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.

siQuantum today announced a far-reaching partnership with the State of Illinois, Cook County, and the City of Chicago to build the first US-based utility-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer at the former US Steel South Works property in the City of Chicago. Under this agreement PsiQuantum will anchor the newly established Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park (IQMP) which will catalyze the state’s highly developed quantum ecosystem, including the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), the University of Chicago, the Chicago Quantum Exchange, Argonne and Fermi national labs and DARPA, the US Department of Defense’s Advanced Research Project Agency and others.

Illinois governor Governor J.B. Pritzker earmarked $500 million for quantum in his latest budget proposal. The proposal includes $300 million for a cryogenic facility.

Prof. Liang Jiang and his postdoctoral associate Zhaoyou Wang at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (UChicago PME) have developed a new scheme to send quantum information through these transducers. Using their technique, they found they could send a full qubit’s information through a channel, paving the way for hybrid quantum networks. The results were published in Physical Review X.

The Department of Computer Science at the University of Chicago is proud to announce that Seymour Goodman Professor Fred Chong and his team have been awarded $2 million by Wellcome Leap to implement Phase 3 of their project, “Quantum Biomarker Algorithms for Multimodal Cancer Data.” This award is part of Wellcome Leap’s Quantum for Bio program, which aims to speed up the use of quantum computing in healthcare and create solutions that address important health challenges.

Unisys, a leading global technology solutions provider, has joined the Chicago Quantum Exchange (CQE), launching a partnership aimed at driving industry-specific applications for quantum technology, developing top-tier quantum talent, and strengthening the Illinois-Wisconsin-Indiana quantum ecosystem.

The magnetic moment of the muon is an important precision parameter for putting the Standard Model of particle physics to the test. After years of work, the research group led by Professor Hartmut Wittig of the PRISMA+ Cluster of Excellence at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) has calculated this quantity using the so-called lattice quantum chromodynamics method (lattice QCD method). Their result, which was recently published, agrees with the latest experimental measurements, in contrast to earlier theoretical calculations. After the experimental measurements had been pushed to ever higher precision in recent years, attention had increasingly turned to the theoretical prediction and the central question of whether it deviates significantly from the experimental results and thus provides evidence for the existence of new physics beyond the Standard Model.

KPMG LLP, the US audit, tax and advisory firm, has joined the Chicago Quantum Exchange (CQE) as it accelerates a quantum technology practice aimed at helping clients deploy the technology in enterprise applications.

Oxford Ionics, a world leader in trapped-ion quantum computing, today announced that it is one of eight companies participating in a quantum trade mission to the United States, organised by the UK’s Department of Business & Trade.

Today, Maryam Janani-Flores, Chief of Staff at the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA), visited The Bloch Tech Hub, a Tech Hub that serves Illinois. The Biden-Harris Administration, through the EDA, designated The Bloch Tech Hub, a coalition led by Chicago Quantum Exchange, as a Tech Hub in October 2023.