Quantum chip out of Bristol

They've made some recent progress at Bristol University, making a small quantum chip. Some articles:

• TechEye
• Crazy Engineers
• ZME Science
• And of course, the Bristol press release.
  

Q & A with Seth Lloyd

Here's a short question and answer with Seth Lloyd of MIT in Popular Science. As one would expect, this is more of a primer being in PopSci.

Caltech awarded funding for quantum research

Caltech awarded $12.6 million for new Institute for Quantum Information and Matter.

More progress

More progress, from the National Science Foundation: Tiny crystal towers enlighten understanding of photon emission, could inspire diamond microchips for quantum computing. (Image from the release.)

Maintaining Entanglement for an Hour

Maintaining quantum states for any length of time is one of the big challenges in quantum computing. So this news about maintaining entanglement for an hour is encouraging. (Image from the article.)

Suppressing decoherence

Some progress towards suppressing decoherence, a major stumbling block towards physical implementations of quantum computers.

Dave Bacon Moves to Google

I came across this: Dave Bacon, previously at the University of Washington, has moved on to Google. Is the commercialization of quantum computing on the horizon?