Quantum Computing Now

By Ethan Hansen, Shwetha JayarajTechnology

Quantum Computing Now episodes

May 03, 2021Contributing to Pennylane with Jack Ceroni - Episode 34
Quantum computing and the space race share some commonalities if you ask Jack and I, but that’s not all we’re here to talk about today. Join Jack Ceroni and myself for a discussion of pennylane, QML, getting started with quantum, and what in the world are QNodes?
Pennylane tutorials: https://pennylane.ai/qml/

Pennylane website: https://pennylane.ai/

Pennylane Community Demos: https://pennylane.ai/qml/demos_community.html

Jack’s Pennylane Tutorials:

https://pennylane.ai/qml/demos/tutorial_qaoa_intro.html

https://pennylane.ai/qml/demos/tutorial_vqt.html

https://pennylane.ai/qml/demos/tutorial_qgrnn.html

Jack’s Website: https://lucaman99.github.io/

Quantum Decision Diagrams: https://iic.jku.at/eda/research/quantum_dd/tool/

Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com

https://www.minds.com/1ethanhansen

[email protected]

QRL: Q0106000c95fe7c29fa6fc841ab9820888d807f41d4a99fc4ad9ec5510a5334c72ef8d0f8c44698

Monero: 47e9C55PhuWDksWL9BRoJZ2N5c6FwP9EFUcbWmXZS8AWfazgxZVeaw7hZZmXXhf3VQgodWKwVq629YC32tEd1STkStwfh5Y

Ethereum: 0x9392079Eb419Fa868a8929ED595bd3A85397085B
41 min
April 19, 2021Coherence Times Longer Than My Attention Span – Episode 33
If only the progress of quantum computing could also help me not bounce from idea to idea like a pin ball...
https://thequantumdaily.com/2021/04/05/uk-based-quantum-motion-researchers-report-they-have-blueprint-for-scalable-future-in-quantum-computing/

https://quantummotion.tech/quantum-computing-breakthrough-shows-blueprint-for-scalable-future/

https://sifted.eu/articles/quantum-motion-9-second-silicon-qubit/

https://journals.aps.org/prxquantum/abstract/10.1103/PRXQuantum.2.010353#fulltext

https://www.zdnet.com/article/were-hacking-the-process-of-creating-qubits-how-standard-silicon-chips-could-be-used-for-quantum-computing/

IBM’s Kolkata device specs: https://quantum-computing.ibm.com/services?systems=all&system=ibmq_kolkata

More info on IBM device specs: https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2019/03/power-quantum-device/

Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com

https://www.minds.com/1ethanhansen

[email protected]

QRL: Q0106000c95fe7c29fa6fc841ab9820888d807f41d4a99fc4ad9ec5510a5334c72ef8d0f8c44698

Monero: 47e9C55PhuWDksWL9BRoJZ2N5c6FwP9EFUcbWmXZS8AWfazgxZVeaw7hZZmXXhf3VQgodWKwVq629YC32tEd1STkStwfh5Y

Ethereum: 0x9392079Eb419Fa868a8929ED595bd3A85397085B
18 min
April 01, 2021The Quantum Encabulator
In which I give the details of an interesting project I’ve been working on
The Turbo Encabulator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac7G7xOG2Ag

A website I used for the script: https://www.thechiefstoryteller.com/2014/07/16/turbo-encabulator-best-worst-jargon/

Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com

https://www.minds.com/1ethanhansen/

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4 min
March 21, 2021Noisy Intermediate Scale Podcast - March Showcase – Episode 31
In which I play the first episode of the Noisy Intermediate-Scale Podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/show/noisy-intermediate-scale-podcast
----- Notes from Michał’s Podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/user/13914305/1-what-quantum-software-engineers-do
In this episode I talk about the job of quantum software engineers. What this job is about and how it's different from similar positions? What challenges do QSEs face? What are some typical tasks that they work on? I tried to answer all these questions.

Some links to useful resources:
- My blog: www.mustythoughts.com
- A pull request containing some of the changes I've talked about testing validity of gates: https://github.com/zapatacomputing/z-quantum-core/pull/145/files
- The code containing the ansatz interface I talked about: https://github.com/zapatacomputing/z-quantum-core/blob/master/src/python/zquantum/core/interfaces/ansatz.py
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Episode 21 with Michał: https://anchor.fm/quantumcomputingnow/episodes/Micha-Stchy-and-QOSF--Episode-21-Hybrid-ej5e2u

Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com

https://www.minds.com/1ethanhansen

[email protected]

https://thequantumdaily.com/

QRL: Q0106000c95fe7c29fa6fc841ab9820888d807f41d4a99fc4ad9ec5510a5334c72ef8d0f8c44698

Monero: 47e9C55PhuWDksWL9BRoJZ2N5c6FwP9EFUcbWmXZS8AWfazgxZVeaw7hZZmXXhf3VQgodWKwVq629YC32tEd1STkStwfh5Y

Ethereum: 0x9392079Eb419Fa868a8929ED595bd3A85397085B
48 min
March 08, 2021Nonlocal – March Showcase – Episode 30
In which I play a select segment from Nonlocal: a quantum computing podcast: https://nonlocal.libsyn.com/
----- Nonlocal’s show notes: https://nonlocal.libsyn.com/001-the-origin-of-the-mermin-peres-magic-square
The Mermin-Peres magic square is a simple game which is at the heart of many results in quantum cryptography and quantum complexity theory. In this episode, we trace the origin of the Mermin-Peres square back to two short papers by N. David Mermin and Asher Peres.
Mermin's paper: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.65.3373
Peres' paper: https://doi.org/10.1016/0375-9601(90)90172-K
Hosts: Vincent Russo (vprusso.github.io), William Slofstra (elliptic.space), Henry Yuen (henryyuen.net)
Theme music is WLIIAW by Vincent Russo
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Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com

https://www.minds.com/1ethanhansen

[email protected]

https://thequantumdaily.com/

QRL: Q0106000c95fe7c29fa6fc841ab9820888d807f41d4a99fc4ad9ec5510a5334c72ef8d0f8c44698

Monero: 47e9C55PhuWDksWL9BRoJZ2N5c6FwP9EFUcbWmXZS8AWfazgxZVeaw7hZZmXXhf3VQgodWKwVq629YC32tEd1STkStwfh5Y

Ethereum: 0x9392079Eb419Fa868a8929ED595bd3A85397085B
13 min
March 01, 2021ALL the Frameworks 2: Electric Boogaloo – Episode 29 [Basics]
In which I refresh the list I gave a while back and actually make good on the promise of talking about ALL the frameworks (because I speedrun 2 lists of them at the end of the show)
Silq: https://silq.ethz.ch/

Qiskit: https://qiskit.org/

Junye Huang Interview: https://anchor.fm/quantumcomputingnow/episodes/Junye-Huang---Episode-12-Interview-edec3o

PyQuil: https://github.com/rigetti/pyquil

Pennylane: https://pennylane.ai/

Q#: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/overview-what-is-qsharp-and-qdk

Braket: https://aws.amazon.com/braket/

Anastasia’s Video on Braket: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcCWcERVM_I

Braket SDK: https://github.com/aws/amazon-braket-sdk-python

Cirq: https://quantumai.google/cirq

OpenQASM: https://qiskit.github.io/openqasm/index.html

IBM Q Experience: https://quantum-computing.ibm.com/composer/new-experiment

Ocean: https://docs.ocean.dwavesys.com/en/stable/

Yao.jl: https://yaoquantum.org/

Awesome Quantum Computing: https://github.com/desireevl/awesome-quantum-computing#development-tools

QOSF list: https://qosf.org/project_list/

QC Opporunities: https://gitlab.com/1ethanhansen/Quantum-Computing-Opportunities

Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com

https://www.minds.com/1ethanhansen

[email protected]

https://thequantumdaily.com/

QRL: Q0106000c95fe7c29fa6fc841ab9820888d807f41d4a99fc4ad9ec5510a5334c72ef8d0f8c44698

Monero: 47e9C55PhuWDksWL9BRoJZ2N5c6FwP9EFUcbWmXZS8AWfazgxZVeaw7hZZmXXhf3VQgodWKwVq629YC32tEd1STkStwfh5Y

Ethereum: 0x9392079Eb419Fa868a8929ED595bd3A85397085B
42 min
February 18, 2021QOSF Showcase – Episode 28 [Hybrid]
In which Matthew Weiss and I talk about quantum spheres and Amir Ebrahimi and I talk about visualizing pulse generation.
Spheres on Github: https://github.com/heyredhat/spheres

Matt’s website: https://heyredhat.github.io/

Brooklyn Quantum Computing Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/brooklyn_quantum/

IBM Open Science Prize: https://www.ibmquantumawards.com/#/event

Qiskit Pulse: https://qiskit.org/textbook/ch-quantum-hardware/calibrating-qubits-pulse.html

Rigetti Quil-T Waveforms: https://pyquil-docs.rigetti.com/en/stable/quilt_waveforms.html

Q-CTRL: https://q-ctrl.com/

Qonduit: https://github.com/adgt/qonduit

Pulsemaker tool (part of Amir’s project): https://github.com/adgt/pulsemaker

pyQuirk: https://github.com/adgt/pyQuirk

Episode 43 of That’s Cool News: https://thatscoolnews.com/episode/43-quantum-computing-basics-future-and-mixing-with-other-tech-ethan-hansen/

Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com

https://www.minds.com/1ethanhansen/

[email protected]

https://thequantumdaily.com/

QRL: Q0106000c95fe7c29fa6fc841ab9820888d807f41d4a99fc4ad9ec5510a5334c72ef8d0f8c44698

Monero: 47e9C55PhuWDksWL9BRoJZ2N5c6FwP9EFUcbWmXZS8AWfazgxZVeaw7hZZmXXhf3VQgodWKwVq629YC32tEd1STkStwfh5Y

Ethereum: 0x9392079Eb419Fa868a8929ED595bd3A85397085B
43 min
February 01, 2021Brandon Solo and Machine Learning with Tequila – Episode 27
In which Brandon and I spend a while chatting about his experience with the Quantum Open Source Foundation Mentorship program (which you can apply for now!), and the project he worked on as part of that. Make sure you listen until we start trying to describe code over audio ;)
APPLY FOR THE QOSF MENTORSHIP PROGRAM NOW: https://qosf.org/qc_mentorship/

Coding with Qiskit Season 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1NZC5rqQD8&list=PLOFEBzvs-Vvp2xg9-POLJhQwtVktlYGbY

SuperPostion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UvtyzMrqII&list=PLOFEBzvs-VvqBTjGFWzqc632tYTWst_CH

QC Opporunities: https://gitlab.com/1ethanhansen/Quantum-Computing-Opportunities

Tequila Dev Branch: https://github.com/aspuru-guzik-group/tequila/tree/devel

Tequila+Tensorflow Tutorial: https://github.com/aspuru-guzik-group/tequila-tutorials/blob/main/Tensorflow_Interface.ipynb

Tequila arXiv paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.03057

QCN with Abraham Asfaw: https://anchor.fm/quantumcomputingnow/episodes/Abraham-Asfaw--Episode-11-Interview-ecsvmf

QCN with Michał: https://anchor.fm/quantumcomputingnow/episodes/Micha-Stchy-and-QOSF--Episode-21-Hybrid-ej5e2u

QCN with Amira: https://anchor.fm/quantumcomputingnow/episodes/Amira-Abbas---Episode-6-Interview-e8n2ud

QCN with Mike: https://anchor.fm/quantumcomputingnow/episodes/Mike-Strike-and-the-Quantum-Resistant-Ledger--Episode-26-Hybrid-eo9m78

QCN with John: https://anchor.fm/quantumcomputingnow/episodes/John-Prisco-and-Quantum-Cryptography--Episode-20-Hybrid-eit1s1

Brandon’s github profile: https://github.com/MIBbrandon

QCN AMA Strawpoll: https://strawpoll.com/sud1jou4d

Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com

https://www.minds.com/1ethanhansen/

[email protected]

https://thequantumdaily.com/

QRL: Q0106000c95fe7c29fa6fc841ab9820888d807f41d4a99fc4ad9ec5510a5334c72ef8d0f8c44698

Monero: 47e9C55PhuWDksWL9BRoJZ2N5c6FwP9EFUcbWmXZS8AWfazgxZVeaw7hZZmXXhf3VQgodWKwVq629YC32tEd1STkStwfh5Y

Ethereum: 0x9392079Eb419Fa868a8929ED595bd3A85397085B
49 min
December 28, 2020Mike Strike and the Quantum Resistant Ledger – Episode 26 [Hybrid]
In which Mike and I talk about the reasons trust is so important in bitcoin & blockchain, how quantum computers could erode that trust, and why QRL allows that trust to be maintained, even in the face of a quantum threat.
Blog with a little talk about quadratic speedup maybe not being enough: https://www.zapatacomputing.com/q2b-2020-in-8-minutes/

QRL YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/QRLedger

QRL Website: https://www.theqrl.org/

QRL Discord: https://discord.gg/jBT6BEp

VQA overview: https://web.archive.org/web/20201218173159/https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.09265.pdf

I’ve started the Quantum Computing guild on Ruqqus, a reddit alternative: https://ruqqus.com/+QuantumComputing

Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com

https://www.minds.com/1ethanhansen/

[email protected]

https://thequantumdaily.com/

QRL: Q0106000c95fe7c29fa6fc841ab9820888d807f41d4a99fc4ad9ec5510a5334c72ef8d0f8c44698

Monero: 47e9C55PhuWDksWL9BRoJZ2N5c6FwP9EFUcbWmXZS8AWfazgxZVeaw7hZZmXXhf3VQgodWKwVq629YC32tEd1STkStwfh5Y

Ethereum: 0x9392079Eb419Fa868a8929ED595bd3A85397085B
52 min
December 20, 2020 David Gunnarsson and Dilution Refrigerators – Episode 25 [Hybrid]
In which David Gunnarsson and I talk about Dilution Refrigerators and what Bluefors does. What does Bluefors do? They make Dilution Refrigerators.
Bluefors on thequantumdaily.com: https://thequantumdaily.com/?s=bluefors
Bluefors website: https://bluefors.com/
Bluefors Twitter: https://twitter.com/bluefors_ltd
Bluefors YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCazdtsAB-MFq3uyDEY7Ttdg/videos
Dilution Refrigerators on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilution_refrigerator
Bluefors horizontal fridge: https://bluefors.com/products/lh-horizontal-dilution-refrigerator/
Cool technology enables quantum computing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Dx8TusDMB8
Bluefors LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bluefors-cryogenics
Bluefors Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bluefors_oy/
Bluefors Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Bluefors-Cryogenics-Oy-1379443058756958/
Spotify Wrapped: https://wrappedforpodcasters.byspotify.com/?id=fdbc91264dbd6155485a54d7fae73c4b265d9402a71ca1157e8f3833a240a351&utm_source=share_link&utm_medium=referral
Quantum Chess: https://quantumchess.net
Quantum Chess on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/453870/Quantum_Chess/
Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com
https://www.minds.com/1ethanhansen/
[email protected]
https://thequantumdaily.com/
QRL: Q0106000c95fe7c29fa6fc841ab9820888d807f41d4a99fc4ad9ec5510a5334c72ef8d0f8c44698
Monero: 47e9C55PhuWDksWL9BRoJZ2N5c6FwP9EFUcbWmXZS8AWfazgxZVeaw7hZZmXXhf3VQgodWKwVq629YC32tEd1STkStwfh5Y
Ethereum: 0x9392079Eb419Fa868a8929ED595bd3A85397085B
43 min

About Quantum Computing Now

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From Ethan Hansen - This is a podcast all about quantum computing news, basic concepts, and what people in the field are doing. Quantum computing is serious stuff and we talk about serious science, but I try to not take myself too seriously. With that being said, quantum computing is rad as heck. Oh and here's the obligatory phrase " quantum computing podcast " so search engines pick this up.