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*The economic meeting made it clear that it will open up a new track for future industries such as quantum.
The European Union's Innovation Council approves a €1.2 billion investment plan to promote the development of deep technology companies such as quantum technologies.
Guodun Quantum and DingTalk held a strategic agreement signing ceremony.
Policy strategy
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The European Union's Innovation Council approves a €1.2 billion investment plan to promote the development of deep technology companies such as quantum technologies.
On 12 December, the European Innovation Council announced the adoption of the 2024 Work Programme. The programme provides funding opportunities worth more than €1.2 billion to strategic technology and scale-up companies. These investments are focused on key areas such as generative AI, space, critical raw materials, semiconductors, and quantum technologies. (*Official website of the European Union Innovation Council).
Original link:The U.S. Department of Energy has established an Office of Critical and Emerging Technologies to focus on quantum technologies, among others
On December 12, the U.S. Department of Energy announced the establishment of the Office of Critical and Emerging Technologies to ensure that the Department's resources are fully utilized in the areas of artificial intelligence, biotechnology, quantum and semiconductors. It will serve as a point of contact for federal** collaboration with industry and academia to work in these critical and emerging technology areas. (*U.S. Department of Energy official website).
Original link:The United States, South Korea, and others have conducted preliminary negotiations on export control regimes for emerging key technologies such as quantum technology
On December 12, it was reported that the United States, South Korea and other allies are conducting "preliminary negotiations" on establishing a new export control mechanism to prevent the transfer of cutting-edge technologies, including semiconductors and quantum computing, to potential adversaries. At the meeting, South Korea's secretary of state said South Korea needs to ensure that its sensitive technologies and products are not used in China's military modernization programs. (*Yonhap News Agency).
Original link:Second, domestic*The economic meeting made it clear that it will open up a new track for future industries such as quantum.
From December 11th to 12th, the ** Economic Work Conference was held in Beijing. **The General Secretary attended the meeting and delivered an important speech. The meeting emphasized that "we must vigorously promote new industrialization, develop the digital economy, and accelerate the development of artificial intelligence." We will build a number of strategic emerging industries such as biomanufacturing, commercial aerospace, and low-altitude economy, and open up new tracks for future industries such as quantum and life sciences." (Xinhua News Agency).
Original link:Anhui builds digital infrastructure and lays out quantum information technology
On December 15, the Anhui Provincial Data Resources Administration issued a notice on the "Three-Year Action Plan for the Construction and Development of Digital Infrastructure in Anhui Province (2023-2025)".
The plan points out that Anhui Province will give full play to its leading advantages in quantum information technology, promote the construction of a provincial quantum secure communication trunk network connecting all parts of the province and some urban metropolitan area networks, and jointly build a quantum secure communication network in the Yangtze River Delta. It supports the application of quantum secure communication in the fields of government information protection, national defense mobilization business data transmission, financial business encryption, energy security, industrial Internet and Internet of Vehicles information security. Actively support the research and development of quantum computing hardware, and improve the research and development conditions and the best chain;Explore the integration of quantum computing and traditional high-performance computing, and study the acceleration algorithm of quantum computing to solve problems in financial engineering, biomedicine, meteorology, code breaking, artificial intelligence and other fieldsSupport qualified units to provide quantum computing cloud services to the society. (*Official website of Anhui Provincial Data Resources Administration).
Original link:Guangdong promotes the high-quality development of the information and communication industry and increases innovation in areas such as quantum communication
On December 18, the Guangdong Provincial Communications Administration issued the "Guiding Opinions on Promoting the High-quality Development of the Information and Communication Industry in Guangdong Province". The "Guiding Opinions" pointed out that around new technologies such as quantum communication, we will actively organize industry seminars, application innovation competitions and other activities to create an atmosphere of industry innovation, guide enterprises to increase technology research and development, and strive to make breakthroughs in the formulation of new technology standards and innovative applications. (*Official website of Guangdong Provincial Communications Administration).
Original link:Zhengzhou has strengthened the R&D and design reserves of quantum communication application products and core equipment
Recently, the people of Zhengzhou issued the "Medium and Long-term Plan for Zhengzhou to Build a City of Design (2023-2035)". The plan points out that in the future industrial design, strengthen the R&D and design reserves of quantum communication application products and core equipment, and accelerate the technological innovation, product innovation and design innovation related to quantum information. (*Zhengzhou People**Official Website).
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Arqit, BT, and Fortenet launch quantum-secure VPNsOn December 14, Arqit, a quantum-secure cryptographic company in the United Kingdom, BT Group in the United Kingdom, and Fortinet, a software and services company in the United States, announced the launch of a commercially integrated product that leverages symmetric key agreements to enable quantum-secure virtual private network (VPN) communications. BT Group has established quantum-safe channels using the solution at three of its sites. Original link:
IBM will work with five universities in the United States, Japan, and South Korea to advance quantum computing education
On December 13, IBM announced that it will partner with the University of Chicago, Keio University, the University of Tokyo, Yonsei University and Seoul National University to support quantum education activities in Japan, South Korea and the United States. IBM plans to co-deliver educational programs with participating universities to train up to 40,000 students over the next 10 years, preparing them for the quantum industry and contributing to the development of the global quantum ecosystem. Original link:
Caltech and Broadcom Announce Quantum R&D Partnership
Recently, the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and Broadcom, a wired and wireless communications semiconductor company, announced a multi-year partnership to advance quantum science research and discovery. The two companies will establish the Broadcom Quantum Lab at Caltech, bringing together experts in quantum computing, quantum sensing, quantum measurement, and quantum engineering. (*California Institute of Technology**) Original link:
IQM signed a collaboration agreement with the University of California, Berkeley to jointly develop advanced quantum processors
On December 14, IQM, a quantum computing company, announced its entry into the U.S. market and signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the University of California, Berkeley. The two companies will jointly develop and operate the next generation of advanced superconducting quantum processors. IQM's expansion is in line with its long-term strategy to advance quantum education and research, while also partnering with high-performance computing service providers across the U.S. to commercialize the company's technology. Original link:Infleqtion joins Japan's Quantum Moonshot Program to develop a quantum computer
On December 12, Infleqtion, a quantum information company, announced that it had been selected by the Japan Science and Technology Agency as the only foreign quantum computing partner for the "Quantum Moonshot Program". As part of the plan, Infleqtion will work with Japan to develop a large-scale, neutral-atom quantum computer with high-fidelity qubits. Original link:
IIDomesticGuodun Quantum and DingTalk held a strategic agreement signing ceremony.
On December 12, the signing ceremony of a strategic agreement was held in Hangzhou between Kedadun Quantum Technology Co., Ltd. and DingTalk (China) Information Technology. The two parties reached a consensus on business cooperation to jointly promote the development of "quantum security application portal series products". Original link:
The case of Hefei one-stop service enabling the innovation and development of quantum computing industry was selected as an excellent case of intellectual property information service in 2023
Recently, the Office of the State Intellectual Property Office announced the second batch of excellent cases of intellectual property information services in 2023, and the case of "one-stop" service enabling the innovation and development of the quantum computing industry in the Hefei area of the Anhui Pilot Free Trade Zone was successfully selected. (*Official website of the State Intellectual Property Office) original link:
Scientific research progress.
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For the first time, entanglement between molecules is achieved in an array of optical tweezers
The research team at Princeton University and Harvard University respectively reported a scheme to adjust the quantum states of individually addressable molecules to achieve on-demand quantum entanglement, and for the first time experimentally achieved the entanglement of diatomic molecules in a reconfigurable optical tweezer array. Both teams used the electric dipole interaction between molecules to deterministically generate a Bell state (maximum entangled state) composed of the rotational energy levels of calcium fluoride (CAF) molecules, and demonstrated the iswap two-bit quantum gate. The study provides a way to manipulate the quantum states of individual molecules to achieve quantum entanglement, paving the way for molecular systems as new quantum technology platforms. The two results were recently published in Science.
*Links:Single-electron spin detection using atomic force microscopy
A research team at the University of Regensburg in Germany combined electron spin resonance with atomic force microscopy to successfully manipulate a single electron spin in a single molecule in tens of microseconds. This study contributes to the understanding of the underlying mechanism of decoherence of molecular systems at the atomic scale, and is expected to be used in quantum computing, quantum sensing, and other fields. The results were recently published in Nature.
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New progress has been made in the research of quantum error mitigation in ion traps
The team of Professor Jin Qihuan of Tsinghua University of Beijing Institute of Quantum Information Science has made new progress in the research of quantum error mitigation of ion traps, and has demonstrated the ability of a variety of quantum error mitigation technologies to eliminate errors in complex quantum circuits by using ion trap systems. The effect of PEC was tested by using up to four trapped-ion qubits to simulate the dynamical evolution of the Fermi-Hubbard model. It is found that the PEC scheme can effectively improve the fidelity of quantum circuit operation, and the spin-charge separation phenomenon of fermion is successfully observed in experiments. The results were recently published in NPJ Quantum Information.
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