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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
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 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 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
WiMi Hologram Cloud Releases H-QNN Tech, Demonstrating Progress in Practical Quantum Computing
WiMi Hologram Cloud Inc. unveiled its Hybrid Quantum‑Classical Neural Network (H‑QNN), a new architecture that embeds quantum feature mapping into a classical deep‑learning pipeline. The system demonstrated superior binary classification accuracy on the MNIST handwritten‑digit benchmark, outperforming similarly sized multilayer...
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News•Feb 9, 2026
Infleqtion’s Quantum Timing Achieves 40x Improvement Over GPS, Validated on Quantum Corridor
Infleqtion’s Tiqker quantum optical atomic clock delivered a 40‑fold improvement in timing precision over GPS, validated on the 21.8 km Quantum Corridor fiber link between Chicago and Hammond, IN. The system maintained picosecond‑level synchronization despite live network traffic and environmental fluctuations....
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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 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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News•Feb 8, 2026
Scott Aaronson, Leading Theoretical Computer Scientist, Joins StarkWare
StarkWare announced on February 5, 2026 that it has appointed Professor Scott Aaronson to its Scientific Advisory Board and is launching a quantum‑readiness program. The company says quantum computing is the biggest long‑term threat to crypto and will upgrade Starknet and Bitcoin...
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News•Feb 7, 2026
Quantum Networks Promise Unhackable Communications and Super-Accurate Sensors
Researchers are developing mechanical quantum communication networks that use phononic or optomechanical modes instead of electrons, offering a more secure and efficient alternative to traditional electronic interconnects. These hybrid systems can be integrated on silicon‑photonic chips, delivering lower loss, reduced...
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News•Feb 7, 2026
New Software Accelerates Complex Calculations by up to 500times
Scientists introduced lrux, a JAX‑based library that performs low‑rank updates of determinants and Pfaffians, delivering up to 1000× speedups on GPUs for large matrices. The package cuts the computational scaling of wavefunction evaluations from O(n³) to O(n²k) and includes delayed‑update...
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News•Feb 6, 2026
Rapid Quantum Control Technique Boosts Signal Transfer Across Wider Frequencies
Researchers at the University of Science and Technology of China introduced a sutured adiabatic pulse scheme for broadband population transfer. By stitching together adiabatic pulses with opposite chirps, the bandwidth expands linearly with the number of pulses while preserving near‑unity...
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News•Feb 6, 2026
Quantum Circuits Mimic Classical Computers with Built-In Timing for Faster Processing
Researchers introduced quantum sequential circuits (QSCs), a transistor‑like architecture that encodes quantum gates as Choi states within symmetry‑protected topological junctions. By leveraging ebits as feedback loops, QSCs enable on‑demand gate activation, temporal sequencing, and universal computation without relying on traditional...
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News•Feb 6, 2026
Super-Chilled Atoms Retain Quantum Information 3.3times Longer, Boosting Computer Potential
Researchers at Princeton have shown that cooling a cesium optical tweezer array to 4 K extends Rydberg‑state lifetimes to 406 µs, a 3.3‑fold increase over room temperature. The cryogenic shield suppresses black‑body radiation, reducing the effective temperature below 25 K and limiting decoherence....
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News•Feb 6, 2026
Quantum Sensors’ Noise Limits Mapped Across Three Orders of Magnitude in Power
Scientists at ICFO have experimentally mapped the fundamental noise limits of continuously operating multiparameter quantum sensors using a hybrid RF/DC optically pumped magnetometer. By varying probe and pump powers over wide ranges, they quantified photon shot noise, spin‑projection noise, and...
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News•Feb 6, 2026
Quantum Computing Beats Best Classical Method for Complex Graph Problems
Researchers from JPMorgan Chase demonstrate that the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) can outperform the classic Frieze‑Jerrum semidefinite programming (SDP) method on Max‑k‑Cut problems for specific graph degrees. They introduce an iterative formula that predicts QAOA performance on high‑girth regular...
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News•Feb 6, 2026
Quantum Cryptography’s Secret Key Rates Boosted by New Entropy Link
Researchers have linked two‑way quantum key distribution, specifically advantage distillation, to asymptotic hypothesis testing using an integral representation of relative entropy. This theoretical bridge yields tighter upper and lower bounds on secret‑key rates, outperforming traditional fidelity‑based limits at short and...
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News•Feb 6, 2026
Quantum Encryption Secured Against Hacking with New Digital Signal Processing Technique
Researchers have introduced a secure continuous‑variable quantum key distribution (CV‑QKD) framework that links dynamic digital signal processing (DSP) algorithms to a physically realizable optical model. Conventional dynamic DSP underestimates excess noise, inflating key‑rate estimates and risking security. The new model...
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News•Feb 6, 2026
Standardised Tensor Calculations Promise Faster Simulations for Materials and Physics Research
Researchers convened the second Toulouse Tensor Workshop to refine a low‑level tensor operation interface, culminating in the formation of the Tensor Algebra Processing Primitives Working Group (TAPP‑WG). The group released a freely available C‑API on GitHub and demonstrated its integration...
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News•Feb 6, 2026
Fpga Chips Accelerate Complex Calculations, Paving the Way for Better Materials Simulations
Scientists at the University of Shanghai and Peking University have demonstrated a field‑programmable gate array (FPGA) implementation of tensor‑network algorithms using a novel quad‑tile partitioning strategy. The design accelerates infinite time‑evolving block decimation (iTEBD) and higher‑order tensor renormalization group (HOTRG)...
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News•Feb 6, 2026
Quantum Statistics Framework Unlocks Hidden Links Between Classical and Non-Classical Mechanics
Researchers led by Haruki Emori have introduced a unified framework that extends classical statistical tools—moment‑generating, characteristic, cumulant‑generating, and second characteristic functions—into quantum mechanics. By defining these functions as expectation values over purified states, the framework reproduces quantum expectation values, variances,...
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News•Feb 6, 2026
Quantum Algorithm Speeds up Complex Calculations to N²log₂N, a New Record
Researchers Jiaqi Yao and Ding Liu introduced a quantum kernel‑based matrix multiplication algorithm (QKMM) that reduces the asymptotic complexity to O(N² log₂ N), a marked improvement over the classical O(N³) bound. The method uses only log₂ N qubits and a gate count of...
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News•Feb 6, 2026
Quantum Error Correction Scales Up, Paving the Way for Reliable Computers
Researchers at UCLA introduced ScaLER, a scalable testing framework for quantum error correction that combines targeted fault injection with extrapolation. The tool successfully benchmarked a surface‑code of distance 17 at a physical error rate of 0.0005, delivering a logical error rate...
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News•Feb 6, 2026
Light’s Speed Mismatch Weakens Advanced Medical Scans, Researchers Find
Researchers identified intrinsic unbalanced group‑velocity dispersion in nonlinear interferometers as a major source of axial resolution loss for undetected‑photon optical coherence tomography (OCT). The dispersion stems from non‑degenerate optical parametric down‑conversion, making physical compensation difficult. By extracting phase from high‑precision...
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News•Feb 6, 2026
Simpler Quantum Circuits Boost Accuracy of Vital Materials Modelling Calculations
Researchers introduced a soft‑coded orthogonal subspace method for variational quantum eigensolvers (VQE) that enforces orthogonality via penalty terms rather than circuit constraints. Benchmarked on a 3 × 3 transverse‑field Ising lattice and a 4 × 4 Edwards‑Anderson spin‑glass, the technique achieved ground‑state fidelities equal...
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News•Feb 6, 2026
New Quantum Simulations Promise Faster Routes to Designing Advanced Materials and Molecules
Researchers at Google Quantum AI and Florida State University introduced a weighted sum‑of‑squares (SOS) framework that aligns with the dual of two‑particle reduced density matrix (v2RDM) theory, enabling strict enforcement of particle‑number and spin symmetries. The near‑frustration‑free Hamiltonian representations derived...
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News•Feb 6, 2026
New 2D Material Links Strain and Magnetism in a Novel Way
Researchers have identified a novel topological orbital piezomagnetic effect in two‑dimensional Dirac quadrupole altermagnets. Applying mechanical strain distorts the Dirac points, forming a “Dirac dipole” that generates magnetization without spin contributions. The phenomenon is captured by two minimal theoretical frameworks—a...
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News•Feb 6, 2026
Insulator Defies Expectations with 2% Thermal Hall Effect, Paving the Way for New Devices
Researchers have measured an unusually large thermal Hall effect in the insulating topological material TlBi₀.₁₅Sb₀.₈₅Te₂, achieving a transverse‑to‑longitudinal thermal conductivity ratio of about 2 % under magnetic fields of 2–8 tesla. The effect persists across a broad temperature window of 50–150 K and...
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News•Feb 6, 2026
New Maths Unlocks Hidden Symmetries Within Complex Group Structures
Simon D. Lentner’s new lecture notes, released on January 31 2026 (arXiv:2602.00651v1), present a categorical construction of Nichols algebras that sidesteps traditional Hopf‑algebra prerequisites. The approach uses concrete examples to show how these algebras generate the representation category of a group and...
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News•Feb 6, 2026
Quantum Leap Unlocks New Control over Light-Based Computing Components
Researchers from Longyan and Fuzhou Universities have experimentally demonstrated a quantum phase transition in a driven‑dissipative Kerr‑cat qubit that is induced by a Liouvillian exceptional point (LEP). By tuning the detuning between drive and resonator frequencies, the system switches from...
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News•Feb 6, 2026
Quantum Circuits Unlock New Ways to Simulate Complex Magnetic Materials
Researchers have extended the Ising model to arbitrary interaction networks, showing that its transition amplitudes are directly proportional to the hafnian and loop‑hafnian matrix functions. This unifies previously separate links between spin dynamics, Gaussian boson sampling, and #P‑hard counting problems...
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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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