transform their business via tech, such as a wireless company that was able to turn older cars into voice-enabled smart cars.

IBM is already preparing for its next reinvention. Quantum computing spent a long time in the realm of the theoretical. Now its in the realm of research labs, including IBMs. And soonvery soon, if you ask Krishnait will escape the lab and begin making a real difference in the business world. IBM, of course, wants to be front and center when that happens.

IBM finished its first quantum system, the IBM Q System One, in 2019. The System One is a 20-qubit system, meaning that it operates on 20 quantum bits. These qubits are the basic units of computing, comparable to the atomic-size bits used in regular computers. Bits, however, can exist only in two statesone or zero. Qubits are subatomic and move far faster than bits; quantum computers must operate in extremely cold temperatures so that the quantum state of the materials inside can be controlled. And most important, qubits can occupy two physical states at once. They can be zero and one at the same time. This is known as superposition in quantum physics, and it opens up new vistas of opportunity for scientists trying to model complex problems.

Superposition is why quantum computers may eventually be useful in solving problems that concern levels of risk, such as in logistics, supply chain management, or resource optimization.

All of these problems are probabilistic in nature, Krishna said. A digital computer works at hard zeros and onesyoure not trying to impose probability on it. Quantum computing is probabilistic by nature; it lives in that maybe/maybe-not state. And so those problems map naturally onto a quantum computer.

Krishna believes that quantum computers, including IBMs, will begin growing in size toward 1,000-qubit systems. We put out a road map saying a thousand cubits by the end of 2023, Krishna said. As the number of qubits grows, these supercomputers will begin being used to solve real business problemssuch as managing agricultural riskin the latter half of this decade.

And once it starts, its going to take off like a rocket ship . . ., Krishna told McCracken. Because lets suppose one capital markets institution uses it to get a better price arbitrage on some financial instrument, dont you think everybody else will want to do it then, instantly?

The larger the systems, the broader the applications and addressable problems. Krishna noted that the technical barriers that must be overcome to get from 20- to 1,000-qubit systems exist in the realm of engineering problems. But getting from a thousand to a million qubits is a different matter.

As we scale towards a million, I think weve got some fundamental issues in error correction, control, and maybe quantum physics that can rear their heads, he said, adding that even those problems are solvable.

IBM remains one of the most prolific research organizations in the world. It recently designed the first semiconductor based on a 2 nanometer manufacturing process, which will soon be produced by Samsung and others. Its likely that IBM will play a big role in the push toward big quantum computers that have the power to solve some of the worlds biggest problems.

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