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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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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 6, 2026
Quantum Kernel Methods Show Competitive Radar Classification with 133-Qubit IBM Processor
Researchers evaluated quantum kernel methods for radar micro‑Doppler classification using IBM's 133‑qubit Torino and 156‑qubit Fez processors. After classical feature extraction and PCA reduction, data were encoded with a fully‑entangled ZZFeatureMap and classified by a quantum support vector machine. The...
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News•Feb 6, 2026
Andreev Spin Qubits: Research Shows Realisation Via 2D Topological Insulators
Researchers have demonstrated that Andreev spin qubits can be realized in Josephson junctions built from magnetically doped two‑dimensional topological insulators. By introducing magnetic impurities into the helical edge states, electric dipole transitions become allowed, enabling qubit manipulation with microwave pulses....
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News•Feb 6, 2026
Quantum Computer Errors Tracked in Real-Time, Paving Way for Stable Machines
Researchers at Chalmers University have demonstrated real‑time detection of quasiparticle tunneling in a multi‑qubit superconducting device, achieving single‑hertz background sensitivity with microsecond resolution. Their time‑tagged coincidence analysis revealed uncorrelated individual events and correlated burst episodes occurring roughly once per minute,...
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News•Feb 6, 2026
Researchers Reveal 100nm Displacement Via the Optical Magnus Effect with an Ion
Researchers at ETH Zurich and PSI have directly observed the optical Magnus effect in a single trapped ⁴⁰Ca⁺ ion. By scanning a tightly focused 729 nm laser across the ion, they mapped spin‑dependent transverse displacements of up to several hundred nanometres,...
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News•Feb 6, 2026
AI Evolves Quantum Circuits, Bypassing Design Limits for More Powerful Computers
Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology unveiled Evolutionary eXploration of Augmenting Quantum Circuits (EXAQC), an automated framework that simultaneously optimizes gate types, qubit connectivity, parameterisation, and circuit depth while respecting hardware limits and noise. The hybrid evolutionary‑variational approach generated quantum...
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News•Feb 6, 2026
Quantum Computing Offers Faster, More Accurate Molecular Blueprint Predictions for Better Drugs
Researchers at North Carolina State University have introduced a hybrid quantum‑classical framework that predicts electronic circular dichroism (ECD) spectra of chiral molecules using 20–24 qubit circuits. The method combines variational quantum eigensolvers with quantum equation‑of‑motion techniques and matches the accuracy...
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News•Feb 6, 2026
Quantum Computing’s ‘Barren Plateaus’ Overcome with Extra Circuit Parameters
A new numerical study examines how adding extra parameters to variational quantum circuits can counteract barren‑plateau effects that stall optimization. Using a 72‑qubit superconducting processor simulator, the researchers mapped energy accuracy across ansatz depth and training epochs for a transverse‑field...
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News•Feb 6, 2026
On-Chip Device Splits Light with 99.95% Accuracy, Boosting Quantum Computing Power
Researchers at Purdue and Johns Hopkins have built an on‑chip silicon pulse‑shaper that functions as a frequency beamsplitter, delivering near‑ideal Hadamard‑gate performance with fidelity above 0.9995 and a modified success probability over 0.9621. The device supports ultra‑narrow 2‑5 GHz channel spacings—a...
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News•Feb 6, 2026
Random Matrix Breakthrough Unlocks New Understanding of Quantum Entanglement’s Complexity
Researchers derived a summation‑free recurrence relation for the k‑th spectral moment of the Bures‑Hall random matrix ensemble, valid for any real‑valued k. The breakthrough hinges on new Christoffel‑Darboux formulas for the ensemble’s correlation kernels, simplifying calculations that previously required cumbersome...
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News•Feb 6, 2026
Exotic Superconductivity Unlocked by Manipulating Atomic Imbalance Within Materials
Researchers at Capital Normal University have shown that staggered pairing imbalance in a non‑Hermitian Kitaev chain can dramatically broaden the parameter space supporting topological superconductivity. By jointly tuning the chemical potential and the imbalance, the eigenenergy gap switches from real...
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News•Feb 5, 2026
Quantum Entanglement’s Secrets Unlocked with New Model of Particle Interactions
Researchers Swann, Nahum et al. introduced a continuum‑mechanics framework to describe entanglement dynamics in noisy, interacting fermion chains. By applying a semiclassical path‑integral treatment to an effective spin‑chain representation, they obtained exact expressions for the entanglement membrane tension and operator...
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News•Feb 5, 2026
Quantum ‘Stars’ Reveal Hidden Structure Within Complex Quantum States
Scientists revived Ettore Majorana’s 1932 proposal, showing that any spin‑S quantum state can be represented as a constellation of 2S points on a sphere. The study, led by L. L. Sanchez‑Soto, A. B. Klimov and A. Z. Goldberg, demonstrates how these “Majorana stars” provide geometric insight...
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News•Feb 5, 2026
New 2D Material Combines Magnetism and Quantum Properties at Room Temperature
Scientists have assembled a two‑dimensional iron‑dicyanoanthracene metal‑organic framework directly on a bismuth selenide topological‑insulator surface at room temperature, revealing two distinct structural phases. Phase A conforms to a known close‑packed Fe₁DCA₃ lattice, while Phase B displays a larger, previously unreported unit cell...
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News•Feb 5, 2026
Quantum Networks Share ‘Spooky Action’ Across Multiple Connections Simultaneously
Researchers have derived an analytical expression for bipartite quantum correlators that applies to arbitrary measurement settings and weak‑measurement strengths, streamlining calculations in generalized star‑network topologies. Using this tool they demonstrated simultaneous violations of network‑nonlocality Bell inequalities in both (2, 2, 6) and...
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News•Feb 5, 2026
Hawking Radiation Destroys Quantum Links in Three-Part Systems, Study Reveals
A recent theoretical study examines tripartite quantum steering—an advanced form of quantum correlation—among three parties situated near a Schwarzschild black hole. By modeling Alice, Bob and Charlie sharing a GHZ state, the researchers classify all six steering configurations and analyze...
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News•Feb 5, 2026
Quantum Computers’ Data Bottleneck Eased with New Loading Technique
Researchers at Nanyang Technological University introduced AQER, an Approximate Quantum Encoder with Entanglement Reduction, to address the data‑loading bottleneck in digital quantum computers. By reformulating existing approximate quantum loaders into a unified framework, they derived linear error bounds tied to...
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News•Feb 5, 2026
New Algorithms Unlock Faster Sampling of Complex Systems with Tensor Networks
Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley and Oak Ridge National Laboratories have unveiled two new algorithms—independent sampling and greedy search—for efficiently sampling two‑dimensional isometric tensor network states (isoTNS). Both methods extend 1D tensor‑network sampling techniques to 2D while preserving polynomial scaling with...
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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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