The Italian Eni Group has recently announced that it has partnered with ITQuanta to establish a joint venture named Eniquantic. This quantum technology company aims to develop an integrated hardware and software quantum machine capable of solving complex problems, as well as specific and significant quantum computing applications to support Eni's energy transition plans. It is understood that Eni will initially hold 94% of the shares in Eniquantic, with the remaining shares held by ITQuanta.

The Enrico Fermi Summer School on Quantum Computers and Simulators with Atoms will be held from July 5th to 14th, 2024, in the town of Varenna, Italy. This course, is tailored for PhD students and early postdoctoral researchers. Attendees will gain both theoretical and practical insights into quantum computation, quantum simulation, and related fields such as ultracold quantum gases and quantum metrology.

Recently, scientists from the Matteo Zaccanti of the Italian National Institute of Optics have created a dense gas composed of lithium-chromium (LiCr) molecules at a temperature of 200 nanokelvin. This gas consists of ultracold molecules with strong magnetic dipoles. The researchers say that transferring the molecules to their absolute ground state, expecting to create a doubly polar molecule Bose-Einstein condensate with both electric and magnetic dipole moments. These dipolar molecules could potentially lead to new quantum simulation and quantum computing schemes.

Today, the University of Naples Federico II will hold the inauguration ceremony for the Superconducting Quantum Computing Center, sponsored by the Italian National High-Performance Computing Center ICSC. It's reported that this newly established quantum computing center houses a 24-qubit superconducting quantum computer designed with scalable, modular, and tunable features. Installation of a 40-qubit quantum processor is expected by the end of this year.