A 8.5 GHz Quantum Analyzer by Zurich Instruments

The Swiss company Zurich Instruments has just introduced its SHFQA Quantum Analyzer that operates at up to 8.5 GHz and can thus perform direct readout of superconducting and spin qubits. Conceived as the next generation […]

New mobile banking service based on QKD

A mobile banking app based on SK Telecom’s 5G quantum cryptography technology will be introduced at a South Korean bank. Personal information will be thoroughly protected when customers transfer money or going through identity verification […]

Quantum computing enhanced computational catalysis

The quantum computation of electronic energies can break the curse of dimensionality that plagues many-particle quantum mechanics. It is for this reason that a universal quantum computer has the potential to fundamentally change computational chemistry […]

Miraex as finalist of the NASA Challenge

Miraex, together with top-notch partners Aperio Global and IBM, has been selected among the 15 finalists for the NASA Science Mission Directorate “Entrepreneurs Challenge”. Miraex, a Swiss startup located in Lausanne and spinoff of EPFL, is one of the few […]

Zurich Instruments joins Chicago Quantum Exchange

Swiss Zurich Instruments joins a new partner network, Chicago Quantum Exchange (CQE), which is a Chicago-based research hub (one of the largest QT research hubs in the USA) with the goal of advancing academic and industrial […]

A new material for light-matter interactions

EPFL scientists have coupled a new material with light at the level of a single photon. The achievement opens up prospects for better controlling and understanding the properties of quantum-correlated systems, where theoretical calculations are […]

Startup of the Month: Menhir Photonics

We met Florian Emaury, CEO of Menhir Photonics, in March 2020. Menhir Photonics is a Swiss company developing unique ultrafast lasers and photonics solutions. This young but smart CEO has a nice vision of photonics […]

Adding noise for ultimate privacy protection in QKD

A team of physicists of the University of Basel and ETH Zurich have developed the theoretical foundations for a QKD communication protocol that offers ultimate privacy protection and can be implemented experimentally. This protocol guarantees […]

Quantum Legendre-Fenchel Transform

Researchers at EPFL and IBM Quantum present a quantum algorithm to compute the discrete Legendre-Fenchel Transform (LFT). Most currently known quantum algorithms use a few basic building blocks as subroutines. Examples of these building blocks […]

A surprising quantum effect observed in a “large” object

While conducting experiments on a layered metal, EPFL researchers witnessed something very surprising. The unexpected electron behavior they discovered could open up possibilities in the field of quantum computing. In the world of materials science, […]

ID Quantique launches two QRNG PCIe cards

ID Quantique (IDQ) has announced it adds two high throughput QRNG PCIe cards to its Quantis product family. They use ID Quantique’s latest QRNG technology to provide 40Mbps and 240Mbps entropy data rates and integrate […]

Terra Quantum gets €10M from Lakestar

Lakestar has led a €10 million investment in Terra Quantum, valuing the Swiss startup at around €50 million. Terra Quantum is developing a hybrid quantum algorithm for solving a linear system of equations in quantum computing, helping […]

Samsung Galaxy A71 5G boasts a quantum QRNG chip

The Galaxy A71 5G destined to launch in South Korea via SK Telecom next month will be the world’s first smartphone to boast a QRNG (Quantum Random Number Generator) chip for advanced security, claims a recent ETNews report. A QRNG chip is capable […]

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SwissQuantumPi: Introducing QCSimulator

The code for the QCSimulator package is also available at Github QCSimulator. QCSimulator is also on CRAN. Thanks to Tinniam. The first you have to do is to install the QCSimulator R Package. As it’s on […]