UCL researchers have developed a groundbreaking technique using arsenic atoms in silicon that achieves a 97% success rate for single-atom placement (compared to phosphorus’s 70%), potentially solving quantum computing’s twin challenges of error rates and scalability through scanning tunneling microscopy hydrogen resist lithography.
Researchers at China’s USTC have developed Zuchongzhi-3, a groundbreaking 105-qubit quantum computer that processes calculations 10^15 times faster than the most powerful supercomputers and one million times faster than Google’s latest quantum systems, marking a significant advancement in quantum supremacy.
IonQ is acquiring a controlling stake in quantum safe networking leader ID Quantique (IDQ) to strengthen its global quantum ecosystem, accelerate quantum networking development, and establish a strategic partnership with SK Telecom, with the acquisition expected to close in Q2 2025.
Quantum Machines has raised $170 million in Series C funding, bringing its total to $280 million, as the company’s hybrid control technology for quantum computing systems gains widespread adoption across the industry during a breakthrough year marked by significant hardware and error correction advancements.
An international research team has developed a groundbreaking technique to integrate superconductors with semiconductors by patterning platinum on germanium and heating it to form a superconducting alloy, demonstrating coherent quantum states that could enable hybrid quantum processors combining the scalability of semiconductor qubits with the long-range connectivity of superconducting circuits.
Atos announces the development of a new Quantum Annealing Simulator via its existing Atos Quantum Learning Machine offering (Atos QLM).
Swiss Zurich Instruments joins a new partner network, Chicago Quantum Exchange (CQE), which is a Chicago-based research hub (one of the largest QT research hubs in the USA) with the goal of advancing academic and industrial […]
Researchers from University of Basel, Bochum, and Copenhagen have gained new insights into the energy states of Quantum Dots (QD). The scientists confirmed certain energy transitions in QDs that had previously only been predicted theoretically: […]
EPFL scientists have coupled a new material with light at the level of a single photon. The achievement opens up prospects for better controlling and understanding the properties of quantum-correlated systems, where theoretical calculations are […]
We met Florian Emaury, CEO of Menhir Photonics, in March 2020. Menhir Photonics is a Swiss company developing unique ultrafast lasers and photonics solutions. This young but smart CEO has a nice vision of photonics […]
Researchers at ETH Zurich have designed the first programming language, Silq, that can be used to program quantum computers as simply, reliably and safely as classical computers. Silq is the very first high-level programming language […]
A team of physicists of the University of Basel and ETH Zurich have developed the theoretical foundations for a QKD communication protocol that offers ultimate privacy protection and can be implemented experimentally. This protocol guarantees […]
Researchers at EPFL and IBM Quantum present a quantum algorithm to compute the discrete Legendre-Fenchel Transform (LFT). Most currently known quantum algorithms use a few basic building blocks as subroutines. Examples of these building blocks […]
While conducting experiments on a layered metal, EPFL researchers witnessed something very surprising. The unexpected electron behavior they discovered could open up possibilities in the field of quantum computing. In the world of materials science, […]
Semiconductors play an important role, be it in electronics, optoelectronics or photovoltaics. But like other solid bodies, they are quantum many-body systems. Therefore, a calculation of their material properties would overburden conventional computers. Instead, this […]
German chancellor Angela Merkel announced a 2 Billion innovation program for quantum technology including the investment in two quantum computers.
Flore Kunst, postdoc in Ignacio Cirac’s Theory Group, is awarded with the “Oseen Medal” for the best doctoral thesis. After being named “Female Physicist of the Week” by the German Physical Society (DFG) in March […]
Physicists have discovered spontaneous static magnetic fields with broken time-reversal symmetry in a class of iron-based superconductors.
ID Quantique (IDQ), the Swiss quantum-safe security solutions company, announced that its newest Quantum Random Number Generator (QRNG) chip has been integrated in the ‘Galaxy A Quantum’, a custom edition of the Samsung Galaxy A71 […]
Physicists of the Laboratory for Attosecond Physics have measured the flight times of electrons in molecules after their creation with light. The small quantum particles were emitted from a specific atom within the molecules, which […]
Researchers from the University of Basel, the Swiss Nanoscience Institute (SNI) and University of Hanover have succeeded in creating strong coupling between quantum systems over a great distance. They accomplished this with a novel method […]
Exotic atoms, in which electrons are replaced by other subatomic particles of the same charge, allow deep insights into the quantum world. After eight years of ongoing research, a group led by Masaki Hori who […]
MPQ Scientists opened a new window into the quantum world. After eight years they succeeded in a challenging experiment with PSI and CERN: they created an artificial atom, the so-called pionic helium, in which the […]
ID Quantique (IDQ) has announced it adds two high throughput QRNG PCIe cards to its Quantis product family. They use ID Quantique’s latest QRNG technology to provide 40Mbps and 240Mbps entropy data rates and integrate […]
Lakestar has led a €10 million investment in Terra Quantum, valuing the Swiss startup at around €50 million. Terra Quantum is developing a hybrid quantum algorithm for solving a linear system of equations in quantum computing, helping […]
Scientists at EPFL and IBM Research Europe report experiments in which mechanical vibration is reduced close to the ultimate limit given by the laws of quantum mechanics. The work represents a breakthrough in the manipulation […]
The Galaxy A71 5G destined to launch in South Korea via SK Telecom next month will be the world’s first smartphone to boast a QRNG (Quantum Random Number Generator) chip for advanced security, claims a recent ETNews report. A QRNG chip is capable […]
An EPFL research team led by Tobias J. Kippenberg has now demonstrated integrated soliton microcombs with repetition rates as low as 10 GHz. This was achieved by significantly lowering the optical losses of integrated photonic […]
The code for the QCSimulator package is also available at Github QCSimulator. QCSimulator is also on CRAN. Thanks to Tinniam. The first you have to do is to install the QCSimulator R Package. As it’s on […]
In 2016, a brilliant Indian software engineer, Tinniam V Ganesh, released QCSimulator, its 5-qubit quantum simulator based on R. Raspberry Pi 4 last release provides an amazing Quad Core Cortex-A72 (ARM v8) 64-bit @ 1.5GHz with […]