-- EPFL Neuro-X master's students Maria Yuffa and Arash Sal Moslehian have won the NeuroQuantum Nexus prize at the Connected DMV's Global Industry Challenge, a program of the UN's International Year of Quantum Science and Technology. The duo used a combination of classical and quantum computing to analyze neural network data. Their winning project explored how both functional connections and anatomical structure contribute to auditory processing.
-- In the JQI seminar at UMD, Dr. Barthel presented a new approach to simulate strongly-correlated quantum matter efficiently on quantum computers using entanglement renormalization—a method that leverages a clever parametrization of quantum many-body states in terms of hierarchical MERA tensor networks. First experiments on ion-trap devices, clearly demonstrate a continuous quantum phase transition, and a new holographic tomography scheme made it possible to resolve, for the first time, the transition from area-law to log-area law scaling of groundstate entanglement entropies when approaching criticality.
-- Excited to start a new chapter for QLab. Norbert Linke takes over as the new Director, working to make quantum technology
accessible for researchers, entrepreneurs, and educators. QLab - Quantum for all!
-- Under the guidance of Dr. Franz Klein, 12 students from UMD and UDC spent seven weeks working on a variety of quantum computing projects. The projects included applying quantum cellular automata to neuron data, using quantum circuits for image processing, solving routing problems with quantum algorithms like VQE and QAOA, and exploring quantum games. The internship gave students hands-on experience with real quantum hardware and software.
