Germany's largest IT system company Bechtle, recently announced that it has signed a reseller agreement with superconducting quantum computer manufacturer IQM Quantum Computers. The partnership will enable Bechtle to sell IQM Spark, IQM's 5-qubit superconducting quantum computer, to meet the increasing demand from universities, research laboratories, and industries for adopting quantum computing.

Recently, a new research project named "MANTIS," led by the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF in Germany, has been officially launched with a kick-off event. This project, costing 5.11 million euros, aims to utilize modern quantum technology to safeguard critical infrastructure against hacker attacks. The MANTIS project is specifically researching the advantages of so-called MDI-QKD(Measurement-Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution) over conventional QKD methods.

Researchers at the University of Bonn have now shown that under suitable conditions, the photon Bose-Einstein condensate (commonly known as "super photon"), formed by the fusion of countless light particles, also follows a fundamental theory in the field of physics. Their discovery now allows for the measurement of properties of superphotons that are usually difficult to access. The study has been published in the journal “Nature Communications.”