The EQUSPACE consortium, led by the University of Jyväskylä, has been awarded 3.2 million euros from the European Innovation Council’s (EIC) Pathfinder Open funding programme to pioneer quantum technologies in silicon. The project brings together five partners from three EU countries to develop a new type of silicon quantum platform.

A pioneering 100+ qubit quantum processing unit (QPU), acquired by GENCI (Grand Équipement National de Calcul Intensif), was delivered at TGCC, the CEA computing centre, announce the three partners.

Researchers from the University of Basel and the NCCR SPIN have achieved the first controllable interaction between two hole spin qubits in a conventional silicon transistor. The breakthrough opens up the possibility of integrating millions of these qubits on a single chip using mature manufacturing processes.

A study by researchers from the University of British Columbia’s Blusson Quantum Matter Institute (UBC Blusson QMI) has found a rare form of one-dimensional quantum magnetism in the metallic compound Ti₄MnBi₂, offering evidence into a phase space that has remained, until now, largely theoretical. The study, published in Nature Materials, comes at a time of growing global interest in quantum materials that redefine the boundaries between magnetism, conductivity, and quantum coherence.

Equal1, a global leader in silicon powered quantum computing, has announced a major milestone in quantum computing: the successful validation of a commercial CMOS process.

The research team led by Professor Chang-Hee Cho from the Department of Physics and Chemistry at DGIST (President Kunwoo Lee) has successfully fine-tuned the Rabi oscillation of polaritons, quantum composite particles, by leveraging changes in electrical properties induced by crystal structure transformation. This study demonstrates that the properties of quantum particles can be controlled without the need for complex external devices, which is expected to greatly enhance the feasibility of practical quantum technology.

The scientific community has faced a significant challenge in understanding what drives the complex behaviors, particularly the superconductivity of kagome materials. New research led by Zhenglu Li, assistant professor of materials science at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, uses a computational approach to unlock the mystery of kagome superconductors, offering unique insights into the way electrons interact with the lattice dynamics.

Research teams led by Prof. PAN Jianwei, LU Chaoyang, HU Yongheng, and others have realized a high-performance single-photon source with an efficiency beyond the scalable linear optical quantum computing loss tolerance threshold for the first time, and the comprehensive indicators have reached the international advanced level. The results were published in Nature Photonics on February 28th.

Now a team of researchers led by Mohammad Mirhosseini, assistant professor of electrical engineering and applied physics at Caltech, has developed an on-chip transducer to help bridge that significant energy gap. The silicon device performs a stepwise transformation to convert microwave photons to optical photons. The work is described online in the journal Nature Nanotechnology.

Xanadu, a leading photonic quantum computing company, and Corning Incorporated, the global leader in fibre, cable and connectivity, will collaborate to develop customized fibre and fibre-array solutions to enable low-loss networking of photonic quantum computing chips. This collaboration will bring together Xanadu's world-leading expertise in developing ultra-low-loss photonic chip components using customized fabrication and design techniques, and Corning's future-ready innovations in low-loss optical fibre and high-precision fibre arrays. The combination of expertise will help enable the development of fault-tolerant, universal photonic quantum computers at scale.