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Calling all innovators and leaders in the #quantum space. We are excited to announce IonQ CEO and President Peter Chapman will be a keynoting "Building Tomorrow's Quantum Now" at the CO.MOBILITY Summit 2024 May 20th-22nd. Come join #ChapmaninChattanooga for one of the top sustainable mobility events in the country. Tickets are available at: www.comobilitysummit.com #quantum #quantumcomputing

In 2022, IonQ collaborated with researchers and engineers from Airbus to explore how quantum computing could uncover new ways to load cargo into planes more efficiently. For the airline industry, cargo loading can seem like a giant game of Tetris – balancing cargo weight, container size, fuel consumption rates, and more. Known as the ‘knapsack problem,’ IonQ’s quantum computers are calculating the most optimum solution for loading packages into cargo containers, and the containers into the hold. Looking long-term, these quantum algorithms can potentially improve other areas of air travel, including reduced fuel consumption, better aerodynamics, and optimized trajectories. Read more about Airbus’ recent work with quantum computing here: https://lnkd.in/e2qgBpM2

Thank you to our partners at McKinsey & Company for a successful and inspiring quantum event last night. In front of an audience of industry and government leaders, the IonQ team shared our latest technical roadmap and market outlook. Additionally, McKinsey presented an exclusive first look at the 2024 Quantum Tech Monitor, including these trends: 🏢 Growing momentum behind regional, quantum hubs. 🏁 Shortened timelines expected for fault-tolerant quantum computers. ⬆ Expected market size of $28B - $72B by 2035 for quantum computing. #quantum #quantumtechmonitor #quantumcomputing

Last week, IonQ had the privilege of hosting a delegation of Swiss politicians, ambassadors, and institutional representatives at the company’s College Park headquarters. The purpose of the visit was to provide attendees with an overview of the current state of quantum computing development, share updates on IonQ’s collaboration with Switzerland-based QuantumBasel, and showcase IonQ’s research labs and commercial quantum systems. We look forward to growing our relationship with Swiss agencies as quantum computing continues to gain recognition and excitement on an international level.

In the quantum computing industry, we often cross paths with some of the brightest minds in academia and industry – IonQ Principal Researcher Nicolas Delfosse is no exception. His early academic career in southern France and innate interest in mathematics led him to research quantum error correction when quantum computing was still very niche. After several years working on Microsoft’s research team, Nicolas joined IonQ in late-2023 to assist in our goal of building large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computers that can eventually be networked together. We’re excited to work alongside folks like Nicolas and know his contributions put us one step closer to achieving true quantum advantage over classical systems. To learn more about Delfosse, visit: https://lnkd.in/eBJJq_GS

Join us on May 9, 2024 at 10:00 AM PT for an exclusive live webinar where we'll dive into the latest technology advancements and updates from IonQ. Don't miss it! Register: https://lnkd.in/eqJ3a-uc

Join us on May 9, 2024 at 10:00 AM PT for an exclusive live webinar where we'll dive into the latest technology advancements and updates from IonQ. Don't miss it! Register: https://lnkd.in/eqJ3a-uc

IonQ researchers Aaranya Alexander, Daiwei Zhu, Chase Zimmerman, and Arunava Majumder, led by Dominic Widdows, show accurate text classification results involving over 10,000 words, which is the largest such quantum computing experiment to date!  While small relative to the most advanced, classical approaches, this research demonstrates the potential for quantum computing to execute this critical machine learning task.  In the paper, the IonQ team demonstrates various approaches to topic classification. The first uses an explicit word-based approach, in which word-topic weights are implemented as fractional rotations of individual qubits, and a phrase is classified based on the accumulation of these weights onto a scoring qubit, using entangling quantum gates. This is compared with more scalable quantum encodings of word embedding vectors, which are used to compute kernel values in a quantum support vector machine. The team also describes a quantum probability approach to bigram modeling that can be applied to understand sequences of words and formal concepts, investigate a generative approximation to these distributions using a quantum circuit Born machine, and introduces an approach to ambiguity resolution in verb-noun composition using single-qubit rotations for simple nouns and 2-qubit entangling gates for simple verbs. Read the publication here: https://lnkd.in/gvY-uuXR

Today, IonQ is excited to once again collaborate with the team from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in our pursuit to develop and test real-world quantum applications, this time focusing on U.S. power grid modernization. The U.S. power grid is faced with numerous challenges in the form of increased energy demand, aging infrastructure, and overall security. This project, funded by the Department of Energy’s Grid Modernization Initiative and supported by ORNL’s Quantum Computing User Program, provides ORNL with access to IonQ’s state-of-the-art quantum computers for testing real-world applications, like control of the power grid, that provide valuable insights into their readiness and impact. Read more about today’s research initiative here: https://lnkd.in/e_-zR_j4 #gridmodernization #quantumcomputing #quantum #ORNL #IonQ #DOE