Infleqtion, the world’s leading quantum information company, is proud to announce the expansion of its Oxford operations, building on a series of recent achievements that reinforce the UK’s position as a quantum-enabled economy. Through collaborations with government, academia, and industry, Infleqtion is accelerating the development and deployment of quantum technologies and demonstrating the transformative impact they can have in areas like transportation, energy, healthcare, security, defence, advanced manufacturing, digital technologies, finance and banking. These efforts align with the UK’s strategic goals to strengthen its technological infrastructure and national security, and will be on full display at the UK National Quantum Technologies Showcase 2024 on the 8th of November, 2024.

Oxford Ionics, a world leader in trapped-ion quantum computing, today announced it has won the GBx Best in British Tech Award in the Deep Tech Innovation category.

Radio Frequency (RF) and microwave power measurements are widely used to support applications across space, defence, and communication. These precise measurements enable engineers to accurately characterise waveforms, components, circuits, and systems. Taking this a step further, the NPL and Keysight Technologies collaborated on a groundbreaking research project, exploring RF power at cryogenic temperatures. This resulted in the world’s first successful demonstration of a commercial RF power sensor operating at temperatures as low as 3 kelvin.

Quantum Motion, a UK-based quantum computing scale-up founded by Professor John Morton, University College London (UCL), and Professor Simon Benjamin, University of Oxford, has worked alongside Goldman Sachs to research how quantum computers can be used in financial services to perform complex calculations, such as options pricing. The research, which explored how intricate multi-qubit operations can be applied within pricing algorithms, is now undergoing peer-review and has been published on the arXiv, an open-access archive of scientific research papers.

Rigetti UK Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Rigetti Computing, Inc. (“Rigetti” or the “Company”), a pioneer in full-stack quantum-classical computing, today announced that the UK’s National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC) officially opened the doors of its landmark facility on Harwell Campus on October 25. The facility will support world-class quantum computing research and provide state-of-the-art laboratories for designing, building, and testing quantum computers. Rigetti’s system located at the NQCC is a fully operational 24-qubit Ankaa-class quantum computer, featuring tunable couplers and a square lattice for fast gate times, enhanced connectivity, and high fidelity. As part of the implementation, Rigetti will be integrating Riverlane’s technology with the long-term objective of large-scale error correction.

Xiphera, a provider of highly-optimised, hardware-based cryptographic security, today announced its partnership with Crypto Quantique, a provider of quantum-driven IoT device security. The combination of Xiphera’s nQrux Hardware Trust Engines and quantum-secure cryptographic IP, with Crypto Quantique’s QDID PUF (Physically Unclonable Function), offers quantum-resilience and immutable device identity for cryptographic hardware modules.

Nu Quantum, the quantum entanglement startup, is today announcing that Roland Acra has joined as a Board Advisor.

Universal Quantum, a leader in scalable quantum computing, has achieved a major research breakthrough in fault-tolerant quantum computation with “Constant-Time Magic State Distillation”. This research advancement is poised to make large-scale quantum computation significantly faster and more feasible. By reducing the time and physical resources required to produce high-fidelity qubits, Universal Quantum’s discovery will transform how quantum computers handle error correction, directly impacting practical implementations in the field.

The creation of an unhackable UK quantum-secured network is now possible thanks to Hub success developing working testbeds around Bristol and Cambridge, connected via London.

Researchers at the Quantum Communications Hub are celebrating 10 years of contributions to understanding how digital information can be shared safely and securely. Research at the Hub, which is led by the University of York, has created an unhackable UK quantum-secured network, with experts developing working testbeds around Bristol and Cambridge, connected via London.