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This is your Quantum Bits: Beginner's Guide podcast.
Imagine this: just days ago, on February 6th, ETH Zurich researchers pulled off a quantum magic trick—splitting a logical qubit mid-error correction using lattice surgery on superconducting hardware, as detailed in Nature Physics. It's like juggling flaming torches while blindfolded, never dropping a single one. That's the hook that yanked me, Leo—your Learning Enhanced Operator—back into the lab at 3 AM, heart racing like a qubit in superposition.
Welcome to Quantum Bits: Beginner's Guide. I'm Leo, and today we're diving into the freshest quantum programming breakthrough that's making these beasts easier to tame: scalable quantum-classical QDFT embedding, fresh from arXiv just this week. Picture me in the humming chill of our Inception Point cleanroom, dilution fridge purring at millikelvin temps, the sharp tang of liquid helium in the air. Namrata Manglani and her team at C-DAC Pune, with Samrit Kumar Maity and Ranjit Thapa from SRM University-AP, cracked it—they partition molecules into a tiny quantum-active space of just six orbitals, embedded in a classical DFT bath. Using only 10 qubits in a (4e,6o) setup, they recover up to 68% of correlation energy in CO2, benchmarking against gold-standard CCSD. Water, benzene, naphthalene—aromatic rings saturate at 63-64%, all converging in two iterations with adaptive damping and Qiskit Nature.
Why's this a game-changer for programming? Quantum sims were a nightmare—exponential qubit hunger for big molecules. Now, you slice the beast: quantum handles the tricky entangled core, classical mops up the rest. It's like outsourcing traffic to autopilot while you steer the sports car. UCCSD ansatz, L-BFGS-B optimizer, parity mapping—code it in PySCF, tweak mu from 0.5 to 10, and boom: hardware-ready workflows on NISQ devices. No more full-system quantum hell; programmers focus on chemistry, not qubit wrangling. This mirrors Dell's CES 2026 quantum-AI fusion push—hybrid stacks where QPUs shine without stealing the show.
Feel the drama? Electrons dance in ghostly superpositions, correlation energy surging like a crowd at a revolution, toppling classical limits. Just as lattice surgery entangles qubits sans pause, QDFT entangles quantum code with everyday apps—drug design, materials that bind carbon like lovers.
We've leaped from theory to toolkit. Quantum's no distant star; it's igniting now.
Thanks for tuning in, listeners. Got questions or topic ideas? Email [email protected]. Subscribe to Quantum Bits: Beginner's Guide—this has been a Quiet Please Production. More at quietplease.ai. Stay superposed.
For more http://www.quietplease.ai
Get the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOta
This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI
Imagine this: just days ago, on February 6th, ETH Zurich researchers pulled off a quantum magic trick—splitting a logical qubit mid-error correction using lattice surgery on superconducting hardware, as detailed in Nature Physics. It's like juggling flaming torches while blindfolded, never dropping a single one. That's the hook that yanked me, Leo—your Learning Enhanced Operator—back into the lab at 3 AM, heart racing like a qubit in superposition.
Welcome to Quantum Bits: Beginner's Guide. I'm Leo, and today we're diving into the freshest quantum programming breakthrough that's making these beasts easier to tame: scalable quantum-classical QDFT embedding, fresh from arXiv just this week. Picture me in the humming chill of our Inception Point cleanroom, dilution fridge purring at millikelvin temps, the sharp tang of liquid helium in the air. Namrata Manglani and her team at C-DAC Pune, with Samrit Kumar Maity and Ranjit Thapa from SRM University-AP, cracked it—they partition molecules into a tiny quantum-active space of just six orbitals, embedded in a classical DFT bath. Using only 10 qubits in a (4e,6o) setup, they recover up to 68% of correlation energy in CO2, benchmarking against gold-standard CCSD. Water, benzene, naphthalene—aromatic rings saturate at 63-64%, all converging in two iterations with adaptive damping and Qiskit Nature.
Why's this a game-changer for programming? Quantum sims were a nightmare—exponential qubit hunger for big molecules. Now, you slice the beast: quantum handles the tricky entangled core, classical mops up the rest. It's like outsourcing traffic to autopilot while you steer the sports car. UCCSD ansatz, L-BFGS-B optimizer, parity mapping—code it in PySCF, tweak mu from 0.5 to 10, and boom: hardware-ready workflows on NISQ devices. No more full-system quantum hell; programmers focus on chemistry, not qubit wrangling. This mirrors Dell's CES 2026 quantum-AI fusion push—hybrid stacks where QPUs shine without stealing the show.
Feel the drama? Electrons dance in ghostly superpositions, correlation energy surging like a crowd at a revolution, toppling classical limits. Just as lattice surgery entangles qubits sans pause, QDFT entangles quantum code with everyday apps—drug design, materials that bind carbon like lovers.
We've leaped from theory to toolkit. Quantum's no distant star; it's igniting now.
Thanks for tuning in, listeners. Got questions or topic ideas? Email [email protected]. Subscribe to Quantum Bits: Beginner's Guide—this has been a Quiet Please Production. More at quietplease.ai. Stay superposed.
For more http://www.quietplease.ai
Get the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOta
This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI
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Imagine this: just days ago, on February 6th, ETH Zurich researchers pulled off a quantum magic trick—splitting a logical qubit mid-error correction using lattice surgery on superconducting hardware, as detailed in Nature Physics. It's like juggling flaming torches while blindfolded, never dropping a single one. That's the hook that yanked me, Leo—your Learning Enhanced Operator—back into the lab at 3 AM, heart racing like a qubit in superposition.
Welcome to Quantum Bits: Beginner's Guide. I'm Leo, and today we're diving into the freshest quantum programming breakthrough that's making these beasts easier to tame: scalable quantum-classical QDFT embedding, fresh from arXiv just this week. Picture me in the humming chill of our Inception Point cleanroom, dilution fridge purring at millikelvin temps, the sharp tang of liquid helium in the air. Namrata Manglani and her team at C-DAC Pune, with Samrit Kumar Maity and Ranjit Thapa from SRM University-AP, cracked it—they partition molecules into a tiny quantum-active space of just six orbitals, embedded in a classical DFT bath. Using only 10 qubits in a (4e,6o) setup, they recover up to 68% of correlation energy in CO2, benchmarking against gold-standard CCSD. Water, benzene, naphthalene—aromatic rings saturate at 63-64%, all converging in two iterations with adaptive damping and Qiskit Nature.
Why's this a game-changer for programming? Quantum sims were a nightmare—exponential qubit hunger for big molecules. Now, you slice the beast: quantum handles the tricky entangled core, classical mops up the rest. It's like outsourcing traffic to autopilot while you steer the sports car. UCCSD ansatz, L-BFGS-B optimizer, parity mapping—code it in PySCF, tweak mu from 0.5 to 10, and boom: hardware-ready workflows on NISQ devices. No more full-system quantum hell; programmers focus on chemistry, not qubit wrangling. This mirrors Dell's CES 2026 quantum-AI fusion push—hybrid stacks where QPUs shine without stealing the show.
Feel the drama? Electrons dance in ghostly superpositions, correlation energy surging like a crowd at a revolution, toppling classical limits. Just as lattice surgery entangles qubits sans pause, QDFT entangles quantum code with everyday apps—drug design, materials that bind carbon like lovers.
We've leaped from theory to toolkit. Quantum's no distant star; it's igniting now.
Thanks for tuning in, listeners. Got questions or topic ideas? Email [email protected]. Subscribe to Quantum Bits: Beginner's Guide—this has been a Quiet Please Production. More at quietplease.ai. Stay superposed.
For more http://www.quietplease.ai
Get the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOta
This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI
Imagine this: just days ago, on February 6th, ETH Zurich researchers pulled off a quantum magic trick—splitting a logical qubit mid-error correction using lattice surgery on superconducting hardware, as detailed in Nature Physics. It's like juggling flaming torches while blindfolded, never dropping a single one. That's the hook that yanked me, Leo—your Learning Enhanced Operator—back into the lab at 3 AM, heart racing like a qubit in superposition.
Welcome to Quantum Bits: Beginner's Guide. I'm Leo, and today we're diving into the freshest quantum programming breakthrough that's making these beasts easier to tame: scalable quantum-classical QDFT embedding, fresh from arXiv just this week. Picture me in the humming chill of our Inception Point cleanroom, dilution fridge purring at millikelvin temps, the sharp tang of liquid helium in the air. Namrata Manglani and her team at C-DAC Pune, with Samrit Kumar Maity and Ranjit Thapa from SRM University-AP, cracked it—they partition molecules into a tiny quantum-active space of just six orbitals, embedded in a classical DFT bath. Using only 10 qubits in a (4e,6o) setup, they recover up to 68% of correlation energy in CO2, benchmarking against gold-standard CCSD. Water, benzene, naphthalene—aromatic rings saturate at 63-64%, all converging in two iterations with adaptive damping and Qiskit Nature.
Why's this a game-changer for programming? Quantum sims were a nightmare—exponential qubit hunger for big molecules. Now, you slice the beast: quantum handles the tricky entangled core, classical mops up the rest. It's like outsourcing traffic to autopilot while you steer the sports car. UCCSD ansatz, L-BFGS-B optimizer, parity mapping—code it in PySCF, tweak mu from 0.5 to 10, and boom: hardware-ready workflows on NISQ devices. No more full-system quantum hell; programmers focus on chemistry, not qubit wrangling. This mirrors Dell's CES 2026 quantum-AI fusion push—hybrid stacks where QPUs shine without stealing the show.
Feel the drama? Electrons dance in ghostly superpositions, correlation energy surging like a crowd at a revolution, toppling classical limits. Just as lattice surgery entangles qubits sans pause, QDFT entangles quantum code with everyday apps—drug design, materials that bind carbon like lovers.
We've leaped from theory to toolkit. Quantum's no distant star; it's igniting now.
Thanks for tuning in, listeners. Got questions or topic ideas? Email [email protected]. Subscribe to Quantum Bits: Beginner's Guide—this has been a Quiet Please Production. More at quietplease.ai. Stay superposed.
For more http://www.quietplease.ai
Get the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOta
This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI