Blogs
From the Desk of the CEO: December 2024
QCi's Chief Executive Officer, Dr. William McGann, provides an update on QCi's strategic progress this month. Read his December 2024 message.
Quantum Computing, Inc. Spotlight: Leading the Development of Non-Linear Photonics to Drive the Quantum Revolution
In a recent spotlight interview, QCi CEO, Dr. William McGann, delves into the Company's groundbreaking advancements in quantum computing, the potential of its Dirac-3 platform, and the role of its new TFLN Photonic Chip Foundry.
From the Desk of the CEO: November 2024 Message
QCi is pleased to share a mid-year business update from its Chief Executive Officer, Dr. William McGann.
Can quantum loss aid computing?
This blog is a less-technical summary of our team’s recent publication in Grover Speedup from Many Forms of the Zeno Effect.
From the Desk of the CEO: October 2024 Message
QCi's Chief Executive Officer, Dr. William McGann, provides an update on QCi's strategic progress this month. Read his October 2024 message.
From the Desk of the CEO: September 2024 Message
QCi's Chief Executive Officer, Dr. William McGann, provides an update on QCi's strategic progress this month. Read his September 2024 message.
From the Desk of the CEO: August 2024 Message
QCi's Chief Executive Officer, Dr. William McGann, provides an update on QCi's strategic progress this month. Read his August 2024 message.
From the Desk of the CEO: July 2024 Message
QCi is pleased to share a mid-year business update from its Chief Executive Officer, Dr. William McGann.
Bright Future Ahead for Thin Film Lithium Niobate
Thin Film Lithium Niobate (TFLN) is rapidly becoming the new darling child of the telecommunications industry. At QCi, we decided to dive head-first into this deep pool of possibilities and build a first of its kind fab devoted to TFLN processing.
Reflecting on National Cybersecurity Awareness Month!
As a first-to-market nanophotonic-based quantum technology company, Quantum Computing Inc. publishes a monthly newsletter to share the latest announcements and news involving quantum technologies. looks back on National Cybersecurity Awareness Month...
September’s Cyber Defense: Introducing QCi’s Cyber Solutions
As a first-to-market nanophotonic-based quantum technology company, Quantum Computing Inc. publishes a monthly newsletter to share the latest announcements and news involving quantum technologies. This month’s issue focuses on QCi’s cybersecurity...
Quantum Leaps Ahead – QCi’s R&D Surge
As a first-to-market nanophotonic-based quantum technology company, Quantum Computing Inc. publishes a monthly newsletter to share the latest announcements and news involving quantum technologies. This month’s issue highlights QCi’s research and...
Navigating the Landscape of Licenses for Cybersecurity and US Patents
n today’s fast-changing digital era, where cyber threats are an increasing concern, defending new cybersecurity solutions has become necessary. As technology continues to influence our society, cybersecurity licenses and US patents have grown in...
Intro to Quantum Random Number Generators
This is part three of a three-part series on quantum security – how it works, the implications for society and business, and what it will mean for leaders of organizations that process sensitive data and rely on keeping that data secure.
Why QCi uniform Quantum Random Number Generator?
From the dawn of time, humans have survived because of their ability to find and identify patterns. For example, patterns helped us distinguish edible berries from poisonous ones, related agricultural activities to seasons, and navigate...
What does “steal now decrypt later” mean for cybersecurity?
This is part two of a three-part series on quantum security – how it works, the implications for society and business, and what it will mean for leaders of organizations that process sensitive data and...
Introduction to Quantum Security – quantum computers and post quantum cryptography
This is part one of a three-part series on quantum security – how it works, the implications for society and business, and what it will mean for leaders of organizations that process sensitive data and...
Secretary of Commerce Raimondo Speaks on the CHIPS Act
“We have always been a nation of investment, entrepreneurship, and innovation. That is our edge. We have to keep our edge,” said Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo during her speech today at Georgetown University on...
Entropy Quantum Computing Offers an Innovative Path Toward Scalable Quantum Computing
For most scientists – and especially those physicists exploring quantum information science – the mere mention of words like “entropy” and “decoherence” are enough to keep them up at night. The research team at Quantum Computing...
NISQ Computers – Can We Escape the Noise?
We all hear the term NISQ computer a lot in the quantum computing space these days. NISQ stands for Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum. The term was coined by John Preskill in 2018 and is generally used...
Quantum Computing Optimization for Transportation
via Transport Topics Fleets must make decisions to optimize their operations every day. Consider a company with 500 trucks that need to be loaded with 500 diverse orders, all within three hours each morning. Optimizing...
Optimizing Oil and Gas with Quantum Computing
Quantum computing in the oil and gas industry can offer critical solutions to the complex computations demanded as part of the supply chain of the future. As evidence, at the recent KPMG Global Energy Conference...
Optimization is Key for Seamless, Efficient Oil & Gas Supply Chains
We see it all around us today. As supply chain crises have increased, it’s become apparent that the planning and rapid replanning of sourcing, production, and logistics are integral to the stability of our energy...
Quantum Computing and Your Beginner’s Mind
The first thing to understand about quantum is… it’s real, it’s proven and it works. We see it all around us because quantum is the language of nature. Everything around us is running under the...
How Quantum Computing Will Transform Government IT
The U.S. government is making major investments in quantum technology. In 2020, the Department of Energy invested $625 million into multidisciplinary Quantum Information Science Research Centers in support of the National Quantum Initiative...
Why Optimization Demands Mega Processing Scale
Optimization enables businesses to be more efficient when it comes to complex, interrelated processes – like delivering products to the market, matching orders with production capabilities, scheduling large work forces, and more. We all are...
Quantum Computing’s Role in Future-Proofing Distribution Systems
The past few years reinforce the notion that we are dependent on our logistics and distribution channels and we need to reinforce and expand our abilities to optimize them dynamically when massive and unexpected shifts...
QCi in the Quantum Marketplace
We had the opportunity to share a bit about QCi and our approach to quantum computing as part of the Quantum Economic Development Commission – QEDC, and their Quantum Marketplace. You’ll also find insights our...
Quantum Computing: Fueling Oil and Gas Supply Chains
Quantum computing is a critical technology for oil and gas companies. With steadily increasing global demand, it’s optimization becomes more critical and more complicated. As disruption becomes more prevalent...
Why All Quantum Computers Are Hybrids
When you say hybrid quantum computers, most of us in the business have a pretty specific definition of what that means. It’s a consistent theme for a relatively straightforward concept; using a classical computer and...
FutureThink: Hybrid Quantum Computing
When we speak of hybrid quantum computing today, we assume we’re discussing the blending of a classical and a quantum computer. These two systems can be configured, thanks to orchestration, to work together to solve...
Hybrid Architectures in Quantum Computing
We all know that quantum computing hybrids will be the dominant configuration for extracting quantum value in many applications and use cases. As we have noted before, it’s not a question of classical vs quantum...
Oil and Gas: A Quantum Future
Oil and gas companies lose millions of dollars every day, and obviously not because of the commodity price. It’s due in some cases to the inability of these companies to effectively process the massive amounts...
5 Questions to Decide Which Quantum Computer
The race to define the potential value of quantum computers is heating up. More and more organizations are creating quantum innovation groups to explore exciting opportunities for quantum systems. The competitive advantage quantum computing offers...
The Case for Quantum Exploration
Quantum exploration is shifting from laboratories to commercial applications. Since many use cases won’t require pure-quantum, now is the time to begin to explore classical and quantum hybrids, as well as other options, for early...
The Future of Logistics With Quantum Computing
COVID-19 taught us the importance of supply chains when everything from raw materials to finished goods became delayed or simply unavailable to manufacturers and retailers. It also accelerated a dramatic shift in the logistics and...
Quantum Use Cases Are Here
We previously shared initial findings from a study conducted by Hyperion Research. Their final research this week expanded insight to the quantum use cases identified by commercial organizations, along with the potential roadblocks end users...
How to Prepare for Your Company’s Path to Quantum
Analyst firms are promoting the need for companies to start exploring a path to quantum now—or fear being left behind. But for many CIOs, investing time and resources into a technology that they believe may...
New Study Gains Business Perspective on Quantum Computing
In its research to understand end user insights on quantum computing from a business perspective, Hyperion Research asked 415 decision makers (including CIOs 36% and CTOs 20%), influencers and stakeholders about their: Awareness of quantum...
The Potential for Quantum Computing in Transportation Optimization
The trucking industry is facing a myriad of challenges that quantum computing can solve. These challenges include compressed delivery times, increased regulations, more trucks on the road and rising costs. Optimizing the complexity of effective...
Quantum Computing: A New Solution for Supply Chain and Logistics Optimization
Constrained optimization can help supply chain planners stay ahead. World events ranging from the Suez Canal blockage to the global COVID-19 pandemic have shown how susceptible our supply chain management and logistics systems are to...
Our Shifting Quantum Reality Mindset
Embracing quantum reality requires us to reset our expectations, since quantum computing is vastly different than classical. A quantum computer doesn’t process as a classical system. We need to adjust our expectations to embrace the...
Domain-wall encoding: how physics can help us compute better
QCi recently showed how domain-wall encoding can get better performance out of quantum hardware for practical optimization, as well as investigating opportunities to even do more. We’re summarizing our work for physics and computing non-experts...
Quantum Technology: Current and Future Applications
While quantum technology has been in academia for more than three decades, it’s recently gained the attention of business for commercial applications. In the past 12 months, offering access to quantum computers via the cloud...
6 Reasons You Need Quantum Computing Experience Now
Quantum computing is one of the top topics of innovation conversations around the information technology world. Why wouldn’t it be? The promise it holds is, well, mind boggling. Partially because it’ a whole new paradigm...
The Critical Role of Government in Quantum Computing
Why is government in quantum computing important? Quantum computing has enormous potential to facilitate sweeping systems change. Some think the leap from classical to quantum could be more significant than the leap from the abacus...
Top 3 Questions for Quantum Computing
There’s a lot of hype and investment being made in quantum computing. Not to mention the future projections for the problems that quantum can help to solve more efficiently and by providing a range of...
Top Quantum Techniques to Optimize that Complex Last Mile
Agility and speed to optimization are critical to meet customers’ growing expectations for instant availability and near-immediate delivery. Yet, the last mile has always been the most expensive, long-bemoaned challenge of logistics. With the “new...
Stop Settling for Just One Answer with Quantum
We are often asked why is getting multiple answers with quantum a good thing? Here’s the scoop about how quantum helps you improve decisions. Would one answer be enough if you had to decide how...
3 Powerful Examples of Hybrid Quantum Systems
Everybody is talking about hybrid quantum systems. Yet there aren’t a lot of well defined definitions of what a hybrid system actually is, what it does, and the value it brings. That’s probably because different...
Quantum: It’s Not Just About Speed
We all hear the constant hype about how fast quantum computers will be. So we all come to expect supersonic speeds for every need, whether it’s a mathematical computation, an artificial intelligence learning new things...
Will Quantum Computers Replace Classical Computers?
How soon will quantum computers replace classical computers? That seems to be a popular question in some arenas. The problem is, it’s not really a feasible scenario, so the true answer is never. Not that...