Bluefors, the world leading manufacturer of cryogenic measurement systems for quantum technology, today announced the opening of a new lab facility in Chicago. The facility will be used to provide the Bluefors Lab service, bringing the service into the United States for the first time. Bluefors Lab provides startups, research groups, and other organizations easy and convenient access to a cryogenic measurement system with a service-based model.

A research team at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory created a novel advanced microscopy tool to “write” with atoms, placing those atoms exactly where they are needed to give a material new properties.

The U.S. National Science Foundation today announced a $20 million grant to CU Boulder to launch a facility known as the National Quantum Nanofab (NQN). In this facility, Colorado researchers and quantum specialists from around the country will be able to design and build incredibly small devices that tap into the world of atoms and photons—the tiny packets of energy that make up light.

This constitutes a major milestone on the path to the certification of QKD products. The Protection Profile was developed within the framework of the ETSI Industry Specification Group ISG-QKD, to which ID Quantique has contributed since its inception in 2008. The Protection Profile has subsequently been fully validated by the SGS evaluation lab in Graz, and the evaluation has been certified by the German certification body BSI.

Yawen Peng, a PhD candidate in electrical and computer engineering, is the first recipient of the new Samit & Reshma Sharma foundation scholarship, which supports Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) graduate studies with significant practical impact in quantum information research.

The Center Nanoelectronic Technologies (CNT) at Fraunhofer IPMS has recently acquired new cryostats for the research on qubits and the qualification of superconducting systems. The cryogenic measuring devices, which are particularly useful for analyzing quantum systems, are now in full operation. The provision of the equipment was funded by the Saxon State Ministry for Science, Culture and Tourism (SMWK).

Now, a joint collaboration between the Indian Institute of Technology Indore, the Institute for Condensed Matter Physics and Complex Systems (Politecnico de Torino), the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (Innsbruck), the University of Innsbruck, the Institute of Theoretical Physics (Jagiellonian University), the Mark Kac Center for Complex Systems Research (Jagiellonian University), and ICFO and ICREA Prof. Dr. Maciej Lewenstein, has provided an updated review, published in Reports on Progress in Physics. In this work, they have collected some of the most recent and exciting results on the investigation of non-standard Bose-Hubbard models, focusing on their application for atomic quantum simulators.

GTC—NVIDIA today announced it is building a Boston-based research center to provide cutting-edge technologies to advance quantum computing.

QuantWare and QuantrolOx have announced a joint offering enabling quantum computer researchers to develop error correction capabilities using QuantWare’s flagship error-correction Contralto-A quantum processor with the automated tuneup of QuantrolOx’s Quantum EDGE software.

Sensing and communication systems based on quantum-mechanical phenomena can greatly outperform today’s systems, in terms of accuracy and reliability, and are considered a pivotal part of developing next-generation networks. Developing quantum information and decision systems that come close to meeting the theoretical quantum advantages has been a longstanding challenge. Now, a team of researchers at MIT and the University of Ferrara (UniFe) in Italy has developed a framework that could open up new ways of pushing such quantum systems all the way to their fundamental limits.