IBM has announced its largest quantum processor to date, as the company seeks to show it is on track to create a commercially-useful quantum computer by the end of 2023. The new quantum hardware, which IBM […]
Qubits are the main building blocks of quantum devices: improving their performance at every stage of development is thus crucial. A qubit’s properties such as its coherence time are directly affected by their architecture and […]
A graph with its 3-colouring. For each edge, we check that the two connected vertices are of different colours. © All rights reserved The volume of data transferred is constantly increasing, but the absolute security of […]
ID Quantique (IDQ), the world leader in quantum cybersecurity, today launched the Cerberis XGR, an open QKD platform designed as a versatile research tool for academic and technology evaluation labs wanting to test the technology, […]
Qubits are the main building blocks of quantum devices: improving their performance at every stage of development is thus crucial. A qubit’s properties such as its coherence time are directly affected by their architecture and […]
Geneva, 14 October 2021. The CERN Quantum Technology Initiative (CERN QTI) reaches its next milestone today, with the unveiling of a first roadmap defining its medium- and long-term quantum research programme. The roadmap details the CERN QTI […]
Zurich – 12 October 2021 – Terra Quantum AG, one of the leading quantum technology pioneers in Europe, strengthens its executive team by appointing Dr Florian Neukart, the former Director of Volkswagen Group’s Data Lab and […]
Rigetti Computing, a Global Leader in Full-Stack Quantum Computing, Announces Plans to Become Publicly Traded via Merger with Supernova Partners Acquisition Company. BERKELEY, Calif. — Oct. 6, 2021 — Rigetti & Co., Inc. (“Rigetti”), a pioneer in […]
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LIGENTEC, pioneer in high-performance, low-loss, silicon nitride photonic solutions, and specialty semiconductor producer X-FAB Silicon Foundries have announced a strategic partnership resulting in the large-scale supply of integrated photonic devices. Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) are […]
EPFL launches new Center for Quantum Science and Engineering
There is no doubt that we are moving steadily toward an era of technologies based on quantum physics. But to get there, we first have to master the ability to make light interact with matter […]
Ahead of technical roadmap expectations at the start of 2021, IonQ debuts a 4X16 Reconfigurable Multicore Quantum Architecture (RMQA) that overcomes stability challenges inherent to larger quantum computers, opening the door to quantum computers with […]
The Quantum Industry Day gathers academic and industrial R&D to foster exchange and accelerate the development of new quantum products. Large private and public investments are rapidly pushing quantum technologies out of labs and into real-world […]
In its latest report published in Nature, Alibaba shows how QRNGs with intrinsic unpredictability can be used to greatly enhance the security of cryptosystems. Alibaba has tested the use of QRNG for their online services (e.g., Ant […]
PALO ALTO, Calif. – July 27, 2021 – PsiQuantum has raised $450 million in Series D funding to build the world’s first commercially viable quantum computer. The funding round was led by funds and accounts managed by […]
ID Quantique founders, Professor Nicolas Gisin and CEO Gregoire Ribordy, reflect on 20 Years of Quantum Innovation, from how they started the company to keeping the pioneering spirit alive for the next 20 years and […]
As of July 1st, Zurich Instruments is owned entirely by Rohde & Schwarz, a German technology group headquartered in Munich.
Research led by Kent and the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory has resulted in the discovery of a new rare topological superconductor, LaPt3P. This discovery may be of huge importance to the future operations of quantum computers. Superconductors […]
Author: Christoph Ebell SwissICT is the largest Swiss association for the ICT industry. Its recently established Policy Commission sent a letter to the Federal Council expressing the association’s concern about the possible exclusion of Switzerland from the […]
We are delighted to announce that LIGENTEC SA, leader in low loss Silicon Nitride Integrated Photonics, has become a member of the Swiss Quantum Hub (SQH). Swiss based LIGENTEC provides custom specific integrated photonics circuits for […]
A specially designed chip to control qubits can operate at extremely low temperatures, and opens the door to solving the ‘wiring bottleneck’. Researchers and engineers from QuTech in the Netherlands and from Intel Corp., jointly […]
Google’s new Quantum AI campus. Image: Google Google is aiming to build a “useful, error-corrected quantum computer” by the end of the decade, the company explained in a blog post. The search giant hopes the technology will […]
Fermions can either exist as individual particles, like electrons, protons, and neutrons, or as so-called quasiparticles. The latter are composed of many components, but behave like a single fermion particle. What characterises fermions is that […]
Professor Nicolas Gisin, Honorary Professor of the Physics Section of the University of Geneva and ID Quantique’s co-founder and board member, is among the personalities to be included in the Larousse dictionary 2022 edition. Nicolas Gisin […]