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Paris, Boston, Sherbrooke, June 2, 2022 - Pasqal, the global leader in neutral atoms quantum computing, has named seasoned quantum technology executive, Catherine Lefebvre, to lead North American business development for the company. The company also announced office openings in Boston (U.S.) and in Sherbrooke (Canada).

As Vice President, Strategic Business Development North America for Pasqal, Lefebvre will be based in the Boston office to help drive the companys commercial and strategic partnership efforts and serve as the primary point of contact for U.S.-based clients and partners. Pasqals local U.S. presence will allow the company to further capitalize on the tremendous market opportunity and to expand the adoption of Pasqals quantum hardware and software solutions by U.S. industries including energy, healthcare, finance and automotive, while deepening Pasqals relationships with U.S. customers.

Prior to joining Pasqal, Lefebvre served in multiple roles, including as U.S. and Canada Innovation Ambassador for quantum technology company M Squared; advisor in quantum technologies at Quebec Ministry of Economy and Innovation; and as Science Liaison Officer for Element AI (acquired by ServiceNow), a global developer of AI solutions. Lefebvre has a background in research with a Ph.D. in molecular physics and quantum chemistry with training in science diplomacy.

Pasqals Canadian office is located in the Quantum Innovation Zone in Sherbrooke, which brings together researchers, startups and investors to cultivate the local quantum ecosystem and accelerate the development and adoption of quantum technologies. Known as Pasqal Canada, the new subsidiary will allow Pasqal to collaborate with both academic institutions and industry to grow its business in Canada and develop new commercial applications in such areas as smart cities, energy and materials science

Strengthening our coverage in North America opens up immense new opportunities to leverage our neutral atoms quantum computers for real-world benefit across new regions, markets and industries, said Georges Olivier-Reymond, CEO and founder of Pasqal. Catherine is the ideal executive to drive this next phase of our growth, and we are honored to welcome her to the team.

Offering a broad range of full stack quantum solutions across different industries, Pasqals customers include Johnson & Johnson, LG, Airbus, BMW Group, EDF, Thales, MBDA and Credit Agricole CIB.

To learn more about Pasqal, please visit:www.pasqal.com.

About PasqalPasqal builds quantum computers from ordered neutral atoms in 2D and 3D arrays with the goal of bringing a practical quantum advantage to its customers in addressing real-world problems, especially in quantum machine learning and predictive modeling. Pasqal was founded in 2019 by Georges-Olivier Reymond, Christophe Jurczak, Professor Dr. Alain Aspect, Dr. Antoine Browaeys and Dr. Thierry Lahaye. Based in Palaiseau and Massy, south of Paris, Pasqal has secured more than 40 million in financing combining equity and non-dilutive funding from Quantonation, the Defense Innovation Fund, Runa Capital, BPI France, ENI and Daphni.

Website:www.pasqal.comTwitter: @pasqalioLinkedIn:www.linkedin.com/company/pasqal/

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Researchers grappling with todays grand challenges are getting traction with accelerated computing, as showcased at ISC, Europes annual gathering of supercomputing experts.

Some are building digital twins to simulate new energy sources. Some use AI+HPC to peer deep into the human brain.

Others are taking HPC to the edge with highly sensitive instruments or accelerating simulations on hybrid quantum systems, said Ian Buck, vice president of accelerated computing at NVIDIA, at an ISC special address in Hamburg.

For example, a new supercomputer at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) called Venado will deliver 10 exaflops of AI performance to advance work in areas such as materials science and renewable energy.

LANL researchers target 30x speedups in their computational multi-physics applications with NVIDIA GPUs, CPUs and DPUs in the system, named after a peak in northern New Mexico.

Venado will use NVIDIA Grace Hopper Superchips to run workloads up to 3x faster than prior GPUs. It also packs NVIDIA Grace CPU Superchips to provide twice the performance per watt of traditional CPUs on a long tail of unaccelerated applications.

The LANL system is among the latest of many around the world to embrace NVIDIA BlueField DPUs to offload and accelerate communications and storage tasks from host CPUs.

Similarly, the Texas Advanced Computing Center is adding BlueField-2 DPUs to the NVIDIA Quantum InfiniBand network on Lonestar6. It will become a development platform for cloud-native supercomputing, hosting multiple users and applications with bare-metal performance while securely isolating workloads.

Thats the architecture of choice for next-generation supercomputing and HPC clouds, said Buck.

In Europe, NVIDIA and SiPearl are collaborating to expand the ecosystem of developers building exascale computing on Arm. The work will help the regions users port applications to systems that use SiPearls Rhea and future Arm-based CPUs together with NVIDIA accelerated computing and networking technologies.

Japans Center for Computational Sciences, at the University of Tsukuba, is pairing NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs and x86 CPUs on an NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand platform. The new supercomputer will tackle jobs in climatology, astrophysics, big data, AI and more.

The new system will join the 71% on the latest TOP500 list of supercomputers that have adopted NVIDIA technologies. In addition, 80% of new systems on the list also use NVIDIA GPUs, networks or both and NVIDIAs networking platform is the most popular interconnect for TOP500 systems.

HPC users adopt NVIDIA technologies because they deliver the highest application performance for established supercomputing workloads simulation, machine learning, real-time edge processing as well as emerging workloads like quantum simulations and digital twins.

Showing what these systems can do, Buck played a demo of a virtual fusion power plant that researchers in the U.K. Atomic Energy Authority and the University of Manchester are building in NVIDIA Omniverse. The digital twin aims to simulate in real time the entire power station, its robotic components even the behavior of the fusion plasma at its core.

NVIDIA Omniverse, a 3D design collaboration and world simulation platform, lets distant researchers on the project work together in real time while using different 3D applications. They aim to enhance their work with NVIDIA Modulus, a framework for creating physics-informed AI models.

Its incredibly intricate work thats paving the way for tomorrows clean renewable energy sources, said Buck.

Separately, Buck described how researchers created a library of 100,000 synthetic images of the human brain on NVIDIA Cambridge-1, a supercomputer dedicated to advances in healthcare with AI.

A team from Kings College London used MONAI, an AI framework for medical imaging, to generate lifelike images that can help researchers see how diseases like Parkinsons develop.

This is a great example of HPC+AI making a real contribution to the scientific and research community, said Buck.

Increasingly, HPC work extends beyond the supercomputer center. Observatories, satellites and new kinds of lab instruments need to stream and visualize data in real time.

For example, work in lightsheet microscopy at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab is using NVIDIA Clara Holoscan to see life in real time at nanometer scale, work that would require several days on CPUs.

To help bring supercomputing to the edge, NVIDIA is developing Holoscan for HPC, a highly scalable version of our imaging software to accelerate any scientific discovery. It will run across accelerated platforms from Jetson AGX modules and appliances to quad A100 servers.

We cant wait to see what researchers will do with this software, said Buck.

In yet another vector of supercomputing, Buck reported on the rapid adoption of NVIDIA cuQuantum, a software development kit to accelerate quantum circuit simulations on GPUs.

Dozens of organizations are already using it in research across many fields. Its integrated into major quantum software frameworks so users can access GPU acceleration without any additional coding.

Most recently, AWS announced the availability of cuQuantum in its Braket service. And it demonstrated how cuQuantum can provide up to a 900x speedup on quantum machine learning workloads while reducing costs 3.5x.

Quantum computing has tremendous potential, and simulating quantum computers on GPU supercomputers is essential to move us closer to valuable quantum computing said Buck. Were really excited to be at the forefront of this work, he added.

To learn more about accelerated computing for HPC, watch the full talk below.

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Co-founder and CPO Rebecca Krauthamer to Present on Quantum Ethics in Security on June 6

SAN MATEO, Calif., June 02, 2022--(BUSINESS WIRE)--QuSecure, Inc., an innovator in post-quantum cybersecurity, (PQC), today announced that it has been selected to present at the IEEE Women in Engineering International Leadership Conference next week, being held at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, Calif.

Company Co-founder and Chief Product Officer (CPO) Rebecca Krauthamer will present "Quantum Ethics in Security" as part of the programs Track 2: Transforming Technology, Sustainable Technology, in Room 30CD at 1:15 pm PDT on June 6. Krauthamer is a strong advocate of building ethical technology and bringing awareness to cybersecurity and data privacy rights. Last year, she co-authored a report with a team of experts from the World Economic Forum on Quantum Computing Governance Principles, which was aimed at providing guidance to governments and organizations around policymaking for ethics-driven quantum computing development.

"Im honored to speak with the current and future female leaders at IEEEs conference," said Krauthamer. "We all have a responsibility to proactively protect peoples basic right to data privacy. It is critical to understand both the incredible opportunities quantum computers will afford us as well as the immediate threat they pose to our data privacy."

Launched in 2014, the mission of the IEEE Women in Engineering International Leadership Conference (IEEE WIE ILC) is to inspire, engage, and advance women in technology, whether in industry, academia, or government. The vision for the conference is to provide attendees with the opportunity to create communities that fuel innovation, facilitate knowledge sharing, and provide support through highly interactive sessions designed to foster discussion and collaboration. The IEEE WIE ILC focuses on providing leading-edge professional development for mid-level and senior-level women.

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At QuSecure, Krauthamer heads product development for QuProtect, which provides quantum-resilient cryptography, anytime, anywhere and on any device. QuProtect uses an end-to-end quantum security as a service (QSaaS) architecture that addresses the digital ecosystems most vulnerable aspects, uniquely combining zero-trust, next-generation post-quantum cryptography, quantum-strength keys, high availability, easy deployment, and active defense into a comprehensive and interoperable cybersecurity suite. The end-to-end approach is designed around the entire data lifecycle as data is stored, communicated, and used.

About Rebecca Krauthamer

Rebecca Krauthamer is Co-Founder and CPO of QuSecure, Inc., which has developed quantum resilience, protecting the enterprise and government from quantum and classical hacking. Krauthamer is a Forbes 30 under 30 list honoree in the extremely competitive category of science for her outstanding work in quantum computing. She was also listed as one of the Top 12 Women Pioneering the World of Quantum Computing, and is a Quantum Futures Council member at the World Economic Forum. Krauthamer also formerly served as CEO of Quantum Thought, a venture studio creating quantum intellectual property. She graduated with a degree in symbolic systems from Stanford University.

About QuSecure

QuSecure is an innovator in post-quantum cybersecurity (PQC) with a mission to protect enterprise and government data from quantum and classical cybersecurity threats. Its quantum-safe solutions provide an easy transition path to quantum resiliency across any organization. The companys QuProtect solution is the industrys first PQC software-based platform uniquely designed to protect encrypted communications and data with quantum-resilience using a quantum secure channel. QuSecure has current customer deployments in banking/finance, healthcare, space/satellite, IT/data enterprises, datacenters, and various Department of Defense agencies. QuSecure is investor backed and has offices in Silicon Valley. For more information visit http://www.qusecure.com.

QuSecure and QuProtect are registered trademarks of QuSecure in the United States and other countries. All other company and product names are either trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

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OneQuantum Philippines will host Reinvent your Careers with Quantum Computing online on June 3, 2002, at 7 p.m.

John Barnes, founder of Entangled Positions, will be the speaker. Asher Manangan and Bobby Corpus, both of OneQuantum Philippines, will be the moderators.

Quantum computing will impact the future of every area in Academia and Industry, so the need for a quantum-capable workforce is great. Join us for a career session in Quantum Computing, with John Barnes, founder of Entangled Positions and President of OneQuantum UK, and learn how to reinvent your careers and take exciting opportunities in this field.

John Barnes is a recruiter, headhunter, and community builder. Having founded Entangled Positions, and previously Profecta Associates, he is also President of OneQuantum UK and OneQuantum Europe, Special Advisor for Workforce and Talent to the Quantum Strategy Institute, and host of the Entangled Discussions podcast.

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OneQuantum Philippines is a local chapter of the OneQuantum global community. It aims to make the Philippines a quantum-ready nation by educating students at an early age so it would be easy for them to acquire quantum computing skills. For more information, visit OneQuantum Philippines website.

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May 26, 2022 A theoretical breakthrough in understanding quantum chaos could open new paths into researching quantum information and quantum computing, many-body physics, black holes, and the still-elusive quantum to classical transition.

By applying balanced energy gain and loss to an open quantum system, we found a way to overcome a previously held limitation that assumed interactions with the surrounding environment would decrease quantum chaos, said Avadh Saxena, a theoretical physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory and member of the team that published thepaper on quantum chaosin Physical Review Letters. This discovery points to new directions in studying quantum simulations and quantum information theory.

Quantum chaos differs from classical-physics chaos theory. The latter seeks to understand deterministic, or non-random, patterns and systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions. The so-called butterfly effect is the most familiar example, whereby the flap of a butterflys wings in Texas could, through a bewilderingly complicated but not random chain of cause and effect, lead to a tornado in Kansas.

On the other hand, quantum chaos describes chaotic classical dynamical systems in terms of quantum theory. Quantum chaos is responsible for the scrambling of information occurring in complex systems such as blackholes. It reveals itself in the energy spectra of the system, in the form of correlations between its characteristic modes and frequencies.

It has been believed that as a quantum system loses coherence, or its quantumness, by coupling to the environment outside the systemthe so-called quantum to classical transitionthe signatures of quantum chaos are suppressed. That means they cant be exploited as quantum information or as a state that can be manipulated.

It turns out thats not entirely true. Saxena, University of Luxembourg physicists Aurelia Chenu and Adolfo del Campo, and collaborators found that the dynamical signatures of quantum chaos are actually enhanced, not suppressed, in some instances.

Our work challenges the expectation that decoherence generally suppresses quantum chaos, Saxena said.

The energy values in the spectra of the quantum system were previously thought to be complex numbersthat is, numbers with an imaginary number componentand thus not useful in an experimental setting. But by adding energy gain and loss at symmetrical points in the system, the research team found real values for the energy spectra, provided that the strength of gain or loss is below a critical value.

Balanced energy gain and loss provides a physical mechanism to realize in the laboratory the kind of energy-spectral filtering that has become ubiquitous in theoretical and numerical studies of complex many-body quantum systems, del Campo said. Specifically, balanced energy gain and loss in energy dephasing leads to the optimal spectral filter. Thus, one could leverage balanced energy gain and loss as an experimental tool not only to probe quantum chaos but to study many-body quantum systems in general.

By changing the decoherence, Saxena and del Campo explained, the filter allows better control of energy distribution in the system. That can be useful in quantum information, for example.

Decoherence limits quantum computing, so it follows that because increasing quantum chaos reduces decoherence, you can keep computing longer, Saxena said.

The teams paper builds on previous theoretical work by Carl Bender (of Washington University at St. Louis and former Ulam scholar at Los Alamos) and Stefan Boettcher (formerly of Los Alamos and now at Emory University). They found that, contrary to the accepted paradigm from the early twentieth century, some quantum systems yielded real energies under certain symmetries even though their Hamiltonian was not Hermitian, which means it satisfies certain mathematical relations. In general, such systems are known as non-Hermitian Hamiltonians. A Hamiltonian defines the energy of the system.

The prevailing understanding was that decoherence suppresses quantum chaos for Hermitian systems, with real energy values, Saxena said. So we thought, what if we take a non-Hermitian system?

The research paper studied the example of pumping energy into a wave guide at a particular pointthats the gainthen pumping energy out againthe losssymmetrically. The wave guide is an open system, able to exchange energy with the environment. Instead of causing decoherence, they found, the process and interactions increase coherence and quantum chaos.

Paper:Spectral filtering induced by non-Hermitian evolution with balanced gain and loss: enhancing quantum chaos,by J. Cornelius, Z. Xu, A. Saxena, A. Chenu and A. del Campo, in Physical Review Letters. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.190402

Funding:The work was supported by Laboratory Directed Research and Development at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

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