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.
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Brilliance Quantum, an Australian startup, unveils world-first diamond quantum computer technology.
BMW teamed up with Entropica Labs, a Singapore-based quantum computing startup, and Honeywell Quantum Solutions for finding out if Quantum Computing had the potential to optimize and speed up supply chain management. (Forbes) Read more.
A team of researchers at IBM Quantum and ETH, Switzerland, has introduced a variant of Quantum Amplitude Estimation (QAE), called Iterative QAE (IQAE), which does not rely on Quantum Phase Estimation (QPE) but is only based on Grover’s Algorithm, which reduces […]
SINTEF, NTNU and the University of Oslo want to make Norway “Quantum-Ready”, and have taken the matter into their own hands by together establishing the Norwegian Quantum Computing Centre. This center gathers a strong interdisciplinary, cross-institutional team […]
Scientists at the University of Bonn have been able for the first time to demonstrate quantum entanglement between a stationary qubit, i.e. a two-state quantum system, and a photon with direct coupling to an optical […]
Dr Julien Levallois becomes the new President of Swiss Quantum Hub association.
Yesterday, Quantum Computer scientists needed to integrate numerous hardware technologies to control and readout qubits effectively. Qblox, a Dutch startup, has just launched their Radio Frequency (RF) line consisting of fully-integrated quantum control stacks providing […]
A project to develop techniques to miniaturise and enhance the accuracy of optical atomic clocks has been launched in a new research partnership, funded by the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund, part of UK Research and Innovation.
A research team led by the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), has made important progress in quantum information theory.
A European research collaboration, led by KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, reported a new method of controlling and manipulating single photons without generating heat.
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Israel is seeking to build its first quantum computer, joining a global race for one of the world’s most important emerging technologies.
Small and medium-sized businesses within the Great Birmingham and Solihull LEP (GBSLEP) region will be given a unique opportunity to access specialist technical equipment through the launch of the new Quantum Technology Innovation Hub (QTIH) […]
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A new method has been developed at TU Wien, Austria, to produce entangled atom pairs and not just atoms which are emitted in all directions, but well-defined beams. This was achieved with the help of ultracold atom clouds in electromagnetic traps.
An alliance between Forschungszentrum Jülich and the semiconductor manufacturer Infineon, together with institutes of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft (IAF, IPMS) as well as the Leibniz Association (IHP, IKZ), the universities of Regensburg and Konstanz and the quantum start-up HQS aims to build a semiconductor quantum processor made in Germany that is based on the “shuttling” of electrons and is to be achieved with technology available in Germany.
A team of researchers at Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology (VCQ) and Centre for Quantum Technologies, Singapore (CQT), has demonstrated homomorphic-encrypted quantum computing with unitary transformations of individual qubits, as well as multi-qubit quantum walk computations using single-photon states and non-birefringent integrated optics.
A team of researchers at Universität Stuttgart, Germany, has developed an ion-optics-based quantum microscope that is capable of creating images of individual atoms.
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A team of researchers at IBM Research – Zurich, Switzerland, has presented a resource-efficient quantum algorithm for protein folding. Predicting the three-dimensional structure of a protein from its primary sequence of amino acids is known […]
CERN’s ATLAS has found first evidence of the Higgs Boson decaying to two leptons (either an electron or a muon pair with opposite charge) and a photon. Known as “Dalitz decay”, this is one of the rarest Higgs boson decays yet seen at the LHC.
Using the IBM Q computer, physicists at EPFL have verified for the first time the tight relationship between quantum entanglement and wave-particle duality, showing that the former controls the latter in a quantum system.