MIT physicists have captured the first-ever direct images of individual atoms interacting freely in space, revealing quantum behaviors like bosons bunching into waves and fermions forming pairs, confirming decades of theoretical predictions and opening new possibilities for visualizing complex quantum phenomena.
Scientists have achieved a major breakthrough in quantum technology by deriving an exact mathematical expression for entanglement distillation under specialized conditions, correcting flawed theories from two decades ago and advancing theoretical capabilities far beyond current experimental limitations.
Researchers successfully simulated Google’s 53-qubit Sycamore quantum circuit seven times faster than the original quantum computer using 1,432 GPUs and innovative tensor network algorithms, effectively refuting Google’s quantum advantage claim.
Scientists have discovered and experimentally confirmed the existence of “quadruplons,” genuine four-body quasi-particles consisting of two electrons and two holes tightly bound together in a monolayer semiconductor, which represent a fundamentally new type of matter excitation beyond previously known quasi-particles like excitons and bi-excitons.
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.
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Researchers at University of Melbourne have presented an approach in which problem complexity is transferred to dynamic quantities computed on the quantum processor – Hamiltonian moments, ⟨Hn⟩.
Fermionic Linear Optics (FLO) is a restricted model of quantum computation which in its original form is known to be efficiently classically simulable. A team of researchers showed that, when initialized with suitable input states, […]
Relying in part on techniques used to sharpen up images from ground-based telescopes, researchers in China have implemented a type of secure quantum communications protocol—known as measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution (MDI-QKD)—across a wireless link connecting […]
Researchers at California Institute of Technology have achieved conditional quantum teleportation of time-bin qubits at the telecommunication wavelength of 1536.5 nm. They measured teleportation fidelities of ≥ 90% that are consistent with an analytical model […]
A team of researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Google has reviewed the state of the art of Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs). Applications such as simulating large quantum systems or solving large-scale linear algebra […]
A team of scientists at Freie Universität Berlin has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) method for calculating the ground state of the Schrödinger equation in quantum chemistry. Up to now, it has been impossible to […]
ETH Zurich researchers demonstrated a high-fidelity quantum network by directly transmitting microwave-encoded qubit states between superconducting circuits 5 meters apart through an insulated waveguide, advancing modular quantum computing.
Solving industry-relevant problems using a quantum algorithm faster than any classical computer is considered the grand challenge of quantum computing. ColdQuanta, a developer of cold atom quantum technology, has joined forces with ParityQC, an Austrian […]
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have shown that they can solve a small part of a real aviation logistics problem with their small, but well-functioning quantum computer. All airlines are faced with scheduling […]
Clifford group lies at the core of quantum computation: it underlies quantum error correction, its elements can be used to perform magic state distillation and they form randomized benchmarking protocols, Clifford group is used to […]
The Irish Centre for High-End Computing (ICHEC) announced that it has received the GPU-accelerated Quantum Learning Machine Enhanced (Atos QLM E) from Atos.
The Universities of Plymouth and Oxford will develop QuTune, a bespoke Quantum Computing programming toolbox to help musicians engage with the quantum technology.
Radars are being installed at the top of an engineering building at the University of Birmingham as part of a demonstration intended to test and prove the precision of quantum-enabled radar detection capabilities.
Terra Quantum, a Swiss startup, and University of Basel have developed a combination of reinforcement learning and simulated annealing for setting up efficient Bell tests useful for quantum cryptography. Finding optical setups producing measurement results […]
Phasecraft has just announced a £3.7m seed funding round, the largest for a UK quantum computing company. Phasecraft previously raised a £750,000 pre-seed round led by UCL Technology Fund with Parkwalk Advisors and London Co-investment Fund and […]
A team at Multiverse Computing and Bankia, a Spanish financial organization currently in merge with CaixaBank, has just released a paper about a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm for dynamic portfolio optimization with minimal holding period.
Accenture has helped BBVA, a multinational financial services company, to exploring the use of Quantum computing.
Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC) has successfully completed a $45 million financing from investors.
IonQ laid out its five-year roadmap for trapped ion quantum computers and plans to achieve broad quantum advantage by 2025. The company plans to deploy rack-mounted modular quantum computers small enough to be networked together […]
Kudelski Security, the cybersecurity division within the Swiss Kudelski Group, announced today the launch of a new focus on Quantum Security.
A new type of wearable brain scanner is a step closer to being used in hospitals with the launch of a new spin-out company formed by UK Quantum Technology Hub Sensors and Timing researchers at […]
Resilient packaging for complex quantum sensors is essential in creating lightweight, high-performance technology. Professor Moataz Attallah, researcher at the UK Quantum Technology Hub Sensors and Timing, is working to create smart magnetic shielding to protect […]
IBM today announced a series of cloud services and technologies designed to help clients maintain the highest available level of cryptographic key encryption protection to help protect existing data in the Cloud and prepare for future threats that […]
The UK startup Riverlane has just announced that the initial version of its quantum operating system Deltaflow.OS, called ‘Deltaflow-on-ARTIQ’, is freely available to the public. This quantum operating system is both hardware and platform agnostic. In […]