CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -On January 23, Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, announced a new federal investment of $40 million “to enable the Toronto-based Canadian quantum computing company Xanadu Quantum Technologies Inc. to build and commercialize the world’s first photonic-based, fault-tolerant quantum computer.”

Detailed explanation-2: -D-Wave Systems, a Canada-based company, is the world’s first organization to sell a commercial quantum computer. Its latest, the D-Wave Advantage system, features a processor architecture with more than 5, 000 qubits and 15-way qubit connectivity.

Detailed explanation-3: -Origin Quantum is the first quantum computing company in China. In 2020, it launched “Wuyuan, ‘’ the first domestic superconducting quantum computer, providing quantum computing services to global users through a cloud platform, according to the statement.

Detailed explanation-4: -In 1998 Isaac Chuang of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Neil Gershenfeld of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Mark Kubinec of the University of California at Berkeley created the first quantum computer (2-qubit) that could be loaded with data and output a solution.