ORCA Computing, a UK-based quantum computing startup, announced yesterday that it will provide Montana State University (MSU) with two PT-1 quantum photonics systems to enhance the university's research capabilities in distributed quantum computing and critical quantum technologies. These two systems will be funded by the U.S. Air Force and deployed locally within a building at MSU Innovation Campus.

Photonic, the Canadian distributed quantum computing startup company, recently announced that it has successfully transferred quantum information between two physically separated silicon spin qubits using photons at telecom wavelengths in a point-to-point network. This accomplishment demonstrates the potential of existing telecommunication networks to enable long-distance quantum communication, and this significant milestone lays the foundation for quantum internet and distributed quantum computing.