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 […]

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 […]

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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 […]

New world record for qubit storage

Computers, smartphones, GPS: quantum physics has enabled many technological advances. It is now opening up new fields of research in cryptography (the art of coding messages) with the aim of developing ultra-secure telecommunications networks. There […]

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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 […]

Quantum errors made more tolerable

11.02.2022 By:  Andreas Trabesinger Image: The experimental chamber in which the experiments of de Neeve and colleagues [1] were performed. (Photo: ETH Zurich/D-​PHYS Home group) In modern computing devices, literally billions of transistors work restlessly […]

kagome superconductivity

A new kind of superconductivity: Kagome metals

In the past four years scientists have discovered metals whose crystal structure mimics that of a traditional Japanese woven bamboo pattern: kagome metals. The international research activity in this new direction of quantum materials has […]

Integrated photonics meet electron microscopy

The transmission electron microscope (TEM) can image molecular structures at the atomic scale by using electrons instead of light, and has revolutionized materials science and structural biology. The past decade has seen a lot of […]

A quantum wake-up call for European CEOs

By Anika Pflanzer, Wolf Richter, and Henning So, McKinsey Several recent breakthroughs in research on quantum computing and its industrial applications have reinforced its tremendous potential. The demonstration of large-scale quantum computers,1 research on noise-free quantum computation,2 and the implementation […]

Quantum theory needs complex numbers

An international team of researchers shows through a concrete theoretical experiment that the prediction by standard complex quantum theory cannot be expressed by its real counterpart and ratifies its need of complex numbers. Their results […]

PASQAL Announces Quantum Computing Collaboration with NVIDIA

Paris, December 9th, 2021 – PASQAL today announced  a collaboration with NVIDIA to build a Quantum Computing Center of Excellence, featuring a cluster of 10 NVIDIA DGX A100 systems with NVIDIA InfiniBand networking to enhance its portfolio of solutions. PASQAL, […]

Cambridge Quantum has announced Quantum Origin

Quantum Origin is the world’s first commercial product built using quantum computers that delivers an outcome that classical computers could not achieve. Quantum Origin is the first platform to derive cryptographic keys using the output […]