Singapore research organisations and Quantinuum signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on 23 July enabling access to Quantinuum’s advanced quantum computer, and to explore and collaborate on quantum computing use cases, focusing on computational biology. The signatories from Singapore are the National Quantum Office (NQO), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), National University of Singapore (NUS) and National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC). NUS signed for the Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT) and Duke-NUS Medical School to be part of the collaboration.

Today, Singapore's Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat announced the country's first national quantum strategy at the Asia Technology Summit (ATxSG) in Singapore, which aims to build the country into a leading quantum technology center. It is reported that the National Research Foundation of Singapore will provide SGD 295 million in funding for this five-year national strategy through the 'RIE 2025' Plan.

Recently, an international team of researchers led by Singapore's CQT has come close with a single photon emitter made from two-dimensional materials and successfully suppressed non-radiative decay of localised exciton in these materials for the first time. In this study, researchers constructed the emitter using monolayer tungsten diselenide (WSe2), which is only one atom thick and generated excitons in excited states using lasers. As the exciton decays back to the ground state, it could randomly undergo either radiative or non-radiative decay.

Recently, researchers at the Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT) in Singapore, in collaboration with partners, have devised an approach to make efficient use of the qubits of current quantum computers for the ‘vehicle routing problem’. In this work, the team formulated the problem based on real-world transportation scenarios provided by ExxonMobil and formulated it as a Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimisation (QUBO) problem. They successfully solved problems with 128- and 3964-route problems using just 8 and 13 qubits respectively.