Terra Quantum extends Series A funding round to $75M

Terra Quantum AG announces that it has extended its Series A funding round to $75m, as well as its research offering a ground-breaking solution to the longstanding challenge of efficient power devices for nanoelectronics. Terra Quantum […]

Q-CTRL partners with Paul Scherrer Institute

Q-CTRL has announced a partnership with The Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Switzerland’s largest research institute for natural and engineering sciences, to pioneer R&D in the scale-up of quantum computers. The strategic partnership will leverage Q-CTRL […]

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QunaSys raises $10M in its Series B funding

QunaSys, a startup developing innovative algorithms in chemistry, has announced that it has raised $10 million in its series B funding stage the led by JIC Venture Growth Investments (“VGI”), with participation from ANRI, Fujitsu […]

Photonic quantum memristor scheme. Credit: Nature Photonics (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41566-022-00973-5

Artificial neurons go Quantum with photonic circuits

Physicists at the University of Vienna have now demonstrated a new device, called the Quantum Memristor, which combines Artificial Intelligence and Quantum technologies, unlocking unprecedented capabilities. The experiment, carried out in collaboration with the National […]

The newly developed qubits are based on so-called holes (red) whose spin (arrow) in one or the other direction stores the information. They are arranged in an architecture based on silicon transistors. (Illustration: NCCR Spin)

Hot spin qubits in silicon transistors

A research group at the University of Basel, working with the IBM Research Laboratory, has made a breakthrough in qubits scalability. In classic computers, the solution to the scalability problem lay in silicon chips, which […]

Measurement and feedback concept for variational quantum Ramsey interferometry circuits.

Quantum sensors: Measuring even more precisely

Two teams of physicists at University of Innsbruck have designed the first programmable quantum sensor, and tested it in the laboratory. To do so they applied techniques from quantum information processing to a measurement problem. […]

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Sandbox AQ launches with prominent investors

Sandbox AQ, an enterprise SaaS company delivering solutions that leverage quantum tech and AI, officially launched today and announced its investors, board chair, partners, advisors and initial customers. AQ stands for AI and Quantum, two […]

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NVIDIA unveils onramp to Hybrid Quantum Computing

NVIDIA cuQuantum debuts with an expanding ecosystem and a collaboration building the programming model for tomorrow’s most powerful systems. As quantum computers improve, researchers share a vision of a hybrid computing model where quantum and […]

QuantumNAS: Noise-Adaptive Search for Robust Quantum Circuits

Making quantum computing more resilient to noise

Researchers at MIT are working to mitigate the noise problem in quantum computing by developing a technique that makes the quantum circuit itself resilient to noise. (Specifically, these are “parameterized” quantum circuits that contain adjustable […]

University of Tsukuba researchers used the nonlinear optical response of atom-like defects in a diamond to build a tiny thermometer. Credit: University of Tsukuba

Quantum sensing with nonlinear optics of diamonds

Scientists at the University of Tsukuba have developed a method for monitoring the temperature using the naturally occurring atom-like defects in diamonds. They found that increased heat led to reduced intensity of the nonlinear harmonic […]

Free-electron interactions can create quantum correlations in different setups.

Free electrons can induce entanglement between photons

Entanglement of photons is a fundamental feature of quantum mechanics, which stands at the core of quantum technologies such as photonic quantum computing, communication, and sensing. An ongoing challenge in all these is finding an […]

System and setup.

New world record for qubit storage

A UNIGE team in Geneva, Switzerland, has succeeded in storing a quantum bit for 20 milliseconds. A duration that had never before been achieved by a solid-state quantum memory. Long-duration quantum memories for photonic qubits […]

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Microsoft chooses exotic “topological qubits”

Microsoft Research announced a major breakthrough in its quantum computing pursuit — the foundation for a new type of qubit, one which had never left the world of theory before… and still hasn’t. Microsoft ultimately still hasn’t […]

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EPFL offers a new Master in Quantum Science and Engineering

This new program (Master’s in Quantum Science and Engineering) at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, allows students with varied backgrounds in science and engineering to have the opportunity to acquire a comprehensive set of skills to become […]