The procurement contract for EuroQCS-Italy, the EuroHPC quantum computer to be located in Italy, has been signed by the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) and quantum computing company Pasqal, the selected vendor.

D-Wave Quantum Inc.(“D-Wave” or the “Company”), a leader in quantum computing systems, software, and services and the world’s first commercial supplier of quantum computers, today announced a scientific breakthrough published in the esteemed journal Science, confirming that its annealing quantum computer outperformed one of the world’s most powerful classical supercomputers in solving complex magnetic materials simulation problems with relevance to materials discovery. The new landmark peer-reviewed paper, “Beyond-Classical Computation in Quantum Simulation,” validates this achievement as the world’s first and only demonstration of quantum computational supremacy on a useful problem.

In a study published online in Nature, a research team led by Prof. PAN Jianwei, Prof. CHEN Yuao, and Prof. YAO Xingcan from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has, for the first time, observed the antiferromagnetic phase transition within a large-scale quantum simulator of the fermionic Hubbard model (FHM).

A team of researchers from the 5th Institute of Physics at the University of Stuttgart is making important progress in the field of quantum simulation and quantum computing based on Rydberg atoms by overcoming a fundamental limitation: the limited lifetime of Rydberg atoms. Circular Rydberg states are showing enormous potential for overcoming this limitation. The renowned journal Physical Review X reports on this in its latest issue.

Partnering with researchers from Google Quantum AI and Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, Wiebe developed an algorithm for simulating systems of coupled masses and springs on quantum computers. The researchers then provided evidence of the new algorithm’s exponential advantage over classical algorithms.

Classiq Technologies,a leading quantum computing software company, announced today that it has successfully achieved significant compression of quantum circuits in implementing quantum algorithms for Monte Carlo simulations as part of a project conducted by Sumitomo Corporation. Sumitomo used Classiq's quantum platform and quantum algorithms provided by Mizuho–DL Financial Technology Co., Ltd.

Recently, a team of researchers led by Tobias Grass from Donostia International Physics Center in San Sebastián, with the participation of ICFO and ICREA Prof. Maciej Lewenstein, as well as researchers from ETH Zurich, Université de Lyon and TU Dortmund University, has published a Colloquium in Reviews of Modern Physics where they provide a comprehensive overview of these exotic quantum simulators. They cover various platforms, namely those based on atoms, electrons and photons, highlighting both their strengths and limitations. The paper also discusses how these platforms can enable scientists investigate phenomena across a wide range of fields, from condensed matter physics to cosmology.

Fermioniq is honoured to have been part of a collaboration led by Quantinuum – together with TUM, MCQST, Caltech and EPFL – which demonstrated the capabilities of Quantinuum’s H2 quantum computer for simulating quantum magnetism at the limit of classical methods. This work is an important step on the path towards achieving quantum advantage for a task of practical utility.

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.

Quantum algorithms company Phasecraft said it has developed a novel approach to quantum simulation that improves efficiency while cutting computational costs.