News•Feb 2, 2026
EU Allocates €50M ($59M USD) to SUPREME Consortium for Superconducting Quantum Industrialization
The European Union has committed €50 million—half from EU funds and half from national agencies—to the SUPREME consortium, led by Finland's VTT, to industrialize superconducting quantum technologies. The three‑and‑a‑half‑year program targets Technology Readiness Level 6 and Manufacturing Readiness Level 6, culminating in a 200‑qubit 3D‑integrated module. By providing Process Design Kits and shared pilot runs, SUPREME aims to lower entry barriers for SMEs and startups. The effort aligns with the European Quantum Strategy and the European Chips Act to secure a domestic quantum supply chain.
By Quantum Computing Report
News•Feb 2, 2026
EPB Launches Quantum Computing Fellowship Supported by $4 Million NIST Grant
EPB in Chattanooga has launched a Quantum Computing Fellowship backed by a $4 million grant from NIST. The eight‑person inaugural cohort will train on IonQ’s Forte Enterprise system, a 36‑qubit trapped‑ion quantum computer installed at EPB’s downtown Quantum Center. Developed with...
By Quantum Computing Report
News•Feb 2, 2026
91-Qubit Processor Accurately Simulates Many-Body Quantum Chaos
A team using a 91‑qubit superconducting quantum processor has accurately simulated many‑body quantum chaos. They employed dual‑unitary circuits to model a kicked Ising system and applied tensor‑network error mitigation (TEM) to correct noise in post‑processing. The error‑mitigated results closely follow...
By Phys.org (Quantum Physics News)
News•Feb 2, 2026
QuEra and Roadrunner Venture Studios Establish $4M Quantum Testbed in New Mexico
QuEra Computing and Roadrunner Venture Studios have signed a $4 million partnership to build a neutral‑atom quantum testbed in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The effort, part of the state’s $300 million quantum‑economy investment, will create a Photonics and Optics Testing Center and a...
By Quantum Computing Report
News•Feb 2, 2026
2025 - The Year of Quantum
Quantum computing is moving from theoretical research to commercial opportunity, with startups already delivering products in cybersecurity, networking, middleware, and sensing. Andy Leaver of Notion Capital argues that waiting for fault‑tolerant, cryptography‑breaking machines is unnecessary; viable markets exist today. He...
By Notion Capital
News•Jan 30, 2026
Quobly Establishes Canadian Subsidiary to Accelerate Silicon Spin Qubit Industrialization
Quobly, the Grenoble‑based silicon quantum processor developer, has launched a subsidiary in Sherbrooke, Quebec to embed itself in the North American quantum ecosystem. The new hub will collaborate with DistriQ, C2MI and the Université de Sherbrooke to accelerate cryogenic electronics,...
By Quantum Computing Report
News•Jan 30, 2026
Stanford Researchers Develop Cavity-Array Microscope for Parallel Atom-Array Interfacing
Stanford physicists Jon Simon and Adam Shaw unveiled a cavity‑array microscope that reads out individual neutral‑atom qubits in parallel. The macro‑scale resonator, equipped with a microlens array, creates over 40 tightly focused optical modes, each strongly coupled to a single...
By Quantum Computing Report
News•Jan 30, 2026
Numana Commissions Kirq Quantum Communication Testbed in Quebec City
Numana has commissioned the third Kirq quantum communication testbed site in Quebec City, completing a regional loop that also includes Montreal and Sherbrooke. The facility, hosted at the Centre for Optics, Photonics and Lasers (COPL‑ULaval) and the National Optics Institute...
By Quantum Computing Report
News•Jan 30, 2026
Nanosculpting Quantum Materials
Researchers at TU Wien have unveiled a refined focused ion milling method that can sculpt three‑dimensional chiral nanostructures directly from single‑crystal quantum materials. The technique achieves sub‑10 nm feature sizes while preserving the crystal lattice and intrinsic quantum properties. Results, published...
By Nature Nanotechnology
News•Jan 29, 2026
China’s Micius Satellite Operational Status: What Have You Done Lately?
The Chinese Micius satellite, launched in 2016 for the QUESS quantum‑experiments program, was designed for a two‑year mission but remains operational in 2025. It continues to host quantum key distribution and entanglement experiments, proving the durability of space‑based quantum hardware....
By The Qubit Report
News•Jan 29, 2026
Quantum-Ready Security Drives Keyfactor to 2025 Inc. 5000 List
Keyfactor earned a spot on the 2025 Inc. 5000 list for the sixth year in a row, driven by surging demand for quantum‑ready security solutions. The Cleveland‑based firm launched the AI‑powered Keyfactor Command MCP Server to streamline PKI and certificate...
By The Qubit Report
News•Jan 29, 2026
Quantum Cybersecurity Policy: ITI’s Guide for Secure Innovation
On World Quantum Day 2025 the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI) published a Quantum Technology Policy Guide that frames quantum cybersecurity as a dual‑track challenge. The guide urges immediate deployment of post‑quantum cryptography (PQC) while promoting quantum communications such as...
By The Qubit Report
News•Jan 29, 2026
Archer Materials Advances Graphene and Carbon Quantum Technologies
Archer Materials announced significant progress in its graphene‑based quantum computing program during the December 2025 quarter, including on‑chip electrical detection of spin states and precise gating of carbon films. The company recorded room‑temperature electron spin lifetimes exceeding 0.4 µs and demonstrated wafer‑scale...
By Graphene-Info
News•Jan 29, 2026
In-Space Manufacturing, Quantum Projects Part of All-Boilermaker Suborbital Spaceflight
Purdue University is expanding its 2027 all‑Boilermaker suborbital mission, Purdue 1, by adding two autonomous research lockers that will fly aboard a Virgin Galactic spacecraft. One locker will test laser‑assisted semiconductor and metal manufacturing in microgravity, while the other will study...
By SpaceDaily
News•Jan 28, 2026
Options Technology Introduces Quantum Computing Into Market Infrastructure Behind FX and CFDs
Options Technology has launched what it calls the first commercially accessible quantum computing node in New York City, linking it to its low‑latency global infrastructure. The service lets clients offload specific, high‑value workloads—such as large‑scale portfolio optimization and derivatives risk...
By Finance Magnates Fintech
News•Jan 27, 2026
EmergeGen Announces Scaled Quantum Initiative Advancing Enterprise AI Systems
AI startup EmergeGen announced an expanded quantum initiative that moves quantum computing from research to production within enterprise AI systems. The company has built a scaled quantum team across New York, the United Kingdom and Malta, leveraging partner infrastructure to...
By AiThority
News•Jan 27, 2026
China Reports Mass Production of Dilution Refrigerators; Is a Global He-3 Shortfall Coming?
China’s Anhui Quantum Computing Engineering Research Center announced that its EZ‑Q dilution refrigerator entered mass production, with deliveries beginning in the second quarter of 2023 and performance claims of temperatures at or below 10 mK. Vendor specifications from QuantumCTek and Origin...
By The Qubit Report
News•Jan 26, 2026
Collaboration of Elementary Particles: How Teamwork Among Photon Pairs Overcomes Quantum Errors
Researchers at the University of Rostock have demonstrated that encoding information in pairs of photons—rather than single photons—dramatically reduces quantum‑error rates. Using a high‑power laser‑written waveguide chip, they showed that photon‑pair holonomies remain stable even when device parameters shift by...
By Phys.org (Quantum Physics News)
News•Jan 26, 2026
AI Makes Quantum Field Theories Computable
Researchers at TU Wien, together with U.S. and Swiss teams, have used a custom neural network to optimize lattice formulations of quantum field theories. The AI‑driven approach parameterizes the action on coarse lattices while preserving fixed‑point properties, yielding errors far...
By Phys.org (Quantum Physics News)
News•Jan 26, 2026
Qunova Launches HI-VQE Chemistry Algorithm on AWS Marketplace for Braket Integration
Qunova Computing has released its HI‑VQE chemistry algorithm on the AWS Marketplace, integrating it with Amazon Braket. The hardware‑agnostic solution runs on trapped‑ion, superconducting and neutral‑atom processors from providers such as IonQ, IQM, QuEra, AQT and Rigetti. HI‑VQE’s “handover” iteration...
By Quantum Computing Report
News•Jan 26, 2026
CISA Releases List of Post-Quantum Cryptography Product Categories
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released its first list of hardware and software product categories that support or are transitioning to post‑quantum cryptography (PQC) standards. The list, compiled with the NSA, follows Executive Order 14306 and targets cloud...
By Infosecurity Magazine
News•Jan 26, 2026
Quantum Computing Firm IonQ Acquires US Semiconductor Firm SkyWater for $1.8 Billion
IonQ announced a definitive agreement to acquire SkyWater Technology for $35 per share, valuing the semiconductor foundry at roughly $1.8 billion in a cash‑and‑stock transaction. The deal creates a vertically integrated quantum platform that combines IonQ’s fault‑tolerant quantum processors with SkyWater’s...
By Help Net Security
News•Jan 25, 2026
Superconducting Nanowire Memory Array Achieves Significantly Lower Error Rate
MIT researchers have demonstrated a 4 × 4 superconducting nanowire memory array that operates at 1.3 K and delivers a bit‑error rate of roughly 10⁻⁵, a ten‑fold improvement over earlier designs. The cell architecture combines temperature‑dependent switches with a kinetic inductor, enabling precise...
By Phys.org (Quantum Physics News)
News•Jan 25, 2026
Quantum Tech in Banking and Fintech: The Next Big Thing
Quantum technology is transitioning from theory to proof‑of‑concept within finance, with banks and fintech firms launching pilots in portfolio optimisation, fraud detection, and quantum‑secure communications. Quantum computing's ability to solve large‑scale optimisation and accelerate Monte Carlo simulations promises faster risk...
By Finextra
News•Jan 24, 2026
Ethereum Foundation Makes Post Quantum Security a Top Priority as New Team Forms
The Ethereum Foundation announced a dedicated Post‑Quantum team, elevating quantum‑resistant security to a top strategic priority. Led by Thomas Coratger and supported by Emile, the group will accelerate wallet safety upgrades, research prizes and test networks. A bi‑weekly developer session...
By CoinDesk
News•Jan 24, 2026
Bitcoin’s Weakness versus Gold and Equities Puts Quantum Computing Fears Back in Focus
Bitcoin slipped below $89,000, a 30% drop from its early‑October peak, while gold hit a record $4,930 an ounce and silver surged 3.7%. The price weakness has reignited quantum‑computing fears, highlighted by investor Nic Carter, but on‑chain analysts attribute the...
By CoinDesk
News•Jan 23, 2026
Particle Permutation Task Can Be Tackled by Quantum but Not Classical Computers, Study Finds
Researchers at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and CUNY’s Hunter College have shown that quantum computers can determine the even‑odd parity of particle permutations without labeling each particle, a task impossible for classical computers. By preparing qubits in entangled states...
By Phys.org (Quantum Physics News)
News•Jan 23, 2026
QMill: Projecting Verifiable Quantum Advantage via 48-Qubit NISQ Algorithms
QMill announced a 48‑qubit NISQ algorithm that reaches verifiable quantum advantage at 99.94% gate fidelity, far below the 200‑qubit, 99.99% benchmark traditionally required. Numerical simulations show the implementation outpaces the El Capitan exascale supercomputer, delivering a six‑fold error‑tolerance improvement. The algorithm’s...
By Quantum Computing Report
News•Jan 23, 2026
ZenaTech Advances Proprietary Quantum Hardware Platform for Defense and Government Sectors
ZenaTech announced progress on its proprietary quantum computing hardware, targeting a five‑qubit prototype for U.S. defense and government use by late 2026. The platform will process high‑volume data from ZenaDrone swarms, delivering real‑time decision support for ISR missions. Integration with...
By Quantum Computing Report
News•Jan 23, 2026
Arqit Launches ‘Encryption Intelligence’ to Automate Discovery for Post-Quantum Migration
Arqit Quantum has launched Encryption Intelligence (EI), an automated SaaS platform that inventories an organization’s cryptographic assets across cloud, OT and legacy systems. The tool identifies obsolete algorithms and protocols, providing real‑time visibility to accelerate post‑quantum cryptography (PQC) migration and...
By Quantum Computing Report
News•Jan 23, 2026
Chicago State University Launches Illinois’ First Public University Quantum and Semiconductor Credentials
Chicago State University has introduced Illinois’ first public‑university quantum and semiconductor credentials, offering a Minor and Certificate in Quantum Information Science & Engineering and a Certificate in Semiconductor Technology and Manufacturing. The programs, approved by the Illinois Board of Higher...
By Quantum Computing Report
News•Jan 22, 2026
Microsoft Opens Applications for 2026 Quantum Pioneers Program Targeting Measurement-Based Computing
Microsoft announced the 2026 Quantum Pioneers Program, a competitive research grant aimed at advancing measurement‑based quantum computing (MBQC). Up to five academic proposals will receive up to $200,000 each for a 12‑month project starting August 2026. The program focuses on...
By Quantum Computing Report
News•Jan 22, 2026
IBM Releases Qiskit v2.3 with Expanded C API and Fault-Tolerant Primitives
IBM has launched Qiskit SDK version 2.3, emphasizing tighter integration with high‑performance computing and fault‑tolerant compilation pipelines. The update expands the C API with new QkDag and QkTarget objects, allowing custom transpiler passes in C, and introduces Rust‑driven performance gains...
By Quantum Computing Report
News•Jan 22, 2026
Entangled Atomic Clouds Enable More Precise Quantum Measurements
Researchers at the University of Basel and France's Laboratoire Kastler Brossel have demonstrated that three spatially separated atomic clouds can be entangled to perform multiparameter quantum measurements with unprecedented precision. By first creating a collective spin‑squeezed state and then dividing...
By Phys.org (Quantum Physics News)
News•Jan 22, 2026
Microsoft Releases Open-Source Quantum Development Tools for Error Correction and Chemistry
Microsoft unveiled an updated, open‑source Quantum Development Kit that integrates with VS Code, GitHub Copilot, and supports Q#, OpenQASM, Qiskit, and Cirq, enabling seamless movement from local simulation to Azure cloud execution. The release highlights two new domain libraries: QDK for Chemistry,...
By Quantum Computing Report
News•Jan 22, 2026
Montana State University’s QCORE Secures $31.5 Million AFRL Contract for Quantum Infrastructure
Montana State University’s Quantum Collaborative Research and Education (QCORE) facility secured a $31.5 million contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory to expand quantum infrastructure, including test beds for superconducting and photonic quantum computers, cryogenic labs, and secure network systems. The...
By Quantum Computing Report
News•Jan 22, 2026
Nexus Launches Global Platform for Verified Quantum and Deep-Tech Investment
Nexus unveiled a global platform, built with Global Quantum Intelligence, to connect quantum and deep‑tech startups with verified investors, adding a technical verification layer that audits claims and benchmarks performance. The service, already hosting over 45 companies and $350 million in...
By Quantum Computing Report
News•Jan 22, 2026
SpinQ Technology Secures Hundreds of Millions of RMB in Series C Funding for Superconducting Scale-Up
SpinQ Technology announced a Series C round that raised hundreds of millions of RMB, earmarked for scaling its superconducting quantum chip line and advancing error‑correction, measurement, and control hardware toward a 100‑qubit processor. The funding supports a dual‑track strategy: exporting portable,...
By Quantum Computing Report
News•Jan 22, 2026
3D-Printed Surfaces Help Atoms Play Ball to Improve Quantum Sensors
Scientists at the University of Nottingham have 3D‑printed titanium alloy surfaces with intricate hexagonal and conical textures that steer gas particles away from quantum sensors. By integrating these patterns into a surface‑based vacuum pump, they achieved a 3.8‑fold increase in...
By Phys.org (Quantum Physics News)
News•Jan 22, 2026
Keyfactor and IBM Consulting Launch Joint Solution to Accelerate Post-Quantum Cryptography Readiness
Keyfactor and IBM Consulting have unveiled a joint solution that streamlines post‑quantum cryptography (PQC) readiness for enterprises. The offering blends Keyfactor’s automated cryptographic discovery, PKI lifecycle management, and digital signing with IBM Consulting’s cybersecurity governance, quantum‑safe delivery frameworks, and AI‑driven...
By SiliconANGLE
News•Jan 22, 2026
Magnetic 'Sweet Spots' Enable Optimal Operation of Hole Spin Qubits
Researchers at the CEA‑Irig Pheliqs lab have identified specific magnetic‑field orientations, termed “sweet spots,” that render silicon hole spin qubits insensitive to electrical charge noise while preserving fast electric‑driven control. Experiments on single‑hole quantum dots demonstrated a marked increase in...
By Phys.org (Quantum Physics News)
News•Jan 22, 2026
Europe Launches €50 Million ($58.4 Million USD) ‘Photonics for Quantum’ (P4Q) Pilot Line to Industrialize Quantum Photonic Chips
Europe has launched the €50 million Photonics for Quantum (P4Q) pilot line, a joint EU and national effort coordinated by the University of Twente to industrialize quantum photonic chips for computing, sensing, and secure communications. The consortium of 29 partners will...
By Quantum Computing Report
News•Jan 21, 2026
Saudi Arabia’s KAUST Establishes National Quantum Foundry for Quantum Hardware Fabrication
The episode explains how King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) has launched Saudi Arabia’s first shared‑access quantum foundry, a dedicated clean‑room facility for reproducible, commercial‑grade quantum hardware. It highlights the use of Process Design Kits to standardize design...
By Quantum Computing Report
News•Jan 21, 2026
Ability Engineering Technology Joins Chicago Quantum Exchange to Strengthen Infrastructure Supply Chain
Ability Engineering Technology (AET) has become a corporate partner of the Chicago Quantum Exchange to provide high‑precision cryogenic, vacuum, and pressure‑vessel hardware essential for scaling superconducting and silicon quantum processors. The partnership aims to eliminate engineering bottlenecks in moving quantum...
By Quantum Computing Report
News•Jan 21, 2026
Two-Dimensional Materials Expand Options for Next-Generation Terahertz Quantum Devices
Scientists at the National University of Singapore have shown that atomic‑scale substitutional dopants in two‑dimensional transition‑metal dichalcogenides can act as stable quantum defects with terahertz‑range zero‑field splitting. High‑throughput first‑principles simulations of 50 MoS₂ and WSe₂ monolayers identified several spin‑triplet defects...
By Phys.org – Nanotechnology
News•Jan 21, 2026
Quantum-Enabled Proteins Open a New Frontier in Biotechnology
University of Oxford engineers quantum‑enabled proteins, creating magneto‑sensitive fluorescent proteins (MFPs) that respond to magnetic and radio‑frequency fields when illuminated. Published in Nature, the study demonstrates deliberate design of quantum mechanical processes inside biomolecules, moving beyond observation of natural quantum...
By Phys.org – Biotechnology
News•Jan 21, 2026
Too Much Entanglement? Quantum Networks Can Suffer From 'Selfish Routing,' Study Shows
Northwestern researchers have demonstrated that in multi‑user quantum communication networks, increasing the amount of shared entanglement can paradoxically degrade overall fidelity when each pair routes selfishly. By modeling non‑cooperative routing decisions, they showed that mixed entangled states generate a quantum...
By Phys.org (Quantum Physics News)
News•Jan 21, 2026
Alice & Bob Introduce ‘Elevator Codes’ for Resource-Efficient Fault Tolerance
Alice & Bob unveiled “Elevator Codes,” a quantum error‑correction architecture that leverages the noise bias of cat qubits to dramatically cut hardware overhead while achieving a 10,000‑fold reduction in logical error rates. By nesting a 1D repetition code for phase‑flip protection...
By Quantum Computing Report
News•Jan 21, 2026
Quantum Collapse Models Point to Subtle Limits in Timekeeping Accuracy
An international team examined the Diósi‑Penrose and Continuous Spontaneous Localization (CSL) quantum collapse models and demonstrated that, if these models are correct, time itself carries a tiny intrinsic uncertainty. This fuzziness imposes a fundamental, though extraordinarily small, limit on the...
By SpaceDaily
News•Jan 21, 2026
Q/C Technologies Appoints AI Systems Leader Chelsea Voss to BOD
Q/C Technologies announced the appointment of Chelsea Voss, a senior technical staff member at OpenAI, to its Board of Directors. Voss brings extensive experience in machine‑learning infrastructure, model evaluation, and hardware reliability, complementing Q/C’s focus on quantum‑class photonic computing. The...
By AI-TechPark