Boeing today announced the scheduled 2026 launch of a satellite – dubbed Q4S – which is designed to demonstrate quantum entanglement swapping capabilities on orbit. This Boeing-funded, first-of-its-kind space mission brings humanity closer to building a secure, global quantum internet that connects quantum sensors and computers.

Researchers worldwide are on the hunt to capture coherence, a unique and powerful feature of quantum mechanics in which individual particles like electrons or packets of light called photons sync up and behave as a larger whole. But observing such particles as they pair has been no easy feat with conventional microscopes based on classical physics principles. A quantum nano-scope is needed, and Columbia is preparing to build it.

Northwestern University’s Center for Molecular Quantum Transduction (CMQT) has received a new $14.5 million reinvestment from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), extending the center’s funding for another four years.

A research team led by Prof. YANG Kai at the Institute of Physics (IOP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with Prof. LADO Jose from Aalto University, has developed an important bottom-up approach to simulate quantum many-body topological phases at the atomic scale.

E4 Computer Engineering, a leading Italian company in the field of high-tech hardware and software solutions for Artificial Intelligence, High-Performance Computing (HPC), Quantum Computing (QC), Cloud Computing and Data Analytics, is among the founding members of the QuEra Quantum Alliance Partner Program.

Researchers created a new entangled quantum state of matter by building an artificial quantum material atom-by-atom. The state, dubbed a higher-order topological quantum magnet, may be a way to address key problems in quantum technology, such as decoherence in qubits.

Cornell University researchers have demonstrated that acoustic sound waves can be used to control the motion of an electron as it orbits a lattice defect in a diamond, a technique that can potentially improve the sensitivity of quantum sensors and be used in other quantum devices.

Quantum Machines, the leading provider of processor-based quantum controllers, and Bluefors, the global leader in cryogenic measurement systems, announced today an extended OEM agreement. With the agreement, Quantum Machines’ QCage is available through Bluefors.

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg have succeeded in selectively manipulating the motion of the electron pair in the hydrogen molecule. The emission direction of a photoelectron released by light (a photon) relative to the remaining bound electron in the cleaved neutral hydrogen atom can be controlled by the time interval between two laser flashes on the scale of a few hundred attoseconds (10–18 s). The adjustable emission asymmetry is based on the quantum entanglement between the bound electron and the spatially separated emitted electron.

OrangeQS supports Aalto University in building a test bench for few-qubit QPU testing within the European project OpenSuperQPlus. Part of this test bench is an OrangeQS Rack, which was delivered this week to Helsinki. What is special about this delivery is a new back-end for the open-source platform Quantify. This back-end was developed together with Zurich Instruments within OpenSuperQPlus.