BLOGBLOCKCHAINCRYPTO: QILIMANJARO - Opening The World Of Quantum Computing For Every Company And Individual

Abstract

Quantum computation is no longer a far-off dream. The impressive achievements in the field have in recent years transformed an academic pursuit into an imminent commercial reality where classical computers will be outperformed on selected but extremely relevant tasks. We are witnessing the birth of a technological revolution that will reshape our society in which quantum computation is central. At present, a number of giant corporations, including Google, IBM, D-Wave, Rigetti, and Microsoft, are fiercely pursuing the construction of an operational quantum computer.

Qilimanjaro wants to open the world of quantum computation to every company and individual, without the need of buying a quantum computer or undertaking expensive partnerships with large players in the quantum computation race. Our vision is to build a quantum computing platform available to most users, including individuals and corporations, and in this way providing access to novel quantum computing paradigms with the most transformative of all quantum technologies, at an accessible cost.

Introduction

Quantum Technologies in a nutshell Quantum Science has reached the point where the manipulation of individual quantum systems such as atoms and photons are well understood and under tight control. Recent achievements open the possibility of preparing, communicating and processing information at a fundamental level following the laws of quantum mechanics. Such an emerging field goes by the name of Quantum Information. The search for practical implementations of Quantum Information has led to the concept of quantum Technologies in recent years. The European Commission has proposed a finer organization of quantum technologies in four areas (see the final report by the high-level steering committee of experts

Quantum Metrology. Quantum sensors for specific application areas such as imaging, healthcare, geo-sciences, etc.
Quantum Communication. Development of state-of-the-art network devices, applications and systems for quantum communication mesh-networks.
Quantum Simulation. Development of operational demonstrators, based on existing physical platforms.
Quantum Computation. Development of open quantum computer experimental systems and platforms. Below, we expose these four areas in more detail.

Quantum Metrology

New quantum sensors allow performing measurements with an amazing precision e.g. gravitational fields, accelerations or magnetic fields. There exist new companies, such as Muquans in France, that offer commercial devices based on new ideas around quantum sensing.

Other quantum sensors focus on the area of life sciences to image parts of our bodies with unprecedented precision. The prototypical example is the nitrogen vacancy center in diamond, with very rich quantum properties that could eventually replace the current magnetic resonance imaging technology conventionally used in hospitals.

Quantum Communication

Quantum communication aims at making all communications provable secure by exploiting the fact that eavesdroppers will unavoidably modify the message they are intercepting.

Quantum simulation

Quantum mechanics is very hard to simulate on a classical computer. The challenge lies in capturing all possible quantum states allowed in a given system which could be populated at once. In other words, a system of 50 quantum bits already requires 250 classical bits of information to store all possible quantum states the system may visit in a given dynamical evolution. Computing such an evolution is already not possible with the largest supercomputer on Earth. Here is a true example when quantum mechanics starts to become really handy.

Quantum Computation

Quantum computation stands as the most important goal in quantum technologies due to its economic and political implications. Indeed, quantum computation will outperform classical computers on selected but extremely relevant tasks. The most noteworthy example is the possibility of breaking currently used cryptographic protocols, RSA. The dramatic consequences for geopolitics of creating such a quantum computer were emphasized by H. Clinton by the end of 2015, claiming that a Manhattan-like project should be put in place for the USA to gain a quantum technological advantage over the world.

Quantum Computers

A machine which is able to process information with constituent elements obeying quantum mechanical laws is referred to as a quantum computer.

Two kinds of quantum computers have been envisioned:

Full-fledged (universal) quantum computers: These devices are able to perform arbitrary quantum gates organized in quantum circuits. Such machines are known as digital quantum computers.
Quantum annealers: These devices are able to find a good solution to optimization problems. Such machines are known as analog quantum computers.

IBM’s first cloud quantum computer with 5 qubits. The qubits can be identified by the squared, darker areas. The wiggly lines are resonators used to read out each qubit state individually as well as providing direct qubit-qubit interactions needed in implementing two-qubit quantum gates.

Crowdfunding

The Qilimanjaro Crowdsale and the corresponding token creation process will be organized around smart contracts running on Ethereum. Participants willing to support the development of the Qilimanjaro Project can do so by sending Ether currency to the designated address. By doing so, they are purchasing QBITs Tokens (QBIT) which are sent instantly to their wallet.

The accepted currency during the ICO is Ether.
If the token sale campaign does not reach its minimal capital goal of EUR 8.000.000 all funds will be returned automatically to the QBIT holders by the Ethereum smart contract.
Token Creation has a hard cap: upon achieving this cap, token creation will stop, and no further contributions will be accepted.
Tokens that are not sold during the Crowdsale will be burned automatically by the smart contract. The burning of tokens could potentially increase the appreciation of the remaining QBIT tokens as the total supply in circulation reduces. The QBIT token will be an Ethereum-based token of value. The token is a digital asset, bearing value by itself based on its underlying assets, properties and/or associated rights. Ethereum-based tokens rely on a well-established Ethereum infrastructure, benefiting from several advantages:
Security and predictability (as opposed to, for example, having to run an independent blockchain network).
Use of robust and well-supported clients (Ethereum-based tokens can be managed with official Ethereum clients).
High liquidity, easier listing on exchanges with infrastructure already in place.
Our Ethereum-based token contract complies with the ERC20 standard. More detailed info about the ERC20 standard can be obtained from: https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/20