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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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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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News•Feb 5, 2026
Quantum Kernels Unlock Complex Data Processing for Near-Term Quantum Computers
Researchers from LMU Munich unveiled Quantum Generator Kernels (QGKs), a novel generator‑based approach that compresses and embeds large datasets into the limited qubit space of NISQ devices. QGKs replace static gate‑based embeddings with Variational Generator Groups (VGGs), employing learnable Hamiltonian‑driven...
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News•Feb 5, 2026
Half the Qubits, Same Accuracy: Quantum Chemistry Leaps Forward
Researchers introduced half‑qubit Sampled Quantum Diagonalization (HSQD) that halves qubit requirements while preserving accuracy. Demonstrated on nitrogen dissociation (10e, 26o) with 40% fewer measurements and on iron‑sulfur clusters up to (54e, 36o). The HCI‑enhanced version (HCI‑HSQD) yields sub‑millihartree precision, reduces energy errors...
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News•Feb 5, 2026
Quantum Systems Maintain Order Even As They Appear to Randomise, Physicists Confirm
Physicists Yuke Zhang and Pengfei Zhang present a systematic finite‑size scaling analysis of the full eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (full ETH) in quantum spin chains. By decomposing corrections into polynomial energy‑fluctuation terms and exponentially decaying window‑fluctuation terms, they resolve previously observed...
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News•Feb 5, 2026
Quantum Algorithm Swiftly Unlocks Energy States for Next-Generation Technologies
Researchers from the University of Melbourne and Data61 unveiled the Quantum Jacobi‑Davidson (QJD) algorithm and its Sample‑Based variant (SBQJD) for ground‑state energy estimation. Simulations on 8‑, 10‑, and 12‑qubit systems showed markedly faster convergence and fewer Pauli measurements than the Quantum...
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News•Feb 5, 2026
Quantum ‘Birthmark’ Reveals Systems Never Fully Forget Their Origins
Scientists at Harvard and Tampere University have identified a universal "quantum birthmark" that preserves a system's initial conditions even in fully chaotic quantum dynamics. The effect appears as an enhanced long‑time return probability, meaning non‑stationary states revisit their origins more...
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News•Feb 5, 2026
Quantum Error Correction Takes a Leap Forward with New Code Designs
Researchers have introduced a framework linking algebraic properties of CSS qLDPC codes to constant‑depth magic‑state fountains. By defining “magic‑friendly triples” of logical X operators with pairwise orthogonality and odd triple overlap, they prove that families containing Ω(n^{1+γ}) such triples enable...
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News•Feb 5, 2026
Rail Vision Ltd. Subsidiary, Quantum Transportation, Unveils Transformer Neural Decoder with Enhanced Error Suppression Capabilities
Quantum Transportation, a subsidiary of Rail Vision Ltd., unveiled a transformer‑based neural decoder called the Deep Quantum Error Correction Transformer (DQECCT) on February 5, 2026. The code‑agnostic system outperforms classical algorithms such as Minimum‑Weight Perfect Matching in simulations, delivering higher decoding accuracy...
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News•Feb 5, 2026
Quantum Simulations Become Twice As Efficient with New Error-Correction Technique
Researchers at Yonsei University and the Korea Institute for Advanced Study unveiled a dual‑channel multi‑product formula that dramatically improves Trotter error scaling in product‑formula quantum simulations. The method halves the circuit depth required for a target precision, cutting the number...
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News•Feb 5, 2026
Quantum Computing’s Entanglement Costs Finally Quantified for Key Operations
Researchers Richard Cleve and Alex May introduced two universal lower‑bound techniques that quantify the entanglement cost of non‑local quantum computation. Their methods yield the first non‑trivial bounds for Haar‑random two‑qubit unitaries and for widely used gates such as CNOT, DCNOT,...
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News•Feb 5, 2026
AI Pinpoints Quantum States with Unprecedented Accuracy From Noisy Signals
Researchers at Tohoku, NIMS and Osaka Universities introduced a U‑Net‑based segmentation model to analyse spin‑readout signals from semiconductor qubits. The fully convolutional architecture handles variable‑length traces and delivers point‑wise transition probabilities, outperforming traditional thresholding in noisy environments. Evaluations on simulated...
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News•Feb 5, 2026
New Encryption Method Withstands Attacks From Both Computers and Artificial Intelligence
Researchers introduced Eidolon, a post‑quantum digital signature scheme built on the NP‑complete k‑colourability problem. By extending zero‑knowledge protocols and using Merkle‑tree commitments, the scheme compresses signatures from O(t n) to O(t log n). Empirical tests against integer‑linear‑programming, DSatur, and a custom graph neural...
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News•Feb 5, 2026
Quantum Error Correction Gets a Speed Boost for Future Computers
Researchers at Fujitsu’s Quantum Laboratory have introduced early‑stopping techniques—bounded‑cluster gap and extra‑cluster gap—to accelerate soft‑output evaluation in cluster‑based quantum error‑correction decoders. The bounded‑cluster gap reduces computational scaling from O(d²·⁸⁸) to roughly O(d²·³¹), while the extra‑cluster gap integrates seamlessly with existing...
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News•Feb 5, 2026
Quantum Computing Speeds up Genome Mapping, Unlocking Faster Disease Diagnosis
Researchers from IIT and IBM have unveiled a hybrid quantum‑classical workflow that accelerates de novo genome assembly by reformulating Hamiltonian and Eulerian path problems as a Higher‑Order Binary Optimisation (HOBO) task solved with the Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE). The approach integrates...
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News•Feb 5, 2026
Quantum Simulation Cuts Error in Complex Materials Modelling to Below 1 Per Cent
Researchers at Louisiana State University introduced a symmetry‑adapted variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) to solve the Anderson Impurity Model within dynamical mean‑field theory. Using a four‑site bath discretization, the method delivered ground‑state energies with relative errors below 0.01 % while employing only...
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News•Feb 5, 2026
Physics-Inspired AI Forecasts 3D Changes with Unprecedented Stability
A team from Innsbruck universities unveiled a physics‑guided neural network that borrows the Schrödinger equation to forecast four‑dimensional (3‑D + time) phenomena. The model learns voxel‑wise amplitude, phase and potential fields, forming a complex‑valued wavefunction that is evolved with a differentiable time‑stepper....
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News•Feb 5, 2026
Quantum-Inspired AI Distils Complex Data, Boosting Fusion Energy Research
Researchers from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications and the Chinese Academy of Sciences have introduced a physics‑informed framework that couples Koopman operator theory with quantum machine learning to compress high‑dimensional tokamak diagnostic data for NISQ processors. Validated on 4,763...
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News•Feb 5, 2026
Visual Tool Unlocks Quantum Computing for Engineers and Students Alike
Researchers at Gebze Technical University introduced QuVI, an open‑source quantum circuit simulator built inside NI LabVIEW. The toolkit replaces text‑based quantum code with a visual dataflow interface that maps block diagrams directly to Bloch‑sphere representations. By leveraging LabVIEW queues, QuVI...
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News•Feb 5, 2026
New Technique Swiftly Unlocks Key Values for Stronger, More Resilient Materials
Researchers at Chongqing Normal University unveiled the Memory Gradient Method (MGM), a novel algorithm that computes extreme M‑eigenvalues of fourth‑order hierarchically symmetric tensors by recasting the problem as a series of unconstrained optimisation tasks with a shift parameter. The approach...
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News•Feb 5, 2026
AI ‘Quorum’ Speeds up Decisions and Boosts Prediction Accuracy to 70.60%
Researchers introduced SQUAD (Scalable Quorum Adaptive Decisions), a novel inference framework that merges early‑exit networks with distributed ensemble learning. Instead of relying on single‑model confidence thresholds, SQUAD uses a quorum‑based voting system that halts computation once a statistically significant consensus...
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News•Feb 5, 2026
Quantum Industry Canada Backs 2026 Year of Quantum Security Initiative
Quantum Industry Canada (QIC) has officially joined the global 2026 Year of Quantum Security (YQS2026) initiative, aligning Canada with an international effort to protect digital infrastructure against emerging quantum threats. The program will bring together government, industry, finance and academia...
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News•Feb 5, 2026
Deep Photonic Neuromorphic Networks Demonstrate Unsupervised Hebbian Learning Online
University of Texas at Dallas researchers unveiled a fully optical deep photonic neuromorphic network that learns unsupervised, online Hebbian updates using phase‑change material synapses. The system bypasses electronic‑optical‑electronic conversions, delivering 100 % accuracy on a non‑trivial letter‑recognition task on a commercial...
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News•Feb 5, 2026
Quantum Signatures Bypass Tricky Quantum Memory with Classical Computing Power
Researchers unveiled a quantum‑digital‑signature protocol that uses classical shadows of random quantum circuits as public keys, eliminating the need for fragile quantum memory. An enhanced state‑certification primitive improves noise tolerance and cuts sample complexity, enabling a proof‑of‑principle signature on a...
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News•Feb 5, 2026
Quantum Entanglement Boosts Computer Coordination, Bypassing Speed Limits of Distance
Researchers at Delft Networks and QuTech have shown that shared quantum entanglement can be used to coordinate decisions in distributed systems without any real‑time communication. Their analytical model of a dual‑work optimisation problem proves that entanglement‑assisted routing achieves a Pareto‑superior...
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News•Feb 5, 2026
Shows QSVM Generalisation Bounds Under Local Depolarising Noise for NISQ Devices
Researchers Govender and Sinayskiy derived analytical upper and lower bounds on the generalisation performance of quantum kernel‑assisted support vector machines (QSVMs) under local depolarising noise. Their work shows that noise erodes the QSVM margin, a key predictor of how well...
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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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