Mediaboss Marketing

Quantum entanglement is a phenomenon in which two particles become indistinguishably linked

A Chinese research team claims to have smashed the previous record for maintaining two quantum memories in an entangled state at maximum distance.

According to the researchers, they were able to realise entanglement of two quantum memories over 22 kilometres of field-deployed fibres via two-photon interference. With this feat, they smashed the 1.3-kilometre record achieved during previous quantum memory experiments.

The researchers said that they were also able to achieve entanglement over 50 kilometres of coiled fibres via single-photon interference.

The researchers used two quantum memories that were each made of about 100 million extremely cold rubidium atoms

Quantum entanglement is a phenomenon in which two particles become indistinguishably linked, and whatever happens to one particle instantly affects the other, irrespective of the distance between them.

According to the researchers, entanglement can be used to create encrypted communications channels that are secured against hacking by the laws of quantum physics.

Researchers earlier realised entanglement of individual photons across distances beyond 1,000 kilometres. But, entanglement becomes much harder to achieve for larger systems of particles.

In the current study, the researchers used two quantum memories that were each made of about 100 million extremely cold rubidium atoms.

The team entangled the quantum state of each system with the state of a single photon and then sent both photons through the fibre-optic cables

They encoded information onto the clouds of atoms and then extracted a photon from each cloud. The team entangled the quantum state of each system with the state of a single photon and then sent both photons through the fibre-optic cables.

When Bell measurement was performed simultaneously on two photons, the quantum memories with which the photons were paired became entangled to one another.

In this experiment, the entanglement of two quantum memories was maintained over 22 kilometres of fibre-optic cable, installed underground.

In another experiment, the team managed to entangle quantum memories across 50 kilometres using cables that were coiled up in the lab.

"Our experiment could be extended to nodes physically separated by similar distances, which would thus form a functional segment of the atomic quantum network, paving the way towards establishing atomic entanglement over many nodes and over much longer distances," the researchers said.

The study was jointly conducted by researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, and Jinan Institute of Quantum Technology.

The detailed findings of the study are published in journal Nature.

Read more here:
Chinese researchers smash the record for realising two entangled quantum memories at maximum distance - http://www.computing.co.uk

With help from John Hendel, Cristiano Lima, Leah Nylen and Katy Murphy

Editors Note: This edition of Morning Tech is published weekdays at 10 a.m. POLITICO Pro Technology subscribers hold exclusive early access to the newsletter each morning at 6 a.m. Learn more about POLITICO Pros comprehensive policy intelligence coverage, policy tools and services, at politicopro.com.

Advertisement

If Sanders wins in New Hampshire: If the polls hold true, the tech world may see a ton more heat from the Vermont senator, who has long been critical of tech giants market power and labor practices.

Trumps 2021 funding requests: President Donald Trumps 2021 budget proposal would give big funding boosts to artificial intelligence and quantum computing, as well as the Commerce Departments NTIA and the Justice Departments antitrust division, but not to the FTC or FCC.

Bipartisanship at risk?: House Judiciarys Republican leaders say recent comments from the Democratic chairman about Silicon Valley giants threatens the panels tech antitrust probe, a rare point of bipartisanship in a hotly divided Congress.

ITS TUESDAY, AND ALL EYES ARE ON THE FIRST PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY OF 2020: NEW HAMPSHIRE. WELCOME TO MORNING TECH! Im your host, Alexandra Levine.

Got a news tip? Write Alex at alevine@politico.com or @Ali_Lev. An event for our calendar? Send details to techcalendar@politicopro.com. Anything else? Full team info below. And dont forget: add @MorningTech and @PoliticoPro on Twitter.

WHAT NEW HAMPSHIRE MEANS FOR TECH A week after winning the most votes in Iowa, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is polling first in New Hampshire, with Pete Buttigieg a close-second. (Further behind, and mostly neck-and-neck, are Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden and Amy Klobuchar.) What could this mean for the tech world? Just about anything.

But if the Vermont senator prevails in tonights Democratic presidential primary, we can expect to hear more of his usual anti-Amazon commentary (Sanders has repeatedly criticized Amazons labor practices and complained that the online giant pays zero in taxes); more break up big tech talk (Sanders has said he would absolutely look to break up tech companies like Amazon, Google and Facebook); and more attacks on corporate power and influence (he has proposed taxing tech giants based on how big a gap exists between the salaries of their CEOs and their mid-level employees).

Several prime tech policy issues are also fair game: Sanders criminal justice reform plan includes a ban on law enforcements use of facial recognition technology, and he has spoken out about tech's legal liability shield, Section 230 debates that are playing out (often, with fireworks) at the federal level. (Further reading in POLITICO Magazine: Is it Bernies Party Now?)

Plus: Could New Hampshire be the next Iowa? State and local election officials running this primary without apps (voters will cast their ballots on paper, which in some cases will be counted by hand) say no. POLITICOs Eric Geller provides the birds-eye view.

Heres everything you need to know about the 2020 race in New Hampshire.

BUDGET DISPATCH: HUGE JUMP FOR DOJ ANTITRUST, NO BIG CHANGES FOR FCC AND FTC The White House on Monday rolled out its fiscal year 2021 funding requests, including a proposed 71 percent bump in congressional spending on the Justice Departments antitrust division an increase that, as Leah reports, is another indicator that the agency is serious about its pending investigations into tech giants like Google and Facebook. (It would also allow the agency to hire 87 additional staffers.)

In contrast, the FCC and FTC arent requesting any big changes in their funding or staffing. The FCC is seeking $343 million, up 1.2 percent from its 2020 funding level, while the FTC is asking for a little over $330 million, which is about $800,000 less than its current funding. The FCC noted its on track to move to its new Washington headquarters in June, while FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter, a Democrat, objected to the request for her agency, saying in a statement that it does not accurately reflect the funding the FTC needs to protect consumers and promote competition.

Artificial intelligence and quantum computing would also receive big funding boosts under the budget proposal, Nancy reports. So would the Commerce Departments NTIA, to help prepare the agency for 5G and other technological changes, as John reported for Pros.

IS THE BIPARTISAN TECH ANTITRUST PROBE IN JEOPARDY? The House Judiciary Committees investigation into competition in the tech sector which garnered rare bipartisan momentum in a hotly divided Congress could now be in trouble. On Monday night, the committees Republican leaders criticized Democratic Chairman Jerry Nadlers recent remarks railing against the power of Silicon Valley giants, writing in a letter that Nadlers comments "have jeopardized" the panel's "ability to perform bipartisan work." Spokespeople for Nadler did not offer comment. A Cicilline spokesperson declined comment.

The dust-up marks the first major sign of fracturing between House Judiciary Republicans and Democrats over their bipartisan investigation into possible anti-competitive conduct in the tech industry a probe widely seen as one of Silicon Valleys biggest threats on Capitol Hill, Cristiano reports in a new dispatch. The dispute could threaten the push to advance bipartisan antitrust legislation in the House, something House Judiciary antitrust Chairman David Cicilline (D-R.I.) has said the committee plans to do early this year.

T-MOBILE-SPRINT WIN T-Mobile and Sprint can merge, a federal judge is expected to rule today, rejecting a challenge by California, New York and other state attorneys general, Leah reports. U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero is expected to release his hotly anticipated decision on the $26.2 billion telecom megadeal later this morning.

FCCS FUTURE-OF-WORK FOCUS Amazon, AT&T, Walmart, LinkedIn and Postmates are among the tech companies expected at a future-of-work event today that Democratic FCC Commissioner Geoffrey Starks is hosting at the agencys headquarters.

The public roundtable will address the same kinds of issues that several Democratic presidential candidates have raised, such as concerns about AIs effect on labor economies. Issues of #5G, #InternetInequality, automation & education are colliding in ways that will impact all Americans, Starks wrote on Twitter. Eager to host this important policy discussion!

CCPA UPDATE: GET ME REWRITE! California Attorney General Xavier Becerra on Monday published a business-friendly tweak to his proposed Privacy Act regulations, a change that his office said had been inadvertently omitted from a revised draft unveiled on Friday.

Only businesses that collect, sell or share the information of at least 10 million Californians per year thats about 1 in 4 residents would have to report annual statistics about CCPA requests and how quickly they responded to privacy-minded consumers, under the change. That threshold was originally 4 million.

The update will come as a relief to companies that no longer need to pull back the curtain on their Privacy Act responsiveness. Its also good news for procrastinators, as the new deadline for submitting comments on the AGs rules was pushed back a day to Feb. 25.

TECH QUOTE DU JOUR Senate Judiciary antitrust Chairman Mike Lee (R-Utah) offered colorful praise on Monday for Sen. Josh Hawleys (R-Mo.) proposal to have the Justice Department absorb the FTC, a plan aimed in part at addressing concerns over the FTCs enforcement of antitrust standards in the technology sector.

Having two federal agencies in charge of enforcing antitrust law makes as much sense as having two popes, Lee told MT in an emailed statement. This is an issue weve had hearings on in the Judiciary Committee and I think Sen. Hawley has identified a productive and constitutionally sound way forward. (Hawleys proposal swiftly drew pushback from one industry group, NetChoice, which said it would make political abuse more likely.")

The state of play: Some Republicans in the GOP-led Senate now want to reduce the number of regulators overseeing competition in the digital marketplace. A small contingent of House Democrats wants to create a new federal enforcer to police online privacy. But a vast majority of the discussions happening on Capitol Hill around those issues have so far focused on ways to empower the FTC, not downgrade it.

Mike Hopkins, chairman of Sony Pictures Television, is joining Amazon as a senior vice president overseeing Amazons Prime video platform and movie and television studios.

AB 5 blow: Uber and Postmates on Monday lost the first round in their challenge to Californias new worker classification law, POLITICO reports.

Uber IPO fallout: As tax season begins, some of Uber's earliest employees are realizing they had little idea how their stock grants worked and are now grappling with the fallout on their tax bills after last May's disappointing IPO, Protocol reports.

JEDI latest: Amazon wants Trump and Defense Secretary Mark Esper to testify in its lawsuit against the Pentagon over the award of the multibillion-dollar JEDI cloud computing contract to Microsoft, POLITICO reports.

ICYMI: Federal prosecutors announced charges Monday against four Chinese intelligence officers for hacking the credit-reporting giant Equifax in one of the largest data breaches in history, POLITICO reports.

Facebook ad tracker: New Hampshire saw more than $1 million in Facebook spending in the month leading up to todays presidential primary, Zach Montellaro reports for Pros.

Can privacy be a piece of cake?: A privacy app called Jumbo presents a startling contrast to the maze of privacy controls presented by companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google, Protocol reports heres how it works, and how it plans turn a buck.

Virus watch: Following Amazons lead, Sony and NTT are pulling out of this months Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as a precaution during the coronavirus outbreak, Reuters reports.

In profile: Zapata Computing, a startup that creates software for quantum computers by avoiding as much as possible actually using a quantum machine, Protocol reports.

Out today: Alexis Wichowski, New York Citys deputy chief technology director and a professor at Columbias School of International and Public Affairs, is out today with The Information Trade: How Big Tech Conquers Countries, Challenges Our Rights, and Transforms Our World, a book published by HarperCollins.

Tips, comments, suggestions? Send them along via email to our team: Bob King (bking@politico.com, @bkingdc), Mike Farrell (mfarrell@politico.com, @mikebfarrell), Nancy Scola (nscola@politico.com, @nancyscola), Steven Overly (soverly@politico.com, @stevenoverly), John Hendel (jhendel@politico.com, @JohnHendel), Cristiano Lima (clima@politico.com, @viaCristiano), Alexandra S. Levine (alevine@politico.com, @Ali_Lev), and Leah Nylen (lnylen@politico.com, @leah_nylen).

TTYL.

Go here to see the original:
For the tech world, New Hampshire is anyone's race - Politico

Moscow-Tokyo Nissan and the Quantum Machine LearningProject of the Russian Quantum Center (RQC) have announced the launch of ajoint scientific and technological project in the field of quantum computingfor chemical compound modeling solutions. In the context of partnership,Project is going to create new methods of quantum systems modeling and to testthem with the use of existing quantum processors. This project is one of thefirst commercial projects in the field of quantum computing in Russia. Theamount and terms of the contract are not disclosed by the parties.

Modeling ofcomplex systems such as materials, batteries, and medicines is extremelydifficult for existing computers. The next generation of computing devices,which are quantum computers, will be able to solve such problems moreefficiently. As a result, the business will be able to find practical solutionssuch as modeling of new materials, production of devices of a new class fromsuch materials, and selection of optimal characteristics or reactions insidethese materials, which are necessary for increasing the subsequent efficiency.One of the real challenges for the industry and business is the modeling ofchemical compounds used in the batteries manufacturing process.

As part ofthe project, we are developing quantum chemistry methods using machine learningand quantum optimization. We plan to integrate the developed methods into thematerial design system, which is used today in Nissan. This will allow Nissanto unlock the huge potential of quantum computing for its tasks, and in thefuture, to achieve technological leadership, said Alexey Fedorov, Head of the Group Quantum Information Technologies RQC,Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics.

Quantumtechnologies are promising for solving many industrial challenges. Thematerials that can be created with quantum chemistry will significantlyincrease the power and capacity of batteries. As a result, we will get theopportunity to create highly efficient and environmentally-friendly transport,as well as new solutions. The future is behind these technologies and, togetherwith our partner, Russian Quantum Center, we are striving to become a pioneerin this industry, said ShigeoIbuka, Head of Nissan R&D center in Russia, Ph.D. in Physics.

In the long term,the use of quantum technologies will significantly reduce the time for thedevelopment of new materials, as well as predict their compliance with therequirements of industry and business. The RQC team will conduct research usingboth existing quantum computers and their own-developed quantum-inspiredalgorithms.

AboutRussian Quantum Center (RQC)

The RussianQuantum Center (RQC) is a non-governmental organization specializing infundamental research in the field of quantum physics and the development ofdevices and technologies based on quantum effects. The Center was founded inDecember 2010 and became one of the first residents of the Skolkovo InnovationCenter. RQC is one of the authors of the roadmap for the development of quantumtechnologies in Russia until 2024.

At the moment,RQC has more than 150 employees, 14 laboratories, and 7 spin-offs aimed at thecommercialization of the developments. In 2017, RQC developed the worlds firstquantum blockchain. RQC technologies are being actively introduced intogovernment and business structures around the world.

RQCsQuantum Machine Learning Project

RQCs Quantum Machine Learning Project is engaged in research and business-oriented projects in the field of quantum computing. The work is carried out in several directions: development of the strategy of quantum computing application and development of the QBoard quantum computing cloud platform, SimCIM simulator based on quantum-inspired algorithms, and other solutions. Some software products are already available for commercial use.

Manager at Research Snipers, RS-NEWS, Digital marketing enthusiast and industry professional in Digital Marketing, Social Media, Business News, and Technology News, with vast experience in the media industry, I have a keen interest in business technology, News breaking.

Visit link:
Russian Quantum Center and Nissan have launched a project in the field of quantum chemistry - Research Snipers

The mainstream media imposes some serious certainties on the 2020 presidential election that drive me into a furious despair, e.g.:

Even though Bernie Sanders, winner of the first two Democratic primaries, is now leading in the national polls, he cant and wont be the partys nominee because in coming weeks, writesLiz Peekin The Hill, Democrats will make sure that Socialist Bernie does not get the nomination. More will realize that he will lead the party to a calamitous loss, and they will look for an alternative. Overwhelmed by ads, underwhelmed by others in the race, they will come to realize that Mike Bloomberg is the best theyve got.

Hey progressives, America is not a socialist country! Get it?

As this certainty imposes itself on the election coverage, in both obvious and subtle ways, I find myself juxtaposing it with another emerging tidbit of news:

Parts ofOrgan Pipe Cactus National Monumentthe part s with indigenous burial grounds and other rare, historically important areasare being bulldozed and blown up to make way for the border wall that Mexico is supposedly going to pay for.

The Trump border wall proceeds, slicing through, and destroying, a complex ecological wonder that also happens to be indigenous sacred ground. The wall, writes evolutionary biologistKelsey Yule, is turning the landscape into an ecological dystopia.

The Department of Homeland Security is leveling this precious habitat with absolutely no regard for the delicacy of this places unique cultural and ecological resources, ravaging one of the most iconic sites in the Western hemisphere. Theyre even blowing up mountains like Monument Hill. . . .

And: "Over the last few months, the Trump administration has been draining millions of gallons of groundwater to mix the walls concrete."

Furthermore the $5.7 billion wall is cutting directly through the soul of theTohono Oodham Nation, an indigenous people whose ancestral land in the Sonoran Desert, approximately the size of Connecticut, spans both the United States and Mexico. Too bad. The Department of Homeland Security rules and its going to build the damn wall no matter what.

As Arizona Rep. Raul Grijalva put it: To DHS, nothing is sacred.

SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT

Get our best delivered to your inbox.

Well, thats not quite true. The bureaucracy is sacred. No matter now stupid and destructive they are, the rules are sacred. The border is sacred. And this same mentality, so I believe, is doing everything it can to ensure that the progressive base of the Democratic Partyrepresented, to a large extent, by Bernie Sandersremains on the wrong side of the wall, barred from having an actual influence on the American political process.

Elections arent supposed to be about core values. Those values are already decided and Socialist Bernie (psst, socialist is the same thing as communist) doesnt get to mess with them.

These values, of course, mean as little as where you were born. These values are about who has power. Big Money rules and will always rule, right? Thus the election coverage doesnt look deeply beneath the surfaceat who we are or how we ought to relate to the planet and to life itself. Maybe Trumps wall is creating an ecological dystopia, but Bernie Sanders is a socialist. And look, here comes Michael Bloomberg to save the day.

Im not saying that change is simple or that a national and global course of action, in the face of war and climate crisis and the growing phenomenon of refugees trying to find a home, is in any way obvious. But our collective focus should be bigger than the needs and limits of corporate centrism. Do we not all have a stake in the future of this planet?

If you consume a lot of mainstream news coverage, you might be thinking that no one has quite the stake in the future that Bloomberg, the $60 billion man, does. He has bought his way into the election process.

In a staggering milestone in what critics have characterized as an effort to buy the Democratic nomination,Common Dreamsreports, billionaire businessman Michael Bloomberg has already poured more than $350 million of his own personal wealth into television, digital, and radio advertising since launching his 2020 presidential campaign last November.

This is our country: up for sale. No matter that Bloomberg, former mayor of New York City, pushedstop-and-friskpolicing when he was in office, inundating minority neighborhoods with police a.k.a., the occupying army and stopping everyone who looks suspicious for a humiliating pat-down and possible arrest. A federal judge eventually ruled the practice unconstitutional, calling it checkpoint-style policing. But Bloomberg has continued to quietly defendracism-based security, infamously maintaining, in a 2015 speech, that 95 percent of murderers are male, minorities, 16-25.

So what we have here is a political system that continually surrenders to us-vs.-them thinking: leadership that requires an enemy to keep the country united. This kind of thinking cuts cruel social gouges everywhere its in place, creating endless harm to some and insecurity for everyone.

American democracy continues to be up for sale, but only to bidders who support The Wall.

Original post:
The Wall: Separating Democracy From Voters - Common Dreams

The country is built on faith in the electoral process, but that's been severely dented in the 20 years since the 2000 Bush v. Gore debacle over Florida's hanging chads. Since then, we've added foreign interference to a mix that's long included voter suppression, gerrymandering and an antiquated Electoral College that routinely gives the person with fewer votes the White House.

Put together all these very real and different challenges to the American system and it's hard to fight the feeling that this experiment in democracy is teetering.

The end result is there is still no clear winner for the first 2020 primary contest.

The Iowa Democratic Party made things worse by hiding the issue behind its delayed results for hours on caucus night. Then, it released only a portion of results.

That opened the door for campaigns to sow doubt about the numbers.

Nobody, including Biden, is actually suggesting the results are so flawed that Joe Biden's current fourth place showing in Iowa is incorrect. But there are serious problems with the results.

"This is just one moment in time," said Maria Cardona, a Democratic strategist and CNN political commentator. "Democrats are going to fix it and move on from it and focus on the priority, which is beating Donald Trump."

Trump likes to question US democracy

The President built his political career calling American democracy into question.

When Trump criticized the electoral process for being "rigged" against him in 2016, he was rightly criticized. It felt at the time like he was building an excuse for when he lost. But he won the White House even though he got fewer votes than the other candidate.

Turned out the process wasn't rigged, but built in such a way that a divisive nationalist intentionally appealing to white voters could win with fewer votes than the other person.

And that's even without factoring in that Russians were trying to influence it by spreading fake information on social media and hacking the Democratic party.

Trump didn't stop with his "rigged" allegation, even after he won.

Meddling from the outside

And that was before Democrats impeached him for pressuring Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden while holding up needed security aid to the country and Republicans, deciding they were okay with that behavior, acquitted him in the Senate.

It's clear from testimony by the US intelligence community and others that Russia is still actively trying to influence the 2020 election with misinformation that spreads on social media. The question is how successful they will be.

Voter suppression and voter fraud

All of that, taken together, is a pretty clear pattern that could shake Americans' faith in the electoral process. It is the faith in that process, and the peaceful transfer of power, that is the ground upon which the entire American experiment in self government is built and Trump has been criticized for trying to undermine it.

Who can vote in red states vs. blue states

But he added that "both political parties look to create electoral processes that likely advantage their political fortunes."

Republicans, generally, favor more restrictive practices and Democrats favor making voting easier.

"Access to voting really depends on where you live and how competitive the parties are in your state," he said. "Differences among the states allow for legitimate concerns to be brought up over who is shut out or invited in when it comes to the electoral process."

Changing the process

Rather than seek the national spotlight as a Senate or presidential candidate, Abrams has turned making US elections more fair a call to action.

Her Twitter feed in the aftermath of the Iowa debacle is a documentation of how the Democratic primary process isn't actually that democratic and how the party is taking minority voters, in particular, for granted.

"Regardless of the tech issues, Iowa uses a caucus system that excludes people who cannot participate because of work or family obligations. The most democratic process invites all eligible voices, which is why early and mail-in voting and a full Election Day are essential," she tweeted.

She also called for the entire early primary system to be overhauled.

"The Iowa Caucus is a long and storied tradition, but traditions can and do change. As we build a more accessible election process, we should revisit how Democrats launch our primary season," she said, later adding, "Suppression exists when voices are intentionally silenced AND when no one is willing to admit or fix the problem. Voter suppression awaits millions of voters in November unless we organize against efforts to block and discourage voters."

Democrats wanted to make election reform their calling card in 2020.

Likewise, Trump's complaints about a rigged system are unlikely to be as effective. He is, after all, the President.

"In 2020, it will be clear that Trump can win re-election and those who wish to see him unseated will be far more likely to turn out to vote to do so," said Alexander, who added there will be an equal concern among some of his opponents that the system is actually rigged for him -- "whether they view it through Russian interference or voter suppression."

Follow this link:
Iowa's mess is a threat to democracy - CNN