Oct 30, 2018

Quantum games and what's a Qubit | Quantum Computing Weekly #1

By Jesper Thomschutz • Issue #1 • View online

👋🏻 Hi folks and welcome to the first issue of Quantum Computing Weekly.

First off, let me get this out of the way: I’m not a quantum computing expert - not even a Ph.D. - just a humble legacy computer programmer with a passion to learn more about the world of quantum computing and share the knowledge I come across. This being the case, please don’t hesitate to contact me if I make any mistakes or if you have some content to suggest.

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Tiny Fact of the week

A Qubit is the quantum computer equivalent of a traditional computer bit. While a bit holds the value 0 or 1, a qubit can hold both values at once (be in “superposition”), and when observed, “collapse” into a 0 or 1 when read. This unusual property is what makes quantum computing so powerful, and in future issues we’ll touch on why. Linguistically it’s also pretty interesting, as it’s a portmanteau of Quantum and Bit, which in turn, bit is a portmanteau of Binary Digit - meta!

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Hello Quantum Game

Hello Quantum is a free puzzle game (iOS/Android) designed to teach introductory principles of quantum computing. This game was designed at IBM Research in New York in collaboration with Professor James Wootton University of Basel, Switzerland.

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Graduate Student Solves Quantum Verification Problem

Urmila Mahadev has come up with an interactive protocol by which users with no quantum powers of their own can nevertheless employ cryptography to put a harness on a quantum computer and drive it wherever they want, with the certainty that the quantum computer is following their orders.

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Here's What the Quantum Internet Has in Store - Scientific American

Such a network, which exploits the unique effects of quantum physics, would be fundamentally different to the classical Internet we use today, and research groups worldwide are already working on its early stages of development.

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By Jesper Thomschutz

👋 Hi folks and welcome to Quantum Computing Weekly!

This is a newsletter about Qubits, Quantum Logic Gates, occasional mandatory cat jokes, and more.

First off, let me get this out of the way: I'm not a quantum computing expert - not a Ph.D. in anything - just a humble legacy-computer programmer with a passion to learn more about the world of quantum computing.

Join me on my journey with this newsletter as I share news, articles, videos, and anything else I come across that I think is interesting while learning about quantum computers.

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