Kvantify Secures €7M to Accelerate Quantum Drug Discovery Platform
Kvantify announced the second close of its €7 million funding round, with the European Innovation Council Fund and Denmark’s Delphinus Venture Capital as lead investors. The capital will fund the rollout of its Qrunch platform, which runs quantum chemistry workloads on existing quantum hardware, and expand partnerships with drug‑discovery firms.

IonQ announced the appointment of Domenico Di Mola as Senior Vice President of Engineering for its Quantum Networking, Security, and Sensing (QNSS) division. Di Mola will steer engineering and strategy for quantum‑secure networking, distributed‑sensing architectures, and the integration of quantum processors with classical data centers and AI infrastructure. The hire underscores IonQ’s push to broaden its portfolio beyond pure quantum computation toward full‑stack quantum services. The initiative aims to create a globally connected quantum ecosystem for enterprise customers.

Los Alamos physicist Diego Dalvit has introduced qCOMBPASS, a quantum‑enhanced radar that leverages frequency‑comb lasers and light‑squeezing techniques to detect objects without storing photons. The system targets the memory‑storage bottleneck that has limited remote quantum sensing since 2019, aiming for...

In January 2026 bipartisan Senators introduced S‑11, the National Quantum Initiative Reauthorization Act, extending the 2018 quantum program to 2034. The bill replaces the term "science" with "engineering" and "technology," signaling a shift from research to commercial quantum manufacturing and...
Coherent Corp. and Quside have demonstrated a mass‑manufacturable quantum entropy source using Coherent’s 6‑inch VCSEL line combined with Quside’s QRNG technology. The system generates true, verifiable randomness by measuring VCSEL phase fluctuations and includes real‑time entropy monitoring to detect tampering....

Researchers Wei, Li, and Karve unveiled a spatial light modulator that breaks the speed‑resolution trade‑off, delivering frame rates above 10 MHz while maintaining a high pixel count. The device encodes spatial data in the optical frequency domain and decodes it with...

Lightwave Logic and QPICs have signed an MOU to embed Lightwave Logic’s high‑stability electro‑optic polymers into photonic integrated circuits for quantum computing and sensing. The partnership will produce Process Design Kits that let customers design silicon‑based quantum chips without major...

Researchers from ISI and the Weizmann Institute present a quantitative benchmark for quantum error‑correcting codes embedded in realistic open‑system models. By deriving a second‑order master equation for multi‑qubit registers coupled to bosonic thermal baths, they compare the five‑qubit, Steane and...

Researchers demonstrated that spin squeezing can remain scalable in two‑dimensional XXZ lattices even when a fraction of sites are vacant, provided disorder stays below a critical threshold. Using semi‑classical discrete truncated Wigner approximation, they mapped a phase diagram that predicts...

Fact.MR forecasts the global horticulture quantum sensors market to expand from $0.3 billion in 2026 to $1.1 billion by 2036, reflecting a 13.9% compound annual growth rate. The growth is driven by rising adoption of precision‑agriculture technologies, especially quantum photosynthetically active radiation...
A new perspective piece in Science by Dr. Marlan Scully chronicles a century of quantum mechanics, tracing its evolution from Schrödinger’s cat paradox to the technologies that define modern life. He highlights how quantum coherence gave rise to lasers, entanglement...

Researchers Mortimer, Zambrano, Acín, and Farina present a scalable framework that uses moment‑matrix relaxations within semidefinite programming to bound many‑body quantum properties from finite‑shot, incomplete measurements. The method scales polynomially, enabling certification of systems as large as 50 qubits, and...

Researchers constructed and catalogued extremal non‑signaling (ENS) boxes across previously unexplored bipartite Bell scenarios, delivering a comprehensive database via the PANDA software. They proved that just two copies of any ENS box suffice to breach the exclusivity and local orthogonality...

Researchers from the University of Tokyo and NTT introduced Network‑Based Quantum Computing (NBQC), a framework that distributes fault‑tolerant quantum workloads across many small‑scale nodes. By routing algorithmic qubits through a dynamic ring‑and‑switch network, NBQC hides communication latency and leverages magic‑state...

Meng‑Yuan Li and Yue Wu introduce a generalized hypergraph product (HGP) framework that produces orthoplex spin models exhibiting fracton topological order. In three dimensions the models display a non‑monotonic ground‑state degeneracy and host non‑Abelian lattice defects. Their four‑dimensional construction uncovers...
A University of Geneva team has introduced a quantum state tomography technique that infers the full state of an open quantum system from transport measurements of particle flows, rather than direct projective measurements. By exploiting currents and their correlations across...

Researchers introduced a hybrid quantum‑classical framework that uses Quantized Boltzmann Machines (QBMs) to improve both performance and transparency in AI decision‑making. Tested on a binarized, PCA‑reduced MNIST subset, QBMs reached 83.5% classification accuracy, far surpassing the 54% of classical Boltzmann...

Researchers at the University of Melbourne introduced a Matrix Product State (MPS) based encoding scheme that dramatically reduces quantum circuit depth while preserving classification performance. By iteratively applying singular value decomposition, the method creates low‑depth, approximate encodings that require fewer...

Researchers have built an on‑chip semi‑device‑independent quantum random number generator that leverages a 10σ violation of the KCBS contextuality inequality. The silicon‑photonic system prepares, transforms and measures qutrit states, delivering a certified conditional min‑entropy of 0.077 ± 0.002 bits per round. This...

Rigetti Computing India has received an $8.4 million purchase order from the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C‑DAC) to deliver a 108‑qubit superconducting quantum computer. The modular chiplet‑based system, built with Rigetti’s in‑house control electronics and fabricated at its Fab‑1...

Researchers have demonstrated that a moiré‑modulated Su‑Schrieffer‑Heeger (SSH) chain exhibits reentrant topological phases with universal class invariance. By systematically varying the moiré pattern, they uncovered a direct, predictable relationship between the internal lattice configuration and the emergent edge‑state properties. The...
Researchers combined numerical linked‑cluster expansions (NLCE) with density‑matrix renormalization‑group (DMRG) to map the Dicke‑Ising chain onto a self‑consistent effective matter Hamiltonian, eliminating photon‑spin correlation calculations. This hybrid method achieved phase‑diagram precision of 10⁻⁴ for ferromagnetic couplings and confirmed a narrow...

The authors used quantum Monte‑Carlo simulations with a novel non‑translational Jastrow ansatz to study one‑dimensional Bose and Fermi gases subject to cavity‑mediated infinite‑range interactions. Their results map a crossover from weakly modulated, repulsive phases to delocalized, attractive bound states that...

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and Q*Bird have deployed Spain’s first operational multi‑node measurement‑device‑independent quantum key distribution (MDI‑QKD) network in Madrid. The hub‑and‑spoke architecture links two INTA facilities and the Ministry of the Interior’s SGSICS site, using Q*Bird’s Falqon® MQX4000 hub...

Researchers at the Technical University of Denmark introduced a nonlinear transform that fully suppresses thermal intermodulation noise (TIN) in high‑cooperativity cavity optomechanics. By inverting the full cavity response, they eliminated TIN of all orders, including the first experimental detection of...

Researchers at the University of Pisa used detailed Qiskit‑Dynamics simulations to quantify how phase noise in control signals erodes qubit fidelity. By generating realistic phase‑noise sequences from specified power spectral densities and applying them to 6 GHz carrier pulses, they measured...

Researchers Lin, Li, and Fang have precisely characterised the reliability function of entanglement distillation, delivering exact finite‑blocklength results. By linking performance to the regularized quantum Hoeffding divergence, they provide a concrete optimal protocol when the initial state is known and...
Bitcoin and the Quantum Threat: Think about the Year 2000 bug. Remember Y2K? It was a great example of the positive effects of over-worrying. I'm old enough to remember how everyone was talking about how the world is going to end...

Horizon Quantum Computing and Alice & Bob have forged a strategic partnership to embed Alice & Bob’s cat‑qubit emulators into Horizon’s Triple Alpha development environment. The integration lets developers prototype quantum error‑correction protocols on a virtual representation of the cat‑qubit architecture, which claims...

The authors present a counterdiabatic‑driving scheme that uses a single control field to minimise the average Landau‑Zener transition probability across ensembles with random energy gaps. By restricting the control to a σ₁‑type operator, they achieve better performance than traditional σ₂‑based...

Chasing shadows with Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill codes https://t.co/n2Ez7A6Ehz We explore a research question at the intersection of #quantumerrorcorrection and #quantumlearningtheory. Concretely, we consider the task of performing shadow tomography of a logical subsystem defined via the Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (#GKP) error correcting code. Our protocol does...

What a pleasure to have @adam_wills1 visiting us for this week to discuss notions of #quantumerrorcorrection. https://t.co/07pCKcT4pv

The team led by Masahito Hayashi and Jinpei Zhao introduced quantum analogues of double Markovity for both tripartite and four‑party states. They proved that simultaneous Markov conditions are equivalent to the existence of compatible projective measurements that generate a common...
Back in 2023, I gave a series of lectures at the Boulder Summer School on then-recent techniques we developed for error mitigation in NISQ devices, specifically how to combine Pauli twirling with probabilistic error cancellation to improve fidelity in noisy...

Maxwell West and his team prove that learning the Born distributions of quantum states drawn from circular unitary, orthogonal, symplectic, and fermionic Gaussian ensembles is average‑case hard. The hardness result is established within the statistical query model, showing that any...

Saikat Biswas and collaborators examined how both T\bar T and root‑T\bar T irrelevant deformations modify entanglement and reflected entropy in three‑dimensional AdS/CFT. Using a mixed‑boundary‑condition holographic framework they derived first‑order corrections to the entanglement wedge cross section for various interval configurations, including finite...

Researchers at Politecnico di Milano and collaborators have demonstrated mask‑less direct laser writing to locally modify oxygen stoichiometry in YBCO thin films with sub‑micrometer precision. By adjusting laser power they can either preserve superconductivity or fully suppress it, enabling continuous...
Researchers at the University of Waterloo and the Institute for Quantum Computing have launched Open Quantum Design, the world’s first open‑source, full‑stack quantum computer built on ion‑trapping technology. The non‑profit OQD brings together more than 30 software contributors, dozens of...

Researchers led by Sanz, Annoni, and Wein introduced a quantum Fourier‑transform (QFT) interferometer protocol that dramatically reduces the sample complexity of genuine n‑photon indistinguishability benchmarking. The method attains constant O(1) complexity for prime‑photon counts and sub‑polynomial scaling for other photon...
Phantom Photonics, a Waterloo‑spun quantum‑tech startup, is commercialising ultra‑sensitive quantum sensors that can filter background noise and detect single photons. The devices exploit a robust form of quantum coherence, allowing precise measurements in GPS‑denied environments such as deep‑sea or space....

Researchers at Embry‑Riddle have demonstrated a 117‑fold speedup of the Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) by leveraging just‑in‑time compilation, GPU acceleration and multi‑GPU scaling on an NVIDIA H100 cluster. The optimized workflow shrinks the hydrogen molecule potential‑energy‑surface calculation from roughly ten...

Researchers from Tsinghua University and the Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences have shown that the popular Snake optimizer is mathematically equivalent to Block Coordinate Descent (BCD) for superconducting qubit frequency calibration. By casting the block ordering problem as a...

Researchers at Duke University introduced a protocol that learns unknown quantum Hamiltonians with Heisenberg‑limited precision using only static single‑qubit control fields. The method achieves O(1/ε) total evolution time while keeping field strengths constant, eliminating the need for complex multi‑qubit gates...

Researchers Vasconcelos and Joshi introduced the first unitary, constant‑depth protocols that prepare exact Dicke states. By exploiting global CZ interactions in neutral‑atom and trapped‑ion platforms, they achieve preparation with only polynomially many ancilla qubits. Adding a quantum FAN‑OUT operation upgrades...

Scientists have demonstrated a CMOS‑compatible process for fabricating tantalum nitride (TaN) nanowires and TaN/copper bilayer nanowires on 300 mm silicon wafers. Integrating a copper heatsink increased the Skocpol‑Beasley‑Tinkham β parameter and effective interfacial heat‑transfer efficiency by roughly 100‑fold, yielding near‑unity critical‑to‑retrapping...
A new IEEE study introduces an analytical framework that quantifies how pointing errors degrade quantum key distribution (QKD) performance in optical wireless links. By applying Rayleigh and Hoyt statistical models to beam misalignment, the researchers derived closed‑form expressions for error...

Researchers at Tsinghua University introduced “Fock‑space optics,” a framework that applies classical wave‑optics principles to the photon‑number dimension of quantum states. Using a superconducting microwave resonator, they experimentally reproduced propagation, refraction, lensing and interference with up to 180 photons, establishing...

SpinPulse is an open‑source Python library that simulates spin‑qubit computers at the pulse level while explicitly modelling non‑Markovian noise. The framework converts Qiskit circuits into a native gate set, then into time‑dependent pulse sequences that are numerically integrated under realistic...

Researchers at Grenoble Alpes and collaborators examined interference‑based cos(2) qubits, showing that flower‑mon, KITE and related designs share a common multi‑harmonic SQUID Hamiltonian. Numerical simulations revealed a fundamental trade‑off between charge and flux noise that caps dephasing times to a...

The Technion team introduced a hardware‑efficient Rabi‑Driven Reset (RDR) that continuously cools a high‑Q superconducting cavity without measurement. By applying a strong resonant Rabi drive to a transmon and sideband drives detuned by the Rabi frequency, they engineered an effective...

The authors introduce Tensor Algebra Processing Primitives (TAPP), a C‑based interface that standardises 18 core tensor operations and separates application code from hardware specifics. A reference implementation supports both CPU and GPU back‑ends, emphasizing correctness and ease of integration. Demonstrations...