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The French-Singaporean Quantum Symposium is happening in November

The inaugural French-Singaporean Quantum Symposium (FSQS24) will be held on the 5 to 7 Nov 2024 at the Copthorne King's Hotel Singapore. CQT is pleased to organise the symposium together with MajuLab and Quantonation. The symposium aims to build strategic quantum partnerships between Singapore and France.

Spins line up for quantum sensing

Tiny flakes of a material called hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) might help in future to read magnetic signals from your body. That’s one potential application of quantum sensors made from the two-dimensional (2D) material, which a team led by CQT Principal Investigator Gao Weibo has shown can be primed to sense magnetic fields. The advance by the international team concerns precise control and manipulation of spins at defects in a 2D layer of h-BN.

Singapore announces National Quantum Strategy

Singapore has launched a new National Quantum Strategy (NQS) to strengthen its position as a leading hub in the development and deployment of quantum technologies. Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of the National Research Foundation (NRF) Mr Heng Swee Keat announced the NQS in his Opening Address at Asia Tech x Summit on 30 May 2024. Funded by NRF, NQS will see close to S$300 million being invested over five years.

A national research centre in quantum technologies

The Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT) has some 220 staff and students doing research into the foundations of quantum physics and the ways quantum physics enables new technologies. Established in 2007, CQT is hosted at the National University of Singapore and also has staff at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Nanyang Technological University, and the Singapore University of Technology and Design.

Limits set on quantum radar’s ability to hide itself

How well can you see without been seen? CQT’s Mile Gu and his colleagues tackle that queston in research on the performance of quantum radars published in Physical Review Letters. They calculate from theoretical models how to optimise a quantum radar to detect a remote object without the signals it sends being detectable.

Meet a CQTian: Guo Naixu

Guo Naixu is currently a a third-year PhD student in Patrick Rebentrost's group working on on quantum algorithms and quantum learning theory. Naixu is also a guqin player. His interest in this instrument started as an undergraduate in Japan. He says, "It was very lucky that I found out there is a great Japanese guqin master, Muka Fushimi, in Kyoto and he lived near my home. I directly knocked on his door and began this music journey. I quite enjoy this kind of fate."

Bloomberg Originals has released a documentary on quantum computing that travels to Singapore. The episode of The Future with Hannah Fry includes an interview with CQT's Alexander Ling and scenes from CQT labs.

CQT Fellow Di was recently commended in the MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 (TR35) Asia Pacific list for his work in integrated quantum photonics. Congratulations!

Algorithm settles financial transactions with fewer qubits

Millions of transactions are executed in the financial markets every day, and finding an optimal way to settle them is a computationally heavy task. In a paper published in EPJ Quantum Technology, CQT Principal Investigator Dimitris Angelakis and his team report that a qubit-efficient optimisation algorithm they created in earlier work can tackle the financial transaction settlement problem.