SheQuantum Newsletter February 2024

February 2024 – Welcome to the exclusive edition of SheQuantum’s Newsletter. This Newsletter covers latest quantum computing – industry updates, news, press releases, events and conferences in addition to Articles, Interviews and our very own quantum computing educational resources by SheQuantum with industry experts and academia. Happy reading and stay updated and subscribe to keep up with advancements in Quantum Computing globally.


AZoQuantum, United Kingdom covering an exclusive article “SheQuantum: Inspiring and Educating Women and Girls in Quantum Technology” on their editorial feature, on the day of “Women and Girls in Science 2024”.

Nithyasri Srivathsan, Founder, SheQuantum

SheQuantum is an eLearning platform founded by Quantum Computing Researcher, Global Keynote Speaker, Author, and Entrepreneur Nithyasri Srivathsan, based in Singapore. The platform was founded in 2020 to educate women about quantum technologies. More

XPRIZE, GOOGLE and GESDA join forces to raise the bar on the application of quantum projects for the benefit of all

The XPRIZE Quantum Applications is a 3-year, US$5 million global competition to apply quantum computing to accelerate quantum applications that address global challenges. It aims to develop quantum computing algorithms that accelerate the search for solutions to achieve the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for 2030. More

Rigetti Computing Wins Innovate UK Competition to Deliver a 24-qubit Quantum Computing System to the National Quantum Computing Centre

The proposed 24-qubit quantum computing system will be based on Rigetti’s fourth generation Ankaa™-class architecture and will be made available to NQCC researchers for testing, benchmarking, and exploratory applications development. More

SheQuantum: #4 of our “Women of Quantum” series: Theoretical Physicist, Professor M. Göppert-Mayer

M. Göppert-Mayer (June 28, 1906 – February 20, 1972), the German-born American theoretical physicist proposed the nuclear shell model of the atomic nucleus and in 1963 became the second woman to win a Nobel Prize in Physics. Goeppert-Mayer’s mathematical model explained why certain numbers of nucleons (protons and neutrons) in a nucleus result in stable… More

QUANTWARE RELEASES CONTRALTO-D AND SOPRANO-D: THE NEXT GENERATION OF QUANTUM PROCESSORS

QuantWare released the next generation of its off-the-shelf processors, Soprano-D and Contralto-D, in a keynote speech at the Quantum Innovation Summit in Dubai. The upgraded processors feature greatly improved specifications, better reliability and ease of use, and shorter lead times, as well as 6 times more value for money than competing solutions. More

Q-CTRL teams up with Wolfram, Qblox, and others to deliver a complete quantum computing toolset for researchers and enterprises

Q-CTRL, a pioneer of quantum infrastructure software to make quantum technologies useful, today announced strategic product integrations with Wolfram, Aqarios, qBraid, Qblox, Keysight, and QuantWare to improve every aspect of quantum research, commercialization, and adoption – from algorithm and applications development to hardware R&D and education. More

SheQuantum: #3 of our “Women of Quantum” series: Theoretical Physicist, Professor Hendrika Johanna van Leeuwen

The Forgotten Woman Pioneer of Quantum Mechanics Theoretical Physicist, Professor Hendrika Johanna van Leeuwen was born in The Hague, Netherlands on 3 July 1887. She did her secondary school in her hometown, she continued her training in physics at the University of Leiden. Her doctorate thesis in 1919 entitled “Problems of the electronic theory of… More

Diraq Opens New Commercial Laboratory in Sydney to Propel Era of Fault Tolerant Quantum Computing

Diraq, a global leader in quantum computing using silicon ‘quantum dots’ technology, today announced the official opening of its new state-of-the-art commercial quantum computing laboratory located on the campus of UNSW in Sydney, Australia. More

IonQ and South Korea’s Sungkyunkwan University Renew International Quantum Alliance

IonQ, a leader in the quantum computing industry, today announced the renewal of its alliance with South Korea’s Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) to provide researchers and academics with continued access to IonQ’s trapped-ion quantum systems. Accessible through SKKU’s Q Center, users across South Korea have benefited from hands-on training and mentorship provided by IonQ as they engineer and run novel quantum applications. More

Quantum Machines Releases Revolutionary Control System that Utilizes Digital Direct Synthesis to Deliver Record Analog Performance and Qubit Control Density

Quantum Machines, the leading provider of breakthrough quantum control solutions, announced the release of an advanced digital direct-synthesis (DDS) microwave front-end module (MW-FEM) for OPX1000, its high-density, processor-based quantum controlᵀᴹ platform. More


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