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Deals•Feb 27, 2026
Quantum eMotion Corp. Acquires SKV Technology Inc., Securing SecureKey Platform
Quantum eMotion Corp. announced it will acquire all shares of SKV Technology Inc., gaining control of the SecureKey platform. The acquisition includes milestone‑based earn‑out payments up to C$7 million and potential royalties up to $15 million, with closing expected around March 2 2026. The deal expands QeM’s quantum‑resilient cybersecurity offerings.
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Deals•Feb 23, 2026
Reliance Global Group Acquires Enquantum Ltd. To Build Post‑Quantum Encryption Platform
Reliance Global Group announced the acquisition of Enquantum Ltd., a quantum‑resilient encryption firm, as the first platform deal under its Scale51 operating model. The transaction gives Reliance majority control (up to 51%) and aims to develop Enquantum into a core...
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Deals•Feb 20, 2026
Photonic Inc. Secures $180M CAD Investment, Appoints New Executive Chair and Directors
Photonic Inc., a quantum photonics company, announced a $180 million CAD investment from a group of investors, prompting the appointment of a new executive chair and board directors. The funding will accelerate product development and expand market presence, marking a...
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Deals•Feb 20, 2026
Welinq and Pasqal Secure €4M France 2030 Funding for Networked Quantum Computing
Welinq and Pasqal announced they have secured €4 million in funding from the French government's France 2030 program to develop networked quantum computing technologies. The funding will support the companies' efforts to advance quantum hardware and software solutions.
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Deals•Feb 14, 2026
Iceberg Quantum Raises $6M Seed Round Led by LocalGlobe
Sydney‑based quantum computing startup Iceberg Quantum announced a $6 million seed round to accelerate its fault‑tolerant Pinnacle architecture. The round was led by LocalGlobe with participation from Blackbird and DCVC. The funding will support development of the architecture that could dramatically...
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News•Feb 9, 2026
Leclercq American Capital Backs SandboxAQ’s Quantum-AI Platform for Cybersecurity & Advanced Simulation
Leclercq American Capital announced an equity investment in SandboxAQ, a quantum‑AI platform that blends artificial intelligence with emerging quantum technologies. SandboxAQ’s B2B suite focuses on post‑quantum cybersecurity, advanced simulation, and next‑generation sensing, aiming to protect critical infrastructure and accelerate research...
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News•Feb 9, 2026
Infleqtion Advances $6.2M ARPA-E Quantum Grid Optimization Program
Infleqtion has begun executing a $6.2 million ARPA‑E contract under the ENCODE program to develop quantum computing solutions for energy‑grid optimization. The project, the first DOE initiative focused on quantum‑enhanced grid management, partners with Argonne National Laboratory, NREL, EPRI and ComEd....
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News•Feb 9, 2026
Quantum Computing Speed-Up Achieved with New State Preparation Technique
Researchers Giacomo Belli and Michele Amoretti introduced an algebraic reduction that separates real and imaginary components of a target quantum state, enabling each uniformly controlled gate to be implemented with a single operator. The method cuts circuit depth, total gate...
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News•Feb 9, 2026
Hundreds of Miniature Light Traps Built for Future Quantum Technologies
Stanford researchers unveiled a 600‑site cavity‑array microscope that achieves an average finesse of 114 ± 17 and single‑atom cooperativity exceeding ten. The platform hosts 603 individually controlled cavities, with 537 of them mutually degenerate within the readout‑optimized linewidth and a 140 µm field‑of‑view...
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News•Feb 9, 2026
Quantum Device Generates Perfect Coin Flips and Unhackable Random Numbers
Researchers at Fermilab and the SQMS Center have experimentally realized a quantum Bernoulli factory on a 72‑qubit superconducting processor. By using entanglement‑assisted Bell‑basis measurements, they generated an exact fair coin, the Bernoulli‑doubling primitive f(p)=2p, and the function f(p)=4p(1‑p) with constant...
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News•Feb 9, 2026
Quantum Networks Overcome Fragility to Synchronise Learning Across Distances
Researchers have introduced Consensus‑Entanglement‑Aware Scheduling (CEAS), a framework that jointly optimizes consensus protocols and entanglement allocation for distributed quantum neural networks. By weighting model updates with fidelity estimates and treating Bell pairs as a schedulable resource, CEAS achieves theoretical convergence...
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News•Feb 9, 2026
Interactions Weaken Precision of Electrical Current in Novel Hybrid Materials
Researchers Sobrino, Taddei, Fazio and colleagues analyzed Andreev‑mediated transport in normal‑superconducting quantum‑dot hybrids, showing that Coulomb interactions renormalize resonant conditions and suppress superconducting coherence. Their real‑time diagrammatic master‑equation approach revealed a marked reduction in current precision, even though average currents...
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News•Feb 9, 2026
Unhackable Random Number Generator Sidesteps Device Flaws for Ultimate Security
Researchers from Shanxi University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences have unveiled a semi‑device‑independent quantum random number generator (QRNG) that tolerates device imperfections while resisting general attacks. By imposing only an energy bound on emitted quantum states and applying the...
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News•Feb 9, 2026
Quantum Simulations Boosted by Technique Correcting Atomic ‘Jitter’ at the Nanoscale
Researchers introduced path‑integral generalized smoothed trajectory analysis (PIGSTA), a post‑processing framework that systematically incorporates nuclear quantum effects into molecular dynamics simulations. By convolving existing trajectories with analytically derived kernels, PIGSTA corrects discretization errors caused by limited bead numbers, achieving exact...
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News•Feb 9, 2026
Elusive Quantum State with Fractional Charge Finally Detected in Twisted Material
Researchers have reported the first optical detection of a –1/3 fractional quantum anomalous Hall (FQAH) state in twisted MoTe₂ bilayers. Using photoluminescence and reflective magnetic circular dichroism, they observed ferromagnetic order at filling factors ν = –1, –2/3 and –1/3, with Curie...
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News•Feb 9, 2026
Quantum Algorithms Now Optimise Swarm Behaviour for Complex Tasks Efficiently
Researchers at LSU introduced a quantum‑enhanced framework for dynamically designing communication topologies in linear multi‑agent systems. By reformulating the topology selection as a mixed‑integer quadratic program and solving the binary subproblem with a quantum imaginary‑time‑evolution (QITE) algorithm, the method achieves...
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News•Feb 9, 2026
Superconducting Material Revived by Pressure Could Unlock Lossless Power Transmission
Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have synthesized iron‑rich Fe₁.₁₁Se single crystals via a two‑step hydrothermal ion‑exchange and de‑intercalation method, achieving a superconducting onset temperature of 30.4 K—far above the 8.5 K of stoichiometric FeSe. The material contains 11 % interstitial Fe,...
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News•Feb 9, 2026
Sustained Quantum Signals Unlock New Insights Into Material Energy Flow
Researchers Chen and Davidović have shown that the long‑lived oscillatory signals in two‑dimensional electronic spectroscopy (2DES) arise from a correlation‑driven mechanism rather than intrinsic system properties. By modeling ultrafast pulse sequences with a time‑dependent Bloch‑Redfield approach that retains system‑bath correlations...
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News•Feb 9, 2026
Sub-Picosecond Electronic Switch Could Boost Future Superconductor Technology
Researchers from the University of Puerto Rico and the University of Wisconsin‑Madison introduced a fit‑free nematic response function model (NRFM) combined with a two‑temperature model to directly extract electronic thermalisation times in nematic iron‑based superconductors from polarization‑dependent pump‑probe data. The...
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News•Feb 9, 2026
Tantalum Quantum Bits Hampered by Infrared, Niobium Proves More Resilient
Researchers at ETH Zurich quantified infrared‑induced quasiparticle tunneling in niobium and tantalum superconducting transmons. Baseline tunneling rates were ~100 Hz for niobium but up to 2 kHz for tantalum, revealing a material‑specific vulnerability. Applying inline low‑pass filters and surrounding foam absorbers lowered...
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News•Feb 9, 2026
Entanglement’s Fleeting Dance Now Trackable with New Computational Techniques
Researchers Offen, Wembe, Ares and colleagues introduce new variational‑based numerical techniques to track entanglement in dynamic quantum systems. By applying linear splitting methods and comparing two discretisation strategies, they show that restricting the dynamics to separable states before discretising yields...
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News•Feb 9, 2026
Quantum Channel Transposition Now Possible with Just One Measurement, Research Confirms
Researchers at HKUST Guangzhou have mapped the physical realizability hierarchy of quantum channel transformations, showing that the transpose can be implemented exactly with a single query using a post‑selected teleportation protocol. In contrast, they prove that the complex conjugate and...
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News•Feb 9, 2026
Quantum Chaos Simulations Boosted by Algorithm with a Cubic Scaling Advantage
Researchers at HKUST‑Guangzhou introduced thermal‑drift sampling, a measurement‑based algorithm that prepares random thermal states together with their Hamiltonian labels. The method’s gate count scales cubically with qubit number, quadratically with inverse temperature, and with the two‑thirds power of error tolerance,...
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News•Feb 9, 2026
Silicon Breakthrough Unlocks Quantum Effects at Room Temperature for Efficient Electronics
Scientists have optically detected the quantum Hall effect in silicon nanostructures at room temperature, using electroluminescence spectra linked to dipole‑center chains. The study shows nondissipative single‑carrier transport enabled by negative‑U boron dipole chains, producing fractional quantum Hall signatures and terahertz...
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News•Feb 9, 2026
Quantum ‘Walls’ Halt Information Spread, Revealing New Rules for Causality
Researchers at UCL have introduced “wall” unitaries—tri‑partite gates that permanently halt the spread of local operators in time‑periodic quantum circuits. By showing that an embedded invariant sub‑algebra splits the operator space into commuting sub‑algebras, they construct local conserved quantities and...
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News•Feb 9, 2026
Photonic Quantum Computer Breaks Barriers to Universal, Scalable Computation
Researchers at Queen Mary and Imperial College unveiled Clavina, an extensible photonic quantum computer that fuses large‑scale linear optical networks with inline nonlinear modules such as squeezers and Kerr gates. The platform delivers a universal gate set, enabling quasi‑deterministic generation...
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News•Feb 9, 2026
New Technique Swiftly Predicts Stable States of Complex Quantum Systems
Scientists at ICFO have unveiled a relaxation‑based method that certifies steady states of dissipative quantum many‑body systems by optimizing reduced density matrices via semidefinite programming. The technique sidesteps the exponential cost of representing full density matrices, delivering rapid convergence of...
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News•Feb 9, 2026
Quantum Control Leap Simplifies Tasks From Machine Learning to Error Correction
Researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China and the University of Hong Kong have introduced a fully constructive protocol that compiles any Hermitian‑preserving trace‑preserving (HPTP) map into a single completely positive trace‑preserving (CPTP) operation followed by classical...
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News•Feb 9, 2026
Time Crystals Break the Rules of Repetition with a Novel, Persistent Rhythm
Researchers at Harish‑Chandra Research Institute have demonstrated time quasicrystals in a driven open Dicke model using a Fibonacci quasi‑periodic drive. The study shows that this non‑equilibrium phase appears even in minimal two‑qubit systems and that its lifetime increases monotonically with...
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News•Feb 9, 2026
MicroCloud Hologram (NASDAQ: HOLO) Advances Quantum Communication with Brownian State Breakthrough
MicroCloud Hologram Inc. announced a breakthrough quantum communication protocol that uses a novel Brownian‑state channel to transmit multi‑particle entangled GHZ and W states. The scheme leverages quantum Fourier transform for state‑projection measurement and standard quantum‑gate sequences, and has been validated...
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News•Feb 9, 2026
Amazon Web Services Supports Old Dominion University in Updating GAMESS for Global Research Community
Amazon Web Services, in partnership with Old Dominion University and Iowa State University, is modernizing the two‑million‑line GAMESS quantum chemistry code by delivering CPU‑ and GPU‑optimized containers on AWS HPC services. The containerized version standardizes environments, ensuring reproducible results for...
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Deals•Feb 9, 2026
Leclercq American Capital Invests in SandboxAQ’s Quantum‑AI Cybersecurity Platform
Leclercq American Capital LLC announced a new equity investment in SandboxAQ, a quantum‑AI platform delivering B2B solutions for post‑quantum cybersecurity, advanced simulation, and next‑generation sensing. The undisclosed funding underscores confidence in SandboxAQ’s technology for cryptographic resilience, finance, healthcare, and other...
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Deals•Feb 9, 2026
Reliance Global Group to Acquire 51% Controlling Stake in Enquantum Ltd. For $2.125M
Reliance Global Group announced a definitive agreement to acquire a 51% controlling interest in post‑quantum cybersecurity firm Enquantum Ltd. for $2.125 million, payable in tranches over ten months. The acquisition will be executed through Reliance’s EZRA International Group subsidiary as part...
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Deals•Feb 5, 2026
Kembara Secures €750M First Close for €1B Deep Tech Investment Fund
Kembara announced the first close of its €1 billion European deep‑tech fund, securing €750 million in commitments. The fund will invest up to €40 million in 20 deep‑tech companies at Series B and C stages, aiming to bolster Europe’s deep‑tech ecosystem.
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Deals•Feb 2, 2026
Diraq Secures $20M Equity Investment From Australia's National Reconstruction Fund
Diraq, an Australian quantum computing startup, secured a $20 million equity investment from the National Reconstruction Fund Corporation (NRFC) to accelerate its utility‑scale silicon‑based quantum computer development. The funding will support advanced manufacturing and aims to deliver a quantum computer with...
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Deals•Jan 29, 2026
IonQ Completes Acquisition of Skyloom Global Corp.
IonQ completed its acquisition of Skyloom Global Corp., a move to strengthen its quantum networking capabilities. The deal, first announced in November 2025, brings Skyloom’s expertise in free‑space optical communications into IonQ’s portfolio, advancing its roadmap for distributed quantum entanglement...
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Deals•Jan 20, 2026
D-Wave Acquires Quantum Circuits Inc., Adding Gate-Model Capability to Its Annealing Portfolio
D‑Wave announced the completion of its acquisition of Quantum Circuits Inc., merging its annealing quantum computers with Quantum Circuits' dual‑rail gate‑model qubit technology. The deal creates the first dual‑platform quantum computing company, accelerating the rollout of error‑corrected gate‑model systems alongside...
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Deals•Jan 17, 2026
Quantum Computing Inc. Secures $22M Stalking Horse Bid for Luminar Assets
Quantum Computing Inc. (QCi) has submitted a $22 million stalking‑horse bid to acquire the remaining assets of Luminar Technologies, pending court approval in Luminar’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy case. The acquisition aims to integrate Luminar’s LiDAR technology into QCi’s photonic chip and packaging...
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