Telefónica and IQM bring quantum hardware to Spain’s capital
Telefónica and IQM are bringing the IQM Spark quantum computer to Madrid’s Universidad Politécnica, the third such system deployed in Spain.
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CodeCoin launches Visa card secured by quantum encryption
CodeCoin, a Hong Kong-based blockchain payment infrastructure company, announced the launch of its new quantum-secured digital payment card operating on the Visa network during the 2026 Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank in Bangkok. The company stated its payment infrastructure incorporates quantum encryption technology intended to strengthen security for digital payment asset storage, settlement, and cross-border transactions.
Vietnam gets its first quantum computer with Quandela’s MosaiQ
Vietnam’s Quang Trung University will deploy Quandela’s MosaiQ, the nation’s first quantum computer, through a France-Vietnam partnership.
NQCC adds Quantum Motion’s silicon spin qubits to UK testbed program
The National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC), in partnership with Innovate UK, has invested £30m to establish seven prototype quantum computers, or “testbeds”, within the UK. These testbeds, including Quantum Motion’s silicon spin qubits, have been deployed at the Harwell Campus for rigorous characterisation, benchmarking, and application development.
Nvidia’s Jensen Huang is right that fear keeps UK business small, columnist argues
Nvidia boss Jensen Huang told politicians and investors in London that the UK has enough intellect but not enough entrepreneurial spirit. A Bloomberg Opinion column argues he is right, citing Oxford Ionics, bought by US-based IonQ for $1 billion, and OrganOx, bought by Terumo for $1.5 billion.
South Korea picks telecoms operator KT to run two of three quantum test hubs
South Korea is expanding its testing grounds for quantum communications at home and abroad, with the government and private companies aiming to commercialize domestic quantum communications technology and products through three hubs—commercial, overseas and future—over three years from this year through 2028. The Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) will upgrade and expand open quantum testbeds, investing 7.4 billion won this year, including 3.75 billion won in government funding.
ADGRG1 receptor cleavage simulated with 54-qubit quantum processor
Researchers used a 54-qubit IQM quantum processor to model ADGRG1 receptor autoproteolysis, a key process in a million-atom system.
Peter Shor joins Zapata Quantum’s advisory board
Zapata Quantum welcomed Dr. Peter Shor, creator of Shor’s algorithm, to its Scientific Advisory Board, alongside Drs. Paler, Devitt, and Izmaylov.
The highlights of IEEE Quantum Week 2026, theme by theme
IEEE Quantum Week 2026 in Toronto, sorted into 23 themes. From error correction to policy, the ordinary machinery around the qubits set the pace.
Three cat-qubit chips tested by Alice & Bob in France
Alice & Bob tested three operational demonstrators featuring their unique cat qubit technology, as part of France’s PROQCIMA quantum program.
Five errors in a million, Helios sets a new quantum record
Helios achieved 99.9995% logical memory fidelity, meaning just five uncorrectable errors per million operations, a new record.
NVIDIA’s Record simulation of a 104-qubit fault-tolerant quantum computer
NVIDIA researchers ran a record 104-qubit simulation of fault-tolerant quantum computing on JUPITER, the largest supercomputer in Europe built at Jülich Supercomputing Centre. This is the largest comprehensive simulation of a fault-tolerant quantum processor to date, validating an approach using 90% fewer physical qubits than previous methods.
AI finds evidence of exotic ‘anyons’ for quantum computing
Non-Abelian anyons, strange particles forming the basis of fault-tolerant topological quantum computing, are predicted to emerge in fractional quantum Hall states at even-denominator filling factors. Identifying which topological order is realized has proven challenging, requiring an accurate, non-perturbative treatment of realistic Landau level mixing, which has been missing from theoretical studies.
Quantinuum Says it cuts quantum errors by 10x, a new world record
Quantinuum breaks its own error-correction record by 10x, achieving 99.9995% logical fidelity on the Helios computer.
Xanadu wins up to $10 million more from DARPA for quantum R&D
Xanadu secured up to $10 million more from DARPA to advance its photonic quantum computing R&D, building on Stage B of the Quantum Benchmarking Initiative.
Quantum Zeitgeist Weekly Digest October 17th
The week's quantum computing news, 10 October to 17 October 2026.
SAXON Q’s three qubits hit a 77% target rate at room temperature
SAXON Q’s system achieved a 77.3% success rate with Grover’s search algorithm using three qubits, at room temperature.
Dirac Labs Joins Wisconsin Security Research Consortium
Dirac Labs, a Madison quantum navigation firm, has joined the Wisconsin Security Research Consortium, bolstering Area 52’s autonomous maritime tech development.
Researchers from Harvard Quantum, Anthropic and QuEra show new circuits cut qubit counts for quantum calculations
Researchers used large language models to design quantum circuits, reducing Toffoli and qubit counts in 7 of 8 tested tasks.
LayerQake at Quantum X Labs cuts qubit errors by up to 21x on IBM chips
LayerQake cut cumulative error by up to 21x on three IBM chips—ibmfez, ibmkingston, and ibm_marrakesh—reducing noise that causes qubit inaccuracies.
IBM achieves 52x design speedup with AI agents tackling quantum error correction
Using an agent factory to optimize hardware for quantum error correction, IBM Research achieved a 52-times speedup over the baseline design for approximately $26 in inference cost. A configuration using open frontier models cost $26, while a proprietary frontier model configuration cost 11.5 times more—$299—under the same search budget.
Google Says it cuts quantum error rates by 40x with ‘magic state cultivation’
Google Quantum AI has shown that “magic state cultivation” works in practice on its Willow processor, reducing errors about 40x compared to without it. This is a crucial step towards scaling up quantum computing to practical use, addressing a bottleneck foreseen since 2004.
Qunnect’s quantum memory makes the TIME Best Inventions list
Qunnect’s Qu-MEM, the world’s first commercial quantum memory, earned a spot on TIME’s 2026 Best Inventions list.
Coinbase holds about 15% of all BTC. Quantum Computing In Focus.
Coinbase, one of the largest custodians, currently safeguards roughly 15% of all Bitcoin in existence.
DOCOMO Expands Production Use of D-Wave Quantum Technology
NTT DOCOMO is expanding production use of solutions leveraging D-Wave’s quantum computing approach, tackling complex network optimization for its 93 million+ subscribers.
ORCA Computing launches PT-3, the first quantum computer built for commercial quantum advantage
ORCA Computing launches PT-3, a photonic quantum computer built for commercial quantum advantage.
Quantum Internet Alliance wins €47.5 million for network prototype
The Quantum Internet Alliance (QIA) secured €47.5 million from the European Commission to build a full-stack quantum network prototype, with Innsbruck playing a key role and receiving €5.4 million.
NVIDIA GPUs accelerate quantum error correction calibration
Riverlane is accelerating quantum error correction calibration using NVIDIA GPUs, reducing recalibration times from minutes to seconds.
Alice & Bob tests quantum decoding with Quantum Machines
Alice & Bob achieved LDPC-cat code decoding on GPUs using NVIDIA NVQLink, and Quantum Machines’ OPX1000—a first for this architecture.
Coinbase wants to safeguard Bitcoin funds lost to quantum attacks
Coinbase, holding roughly 12% of all Bitcoin, is proactively addressing the potential threat of quantum computing, and is focused on how to safeguard BTC funds.
SkyWater’s US fab helps D-Wave build quantum processors
SkyWater Technology’s US fab will continue supporting D-Wave’s development of superconducting quantum systems, including its unique approach to building quantum processors.
Amazon Braket integrates with AWS Batch for scalable workflows
Running scalable hybrid quantum-classical workflows is possible by integrating Amazon Braket with AWS Batch into a scalable compute pipeline orchestrated with AWS Step Functions. This solution can be adapted to algorithms such as SQD that share a similar workflow pattern.
A quantum algorithm beats classical methods for car painting puzzle
Researchers developed a quantum algorithm for the Binary Paint Shop Problem, outperforming classical heuristics on this car manufacturing optimization challenge.
Classiq links quantum code to Israel’s new HPC-quantum center
Classiq provides the quantum software layer for Israel’s new IQCC, enabling researchers to develop & optimize applications using high-level synthesis.
Imperial College London shows quantum work in San Francisco
Imperial College London showcased its quantum research in San Francisco during Tech Week, highlighting potential advances in computing and secure communications.
JP Morgan Chase and Quantinuum get fault-tolerant algorithms running
Fault tolerance enabled execution of QAOA and HHL algorithms, demonstrating how quantum algorithms can scale to 97 physical qubits using the Steane code.
Zero Trust security firm Elisity joins IonQ’s quantum platform
IonQ has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Elisity, Inc., a Zero Trust security company, in an all-stock transaction valued at up to $1.3 billion. The acquisition combines IonQ's post-quantum cryptography and quantum key distribution capabilities with Elisity's Zero Trust technology platform, addressing current and future quantum threats.
Quantum Standards Network opens quantum standards network for UK innovators
The Quantum Standards Network (QSN) online Community opened on 29 September, providing a digital space for innovators, researchers, businesses and policymakers to share knowledge and shape the future of quantum standards. This network, led by NPL and in collaboration with partners including BSI, UKRI National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC), National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and UKQuantum, coordinates the UK’s efforts on quantum standards and supports the UK's National Quantum Strategy.
IonQ Demonstrates World-First Quantum Memory-Enhanced Interconnect for Distributed Quantum Applications
IonQ achieved over 1,000 entanglement events per second, a new record for connecting a trapped ion qubit with solid-state memory.
GigCapital8 to Fund Quantisimo’s Quantum Public Debut
Quantisimo Corp, a “Root to Qubit” platform formed by WISeQey and SEALSQ, will access public markets via a Nasdaq listing with GigCapital8.
Can PsiQuantum’s Construct unlock faster quantum innovation?
PsiQuantum’s software was built to address the scale required for fault-tolerant quantum computing, offering tools to design algorithms, develop circuits, and estimate resources. This software, now available through the open access platform Construct, aims to unlock faster innovation and strengthen the research community’s collective capability.
NVIDIA’s quantum pledge—a billion dollars for US science over five years
NVIDIA commits $1 billion over five years to U.S. science, including advancements in quantum computing and healthcare.
DARPA’s Quantum Benchmarking Initiative adds four teams to final quantum test
DARPA’s Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI) added four teams to Stage C, evaluating if quantum computing can reach utility scale by 2033.
Korea Quantum Computing to List on Nasdaq via Charlton Aria
KQC Quantum, Inc., parent company of Korea Quantum Computing Co., Ltd., will list on Nasdaq via Charlton Aria (Nasdaq: CHAR).
Oratomic Says it secures $775 million to build fault-tolerant quantum computers
Oratomic has raised $775 million in total funding since March 2026 to build utility-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computers. The financing will accelerate development of the computers, which are based on reconfigurable arrays of neutral atoms and advanced quantum error correction.
Universal Quantum secures over $100M to expand quantum computing
Universal Quantum, a UK-based firm, just raised over $100 million in Series A funding, the largest of its kind for a British quantum company.
Diraq Advances to Final Stage of Quantum Benchmarking Initiative
Diraq was selected by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to advance to Stage C of the Quantum Benchmarking Initiative, the final stage evaluating approaches to achieve utility-scale operation by 2033. Funding of up to US$300 million will support independent verification and validation of Diraq's path to utility-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computing.
BBVA, FirstQFM, Florida Atlantic University and Jülich Get Early Access to D-Wave’s Gate Simulator
D-Wave’s new gate-model quantum computing simulator beta program—with participants like BBVA and Florida Atlantic University—lets users explore error awareness, a key to efficient quantum error correction.
OpenLight scales silicon photonics for AI, secures $84M funding
OpenLight advances heterogeneous silicon photonics toward volume production, addressing the industry challenge of manufacturing at the scale demanded by next-generation, AI infrastructure. The company is scaling its proven III-V/silicon integration technology into a commercially viable process and has secured $84 million in publicly disclosed funding.
Xanadu wins IEEE synergy award for quantum community work
Xanadu received the IEEE Quantum Technical Community 2026 Distinguished Synergy Award, recognizing their work building the quantum community.
Korea Quantum Computing to list on Nasdaq via SPAC deal
KQC Quantum, Inc. will list on the Nasdaq via a SPAC deal with Charlton Aria Acquisition Corporation, bringing Korea’s enterprise quantum computing solutions to public markets.
WISeSat.Space rings the bell, plans quantum-safe satellites
WISeSat.Space rings the Nasdaq Opening Bell October 9, 2026, detailing plans for trusted, quantum-resilient space communications.
AI agents now build complete quantum projects, Haiqu says
Haiqu’s AgenticOS lets R&D teams build complete quantum projects, using AI agents to validate results at each step.
Quantum systems retain a ‘birthmark’ of their origin, even in chaos
Quantum systems retain a permanent mark of their origin, a “quantum birthmark,” even when experiencing chaos. Researchers from Tampere University, Harvard University, and TU Dresden discovered this feature, shedding new light on the relationship between classical and quantum mechanics.
Infineon and ZuriQ deepen partnership to advance scalable quantum chips
Infineon Technologies AG and ZuriQ AG are expanding their collaboration to advance scalable quantum computing hardware, combining ZuriQ’s trapped-ion quantum computing architecture with Infineon’s semiconductor manufacturing expertise. Previous work demonstrated a 3×3 array of nine individually controlled ions, and the partnership will now focus on scaling the technology to significantly larger qubit counts.
Quanfluence lands $10 million to build a full photonic quantum computer
Quanfluence raises USD 10 million led by Chiratae Ventures to build a full-stack photonic quantum computer. The capital will be deployed to build Quanfluence’s full-stack photonic quantum computer, bringing together indigenously designed photonic chips, control electronics and the software layer into a single system.
WISeSat gets $10M to build secure satellites for a post-quantum world
SEALSQ invested $10M in WISeSat to advance space cybersecurity, integrating SEALSQ’s Post-Quantum technology for secure satellites and infrastructure.
Xanadu and GlobalFoundries team up for quantum chip production
Xanadu & GlobalFoundries partner to scale photonic quantum computing, focusing on manufacturing advanced components like silicon nitride (SiN) photonics via GF’s 300 mm line.
A chip-based module subtracts photons for quantum communication and sensing
IQC researchers demonstrated a photon subtraction approach using a solid-state quantum emitter integrated on a chip, potentially improving quantum communications.
Now You Can Build quantum circuits in Fortran, C++ And Julia with Qiskit
Qiskit v2.0 now lets you create and run quantum circuits natively in Fortran, C++, and Julia—without Python.
IBM Quantum Compute Service, 4 Benefits of Directed Execution for Users
Directed execution is a new, lower-level execution model in IBM Quantum Compute Service that runs circuits exactly as directed, giving users an explicit and composable way to express how circuits run and a transparent view into what happens on IBM Quantum hardware. Crucially, this visibility and control is gained without trading off the performance of 100+ qubit systems.
NCSC urges firms to build quantum-safe resilience with PQC migration
The NCSC recognizes the need for firms to begin planning for post-quantum cryptography (PQC) migration, setting key target dates—like 2026 for discovery—to address future quantum computing threats.
Sam M. Walton College & D-Wave study quantum supply chains
D-Wave Quantum Inc. & the Sam M. Walton College are researching how quantum computing can optimize complex supply chain issues—spanning retail, transportation, and defense.
Quantum Zeitgeist Digest October 2026
Error handling ran through much of this week’s news. Pasqal won French backing to lead a fault-tolerance programme, D-Wave opened a simulator for testing error-aware code, and Classiq released a tool that estimates the physical-qubit cost of fault-tolerant programs. IBM and Harvard showed they could learn SYK Hamiltonians with polynomial scaling, while Quantinuum found that adiabatic evolution beat the FFT for larger materials simulations.
Researchers Simulate Power Cost of Continual Error Correction
Can endlessly strengthening error correction actually demand more power even as its benefits diminish? New work demonstrates that improving qubit stabilisation via continuous feedback increases energetic costs on both system and controller sides, even once optimal fidelity is reached. This establishes feedback power as a key consideration when designing practical quantum computers.
Researchers Build Quasilinear Quantum Computation Verifier
Delegating quantum computations previously demanded verifier resources that grew exponentially with circuit size. Now, verifiable computation within BQP achieves total resource requirements scaling linearly with gate count ‘g’, specifically O(poly(λ, log g) · g). This advance enables practical remote verification using only classical communication and relies on the established learning with errors assumption.
Optqc Team Builds Constant-Rate Quantum Codes with Full Clifford Actions
Fault-tolerant quantum computers have long demanded either restricted logic or substantial qubit resources to correct errors. Now, new quantum codes achieve full control over logical operations, the entire Clifford group, using only simpler, transversal and fold-transversal gates without needing extra qubits. This construction relies on classical code design based on automorphism groups, offering a potential route towards scalable, low-overhead quantum computing.
Mosca’s Theorem shows when to start quantum-safe crypto
Dr. Michele Mosca discussed Mosca’s Theorem, an inequality organizations can use to determine when to migrate to post-quantum cryptography, during a September 18th event.
Microsoft names winners in its Quantum Pioneers software track
Microsoft announced five winners in the Software Track of its Quantum Pioneers Program, recognizing proposals from the June 2026 competition.
New chip makes quantum sensors simpler to build
A new 4H-silicon carbide chip simplifies building quantum sensors, achieving 30nT/√Hz sensitivity—2-3 orders of magnitude better than confocal techniques.
New signal processing boosts quantum light detection efficiency
New signal processing boosts efficiency in detecting ultrafast, continuous-variable quantum light, increasing the signal-to-noise ratio.
Researchers Optimise Quantum Values with Batched Gradient Descent
Optimizing Bell inequalities previously stalled at around twelve inputs/outputs; calculations rapidly became intractable. Now, utilising batched gradient descent implemented on graphics processing units, complex quantum values are attainable within minutes even when exceeding one thousand inputs or outputs. This leap enables modelling of realistic experimental setups and expands potential applications in areas like secure communication and coordinated control systems.
Researchers Cut Quantum Circuit Complexity by 26x for Molecules
A ruthenium complex, demanding calculations across 52 qubits, now yields energies four hundred times more accurate than previously possible using comparable methods. This leap stems from Variational Imaginary-time Majorana Evolution (VIME), which dramatically reduces computational load alongside error rates in simulating molecules. The approach uses up to twenty-six times fewer quantum operations for equivalent accuracy.
Imperial College Team Reaches 50% Loss Threshold for Quantum Networks
Previously, reliable connections between quantum processors extended only as far as d+1 units; new hybrid networking protocols demonstrably increase this range up to 2d+1 units while also restoring perpendicular connectivity from floor(d+1)/2 to a full d. This enhancement represents an important step towards building larger, networked systems where distributed operations aren’t immediately overwhelmed by communication errors. Achieving a fifty percent threshold for interface error correction, when local noise is minimal, suggests viable pathways toward scalable photonic links between quantum processing units.
Researchers Find Nonlocal Measurement Without Qubit Entanglement
Can two distinct measurement outcomes appear identical under limited conditions yet become fully differentiated with shared information? New work demonstrates this is possible via six jointly accessed qutrit measurements, surpassing previous five-state methods and establishing a form of nonlocality independent of entangled states. This shifts understanding from what quantum systems *are* to what their measurements *do*.
QDA finds quantum systems need data center integration to become useful
The second Quantum Datacenter Alliance (QDA) Forum focused on integrating emerging quantum hardware with data center infrastructure, vital for fault tolerant quantum computing.
Quantum internet group Innsbruck network links three trapped-ion quantum computers
The University of Innsbruck will link trapped-ion quantum processors across hundreds of kilometers of optical fiber within a prototype for a future quantum internet, receiving €5.4 million from the EU as part of the Quantum Internet Alliance (QIA) consortium of over 50 European research partners. The project will include three trapped-ion quantum computers and utilize quantum repeaters to enable transmission over the long-distance fiber-optic link.
Fermilab-led study maps qubit defects to device performance
A study of 22 superconducting qubits links material structures, including surfaces and interfaces, to variations in quantum device performance.
D-Wave simulator lets partners test error-aware quantum code
D-Wave Quantum Inc. launched a beta program, giving BBVA, FAU & others early access to its gate-model simulator.
Nasdaq-listed Pasqal to refocus and pursue fault-tolerant quantum computing (FTQC)
Pasqal (NASDAQ: PSQL) is evolving its collaboration with the French public authorities, now focusing on commercial applications and, specifically, a research and development program for fault-tolerant quantum computing (FTQC) based on neutral atoms. This shift includes the termination of Pasqal’s participation in the defense program LSQUARE, also known as PROQCIMA, and a request to submit the FTQC program to the French Secrétariat général pour l’investissement (SGPI) and the French Direction générale des entreprises (DGE).
Roadrunner Quantum Lab state investment fills gaps in national quantum strategy
Quantum Machines expands to the Roadrunner Quantum Lab in Albuquerque, fueled by New Mexico’s $450 million commitment to quantum technology.
Alice & Bob stabilizes cat qubits with a tiny voltage boost
Alice & Bob demonstrated a new method for stabilizing cat qubits, using a DC voltage bias of one millionth of a volt.
Office of Science and Technology Policy says AI is now ‘Super Intelligence’
America stands at the forefront of a new technological revolution in intelligence, where American scientists first named and developed the field. These technologies now increasingly represent not merely artificial intelligence, but a new era of Super Intelligence, and the Federal Government will use “Super Intelligence” and “SI” in place of “Artificial Intelligence” and “AI”.
Encoding Fermions to Qubits Now Scales to Any Code Distance
New research details a scalable framework for fermion-to-qubit mappings, achieving arbitrary code distance without increasing stabilizer weights.
Classiq has unveiled a Fault Tolerance Engine
Classiq’s Fault Tolerance Engine estimates resources for running quantum applications, including accounting for the complexity of T gates.
NATO roadmap aims to make armed forces ‘quantum-ready’
Allies approved a quantum technology roadmap on July 30, 2026, to accelerate adoption across NATO and mitigate risks.
Decoherence suppresses quantum tunneling in universe study
New research from SISSA details how decoherence, a process of environmental interaction, prevents quantum tunneling and stabilizes the universe, according to a study published September 25, 2026.
Quantum computers for creatives, as Moth launches Atlas
Quantum computers for creatives opened in a Soho basement this weekend. Visitors moved sliders, and Moth's Atlas sent the work to a real quantum processor.
Chalmers and Lund University test quantum protein folding
Chalmers and Lund University researchers explored using variational quantum algorithms to tackle lattice protein folding, a complex optimization challenge, on D-Wave systems.
Ben Varcoe, The Leeds Physicist and Entrepreneur Behind Creavo and Cavero
Ben Varcoe is Professor of Quantum Information Science at the University of Leeds, and a physicist who builds companies as well as experiments. He first made his name in 2000 with a paper in Nature that showed how to make light containing an exact number of photons, something physicists had found very hard to do. […]
Quantum Zeitgeist weekly digest, 27 September 2026
Logical qubits were the yardstick this week. Microsoft and Qolab published a definition of what makes a logical qubit scalable, and Infleqtion entangled 30 of them on its neutral-atom machine. IonQ showed that the classical decoding behind error correction can run on one ordinary CPU, removing a hardware bottleneck many had expected. Germany put money […]
Quantum chip predicts time series with a feedback loop
Artificial neural networks face memory bottlenecks, but the memristor—postulated in 1971 and built in 2008—offers a solution by retaining memory of past states, like synapses.
Department of Energy SCAC report charts path to error-corrected quantum computers
A DOE roadmap, led by the quantum subcommittee of the Office of Science Advisory Committee (SCAC), details steps to achieve a scientifically useful quantum computer by 2028, focusing on mitigating errors for reliable results.
Pasqal revenue rose 14% as quantum services grew 34%
Pasqal Holding SA reported a 14% increase in revenue to €4.9 million for the first half of 2026, with QPU-related services growing 34%.
Researchers from Microsoft and Qolab define Scalable Logical Qubits for useful quantum computers
Utility-scale quantum computing will require error-corrected logical qubits, preserved for long computations by repeated quantum error correction, and replicable to the hundreds or thousands, as required by applications. These scalable logical qubits must be capable of fault-tolerant universal operations with low-latency real-time decoding and feedback.
Quantum computer models how particles ‘pop’ into existence from energy
Duke Quantum Center researchers observed string-breaking—particle-antiparticle formation—on a quantum simulator, a key step in probing high-energy physics.
Q.ANT releases first open toolkit for photonic computing
Q.ANT debuted its open-source SDK for photonic computing on September 23, 2026, offering developers tools to program its Native Processing Units.
Photonic’s error correction helps Microsoft estimate quantum costs
Photonic Inc. and Microsoft are collaborating to advance quantum resource estimation for future large-scale quantum computing systems, helping developers and enterprises understand the value of distributed architectures and advanced error-correction approaches. The companies are working to better estimate resources required to run quantum algorithms, including qubit counts and run time.
NVIDIA center to link IonQ qubits with AI supercomputing
IonQ’s Superion 256 QPU is the first to be deployed at the NVIDIA Accelerated Quantum Research Center, directly linked via NVQLink.
Microsoft Quantum opens Maryland research center with DARPA testing
Microsoft Quantum has opened a research center in Maryland, featuring a hardware makerspace and a partnership with the University of Maryland.
IonQ decoder handles over 31.5 million quantum operations
IonQ’s new quantum error correction decoder, running on a standard CPU, successfully processed over 31.5 million quantum operations.
CERN’s Brian Cox warns UK physics faces a crisis of funding cuts
Professor Brian Cox warns UK physics faces a crisis, citing a “disaster” after the withdrawal of £45 million in funding from the LHCb at CERN.
From Microwave Layout to Quantum Dynamics
A layout-aware route from microwave simulations to the time-dependent Hamiltonian and port-induced decoherence of a driven Josephson circuit.
Researchers Survey Compilation Designs for Reliable Quantum Computation
With IBM now fielding a 1121-qubit processor and neutral atom arrays exceeding 6100 qubits, scaling quantum computers has begun to outpace our ability to reliably control them. Achieving dependable results demands sophisticated new compilers that manage errors across both software and hardware layers. This survey maps the emerging design principles for these fault-tolerant systems, moving beyond simple circuit optimisation towards encoding-aware computation.
Researchers Find Faster Spin Information Transfer with Long-Range Links
Information now traverses complex spin networks more rapidly than previously thought possible without extensive system design. Lowering the power-law exponent α within these systems confines excitation to fewer energy states, unexpectedly accelerating information transfer. This reveals an inherent property of long-range quantum interaction enabling new modes of propagation not seen in exclusively nearest-neighbour settings.
$4M NIST grant funds quantum researchers at EPB Quantum Center
EPB today launched the IonQ Forte Enterprise quantum computer at EPB Quantum Center, bringing commercial quantum computing and networking together in one facility for the first time. Funded by a $4 million grant from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the initiative has brought eight graduate researchers to Chattanooga.
Alpine F1 Team and SEALSQ boost simulations with quantum tech
BWT Alpine Formula One Team and SEALSQ advance Formula One’s first quantum security partnership with hybrid quantum-classical simulation. Building on a partnership launched in November 2025, the project introduces technology from ColibriTD to extract additional insight from the team’s computing and testing resources, with a focus on the 2026 Formula One technical reset.
SCAC to guide quantum research with new national roadmap
The U.S. Department of Energy, led by Under Secretary Darío Gil, is developing a “Quantum Inflection Point” plan to chart a science-first path for national quantum computing efforts.
18 Sep 2026: Diraq and Dell link quantum chip to HPC
Diraq & Dell Technologies are integrating a Diraq quantum processor with a Dell high-performance computing cluster, aiming for scalable hybrid computation.
DOE Puts Up $215 Million Competition to Build Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computers
Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the Quantum Genesis Q Competition, an initiative with up to $215 million in planned funding to demonstrate the world’s first fault-tolerant scientifically relevant quantum computers (SRQCs). Applicants are invited to submit proposals to deploy quantum computers with at least 100 logical qubits, capable of performing hundreds of millions fault-tolerant operations.
LSEG and Microsoft Quantum test new data analysis with Quantum Development Kit
LSEG and Microsoft are evaluating the Microsoft Quantum Development Kit (QDK) for analytics, a new library of quantum algorithms and tools designed for advanced data analysis, focusing first on Quantum TensorPrincipal Component Analysis (Quantum Tensor PCA). This approach helps identify weak signals in noisy, high-dimensional datasets, where important patterns can be buried within complex data across fields like financial services and life sciences.
Researchers Review Quantum Computing’s Role in Smart Grids
Can existing optimisation algorithms adequately manage increasingly complex power grids burdened by fluctuating renewable energy sources? Quantum algorithms such as HHL and QAOA now offer potential solutions for large systems of linear equations and combinatorial optimization problems respectively, exceeding previous capabilities in these areas. This review consolidates knowledge regarding how this emerging technology might reshape smart grid monitoring, planning, control and security protocols.
MIT builds nanoscale devices that mimic neuron firing
MIT engineers built devices, 2nm in size, that mimic how neurons fire, potentially enabling more efficient computing.
Researchers Attain 99% Indistinguishable Photons from Chips
Hong, Ou, Mandel interference approaching unity is now attainable from continuous-wave driven integrated devices, defying prior theoretical limits derived from joint spectral amplitude calculations. Measurements reveal HOM visibilities of 0. 992±0.
IQM sends its first quantum computer to Brazil’s Eldorado Institute
IQM Quantum Computers will deploy its IQM Spark quantum computer in Brazil, at the Eldorado Research Institute’s Campinas headquarters in 2027.
Researchers Achieve 78.3% ImageNet Accuracy Using Quantum-Inspired Transformers
QiT-B achieves 78. 3% ImageNet-1K top-1 accuracy using just 45. 7 million parameters and 11.
Mitsubishi Electric’s Quantum R&D to Advance Post-5G Computing
Mitsubishi Electric received NEDO support for two projects advancing quantum computing, focusing on scaling up systems for post-5G applications.
Researchers Link Nonlocal Magic to Many-Body Localization Transition
Entanglement’s hidden organisation is now revealed through nonlocal magic, exposing structures missed by standard measures like entanglement entropy. This new diagnostic tracks spectral reorganization, a dome-shaped evolution appearing between chaotic behaviour and many-body localisation, even when overall entanglement remains constant. Detailed analysis demonstrates how this ‘magic’ decays with system size, offering valuable insight into phase transitions within complex quantum systems.
Geneva Team Distils Magic States with Qubit Recycling
Constant sized support state distillation with qubit recycling Previously, building dependable quantum computers demanded ever-increasing numbers of qubits to correct errors during complex calculations. New protocols now achieve diagonal states within the Clifford hierarchy using a fixed quantity of logical qubits regardless of computational distance. This advance unlocks potential efficiencies by recursively doubling codes and reusing idle qubits, including a notably concise $111 to 1 protocol for |T⟩$ state distillation.
Planckian selected among 13 firms for EuroHPC’s quantum computing push
Planckian, the only Italian firm, was selected as one of 13 companies for the EuroHPC Quantum Grand Challenge, receiving EUR 300,000 to scale its quantum computing architecture.
StarkWare funds $20,000 challenge for Quantum-Safe Bitcoin
StarkWare, Yukon & Eigen Labs launch a $20,000 challenge to reduce the GPU computation needed for Quantum-Safe Bitcoin (QSB) transactions, following its August 26th mainnet debut.
Researchers Find Large Gaps in AI’s Quantum Engineering Reliability
Seventeen advanced artificial intelligence agents designed to manage complex quantum experiments yielded wildly different outcomes when subjected to identical challenges. This disparity emerged from the first systematic evaluation using QIQCBench, a new benchmark comprising forty-nine expert-designed tasks assessing autonomous quantum engineering capabilities. The work introduces Quantum-Harbour, enabling detailed verification of an AI’s reasoning during operation, not just its final result.
IBM Research Team Bounds Quantum Circuit Complexity Growth
One gate at a time: complexity growth in random quantum circuits Until now, quantifying how quickly simulating quantum computations becomes classically intractable relied upon approximations yielding polynomial improvements only. New calculations demonstrate that computational resources required for these simulations grow almost linearly with time, specifically as Ω(T / log T), up to times around 4ⁿ. This represents an improvement by a factor of poly(n) over existing bounds, offering fresh insight into fundamental limits of quantum computation.
IBM’s Anderon gets $1 billion to build US quantum wafers
Anderon, an IBM Company, finalized an agreement with the U.S. Department of Commerce for a $1 billion CHIPS award to accelerate R&D for a U.S.-based pure-play quantum foundry. Funding will help scale and expand access to quantum wafer technology, backed by an additional $1 billion investment from IBM.
CompactifAI’s Quasar 1.1 438B is first AI rebuilt with quantum inputs
Multiverse Computing releases Quasar 1.1 438B, rebuilt with the CompactifAI pipeline and incorporating data generated on an IBM 156-qubit processor.
Gradiant joins Airbus, Safran on ESA’s quantum space projects
Gradiant joins Airbus & Safran on three European Space Agency partnerships, advancing satellite-based quantum communications and Earth observation.
Q*Bird Becomes Falqon Systems, Building Quantum Networks
The Port of Rotterdam is trialing Falqon technology from Q*Bird, a Dutch startup, to build scalable quantum security into its communications infrastructure.
D-Wave’s quantum aid helps North Wales police solve ten-minute challenge
North Wales Police, led by Alistair Hughes, is using quantum computing to revolutionise officer deployment across the region, aiming to halve response times from ten minutes to five. The force faced a target to improve response times while ensuring up to half a million residents in remote communities receive adequate emergency cover.
Mitsubishi Electric backs OptQC’s optical quantum computer build
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation’s ME Innovation Fund invested in OptQC Corp., a Japanese startup developing optical quantum computer hardware. Optical quantum computing offers superior qubit scalability and energy efficiency, as the technology transitions from research to practical, industrial applications.
Fujitsu shares quantum software toolkit with over 80 partners
Fujitsu released OpenQARP, a quantum software toolkit with over 100 components, as open source.
Palo Alto Networks QSS secures FedRAMP approval for quantum-safe tools
Palo Alto Networks’ Quantum-Safe Security (QSS) received FedRAMP Moderate authorization, enabling agencies to swiftly deploy this Automated Cryptography Discovery and Inventory solution.
IonQ and partners show practical applications and future roadmap at IEEE 2026
New research from IonQ and its partners merges quantum’s origin story and its future roadmap, demonstrating progress through 10 accepted peer-reviewed papers at IEEE QCE26. This includes research such as “Protein Folding on a 64-Qubit Trapped-Ion Hardware via Counterdiabatic Quantum Optimization,” a joint work with partner Kipu.
Logical advantage of Pinnacle confirmed on spin-qubit hardware
Iceberg Quantum and Diraq confirm Pinnacle’s logical advantage for spin qubits using NVIDIA CUDA-Q Logical. The work demonstrated how Iceberg Quantum’s Pinnacle architecture can be implemented on Diraq's spin-qubit hardware platform while preserving Pinnacle's logical performance advantage, enabling Diraq to achieve a target 1,000 logical qubits with just 150,000 physical qubits.
Altera FPGAs now support Riverlane’s quantum error correction interface
Altera and Riverlane partnered to help quantum hardware developers build flexible control and error-correction systems using Altera FPGAs, validating Riverlane’s QECi interface on Agilex 7 FPGAs. This enables low-latency quantum error correction and faster system integration, standardizing data exchange between quantum control systems and QEC hardware.
Quip Network mints art from actual quantum computers
Postquant Labs’ quip network is launching Quantum Echoes, the first digital collectibles generated by actual quantum computers, available September 14, 2026.
Xanadu and AMD speed up quantum computing with Backline link
Xanadu and AMD announced Backline, an open-platform solution co-designed for rapid communications between quantum and classical computing hardware, including CPUs, GPUs, and FPGAs. Backline addresses the challenge of establishing ultra-low-latency communication, expected to operate within microseconds, between quantum devices and classical processors.
Researchers Find Heat Unlocks New Topology in Cold Atoms
Effective symmetry-protected topological states can now emerge even when base conditions reveal only fully gapped, broken symmetries. Previously, manipulating ground state properties was essential for achieving topology; however, this work demonstrates thermal control engineers entirely new phases unavailable at absolute zero. These findings expand possibilities for utilising temperature within future quantum technologies.
Universität zu Cologne refines understanding of quantum limits
Until now, quantum communication protocols relied on an assumption about how channels combine, that averaging them always behaved predictably during transmission. New results demonstrate explicit instances where combining identical quantum channels violates this expectation, failing to produce a simple averaged output state. This stronger deviation from expected behaviour reveals inherent limitations within established methods for quantifying communication capacity.
Cambridge Team Bounds Four-Colouring of Cycles Using Quantum Methods
Directed cycles defy four-colouring via one-way quantum communication, despite unlimited computational power and message size. This establishes an algorithmic limit surpassing previous boundaries set by non-signaling and bounded-dependence models, achieved through analysis of inherent structural properties rather than causality constraints. The advance unlocks new techniques for determining limits within the quantum LOCAL computation framework.
Researchers Simulate Polymers Using up to 1000 Qubits
Representing complex chemical reactions typically demands ever increasing computational power as detail increases. However, new circuits achieve an exponential reduction in required memory, scaling logarithmically with system size rather than linearly. This advance unlocks simulations requiring only approximately ten thousand to one hundred thousand gate operations at one thousand system qubits.
Researchers Characterise Rules Building Quantum Error Correction
Until now, building quantum error correction has relied on established methods with limited potential for expansion. New work provides an explicit mathematical description, based on ‘cyclotomic sets’, extending these techniques to a wider range of codes and determining when resulting pairs are optimally structured within a defined system. Consequently, constructing demonstrably newer and lengthier codes becomes possible, edging closer to scalable fault tolerance.
Quantum Computers Cut Nonlocal Gates for Distributed Computing
Directly realising even basic operations like fanout within a distributed quantum computer demands considerable communication between processing units. This work introduces circuits that reduce required non-local operations when performing this essential function, a key step towards scalable architectures. By utilising transversal operations on Bivariate Bicycle encoded code blocks, it offers a systematic way to implement large logical fanout across multiple processors.
German scientists cut Toffoli gate count for sparse quantum states
German scientists reduced the number of Toffoli gates needed to prepare sparse quantum states, achieving a roughly log(s)/2 improvement over previous methods.
TU Delft satellite carries first TriPleX chip to space
A TU Delft-built satellite will carry the first TriPleX photonic chip to space, demonstrating a novel sensing system for future planetary exploration.
New cryogenic platform supports Quobly’s quantum roadmap
Quobly & Absolut System partnered to scale spin-qubit quantum computers, delivering the QCube 100-Class 3—a high-cooling-power system supporting Quobly’s roadmap.
Rigetti wins $100M from US government for quantum R&D
Rigetti secured a $100 million award from the U.S. government to advance superconducting quantum computing R&D, addressing key scaling challenges.
26 days to break Bitcoin? IonQ publishes a detailed quantum plan
IonQ detailed a plan, using the Walking Cat architecture, to break Bitcoin’s secp256k1 encryption with a 20,000-qubit computer in under 26 days.
IonQ Superion 256 platform aims for quantum chip manufacturing at scale
IonQ announced IonQ Superion 256, its sixth-generation quantum computing platform, and the first in the Superion platform expected for all future compute products. The company fabricated its first fully integrated 256-qubit quantum processing units (QPUs) at SkyWater, designed to be built by the hundreds rather than one at a time.
RAQM: Eight qubits stored in a single superconducting memory module
Researchers built a quantum memory module capable of storing eight qubits, a significant step toward scalable superconducting processors.
Sparrow Quantum’s source sends half a billion photons per second
Sparrow Quantum’s deterministic photon source delivers more than 500 million single photons per second into a single-mode fiber, reported as the highest single-photon flux to date. Operating at 1 GHz, the source combines gigahertz repetition rate with more than 50% fiber efficiency, high single-photon purity, and two-photon indistinguishability.
Japan’s NEC halts quantum build, cites investment concerns
NEC, a Japanese tech group, has paused its quantum computer build, citing a lengthy development timeline and concerns about investment returns.
Quantum Zeitgeist weekly digest, 5 September 2026
Welcome to this week’s quantum technology digest. This compilation covers advances across hardware development, software tools, and early applications of quantum computing. Several articles demonstrate IBM’s continued leadership, with updates to its processors, error mitigation techniques, and simulation capabilities.
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QuTech builds team to integrate full quantum computers
QuTech established a Quantum Systems Integration Unit, assembling a team to develop full-stack superconducting quantum computers.
New MIT qubit design consists of two strongly coupled modes: one for data storage and one for coupling, allowing faster, higher-fidelity entangling gates and readout
A new “Arm Qubit” design, featuring strongly coupled modes, boosts gate speed & achieves 8.6e-5 infidelity in 17ns.
International Team Including Sir Roger Penrose Demonstrates Falling Atoms Show Gravity Works on Quantum Objects
Scientists observed a predicted effect of gravity on falling atoms, confirming Einstein’s theory aligns with quantum behavior.
Quantum QC Ware and IonQ reach 4% accuracy in drug-design workflow
QC Ware & IonQ achieved 4% accuracy modeling a key enzyme, cytochrome P450nor, using a hybrid quantum-classical approach for drug discovery via Amazon Braket.
Quantum tokens face hurdles to practical use, study finds
A new study published September 1, 2026, details hurdles to the practical use of quantum tokens, identifying key challenges for their development.
SEALSQ invests $24.5M in pure-play quantum computing firms
SEALSQ Corp announced a $24.5M investment in pure-play quantum computing firms, advancing its SEALQUANTUM initiative.
Xanadu aims for over 1,000 logical qubits by 2031
Xanadu charts a path to over 1,000 logical qubits by 2031, focusing on reducing loss—a key error source—to enable quantum error correction.
Quantum Zeitgeist weekly digest, 31 August 2026
This week stands out with substantial investment news. Both Pasqal’s Nasdaq listing and the Canadian government’s funding of Xanadu signal increasing confidence in the commercial viability of quantum technologies. Alongside financial commitments, research continues to address core challenges. Developments range from faster qubit tuning and improved cooling methods to advances in quantum error correction and molecular simulation tools.
France’s largest e-vote exposed vulnerabilities, quantum offers fix
France’s 2022 e-vote, with over 524,000 ballots cast, revealed critical security flaws, prompting exploration of postquantum cryptography as a more robust alternative.
Michael Biercuk, The Q-CTRL Founder Whose Error Suppression Software Runs on IBM, Rigetti and Diraq Machines
Michael Biercuk founded Q-CTRL in 2017 to sell control software that suppresses qubit errors on any hardware, and by September 2024 IBM, Rigetti, Oxford Quantum Circuits and Diraq were all shipping it inside competing machines. The firmer half of the company is now a magnetic navigation business, and better control does not by itself make machines this small useful.
Canada invests $195M in Xanadu for quantum computer manufacturing
government of canada invests cad 195 million in xanadu to build the quantum supply chain, with the funding representing the largest investment in quantum manufacturing in Canadian history. The commitment, through the Strategic Response Fund, anchors Xanadu’s plan to manufacture components of fault-tolerant utility-scale quantum computers in Canada.
IEEE Quantum Week 2026, Register Now
IEEE Quantum Week 2026 runs in Toronto from 13 to 18 September, carrying the largest programme the conference has published, with 372 technical papers, 47 workshops and 48 tutorials. Eleven keynote speakers lead it. Register now.
Pasqal To Begin Trading On NASDAQ As PSQL
Pasqal, a global leader in neutral-atom quantum computing, announced the composition of the Board of Directors of Pasqal Holding SA following its business combination with Bleichroeder Acquisition Corp. Ordinary shares of the combined company are expected to begin trading on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol "PSQL" on August 28, 2026.
FAU’s quantum model predicts heart disease with 90% accuracy
Florida Atlantic University’s Arslan Munir, Ph.D., led research developing a quantum machine learning framework for heart disease prediction, achieving over 90% accuracy.
Infleqtion wins $20M for world’s first quantum gravity flight test
Infleqtion secured a $20 million NASA award to advance its Quantum Gravity Gradiometer Pathfinder Mission, bringing total program investment to $40 million.
Can quantum sensors map Earth’s gravity for navigation? Q-CTRL says yes
Q-CTRL demonstrated GPS-free navigation using a quantum gravimeter in the Coral Sea, achieving one nautical mile positioning accuracy.
ColibriTD gets €4M to expand quantum simulations for industry
ColibriTD secured €4M to scale its quantum software platform for multiphysics simulation, following a prior €1M investment.
IBM builds a toolbox for simulating molecules on quantum computers
IBM’s Qiskit Fermions offers a new framework for working with fermionic systems, crucial for advancing quantum computing applications like simulating molecules.
Origin Quantum Superconducting processor routes qubits coherently
Researchers demonstrated coherent quantum routers on a superconducting processor, essential for bucket-brigade quantum random access memory.
Quantum networks can now optimize connections without full noise maps
Quantum networks are a backbone of future quantum technologies, playing a role in communication and scalable quantum computing. A self-configuring approach integrating superposed quantum paths with variational quantum optimization techniques allows networks to dynamically optimize noisy paths, establishing high-fidelity connections without detailed characterization of quantum channels.
A new code cuts qubit needs for quantum logic, Photonic reports
Photonic’s SHYPS QLDPC codes perform quantum computation & error correction, using fewer physical qubits than surface codes.
NSF awards Princeton $28M to lead institute building better qubits
Princeton will lead a $27.9M NSF institute focused on reinventing the core elements needed for scalable quantum processors, addressing a key bottleneck in building more advanced qubits.
Cornell joins effort to build better quantum chips
Cornell joins a new $27.9 million institute, MARQUIS, to advance the manufacturability of superconducting quantum information systems.
Diraq builds a 20-person quantum team in Los Angeles
Diraq opened a U.S. tech hub in Los Angeles, assembling a 20-person team focused on silicon spin qubits.
Xanadu and Mitsubishi Chemical win funding for quantum chip research
Xanadu and Mitsubishi Chemical are collaborating on quantum computing for semiconductor fabrication, backed by programs from both the Canadian and Japanese governments.
MiTale uses quantum circuits to shape game stories and worlds
Finnish studio MiTale brings quantum computing to C.L.A.Y. – The Last Redemption, showcased at Gamescom 2026.
Sparrow Quantum is Denmark’s only pick for EU quantum funds
Sparrow Quantum is the only company from Denmark selected for EU’s EuroHPC Quantum Grand Challenge, receiving €300,000 for the EU-SCALE project.
Infleqtion’s chip powers Japan’s first full quantum system
Infleqtion’s quantum processing unit is powering “Shunkai”, Japan’s first full-stack neutral-atom quantum computer, initially with 50 qubits.
A micromechanical qubit might last a full second
Researchers propose a quantum device—a superfluid weak link with a mechanical element—that could function as a qubit, potentially achieving coherence times of up to one second.
Institute for Molecular Science leads Japan’s first neutral-atom quantum computer
Japan’s first neutral-atom quantum computer is in operation in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan. Developed by a group including the Institute for Molecular Science, the model uses lasers to trap neutral atoms and can reportedly operate at room temperatures, potentially enabling more practical applications.
Researchers Prove Conjecture Supporting GBS Quantum Advantage
Until now, proving the computational difficulty of simulating quantum systems required limiting assumptions about their complexity. This work removes those limitations by confirming a key property, the ‘hiding conjecture’, holds true regardless of the number of squeezed input modes employed in Gaussian boson sampling. Completing this proof strengthens arguments that this particular task may offer a viable path towards demonstrating practical quantum advantage over conventional computers.
Colorado Team Finds Universe Broadly Linked by Entanglement
Is cosmic connectivity limited by vast interstellar distances? Evidence suggests not, as observations now reveal characteristics consistent with ‘small-world’ networks across large swathes of the universe. This inference, drawn from existing cosmographic data rather than simulation, indicates entangled particle chains may reduce average separation between points previously thought unreachable.
Quantum Zeitgeist weekly digest, 23 August 2026
Welcome to this week’s quantum technology digest. We’ve assembled the ten most impactful stories from the past seven days, covering advances in hardware, algorithms, and commercialization. This week demonstrates the breadth of activity in the field, with developments ranging from error correction tools to potential impacts on cryptocurrency security. Several articles point to a clear […]
New estimates From Google Quantum AI show quantum attack on Bitcoin is closer than thought
New Google research shows a potential Bitcoin vulnerability, estimating a quantum computer could break its cryptography with as few as 1200 logical qubits.
Oxford Physicists Argue Quantum Theory Must Apply to Everything
Preserving established algebraic relationships within combined systems disallows any attempt to treat subsystems as both classically and quantum mechanically consistent. This constraint, rooted in how dynamics evolve, builds upon Werner Heisenberg’s original work on electromagnetic field quantization by focusing on fundamental limitations imposed by consistency itself. Consequently, full quantisation becomes necessary when linking already-quantum entities to gravity or electromagnetism, revealing deeper boundaries for physical theory.
Researchers Speed Quantum Error Correction by up to 42 Times
Clock rates for quantum error correction have increased by up to 42. 1 times existing methods when applied to systems simulating over two thousand qubits. This leap forward stems from ONEX, a new framework that restructures complex compilation tasks into simpler one-dimensional problems solved within practical timescales.
Everettian Mechanics Avoids Distant Effects with Zero Causal Processes
Confirming that Everettian quantum mechanics avoids ‘spooky action at a distance’ addresses longstanding concerns about its compatibility with relativity; however, the researchers acknowledge this work doesn't fully resolve debates surrounding wavefunction branching itself. Some interpretations, like those initially proposed by von Neumann, necessitate an instantaneous collapse of possibilities upon measurement, a concept successfully sidestepped within many worlds theory but still debated amongst physicists.
Still, acknowledging lingering debate over how ‘branching’, the splitting of universes in Everettian quantum mechanics, actually happens is important context for understanding this complex theory. The researchers demonstrate that avoiding instantaneous connections across vast distances remains a key strength of many worlds interpretations despite these ongoing discussions about branching itself.
Researchers at the University of Oxford have clarified how Everettian quantum mechanics sidesteps ‘spooky action at a distance’, addressing concerns about its compatibility with Einstein’s theory of relativity; this work focuses on branching, the splitting of universes within the many worlds interpretation, as an emergent phenomenon rather than a causal process.
Researchers Achieve 94% Fidelity in Entanglement Swapping
The researchers’ success in boosting entanglement swapping rates offers a clear path towards practical quantum networks; however, the current system relies on meticulously controlled laboratory conditions and readily available components which may not translate seamlessly to real-world deployments. While utilising off-the-shelf filters simplifies construction, scaling beyond sixteen frequency modes presents an unresolved challenge, maintaining high fidelity as complexity increases is far from guaranteed.
Still, acknowledging the need for more robust and easily deployable systems is crucial; current limitations regarding laboratory control and scaling do not diminish this achievement’s significance as a vital stepping stone towards practical quantum communication networks. The team successfully demonstrated high-fidelity entanglement swapping across sixteen different frequencies using readily available components, representing substantial progress in increasing data transmission rates.
Researchers at the University of Bristol have achieved a significant increase in entanglement swapping rates; this crucial process links quantum bits over long distances for secure communication and distributed computing.
Researchers Link Quantum Agency to Mutual Acknowledgement
Previously obscured connections between quantum theory and philosophical traditions now come into focus. This work establishes that an agent’s status within QBism fundamentally relies on acknowledgement from other agents, revealing a ‘mutually recognitive conception of agency’. Tracing themes through Merleau-Ponty and Hegel unlocks conceptual tools for rigorously justifying this unique ontological commitment.
Quantum algorithm solves matrix equations much faster than classical methods
Researchers developed a new quantum algorithm for solving linear matrix equations, like the Sylvester equation, exponentially faster than classical methods.
Stony Brook Team Maps Limits of Entangled Bell Mixtures
Zero tolerance for disturbance defines a new limit in quantum communication, even minimal disruption completely erases both entanglement and steerability with certain noisy signals. This research precisely maps how these fragile quantum abilities appear and disappear as interference increases, revealing ordered chains of operational limits. Closed-form solutions now offer benchmarks for maintaining useful connections despite imperfect qubits.
University of York Team Defines Limits of Quantum Superposition
No extension of the Quantum Tensor Product admits a Superposition principle. Until now, defining superposition relied on complex mathematical structures rather than direct experimental observation. This work establishes operational ‘superposition principles’ rooted in prepare-and-measure experiments, demonstrating no larger compositional structure beyond the standard quantum framework satisfies them.
FAMU-FSU College of Engineering designs qubit with floating electrons above chip
FAMU-FSU engineers designed a quantum computing architecture levitating electrons above a neon chip, addressing qubit instability caused by surface imperfections.
Quantum summit in Dubai will focus on tech sovereignty
The Quantum Innovation Summit 2026 will convene its third edition from 28 to 30 September 2026 at the Grand Hyatt Dubai Conference & Exhibition Centre, bringing together institutions focused on technological sovereignty, national resilience, economic competitiveness and trusted international partnerships. The Summit connects quantum computing, communications and sensing with artificial intelligence (AI), cybersecurity and other advanced technologies.
Lockheed Martin invested in quantum science since 2008
Since 2008, Lockheed Martin has applied quantum science to challenges like precision sensing, and in 2021, designated it a priority technology area.
Occam Foundry, Texas Quantum & Samara build Austin quantum campus
Texas Quantum Partners and Samara announced Occam Foundry, a quantum technology campus taking shape in Austin, Texas, on August 18, 2026. The 16.5-acre site in southeastern Travis County is designed to house a working quantum system, fabrication, and companies commercializing quantum technology.
OTI Lumionics and Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology emulate 200 qubits on standard CPU hardware
OTI Lumionics & Samsung achieved 200+ qubit quantum emulation, validating a new method for materials discovery.
Telecom giant DOCOMO trims signaling with D-Wave quantum tech
NTT DOCOMO, with 93 million+ subscriptions, deployed a second D-Wave quantum application, reducing location registration signals by 65.3% and improving network efficiency.
Hybrid quantum-neural network beats classical machine learning
Researchers combined boson sampling with neural networks, creating a new architecture for enhanced classification.
German funding boosts LMU’s quantum research on perovskite modules
LMU researchers are advancing perovskite solar cell technology, with support from german funding, to explore applications in quantum technology & beyond.
WarpSpeed Says its AI cuts quantum encryption cracking cost sharply
WarpSpeed’s AI achieved a 2.5x more efficient quantum circuit than Google’s for cracking ECDSA, significantly lowering the potential cost of breaking quantum encryption.
New benchmark, QuSquare, tests near-term quantum devices
Researchers unveiled QuSquare, a scalable quality-oriented benchmark suite for assessing pre-fault-tolerant quantum devices.
A*STAR’s quantum spinning rotor shows promise for precision sensors
A*STAR’s levitated, millimetre-scale rotor spun for over 10 hours, demonstrating commercial-grade gyroscope sensitivity.
Quantinuum’s most accurate quantum computer joins Oracle Cloud
Quantinuum and Oracle announced a multi-year strategic partnership to bring quantum computing to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Quantinuum’s most accurate commercial quantum computer, Helios, will be deployed in a US-based OCI AI data center as an OCI service, alongside OCI’s high-performance computing and GPU infrastructure.
Niklas Zennström to help PsiQuantum scale quantum computers
Niklas Zennström, Skype co-founder, joins the PsiQuantum Board of Directors to help scale the company’s work building useful quantum computers.
Chinese Chip built a 16-qubit state on a single chip
Hefei’s Guizhen Chip Technology & USTC achieved a 16-qubit GHZ state on a single chip, a record for on-chip multi-qubit entanglement.
Qubits reveal cause and effect with just measurements
Causal inference is now possible using only projective measurements on qubits, extending to two systems across time.
Boeing prize will honor early quantum researchers this December
Applications are open for the sixth cohort of Boeing Quantum Creators, a prize recognizing early-career researchers for work in quantum information science and engineering. The 2026 honorees will present their work at the Q2B x Chicago Quantum Summit, held December 8–10 at Marriott Marquis Chicago and McCormick Place.
Q-CTRL runs 100-qubit quantum algorithm on IBM hardware
Q-CTRL ran a Quantum Fourier Transform on IBM hardware, scaling to 100 qubits—the largest demonstrated to date.
Aeponyx tech lets Pasqal control four qubits on a chip
Pasqal’s use of Aeponyx technology now enables control of four qubits on a chip, a scalable approach for future 10,000+ atom quantum processors.
TuringQ files for IPO, a first for Chinese Quantum Computing
Chinese photonic quantum computing firm TuringQ entered IPO tutoring with the Shanghai branch of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, intensifying competition to become China's first listed quantum computing firm. The company plans an IPO with Guotai Haitong Securities as its sponsor, reflecting a shift toward commercialization and a broader rush by Chinese hard-tech companies to tap public markets.
Pasqal closer to merger and market entry
Pasqal’s Form F-4 was declared effective by the SEC, advancing its merger with Bleichroeder, and paving the way for expanded work—including materials science applications with partners like Los Alamos.
NIST sends ‘spooky’ quantum link from Gaithersburg to College Park
NIST sent entangled photons 62 kilometers, from its Gaithersburg campus to the University of Maryland in College Park, proving quantum states can survive real-world fiber.
D-Wave’s new qubit gate cuts error rates by a factor of ten
D-Wave’s new two-qubit entangling gate achieves 99.9% fidelity with 500-nanosecond gate times, reducing the challenges of quantum error correction and scaling.
IonQ and Sandia team up to build quantum computers for US security
IonQ and Sandia National Laboratories signed an MOU to co-design quantum technologies for U.S. national security, building on Sandia’s fabrication of ion traps for IonQ’s early computers.
IonQ says orders set 2030 deadline for post-quantum crypto migration
New executive orders define US quantum technology competition, setting 2030 & 2031 deadlines for federal agencies to transition to cryptography resilient against quantum computer attacks.
LG Engineers Design Quantum Tech Using a Quantum Computer
LG Electronics engineers are designing advanced quantum technologies with a quantum computer, detailed in a July 29, 2026, Quantum Science and Technology study.
Imperial College London And HSBC Uses Quantum Sampling for Asset Trading
Imperial College London & HSBC are exploring Gaussian Boson Sampling, a novel approach to asset clustering within statistical arbitrage portfolios.
Extensible Photonics Achieves Universal Quantum Gate Sets
Extensible universal photonic quantum computing with nonlinearity is demonstrated, and the research achieves universal quantum gate sets. Shang Yu, Jinzhao Sun, and Kuan-Cheng Chen are among the authors affiliated with institutions including Imperial College London and Queen Mary University of London.
Cleveland Clinic & IBM Quantum Advance Neoantigen Prediction With Q-CHIPP
Researchers at the Cleveland Clinic and IBM Quantum developed Q-CHIPP, a new quantum neural network for predicting neoantigens.
IBM Predicts Quantum Computing Will Impact Earnings by 2029
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna forecasts quantum computing will measurably impact earnings by 2029, potentially unlocking a $1 trillion market by the 2030s.
Exequantum Details AI’s Break of NIST Post-Quantum Candidate
Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview AI identified a weakness in HAWK, a lattice-based signature scheme—a NIST evaluation for future cryptography—leading to its withdrawal.
Photonic Chip Runs Grover’s Search With Four Qubits
Researchers demonstrated measurement-based quantum computing on an integrated silicon photonic chip, generating up to four qubits.
Rigetti Superconducting Bridges Track Qubit Temperature With Millikelvin Precision
Accurate knowledge of the on-chip temperature is essential for understanding and optimizing the performance of superconducting qubits, yet direct thermometry at millikelvin temperatures remains challenging. Researchers demonstrate a complementary on-chip thermometry method based on superconducting Dayem bridges integrated on the same chip as transmon qubits, obtaining a local, quantitative measure of the chip temperature from I-V measurements.
Photonic CMOS Chip Shows Superior Noise Tolerance to Superconducting Qubits
A quantum photonic processor built with standard CMOS-compatible processes demonstrates superior noise tolerance compared to superconducting qubits.
NVIDIA’s Quantum Calibration Model Works Across 6 Qubit Modalities
NVIDIA Ising Calibration 1.5, an open source vision language model, automates QPU calibration across 6 qubit modalities—superconducting, quantum dots & more.
Rabi Oscillations Let D-Wave System Probe System Energy Levels
Researchers are using a D-Wave quantum annealer and triangular-wave fields to induce Rabi oscillations, estimating energy gaps in quantum systems.
Log-Law Scaling of Entanglement Confirmed on Quantum Computer
The investigation of strongly-correlated quantum matter is difficult due to the curse of dimensionality and intricate entanglement structures, particularly near continuous quantum phase transitions. Researchers demonstrate log-law scaling of subsystem entanglement entropies at criticality on a digital quantum computer, using the multiscale entanglement renormalization ansatz (MERA) and a holographic scheme on a fully-connected trapped-ion quantum computer.
Quantinuum, NVIDIA Corporation, and Pfizer Inc Transformer Models Now Generate Quantum Circuits for Molecular Models
ADAPT-GQE, a generative AI using transformer models, synthesizes quantum circuits for molecular ground states—demonstrated on imipramine.
Alice & Bob’s Tiger Codes’ Logical Structure Shows Quantum Links to Chain Complex
This work rigorously analyzes tiger codes, a family of multimode bosonic quantum codes, revealing their underlying structure is governed by the homology of a chain complex.
Should Big Blue Break Up? Will IBM Spin Off Its Quantum Division?
IBM's historic 25 percent crash has forced the question Armonk has been avoiding. What is the quantum division actually for, and is it worth more outside the company than inside it?
VW and Porsche Researchers Explore The Merits Of Deep Parameterised Quantum Circuits
A central challenge in quantum machine learning is understanding the scaling behavior of parameterized quantum circuits, particularly how performance on unseen data changes as the number of trainable parameters increases. Researchers show that gradient-based parameterized quantum circuits can exhibit improved performance on unseen data as model size increases, displaying the phenomenon of double descent.
Neutral Atom Plan Targets 1000-Qubit Quantum Processor by 2032
Adrian J. Menssen, Tout Wang, Michael Gullans, Tom Manovitz, Jacob M. Taylor, Jason Cong, Josiah Sinclair, Ziv Aqua, Daniel J. Blumenthal, J. Pablo Bonilla Ataides, Johannes Borregaard, Antoine Browaeys, Paola Cappellaro, Soonwon Choi, Alexandre Cooper, Robin Côté, Jacob P. Covey, Alexandre Dauphin, Ivana Dimitrova, Matt Eichenfield, Dirk Englund, Jacob Freedman, Akihisa Goban, Brandon Grinkemeyer, Andi Gu, and Ruonan Han authored a strategic plan for neutral atom quantum computation, targeting a 1000-qubit quantum processor by 2032. The plan involves collaborations across institutions including Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, NIST/University of Maryland, and the Weizmann Institute of Science.
The UK Quantum Programme Risks Getting Lost In The Noise Of The DSIT Reshuffle
DSIT was abolished on 21 July and the statement announcing it never mentions quantum. The funded delivery bodies are insulated, but the Office for Quantum and its line to the prime minister are not, and that is how a national programme decoheres.
Coinbase Details Quantum-Resistant Security Steps
Coinbase is preparing for post-quantum cryptography, acknowledging current blockchain vulnerabilities, and has begun building a post-quantum version of its CoreKMS.
Saxon Q Unveils 128 Qubit NV Quantum Computer. Welcome SXQ128 System.
SAXON Q now offers the 128-qubit SXQ128, with the 512-qubit SXQ512 planned for Q2 2027—marking a key step in their system rollout.
QuEra’s 78-Site Graphene System Validates Quantum Thermodynamic Sampling
Neutral-atom quantum hardware is a promising platform for programmable many-body physics, and this work develops and validates a framework for extracting thermodynamic properties of materials using such hardware. As a test case, researchers consider nitrogen-doped graphene and map material energetics onto a Rydberg-atom Hamiltonian suitable for quantum annealing, utilizing a 78-site system with Monte Carlo sampling.
CQE-Led Bloch Hub Drives $55M Quantum Prairie Expansion
The CQE-led Bloch Quantum Tech Hub has raised $55 million to build a US quantum supply chain, following a US Economic Development Administration award. This positions the Illinois-Wisconsin-Indiana region to lead US quantum manufacturing, leveraging existing Midwest manufacturing capacity, talent, and industry base.
China Launches Zhongqi Wuliang At WAIC
At WAIC 2026, over 1,100 exhibitors showcased China’s tech advances, including Zhongqi Wuliang’s Qinghe No. 1—a neutral atom quantum computer designed for standard server racks.
QodeX Finds Quantum Models Mirror Linear Feature Bias
QodeX research reveals a single qubit mixed state model learns hyperellipsoids, unlike linear models’ hyperplanes, demonstrating distinct feature importance.
FrozenLGP Achieves 100% Graph Decomposition Up To 10,000 Vertices
Frozen Large Graph Partitioning (FrozenLGP) achieves 100% decomposition coverage up to 10,000 vertices, unlike standard methods.
Finite Tests Rule Out Discrete Alternatives to Quantum Theory
New research rules out noncontextual empirical models with probabilities from finite subsets, challenging certain discrete alternatives to quantum theory.
ETH Zurich Details Loss Mechanisms in High-Coherence Resonators
Loss mechanisms in high-coherence multimode mechanical resonators coupled to superconducting circuits are detailed, with research conducted at the Department of Physics, ETH Zurich, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland and the Quantum Center, ETH Zurich, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland. Raquel Garcia-Belles and Alexander Anferov contributed equally to this work.
Trump Administration Attracts $100B More From TSMC for Chips
TSMC is increasing its U.S. investment by $100 billion, bringing the total to $265 billion, following deals with the Trump administration.
Binary Gauss Stabilizers Simplify Quantum Error Correction Without Extra Qubits
Gauge theories and quantum error-correcting codes share a common structure, both utilizing constraints to define a subspace of the Hilbert space—stabilizers in error correction, and Gauss law in gauge theories. This work introduces binary Gauss stabilizers, an alternative to Gauss operators, to build practical error-correcting codes without adding extra qubits.
How Yokohama National University Maps Grover Walk Robustness
Yokohama National University researchers study the effect of magnetic vector potentials on periodic Grover walks on finite graphs, regarding the vector potential as a perturbation of a periodic Grover walk and investigating the robustness of its periodicity. Analysis reveals the response to perturbations depends on the spectral structure of the underlying graph, with a Hermitian matrix characterizing robustness when the graph possesses at least one non-simple eigenvalue.
Equal1 Collaboration Brings Scalable Quantum Computing to ESA
ESA installed its first quantum computer, Bell-1, thanks to an equal1 collaboration, to accelerate Earth observation data processing.
Ground State Ventures Leads Arq Quantum’s $1.4M Pre-Seed Round
Ground State Ventures led Arq Quantum Technologies’ $1.4M pre-seed round. Co-founders Samuele Grandi and Emanuele Distante are building the foundations for the quantum internet, starting with a quantum repeater that connects reliably across long distances.
Quantinuum’s 54-Qubit Chip Braids & Fuses Anyons for Gates
Published in Nature, researchers at Quantinuum demonstrated universal gates using a 54-qubit processor, braiding and fusing anyons to manipulate quantum information.
Harvard Engineers Shield Qubits With All-Mechanical Coherence
Harvard engineers demonstrated all-mechanical coherence protection for a spin qubit, extending its stability by a factor of 10.
How QSCOUT Achieves All-to-All Connectivity With Yb-171 Ion Chains
QSCOUT, a trapped-ion quantum processor, uses a linear chain of Yb-171 ions for all-to-all qubit connectivity.
Magic Gate Teleportation Simplifies Feedforward for Quantum Computing
Quantum gate teleportation is a technique for implementing logical gates in fault-tolerant quantum computation, and this work develops a theory of protocols—called magic gate teleportation—that implement non-Clifford gates on input states without revealing information about them. These protocols encode the input state into a stabilizer code, followed by a logical non-Clifford gate, offering a new understanding of resource states for quantum computing.
NVIDIA QEC Ising Decoding Cuts Color Code Errors Over 347x
NVIDIA Ising Decoding has achieved a greater than 347x improvement in logical error rate and 7.3x faster runtime compared to Chromobius for d=31, suggesting color codes are a viable option for practical, fault-tolerant quantum computation. This decoding pipeline utilizes 3D convolutional neural networks to enable scalable and accurate real-time decoding for quantum processor units.
Quantum Programs Verified With New Runtime Analysis Framework
Researchers at RWTH Aachen University introduced a new framework for analyzing preconditions of quantum programs, enabling verification without runtime upper bounds.
25× Throughput Gain From IBM Quantum’s New Reset Design
IBM Quantum’s new qubit reset design achieves 25x faster performance, a critical step for quantum error correction.
IBM-UChicago Collaboration Achieves Accurate Molecular Insights With LASSQD
LASSQD, a new method from researchers at the University of Chicago and IBM, uses hybrid classical/quantum computing for molecular insights.
QuiX Quantum Deploys First Universal Photonic Quantum Architecture
QuiX Quantum announced Carina, a universal photonic quantum computing architecture for deployment in standard data centers.
Qiskit v2.5 Release Enables Multi-Representation Compilation Workflows and New Name IBM Quantum Compute Service
Qiskit v2.5 introduces a new compiler framework enabling workflows with staged lowering between representations like Clifford+T, and Pauli-based computation.
14 Jul 2026: Imec and Diraq Fabricate First 8-Qubit Silicon
Imec & Diraq achieved coherent operation of an eight-qubit array using silicon MOS spin qubits, fabricated via a 300mm CMOS process.
Jane Goodall Institute Launch First Quantum Ecology Research Program
The Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) and FormationQ announced a two-year research program, applying quantum computing to study the roots of peaceful coexistence versus violence in chimpanzees and bonobos.
MIT and Caltech Researchers Create Single Ion Achieving Quantum Error Correction (QEC)
Researchers achieved up to 2.2x improvement in qubit stability using quantum error correction (QEC) on a single atomic ion, a step toward lowering the overhead of QEC.
£38.6B UKRI Plan Funds 20,000 Researchers Through 2031
UK Research and Innovation’s new five-year strategy will support 20,000+ researchers with a £38.6 billion government investment, driving future tech & economic growth.
AI Designed Peptides Emerge From Hybrid Quantum-Classical Design
Identifying allele-specific peptides for immunotherapies is difficult, but a new approach using Hybrid quantum-classical methods generated diverse candidates.
Q-PLANET Launches with 28 European Partners and €50M Budget
The official kick-off of Q-PLANET, a €50 million European pilot line coordinated by Pasqal, aims to industrialize neutral atom quantum chips.
Hybrid Quantum and Classical Workload Management with Graph-based Scheduling
Fluence, a Kubernetes plugin using the Fluxion graph-based scheduler, cuts AWS quantum device costs by 70×.
Quantum Reservoir Expressivity Confirmed on IBM Hardware via ORS Score
Quantum reservoirs present a hardware-friendly approach to quantum machine learning by utilizing fixed random dynamics and classical readout, rather than trainable circuits. Evaluating performance relies on reservoir selection, and this work introduces a scalable framework—based on order-statistics expressivity and effective rank—to diagnose these systems.
University of Basel Proposes New Superconducting Qubit Design
Researchers at the University of Basel propose a new superconducting qubit design, singlet-triplet qubits, which integrate quantum dots with Josephson junctions and do not require spin-orbit interaction. This design combines the benefits of spin-based quantum computing and circuit quantum electrodynamics, potentially broadening material options and simplifying control with minimal overhead.
Peking University Quantum Chip Computes Spectroscopy for Open Quantum Systems
Peking University researchers demonstrated a new method for generalised quantum computational spectroscopy on a quantum chip, expanding analysis to open quantum systems.
Università degli Studi di Milano Simulates Dynamics With Wavepackets
Researchers at Università degli Studi di Milano developed two semiclassical methods, using wavepackets, to model non-adiabatic molecular dynamics.
National Quantum Strategy Mission 1: UK Funds Hybrid Quantum Algorithms for 1 Trillion Operations
UK funding supports projects developing scalable, resource-efficient computation via approaches like Hybrid Algorithms for Quantum Advantage.
Researchers Link Chip Qubits & Quantum Memory
NRC Canada linked chip-integrated quantum-dot single photons with an erbium-doped fiber quantum memory at 980 nm, advancing scalable quantum networks.
Quantum Zeitgeist weekly digest, 12 July 2026
Welcome to this week’s quantum technology digest. We’ve assembled the top ten stories demonstrating rapid progress across multiple areas of quantum development, from hardware advancements to software applications and growing commercial adoption.
Preparing States on Quantinuum Hardware
Researchers used Quantinuum hardware & a circuit of 640 gates to prepare thermal states, achieving 0.166 entropy per site.
Physicists Contrast Quantum Sensors For Materials Science
Advancements in chemistry and materials science require improved analytical tools to overcome limitations in sensitivity, resolution, and throughput. This review explores optically pumped magnetometers (OPMs) and nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers as potential platforms for molecular and materials analysis, contrasting their magnetic sensitivity and resolution capabilities.
Researchers have demonstrated a complete, multi-stage attack against a quantum neural network
Researchers successfully executed a complete, multi-stage attack on a Quantum Neural Network running on trapped-ion hardware, demonstrating.
Researchers, including John Preskill, Explore Five Keys to Verifiable Quantum Advantage
Identifying when quantum physics truly outperforms classical physics is a central challenge in quantum technology, despite the promise of capabilities like computational speedups and measurement precision. Researchers from Caltech and MIT are examining key properties to define and navigate the pursuit of verifiable quantum advantages across multiple areas of application.
New Plaquette Framework for Benchmarking Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computers
Plaquette, a new framework, computes logical performance for fault-tolerant quantum computers directly from hardware imperfections.
The University of Manchester’s Physics-Informed Scoring Accelerates 2D Material Discovery
Researchers at The University of Manchester have created a new machine-learning method to accelerate the discovery of two-dimensional materials with potentially unusual quantum properties. The approach uses physics-informed scoring to identify materials likely to exhibit “flat bands,” a characteristic linked to phenomena like superconductivity and magnetism.
Xanadu’s U.S. Workforce Grew 5× Since 2023
Xanadu Quantum Technologies has expanded U.S. operations, with its workforce growing more than 5x since 2023.
Tiny Vibrations Expand Quantum Memory, ETH Zurich Researchers Find
ETH Zurich physicists are using mechanical vibrations, or “vibrating memory,” to boost quantum storage capacity—a new approach combining resonators.
QUDORA and QAI to Deploy Ion-Trap Quantum Computer in Korea
QUDORA and QAI have partnered to deploy QUDORA’s ion-trap quantum computer in Korea, with plans to integrate it into an AI data center. This collaboration aims to advance hybrid AI-quantum computing and foster quantum technology development between Europe and Asia.
RISC-V Vector Engine Addresses 128 Qubits With One Instruction
Xiaorang Guo and Kun Qin detail a vectorized quantum control architecture built on the RISC-V Vector engine, addressing 128 qubits with a single instruction and restoring pipeline execution within 80 nanoseconds after a mid-circuit measurement. The design was evaluated with compiler toolchains and FPGA prototypes.
Diraq Silicon Qubits Reach Eight-Qubit Scale On imec 300mm Line
Diraq operates a full eight-qubit array of silicon spin qubits built on imec's standard 300mm CMOS line, published in Nature. Performance held up as the array scaled from two to eight qubits.
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light: Researchers Use AI to Design Improved Quantum Error Correction Codes
Reducing the cost of a logical qubit to one-tenth that of current surface codes, a new method automates the discovery of quantum error correction designs. This breakthrough utilises large language models to evolve algebraic structures, generating competitive low-density parity-check code families previously inaccessible to conventional methods. The approach extends beyond established designs, successfully constructing codes based on non-abelian groups.
Control strategy cuts time to precise quantum readings
New control strategy cuts time needed for highly accurate quantum metrology, achieving optimal performance in just a few iterations.
Superconducting qubits hit 99.9% accuracy with new control pulses
Researchers achieved 99.9% accuracy with single-qubit gates on superconducting qubits, using new energy-optimal control pulses.
Quantum Design gives UCLA lab access to a ProteoxS fridge
Quantum Design is collaborating with UCLA’s Professor Chee Wei Wong on superconducting qubit tech, providing access to a ProteoxS dilution refrigerator at its lab.
Dhanashree Boopathy joins SemiQon
After completing her PhD at Aalto University, Dhanashree Boopathy has joined SemiQon, drawn by a role aligning with her IC design expertise.
A new quantum thermometer hits both precision limits at once
Researchers achieved Heisenberg-limited precision in equilibrium quantum thermometry, simultaneously saturating the Landau bound at low temperatures.
Quantum algorithm speeds up optimisation at a key transition point
This research details how a quantum algorithm can accelerate optimisation, specifically by leveraging many-body localisation transitions during reverse quantum annealing.
QSolid Shows Quantum Tech Advances for German Industry
Germany’s QSolid consortium, a €75 million project, demonstrates advances in quantum technology with tested prototypes and cloud access.
Quantum algorithm finds states of systems driven by periodic forces
Researchers developed Floquet-ADAPT-VQE, a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm, to determine Floquet eigenstates—the states of periodically driven quantum systems.
QuantumGenie links PHP hack to post-quantum readiness
The October 2026 PHP vulnerability highlights the need to map dependencies—critical for both urgent fixes and future cryptographic discovery, including migration to post-quantum cryptography.
Mitacs funding helps Ericsson and ÉTS build quantum skills
Ericsson Canada & ÉTS are advancing quantum computing in Quebec, aided by Mitacs Accelerate.
QKD faces maturity and security hurdles, say France, Germany and Sweden
Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) isn’t yet sufficiently mature for most uses, according to a joint report by agencies like ANSSI and BSI.
Google Quantum AI launches contest to shrink quantum circuits with AI
Google Quantum AI is hosting a Kaggle competition, challenging participants to use AI to compress quantum circuits—reducing qubit & gate counts.
Who Are the Godfathers of AI? Hinton, Bengio and LeCun Explained
Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio and Yann LeCun shared the 2018 Turing Award for deep learning. What each built, how they met, and why they now split on AI risk.
Chinese Academy of Sciences team hits 18.8% efficiency on large-area solar cells
Organic solar cells (OSCs) offer solution processability, mechanical flexibility, and low-cost fabrication, making them candidates for next-generation photovoltaics. Researchers at the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) developed a molecular locking strategy, achieving a record active-area power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 18.8% on large-area modules with an aperture area of 15.6 cm 2.
Imperfect detectors still help qubits stay entangled longer
The researchers investigate the role of continuous measurement and postselection in the dynamics and entanglement of a transmon-cavity-transmon coupled system, demonstrating that postselection significantly slows down the decay of entanglement compared to the unmonitored case. In the dispersive regime, the two transmons interact via virtual excitation of the cavity, giving rise to an effective transmon-transmon coupling.