News•Feb 26, 2026
QUDORA and ParityQC Partner to Optimize Trapped-Ion Quantum Algorithms
QUDORA and ParityQC have formed a strategic partnership to boost the performance of trapped‑ion quantum computers. The collaboration combines QUDORA’s Near‑Field Quantum Control hardware with ParityQC’s Parity Twine software, a topology‑aware method that reshapes algorithms for ion‑trap constraints. By cutting gate counts and circuit depth, the joint solution reduces error accumulation and improves efficiency on existing hardware. The effort aims to accelerate the move toward utility‑scale quantum devices while reinforcing Europe’s quantum ecosystem.
By Quantum Computing Report
News•Feb 26, 2026
Xanadu and Lockheed Martin Launch Joint Research Initiative for Quantum Machine Learning
Xanadu and Lockheed Martin have announced a joint research initiative to advance quantum machine learning, concentrating on generative modeling with photonic hardware. The collaboration will explore Fourier‑based operations that are infeasible for classical computers, aiming to create quantum primitives that excel...
By Quantum Computing Report
News•Feb 26, 2026
IonQ Deploys Romania’s National Quantum Communication Infrastructure (RoNaQCI)
IonQ has rolled out Romania’s National Quantum Communication Infrastructure (RoNaQCI), creating a 1,500‑kilometer quantum‑key‑distribution (QKD) network that links six major cities. The system comprises 36 quantum‑secured links, accounting for more than 20% of Europe’s terrestrial quantum communications capacity. Leveraging wavelength‑division...
By Quantum Computing Report
News•Feb 26, 2026
Harvest Now, Decrypt Later: Preparing for the Quantum Hangover
Quantum‑era risk is no longer a distant theory; adversaries are already harvesting encrypted data to decrypt later when quantum computers mature. This "harvest‑now, decrypt‑later" model threatens long‑life information across government, finance, healthcare and private‑sector IP. CEOs must shift focus from...
By Security Magazine (Cybersecurity)
News•Feb 26, 2026
Quobly and Entropica Labs Form Strategic Alliance to Advance Silicon-Based Fault Tolerance
Quobly, a French silicon‑based quantum computing pioneer, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Singapore’s Entropica Labs to co‑design fault‑tolerant quantum systems. The alliance integrates Entropica’s compiler and optimization stack directly with Quobly’s silicon spin‑qubit architecture, targeting early‑stage hardware‑software co‑design....
By Quantum Computing Report
News•Feb 26, 2026
Keeper Security Integrates Kyber to Provide Quantum-Resistant Identity Protection
Keeper Security announced integration of the Kyber key encapsulation mechanism across its platform to deliver quantum‑resistant identity protection. The hybrid approach layers lattice‑based Kyber on existing elliptic‑curve primitives, securing backend APIs, Keeper Commander, and upcoming mobile apps. This rollout aligns...
By Quantum Computing Report
News•Feb 26, 2026
D-Wave Quantum Inc (QBTS) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript
D‑Wave Quantum reported fiscal 2025 revenue of $24.6 million, up 179% year‑over‑year, driven by $16.2 million in system sales and $5.5 million in QCaaS subscriptions. Bookings jumped 471% in Q4 to $13.4 million after a €10 million multiyear contract, while the sales pipeline expanded nearly...
By Motley Fool – Earnings Transcripts
News•Feb 25, 2026
A Robust New Telecom Qubit Identified in Silicon
Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have identified a new silicon defect, the carbon‑nitrogen (CN) center, as a robust telecom‑band qubit. Unlike the previously studied T center, the CN center contains no hydrogen, making it structurally stable and easier to fabricate....
By Phys.org (Quantum Physics News)
News•Feb 25, 2026
Ion Bombardment Triggers a Reliable Quantum Switch in Tantalum Disulfide Crystals
A collaborative team from TU Wien and Kiel University demonstrated that a single highly charged ion impact reliably flips the electronic chirality of 1T‑TaS₂ crystals, acting as a deterministic quantum switch. The ion‑induced disturbance drives the material out of equilibrium,...
By Phys.org (Quantum Physics News)
News•Feb 25, 2026
Space ISAC Launches New Quantum Initiative
Space ISAC has announced a new quantum initiative, launching its first Quantum Community of Interest (COI) meeting on Feb. 25, co‑hosted with MITRE. The COI will explore how quantum technologies can strengthen security and resilience across space systems, which underpin critical...
By Via Satellite
News•Feb 25, 2026
Autonomous Robot Runs Quantum-Inspired Optimization in Real Time
Japanese tech giant Toshiba and MIRISE Technologies have embedded their Simulated Bifurcation Machine, a quantum‑inspired optimization engine, into an autonomous mobile robot. The on‑board FPGA runs a new multi‑object tracking algorithm at 23 frames per second, delivering up to 23%...
By The AI Insider
News•Feb 25, 2026
A Protocol to Realize Near-Perfect Atom-Photon Entanglement
Researchers at Academia Sinica and Harvard have refined the state‑carving (SC) protocol, enabling near‑perfect atom‑photon entanglement by letting a single photon interact twice with atoms inside an optical cavity. The revised method eliminates the 50 % success ceiling of the original...
By Phys.org (Quantum Physics News)
News•Feb 24, 2026
IonQ Hires Trio of Dell Vets to Lead Federal Push
IonQ has bolstered its federal division by appointing three former Dell executives to senior roles, while former NGA director Robert Cardillo serves as executive chairman. Steve Harris will lead the go‑to‑market organization, Cameron Chehreh will head field engineering, and Mike...
By Washington Technology
News•Feb 24, 2026
Quantcore Secures £2.5M ($3.4M USD) to Establish Sovereign Niobium-Based Quantum Hardware Manufacturing
Quantcore, a University of Glasgow spin‑out, closed a £2.5 million seed round led by PXN Ventures, Blackfinch Ventures and Scottish Enterprise. The funding will be used to build a sovereign niobium‑based quantum hardware manufacturing line at the James Watt Nanofabrication Centre,...
By Quantum Computing Report
News•Feb 24, 2026
BluGlass Secures A$190,000 Order From TOPTICA for Custom GaN Visible Lasers
BluGlass Ltd secured a A$190,000 (US$132,500) order from TOPTICA Photonics to supply custom gallium‑nitride visible‑wavelength lasers for photonic integrated circuits. The lasers will be used in TOPTICA’s next‑generation single‑frequency PICs that enable quantum capabilities for trapped‑ion, neutral‑atom, and photonic quantum...
By Semiconductor Today
News•Feb 24, 2026
Assessing the Practical Feasibility of the Clader-Jacobs-Sprouse Quantum Algorithm for Calculating Radar Cross Sections
The 2013 Clader‑Jacobs‑Sprouse (CJS) quantum algorithm promises an exponential speedup for electromagnetic scattering problems, including radar cross‑section (RCS) calculations. A new study compares its end‑to‑end complexity with the best classical finite‑element method and finds the theoretical advantage offset by massive...
By RAND Blog/Analysis
News•Feb 23, 2026
IonQ Selected for Missile Defense Agency SHIELD IDIQ Contract
IonQ has been named an eligible contractor for the Missile Defense Agency’s SHIELD IDIQ contract, a multi‑year procurement vehicle with a $151 billion ceiling. The selection positions IonQ among more than 2,400 firms competing for future task orders that support rapid,...
By Quantum Computing Report
News•Feb 23, 2026
NQFF and Qolab Collaborate on Wafer-Scale Cryogenic Filters for Quantum Scaling
National Quantum Federated Foundry (NQFF) and Qolab have launched a research partnership to create integrated cryogenic low‑pass filters on silicon wafers for superconducting and spin‑qubit processors. By moving from discrete, bulky filters to wafer‑scale fabrication, the collaboration aims to shrink...
By Quantum Computing Report
News•Feb 23, 2026
Quantum Computers Go High-Dimensional with a Four-State Photon Gate
A joint effort by TU Wien and Chinese researchers has demonstrated a heralded quantum logic gate that operates on two photons each encoded in four distinct quantum states, or qudits. The gate leverages the photons' orbital angular momentum rather than...
By Phys.org (Quantum Physics News)
News•Feb 23, 2026
Quantum Algorithm Beats Classical Tools on Complement Sampling Tasks
Researchers at Quantinuum and QuSoft have introduced a quantum algorithm that solves the complement sampling problem using a single quantum sample, a task that classically requires on the order of N samples when the subset size is half the universe....
By Phys.org (Quantum Physics News)
News•Feb 22, 2026
Quantum Reservoir Computing Peaks at the Edge of Many-Body Chaos, Study Suggests
University of Tokyo researchers demonstrated that quantum reservoir computing (QRC) achieves its highest accuracy when operating at the edge of many‑body quantum chaos. By applying random‑matrix theory to the Sachdev‑Ye‑Kitaev (SYK) model, they identified two distinct chaos boundaries—in the time...
By Phys.org (Quantum Physics News)
News•Feb 21, 2026
Tectonic Labs Releases PQ Wallet and Post-Quantum Audit Services for EVM Chains
Tectonic Labs unveiled PQ Wallet, a browser‑based EVM extension that supports Falcon‑512 quantum‑resistant signatures, available for Chrome, Firefox, and via a command‑line interface for developers. The wallet offers two operating modes: a “Quantum‑secure” mode that signs transactions with post‑quantum keys...
By Quantum Computing Report
News•Feb 21, 2026
MerLin: Framework for Differentiable Photonic Quantum Machine Learning
MerLin 0.3, an open‑source framework from Quandela, brings photonic and hybrid quantum machine learning into standard AI pipelines. Built on the Perceval SDK, it uses Strong Linear Optical Simulation to compute exact quantum states inside a PyTorch‑native environment via a QuantumLayer...
By Quantum Computing Report
News•Feb 20, 2026
Quantum: Photonic Inc. Names Executive Chair and Four Directors
Photonic Inc., a Vancouver‑based distributed quantum computing firm, announced a refreshed board after a CAD 180 million financing round. Alex van Someren returns as Executive Chair, while Don Mattrick takes the Vice Chair role. New directors include Nathan Medlock, Ashton Scordo, and existing founders Stephanie Simmons...
By InsideHPC (Quantum Computing)
News•Feb 20, 2026
Quantum and Games: The Shift Developers Can’t Afford to Ignore
Quantum computing is poised to reshape game development by tackling the most complex design problems, not by running games in real time. Developers are already leveraging quantum algorithms for procedural generation, rule‑validation across massive worlds, and hard‑to‑find bug elimination, feeding...
By Quantum Computing Report
News•Feb 20, 2026
Quantum Computing Weekly Round-Up: Week Ending February 21, 2026
The weekly roundup spotlights rapid progress in quantum hardware, with packaging technologies scaling to industrial volumes and a metro‑scale networking demo achieving 50‑kilometer entanglement. Legal and financial frameworks are emerging to manage post‑quantum cryptography risk, while venture capital pours $250 million...
By The Qubit Report
News•Feb 20, 2026
NIST’s Quantum Breakthrough: Single Photons Produced on a Chip
NIST announced a chip that reliably generates a single photon on demand using quantum‑dot technology. The device achieves near‑perfect efficiency and, when paired with superconducting nanowire single‑photon detectors, can transmit photons up to 600 miles. Mass‑production of the chip is...
By SecurityWeek
News•Feb 20, 2026
Quantum Entanglement Could Link Distant Telescopes for Sharper Images
Researchers from the University of Arizona, University of Maryland and NASA have proposed a quantum‑entanglement‑based long‑baseline interferometry method that eliminates the need for fragile optical links between distant telescopes. By sharing pre‑distributed entangled qubits and using spatial‑mode sorters at each...
By Phys.org (Quantum Physics News)
News•Feb 20, 2026
Federal Government Slips $12.7 Million to 8 Quantum Projects Tackling Energy, Minerals and Health
The Australian federal government allocated an additional $12.7 million to eight collaborative quantum‑technology demonstrators, expanding the $35.9 million National Quantum Strategy. Funding ranges from $1.1 million for a data‑centre cooling solution to $2.4 million for rare‑earth detection in mines. Projects span energy optimisation, medical...
By Startup Daily (ANZ)
News•Feb 20, 2026
Tower Semiconductor and Xanadu Industrialize Silicon Photonic Quantum Stack
Tower Semiconductor and quantum‑computing startup Xanadu have broadened their partnership to industrialize a silicon‑photonic quantum stack. Leveraging Tower’s PH18 200 mm silicon photonics platform, the joint effort will transition Xanadu’s low‑loss SiN waveguide and integrated photodiode designs from prototype to high‑volume...
By Quantum Computing Report
News•Feb 20, 2026
Quantum eMotion to Transition Trading Operations to NYSE American Exchange
Quantum eMotion Corp. received approval to list its common shares on NYSE American under the ticker QNC, with trading slated to start around February 24, 2026. The move will see the company exit the OTCQB market while retaining listings on the TSX Venture...
By Quantum Computing Report
News•Feb 20, 2026
AQT Integrates IBEX Q1 Trapped-Ion QPU Into Scaleway Sovereign Cloud
Alpine Quantum Technologies and Scaleway have integrated AQT’s IBEX Q1 trapped‑ion quantum processor into Scaleway’s sovereign Quantum‑as‑a‑Service platform. The QPU, featuring all‑to‑all qubit connectivity and high gate fidelity, is accessible via open‑source frameworks without reservation during set time windows. Hosted...
By Quantum Computing Report
News•Feb 19, 2026
2 Top Quantum Computing Stocks to Buy in 2026
Quantum‑computing stocks have fallen sharply in early 2026, making IonQ and IBM attractive entry points. IonQ (IONQ) trades around $33, bolstered by a 222% YoY revenue jump and recent acquisitions including SkyWater to control chip manufacturing. IBM (IBM) trades near...
By Motley Fool Investing
News•Feb 19, 2026
D-Wave Joins Southeastern Quantum Collaborative as an Inaugural Member
D‑Wave Quantum Inc. has joined the newly formed Southeastern Quantum Collaborative (SQC) as an inaugural member alongside the University of Alabama in Huntsville, Davidson Technologies, IBM and Alabama A&M University. The partnership aims to unite academia, industry and government to...
By InsideHPC (Quantum Computing)
News•Feb 19, 2026
Triplet Superconductivity—Physicists May Have Found the Missing Link for Quantum Computers
Physicists led by Jacob Linder at Norway’s NTNU claim to have observed intrinsic triplet superconductivity in a niobium‑rhenium (NbRe) alloy. The discovery, published in Physical Review Letters, suggests NbRe can carry spin‑polarized Cooper pairs without resistance, a property absent in...
By Phys.org (Quantum Physics News)
News•Feb 19, 2026
Quantum Co-Laboratory Expands Its National Partnership, Strengthening Canada’s Leadership in Quantum Science and Technology
Canada’s Quantum Co‑laboratory has entered its second five‑year term, adding the University of Calgary’s Institute for Quantum Science and Technology to its existing partners—University of Waterloo, Université de Sherbrooke, and UBC’s Blusson Quantum Matter Institute. The expanded network provides researchers,...
By Institute for Quantum Computing (UW)
News•Feb 19, 2026
Palm Beach County Receives $1M Federal Funding to Expand Quantum Ecosystem
The Business Development Board of Palm Beach County secured a $1,031,000 federal grant to coordinate regional quantum technology initiatives and workforce training. Palm Beach State College also received over $2 million to launch a Quantum Innovation Center that will serve as...
By Quantum Computing Report
News•Feb 18, 2026
Quantum Simulator Reveals Statistical Localization that Keeps Most Qubit States Frozen
Researchers at Duke University used a neutral‑atom Rydberg quantum simulator to observe statistical localization, a phenomenon where most qubit configurations remain frozen despite quantum evolution. The effect, first theorized in 2020, was demonstrated in a one‑dimensional chain of rubidium atoms...
By Phys.org (Quantum Physics News)
News•Feb 18, 2026
Simplifying Quantum Simulations—Symmetry Can Cut Computational Effort by Several Orders of Magnitude
Physicists Guido Burkard and Joris Kattemölle introduced a symmetry‑based method that slashes the computational effort of quantum simulations by over a thousandfold. By treating repeating lattice patterns as single tiles, the approach replaces thousands of point‑by‑point mappings with a few...
By Phys.org (Quantum Physics News)
News•Feb 18, 2026
Microscopic Mirrors for Future Quantum Networks: A New Way to Make High-Performance Optical Resonators
Harvard SEAS researchers have introduced a micro‑fabrication technique that creates some of the smallest, smoothest mirrors ever made for photon control. By thermally oxidizing silicon, stripping the oxide, and applying a stress‑engineered dielectric stack, the film buckles into a precisely...
By Phys.org (Quantum Physics News)
News•Feb 18, 2026
Measuring Chaos: Researchers Quantify the Quantum Butterfly Effect
Chinese researchers led by Yu‑Chen Li have, for the first time, precisely quantified the exponential growth of chaos in a quantum many‑body system during a time‑reversal protocol. Using solid‑state nuclear magnetic resonance, they measured out‑of‑time‑ordered correlators (OTOCs) and applied a...
By Phys.org (Quantum Physics News)
News•Feb 18, 2026
French VC Quantonation Raises €220 Million for Flagship Quantum and Deep-Physics Fund
Quantonation Ventures closed its second flagship fund at €220 million, making it the world’s largest dedicated quantum‑investment vehicle by assets under management. The round attracted both returning backers such as Vertex Holdings and new limited partners including the European Investment Fund,...
By EU-Startups
News•Feb 18, 2026
An Italian Court Annuls a Previous €47 Million ($55.6M USD) Award to IBM for Providing a Quantum Computer at the...
In December 2024 the Campania region launched a €62.1 million tender for a quantum computer at the University of Salerno. After extending the deadline by one week, IBM submitted a late bid and was awarded the contract in September 2025 for...
By Quantum Computing Report
News•Feb 18, 2026
NTT Data to Establish Innovation Ecosystem with Melbourne Uni
NTT Data and the University of Melbourne have signed a memorandum of understanding to create an innovation ecosystem that blends the university’s research strengths with NTT Data’s global technical expertise. The partnership will focus on three pillars: cultivating digital talent,...
By ARN (Australia)
News•Feb 17, 2026
Breakthrough Victoria Scores 5x Uplift on Investment in US Quantum Startup Listing on the NYSE
Breakthrough Victoria’s A$29 million stake in US‑based Infleqtion has generated a five‑fold value increase after the company listed on the NYSE via a SPAC merger. Infleqtion raised US$550 million, debuting at US$14.25 per share and closing at US$15.59, a 14% first‑day gain....
By Startup Daily (ANZ)
News•Feb 17, 2026
Quantum Computing Can Solve the Hardest Port Scheduling Problems
Quantum computing is emerging as a complementary tool for the most complex optimization challenges in maritime logistics. While classical platforms handle data and routine analytics, hybrid workflows off‑load dense, constraint‑heavy subproblems—such as berth allocation, crane sequencing, and drayage routing—to quantum...
By The Maritime Executive
News•Feb 17, 2026
Pasqal Delivers Italy’s First Neutral Atom Quantum Computer
Pasqal has delivered a 140‑qubit neutral‑atom quantum computer to Italy’s CINECA supercomputing centre, marking the nation’s first on‑site neutral‑atom system. The QPU is tightly coupled with Leonardo, one of the world’s most powerful pre‑exascale supercomputers, creating a hybrid HPC‑quantum architecture....
By Quantum Computing Report
News•Feb 17, 2026
Kipu Quantum Launches Rimay for Industrial Quantum-Enhanced Machine Learning
Kipu Quantum announced the general availability of Rimay, a quantum‑enhanced feature extraction service that plugs into existing classical machine‑learning pipelines. The platform leverages digitized counterdiabatic driving on IBM’s 156‑qubit processors to capture higher‑order data correlations inaccessible to classical algorithms. Early...
By Quantum Computing Report
News•Feb 17, 2026
Comcast, Classiq, and AMD Demonstrate Quantum-Optimized Internet Resilience
Comcast, Classiq, and AMD completed a technical trial that used quantum algorithms to improve global internet routing resilience. The experiment tackled the NP‑hard problem of finding vertex‑disjoint backup paths by applying the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) in a hybrid...
By Quantum Computing Report
News•Feb 17, 2026
New Amplifier Design Promises Less Noise, More Gain for Quantum Computers
RIKEN researchers have unveiled a new Josephson traveling‑wave parametric amplifier (JTWPA) that cuts added noise to 0.68 quanta, just 0.18 above the quantum limit, while delivering high gain. The device replaces lossy dielectric with a spiraled, fish‑bone‑like tapered waveguide, simplifying...
By Phys.org (Quantum Physics News)