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.
A QuTech research team demonstrated initialization, readout, and universal control of four qubits created from eight germanium quantum dots, achieving quantum information transfer with 75% Bell state fidelity and establishing a versatile platform for quantum computing advancement.
Using Quobly’s Strategy to Build Qubits With FD-SOI Technology, Readout Architecture ‘Provides a Path to Low Power and Scalable Quantum’ ICs
ISTA physicists have developed a breakthrough method to connect superconducting qubits using fiber optics instead of traditional electrical signals, significantly reducing cooling requirements and potentially enabling the scaling and networking of quantum computers by converting optical signals to microwave frequencies that qubits can process.
Physicists achieved a quantum computing breakthrough by successfully connecting separate quantum processors through photonic links, enabling quantum teleportation of logical gates between modules and demonstrating the first distributed quantum computer system, which could potentially scale up without the limitations of cramming millions of qubits into a single device.
Researchers have developed a quantum communication chip that is 1,000 times smaller than current quantum setups, but offers the same superior security quantum technology is known for.
Scientists from the universities of Alberta and Toronto developed a blueprint for a new quantum battery that doesn’t leak charge.
Researchers at University of Trento, Italy, propose a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm to solve optimization problems with an adiabatic machine assuming restrictions on the class of available problem Hamiltonians.
Volkswagen is launching in Lisbon the world’s first pilot project for traffic optimization using a D-Wave quantum computer.
Australian quantum computing startup Q-CTRL is putting its software to use, partnering with U.S.-based Bleximo to power that company’s superconducting quantum accelerators.
Researchers at University of Basel have succeeded in creating an efficient quantum-mechanical light-matter interface using a microscopic cavity. Within this cavity, a single photon is emitted and absorbed up to 10 times by an artificial […]
Researchers at the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, have discovered a new quantum property: by placing 3 pairs of photons in a network, it is possible to entangle them and create new ultra-strong correlations. Entanglement […]
Researchers at EPFL‘s Laboratory of Quantum Materials (QMAT) have created a metallic micro-device in which they can define and tune patterns of superconductivity. Their discovery holds great promise for quantum technologies of the future. The […]
Scientists at the University of Vienna in collaboration with the University of Basel have tested the quantum superposition principle on a scale as never seen before. Molecules composed of nearly two thousand atoms were brought […]
ID Quantique (IDQ) is proud to announce it has been awarded the Innovation Prize 2019 by the Geneva Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Services (CCIG), the State of Geneva and the Office for the Promotion […]
In September 2019, the European Commission (EC) announced the launch of OPENQKD, a €15 million worth project aimed to provide test quantum communication infrastructures in several European countries. Four Swiss Geneva-located firms, The University of […]
dacoso, a German IT service provider for data security, is cooperating with ID Quantique (IDQ), the Swiss leading global provider of quantum solutions. dacoso integrates the Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) solution of ID Quantique. (Dacoso) […]
Researchers at ETH Zurich’s Institute for Quantum Electronics successfully implemented a fundamental ingredient for the simulation of quantum gauge theories in a laboratory experiment. Their work is based on a technique called Floquet engineering. Gauge […]
An international project of CERN in Geneva, in collaboration with the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (FACT) in Liverpool, brought together a group of artists and challenged them to draw inspiration from quantum physics. […]
Researchers from the Université Paris Diderot develop the first quantum algorithm for the constrained portfolio optimization problem.
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ID Quantique’s Quantis Quantum Random Number Generator (QRNG) will feed random numbers into the SafeNet Luna HSM, providing high quality entropy for the generation of strong keys. (Yahoo Finance) Read more.
ABN AMRO and Qutech are working to develop a technology based on Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) to improve banking security.