theo leggett reports. an unexpected crisis, a hurried solution and the owners of businesses like this one are breathing a heavy sigh of relief. universal quantum s trying to develop a revolutionary new generation of supercomputers. like many small tech firms, it s a customer of the uk arm of american lender silicon valley bank, which collapsed last week. boss sebastian weidt says he feared his money would be lost for good. we have a lot of our capita with svb, and obviously when the news broke that well, we heard on the grapevine that svb may be in trouble, we obviously tried to get our funds out as quickly as possible. that was unsuccessful, so over the weekend we really had to scramble to put mitigating strategies in place, to survive as a company. for the government, this crisis came out of the blue. the sudden collapse of a bank in the united states left thousands of british technology businesses facing potential oblivion. a solution had to be found and it had to be found quickly
Einstein, Planck, Heisenberg, and Schrödinger were all German scientists who made revolutionary discoveries in the field of quantum mechanics. Today, Germany is seeing a renewed interest in Quantum technology, as more and more start-ups appear. Each is targeting a different niche in the quantum field, making this an exciting time for German technology.
AZoQuantum had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Foni Raphaël Lebrun-Gallagher about his team's breakthrough research at the University of Sussex. Their latest research proves the viability of connecting independent ion-trap quantum computer modules via electric fields.
One of the challenges of reaching the full potential of quantum computing is figuring out how to get millions of qubits working together – those quantum equivalents of the classic bits that store 1s or 0s in traditional computers.