Chemically Accurate Molecular Simulations Demonstrated on IQM Sirius Hardware
Researchers from India, Singapore and the USA used IQM's 24‑qubit Sirius superconducting processor to achieve chemically accurate molecular simulations via Sample‑based Quantum Diagonalization (SQD). The study compared two ansätze—Local Unitary Cluster Jastrow (LUCJ) and Linear‑CNOT Unitary Coupled‑Cluster (LCNot‑UCCSD)—showing LUCJ’s shallow circuits delivered high precision while LCNot‑UCCSD struggled with deeper circuits on larger molecules. Full two‑dimensional potential energy surfaces for water matched exact classical results, and a hybrid SQD‑DMET approach enabled simulations of drug‑like molecules such as amantadine. These results validate superconducting hardware as a viable accelerator within quantum‑centric high‑performance computing workflows.
European Consortium Launches €50 Million SPINS Pilot Line to Industrialize Semiconductor Quantum Chips
The European Union’s Chips Act has funded a €50 million (≈$55 million) SPINS pilot line to industrialise semiconductor‑based spin‑qubit chips. Led by imec and backed by 25 partners—including Infineon, STMicroelectronics and Fraunhofer IPMS—the initiative creates a 300 mm CMOS pathway for Si/SiGe, Ge/GeSi and...
SDT and IonQ Expand Strategic Cooperation via Resource Utilization Agreement
South Korean quantum‑tech firm SDT Inc. has signed a resource utilization agreement with U.S. quantum‑computing leader IonQ, embedding IonQ’s trapped‑ion hardware into SDT’s hybrid cloud platform QuREKA. The deal transforms QuREKA from a connectivity gateway into an execution‑focused environment where...
C12 Unveils Roadmap to Utility-Scale Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing by 2033
French startup C12 released a decade‑long roadmap to build a utility‑scale, fault‑tolerant quantum computer by 2033. The plan hinges on purified carbon‑12 nanotube spin qubits, promising unprecedented noise isolation and low power per qubit. Four generational milestones—Aidōs (2027), Zélos (2030),...
Alice & Bob Completes Accelerated Hiring of 100 Employees Amid Global Tech Slowdown
Alice & Bob announced it has completed an accelerated hiring drive, adding over 100 employees in seven months and bringing its headcount to 251. The recruitment hit its target 30% faster than the June 2026 schedule, despite a French labor market 30%...
Voyager and IBM Demonstrate Post-Quantum Security on the International Space Station
Voyager Space and IBM have demonstrated a post‑quantum secured link between Earth and the International Space Station using Voyager’s Space Edge™ micro‑datacenter and IBM’s Quantum Safe Remediator. The system upgrades legacy encryption through a software proxy that translates to NIST‑standardized...
IonQ and University of Maryland Expand QLab Partnership to Advance Quantum Networking
IonQ and the University of Maryland have expanded their QLab partnership with a $7.5 million multi‑year agreement. The deal adds IonQ’s first silicon‑vacancy quantum memory node, more compute time on trapped‑ion systems, and joint research on quantum machine learning and error‑correcting...
Podcast with Matt Kinsella, CEO of Infleqtion
Infleqtion, a Boulder‑based quantum technologies firm, leverages neutral‑atom platforms to sell both quantum sensors and emerging quantum computers. CEO Matt Kinsella says the company’s diversified product line—clocks, RF and inertial sensors—generates near‑term cash while the computing roadmap aims for 100...
QAI Ventures and QCentroid Partner to Accelerate Industrial Quantum Adoption
QAI Ventures has teamed with portfolio company QCentroid to embed the Quantum Ops platform across its Global Industry Clusters. The partnership introduces a three‑tier engagement model—sandbox environments, a readiness roadmap, and end‑to‑end proof‑of‑concept delivery—to move enterprises from curiosity to validated...
QuantrolOx and RAQS Quantum Partner to Scale Automation and Workforce Development in Asia Pacific
QuantrolOx and Singapore‑based RAQS Quantum announced a partnership to bring the Quantum EDGE automation platform and Quantum EDGE Academy to the Asia Pacific region. The collaboration, unveiled at GITEX Asia 2026, aims to replace manual calibration of quantum hardware with automated workflows, targeting research labs,...
Q-CTRL Proposes Heterogeneous Architecture to Optimize Fault-Tolerant Resource Requirements
Q‑CTRL unveiled Q‑NEXUS, a heterogeneous quantum‑computing architecture that separates logic, memory and state‑generation into specialized modules. By offloading idle qubits to high‑density storage, the design cuts physical‑qubit requirements for fault‑tolerant tasks by up to 138× and reduces logical error rates...
Qoro Quantum Secures $750,000 Pre-Seed to Orchestrate Hybrid Networks
London‑based deep‑tech startup Qoro Quantum announced a $750,000 pre‑seed round led by Ada Ventures, with participation from Superangels Venture Fund and the Polsky Center. The company’s platform provides a unified orchestration layer that condenses roughly 150,000 lines of integration code...
Infleqtion and NASA Deploy Upgraded Quantum Hardware to International Space Station
Infleqtion, in partnership with NASA’s JPL, delivered an upgraded physics package to the International Space Station aboard the Northrop Grumman‑24 cargo flight. The new hardware enhances the Cold Atom Laboratory’s ability to generate record‑large atom clouds and reach ultracold temperatures in...
Riverlane Demonstrates Real-Time QEC Latency Performance Advancements
Riverlane unveiled its second‑generation Deltaflow 2 quantum error‑correction system, reporting a mean real‑time decoding latency of 16.32 µs—about four times lower than Google’s 2024 Willow benchmark. The platform also achieved a maximum sub‑shot latency tenfold better than prior records, edging toward the...
Postquant Labs Launches Quip.Network Testnet for Decentralized Quantum-Classical Optimization
Postquant Labs has launched the public Quip.Network testnet, attracting over 13,000 early sign‑ups. The platform combines a Compute Layer that markets quantum and classical processing power with an Asset Layer that adds post‑quantum security to existing blockchains. It leverages D‑Wave...
SpinQ Technology Secures 1 Billion CNY ($145.3M USD) Series C Funding to Expand Superconducting and NMR Hardware Lines
SpinQ Technology announced a Series C+ financing round that brings total Series C funding to roughly $145 million, earmarked for scaling superconducting and NMR quantum hardware. The company reported an 80% year‑over‑year jump in order volume, with superconducting products now representing...
CavilinQ Secures $8.8M Seed Round to Develop Modular Quantum Interconnects
CavilinQ, a Cambridge‑based hardware startup, closed an $8.8 million seed round led by QVT with participation from several venture partners. The financing will fund a new laboratory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and expand the engineering team to build production‑ready modular quantum interconnect...
Podcast with Tom Darras, CEO and Co-Founder, Welinq
Welinq, led by CEO Tom Darras, is building a full‑stack quantum networking solution that interconnects quantum processors across data centres. The offering spans qubit‑photon interfaces, optical‑network hardware, high‑efficiency quantum memories, and the AraQne compiler that partitions algorithms across heterogeneous QPUs....
QuantX Labs Launches Optical Frequency Comb for Orbital Clock Demonstration
QuantX Labs has placed an optical frequency comb into orbit aboard Exotrail’s spacevan™ on a SpaceX launch, marking the first in‑space test of the core subsystem for its TEMPO.Space optical atomic clock. The demonstration, part of Australia’s KAIROS program, will...
Toshiba and LQUOM Collaborate on Long-Distance Quantum Repeater Research
Toshiba Corporation and LQUOM Inc. have launched a 12‑month joint research program to explore quantum repeater technology that could extend the range of Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) beyond today’s fiber‑optic limits. The effort, running from March 2026 to March 2027, will evaluate...
Open Quantum Design, Western Digital, and QuScript Form Open-Source Error Correction Working Group
Open Quantum Design, Western Digital, and QuScript have formed an open‑source Error‑Correction Working Group to build a full‑stack quantum computer prototype. The collaboration will integrate trapped‑ion hardware, decoder technology, and specialized algorithms to demonstrate quantum error correction (QEC) and create...
Open Quantum Design Launches Open-Source Hardware Repository for Trapped-Ion Quantum Computing
Open Quantum Design (OQD) has published an open‑source hardware repository on GitHub that contains detailed designs for its Blade Trap Assembly and Optical Circuit Boards, the core components of its trapped‑ion quantum computers. The release extends OQD’s open‑source strategy from...
IBM Quantum Processor Successfully Simulates Magnetic Material Dynamics
Researchers from the DOE Quantum Science Center and IBM used IBM's 50‑qubit Heron quantum processor to simulate the magnetic crystal KCuF₃. The quantum‑derived dynamical structure factors matched neutron‑scattering measurements from Oak Ridge and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, proving quantitative accuracy....
Cleveland Clinic and IBM Implement Quantum Workflow for Protein Simulation
Cleveland Clinic and IBM have demonstrated the first quantum‑centric supercomputing workflow that simulates a protein’s electronic structure. The team modeled the 303‑atom miniprotein Trp‑cage on an IBM Quantum Heron r2 processor linked to classical high‑performance computing. By using wave‑function‑based embedding to split...
Silent Waves Launches Zephyr, a Traveling Wave Parametric Amplifier for Scaling Quantum Architectures
Silent Waves introduced Zephyr, a traveling‑wave parametric amplifier that integrates the microwave pump coupler onto the chip, eliminating bulky external directional couplers in dilution refrigerators. The design targets the spatial constraints of scaling quantum processors, enabling higher multiplexing—potentially up to...
Atom Computing and Cisco Establish Collaboration for Distributed Quantum Architectures
Atom Computing and Cisco have signed an MOU to explore integrating neutral‑atom quantum processors into distributed quantum architectures. The partnership will combine Cisco’s quantum networking protocols and a network‑aware compiler with Atom’s 1,000‑qubit neutral‑atom platform, aiming to create a fault‑tolerant,...
QpiAI Implements High-Speed Hardware Decoder for 64-Qubit Kaveri Processor
QpiAI unveiled a custom hardware quantum error correction decoder for its 64‑qubit Kaveri superconducting processor. The decoder employs a union‑find algorithm to implement a distance‑5 rotated surface code, requiring 49 physical qubits to encode a single logical qubit. It achieves...
QpiAI and Alliance University Establish AU QUASAR Experience Center in Bengaluru
QpiAI and Alliance University have launched the AU QUASAR Experience Center at Alliance’s Electronic City campus in Bengaluru. The center houses QpiAI’s 8‑qubit superconducting QVidya quantum processor and the Explorer software, delivering on‑site quantum computing as a service. It aims to...
Every Quantum Strategy Needs Solid Data Behind It
The article stresses that quantum‑focused strategies must be anchored in comprehensive, up‑to‑date data rather than intuition. It highlights the risks of “guess‑work” approaches, such as missed market shifts, supply‑chain shortages, and potential "quantum winter" during economic downturns. Global Quantum Intelligence...
Dell Technologies Integrates Quantum-Ready Security and AI Resilience Across Portfolio
Dell Technologies announced a portfolio‑wide security upgrade that embeds quantum‑resistant cryptography into firmware and BIOS across its commercial PCs and data‑center products. The company also introduced AI‑driven recovery tools in its PowerProtect line, delivering up to twice the backup speed...
QuSecure Deployment Cited as Real-World Precedent in SEC Post-Quantum Framework
The SEC’s Post‑Quantum Financial Infrastructure Framework (PQFIF) has highlighted the four‑month deployment of QuSecure’s QuProtect platform at Banco Sabadell, executed with Accenture, as the first real‑world implementation precedent for post‑quantum cryptography in banking. The case study demonstrates that large financial...
Conductor Quantum Launches CODA MCP to Integrate Quantum Tools with AI Agents
Conductor Quantum unveiled CODA MCP, a Model Context Protocol server that lets AI agents such as Claude Desktop and VS Code treat quantum computers as native tools. The platform aggregates access to more than 1,000 qubits across IBM, AQT, IQM,...
TUMCREATE to Develop Open-Source RISC-V Processor with Integrated Post-Quantum Security
TUMCREATE, the research arm of Technical University of Munich, will lead the QUASAR‑CREATE program to build an open‑source 64‑bit RISC‑V processor with built‑in post‑quantum cryptographic (PQC) accelerators. The processor will be fabricated on GlobalFoundries’ 180‑nm node in Singapore and feature...
IBM Offers Special Promotion to Open Plan Users
IBM announced a one‑time promotion for its Open Plan quantum‑cloud users, granting 180 minutes of free runtime over the next 12 months. Eligibility is limited to users who have consumed at least 20 minutes in the prior year, and the...
Xanadu to List on Nasdaq and TSX Following Shareholder Merger Approval
Crane Harbor Acquisition Corp. shareholders approved a business combination with Xanadu Quantum Technologies, set to close on March 26, 2026. The merged entity, Xanadu Quantum Technologies Limited, will debut on Nasdaq and the Toronto Stock Exchange on March 27, 2026 under ticker XNDU, becoming...
Who’s News: Strategic Appointments at Zapata Quantum, IonQ, Photonic Inc., Infleqtion, and QuiX Quantum
Quantum‑technology firms announced a wave of senior appointments aimed at accelerating commercial adoption and global expansion. Zapata Quantum created a Growth Advisory Board with three industry veterans to steer enterprise quantum strategy. IonQ hired James L. Hayes to lead global...
Qilimanjaro Announces SpeQtrum QaaS for Tri-Modal Quantum Computing
Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech unveiled SpeQtrum QaaS, a cloud‑based platform that grants remote access to a Barcelona data centre housing digital QPUs, analog fluxonium QPUs, and classical HPC accelerators. The tri‑modal architecture blends digital gate‑based processing with continuous‑dynamics analog computation to...
Alice & Bob Reduces Quantum Error Correction Decoding Time via NVIDIA CUDA-Q Integration
Alice & Bob announced a 9.25× speedup in quantum error‑correction decoding by moving simulations from a 16‑core AMD Ryzen CPU to an NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper GPU using the CUDA‑Q platform. The runtime for 100,000 syndrome‑decoding shots fell from 18 hours 2 minutes...
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Announces “Genesis Mission” Which Includes a Goal to Accelerate Quantum Advantage via AI
The U.S. Department of Energy launched the Genesis Mission, a $293.76 million initiative spanning thirty challenge areas to fuse artificial intelligence with quantum information science. Challenges 7 and 8 specifically aim to use AI to discover provable quantum‑advantage algorithms and to enhance the...
Technology Innovation Institute Integrates Quantum Cloud with NVIDIA CUDA-Q and Scales Annealing Simulations
The Technology Innovation Institute (TII) has linked its Quantum Computing Cloud Platform with NVIDIA’s CUDA‑Q environment, giving researchers worldwide direct access to TII’s quantum processors and simulators via a unified Python or C++ interface. The integration delivers a “write‑once, run‑anywhere”...
Pasqal and Kipu Quantum Demonstrate Analog Counterdiabatic Optimization on 100 Qubits
Pasqal and Kipu Quantum have experimentally realized Analog Counterdiabatic Quantum Computing (ACQC) on neutral‑atom platforms, scaling the protocol to 100 qubits to solve the Maximum Independent Set (MIS) problem. By analytically deriving counterdiabatic corrections for Rabi frequency, detuning and phase,...
Quantinuum Implements High-Rate Iceberg Codes on Helios Processor
Quantinuum deployed high‑rate iceberg quantum error‑detecting and concatenated error‑correcting codes on its 98‑qubit Helios trapped‑ion processor. The implementation produced 94 logical qubits for error detection and 48 logical qubits for full error correction, achieving a near 2:1 physical‑to‑logical ratio for correction...
UCSB’s Eddleman Quantum Institute Awards Funding for Superconductivity and Spacetime Modeling
The Eddleman Quantum Institute at UC Santa Barbara announced a new funding round backed by a $64.7 million trust from the late Roy Eddleman. Eight faculty‑led projects, spanning quantum sensing, superconducting materials, and curved‑spacetime modeling, received seed money and support for...
Shor, QLDPC Codes, and the Compression of RSA Resource Estimates (Part II)
The latest "Pinnacle Architecture" analysis shows that factoring RSA keys may require only about 100,000 physical qubits, dramatically lowering the hardware threshold for a cryptographically relevant quantum computer. While the quantum breakthrough narrows the theoretical gap, many critical‑infrastructure systems still...
Quantum Computing Inc. And Ciena Partner for Quantum-Secured Optical Networking at OFC 2026
Quantum Computing Inc. and Ciena unveiled a live demonstration at OFC 2026 of a quantum‑secured optical networking architecture that combines Quantum Key Distribution, Quantum Identity Authentication, and NIST‑certified post‑quantum cryptography. The system runs on Ciena’s Waveserver platform, delivering up to 1.6 Tb/s...
Qrypt Extends Quantum-Secure Encryption to NVIDIA Jetson Platforms
Qrypt has integrated its BLAST quantum‑secure encryption protocol and quantum‑entropy key generation into NVIDIA’s Jetson edge AI platforms, supporting the Orin Nano and Jetson Thor modules. The solution creates identical encryption keys at each endpoint without transmitting them, eliminating the “harvest‑now‑decrypt‑later” risk...
SEALSQ and Parrot Expand Partnership to Secure Drones with PQC
SEALSQ Corp and Parrot SA are expanding their partnership to embed post‑quantum cryptography (PQC) into Parrot’s next‑generation professional drones. The collaboration will integrate NIST‑approved CRYSTALS‑Kyber and CRYSTALS‑Dilithium algorithms at the semiconductor level, building on existing SEALSQ secure elements in the...
Institut Quantique Joins Qblox Excellence Center Program to Advance Distributed Quantum Computing
The Institut quantique at Université de Sherbrooke has become a Qblox Excellence Center, integrating Qblox’s modular control electronics into its Quantum FabLab. The partnership targets distributed heterogeneous quantum computing, aiming to build scalable, fault‑tolerant architectures across superconducting, spin and hybrid...
QphoX Launches Quantum Transducer for Distributed Long-Distance Networking
QphoX has released a commercial Quantum Transducer that converts microwave‑based qubit states into optical photons for transmission over standard fiber at room temperature. The device leverages photonic integration, MEMS and superconducting nanofabrication to achieve high‑fidelity, low‑noise state conversion. IBM will...
IBM, Signal, and Threema Partner to Fortify Messaging Against Quantum Threats
IBM researchers have teamed up with Signal and Threema to embed post‑quantum cryptography into their messaging platforms. The partnership pivots from classical elliptic‑curve schemes to NIST‑2024 PQC standards, tackling both content and metadata protection. IBM proposes a decentralized gatekeeper model...