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Norbert Linke

IonQ Associate Professor

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    Researchers Explore How Quantum Computers—and Their Errors—May Enhance AI

    July 22, 2026

    Researchers at JQI and their collaborators explored how the probabilistic randomness of quantum computers, and their errors, may be beneficial to some AI models that are run on a quantum computer. By injecting various amounts of noise and quantum randomness during the operation of a basic AI model, the team determined that adding just the right amount improved its performance.

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    Quantum Computers Tackle Simulating Quarks

    December 11, 2025

    A collaboration including JQI researchers has developed a new quantum computing approach that brings science closer to simulating the early universe.

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    Returning JQI Fellow Named New Director of National Quantum Laboratory

    December 2, 2025

    Norbert Linke has returned to JQI after a stint as an associate professor at Duke University. Before moving to Duke, Linke was a researcher at JQI from 2015 to 2022. Now, he is once again leading his own research group at JQI and has also taken a new role as the director of the National Quantum Laboratory at UMD.

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