Laying the groundwork for quantum communication systems of the future, engineers at Caltech have demonstrated the successful operation of a quantum network of two nodes, each containing multiple quantum bits, or qubits—the fundamental information-storing building blocks of quantum computers.

The European Commission has selected the project for a new international training program for doctoral candidates in quantum science and technologies led by Eucor – The European Campus. “Gen-Q” will enable 51 young scientists to complete a PhD with an international, interdisciplinary and intersectoral focus.

TreQ, the quantum engineering and manufacturing company, today announces the opening of its UK headquarters and production facility at the Milton Park Innovation Centre, Oxfordshire. With the pace of innovation in quantum computing advancing rapidly – and with early movers set to capture as much as 90% of the value generated by quantum – TreQ enables businesses, institutions, and communities to accelerate their quantum journeys. By building and operating bespoke open-architecture quantum computing clusters, TreQ’s solutions are fully upgradeable and extensible. Its quantum computing systems develop with the market, maximising capital investment and reducing the risk of obsolescence.

Founded in 2021 by a team of scientists—Sujoy Chakravarty, Ravi Mehta, Biman Chattopadhyay, Anil Prabhakar, Aditi Vaidya, and Sandeep Goyal—Quanfluence is a quantum computing startup based in Bengaluru. The company leverages photonic quantum technology to build scalable computing systems. Incubated at the IITM Incubation Centre, Quanfluence aims to develop India’s first general-purpose quantum computer capable of solving complex problems beyond the reach of classical computers.

With previous and new funding from the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Advancing Informal STEM Learning program, Edwards is collaborating with the University of Chicago to create educational games for middle schoolers to learn about quantum mechanics and science.

Duke Engineering launched the Beyond the Horizon initiative to provide interdisciplinary teams with substantial investment to begin pursuing extremely high-risk, high-reward projects that have the potential for deep, transformative societal impact. Three proposals were selected for an initial round of funding that will play key roles in shaping Duke Engineering’s future research and teaching profile. Each play to the school’s unique strengths and hold the promise of helping to define the future of their respective fields.

Now physicists at Aalto University’s Department of Applied Physics showed that the jump between different states can be realised in systems with more than two energy levels via a virtual transition to an intermediate state and by a linear chirp of the drive frequency. This process can be applied to systems where it is not possible to modify the energy of the levels.

PROMISE is a consortium that focuses on the application of Nitrogen Vacancy (NV) in diamond quantum technology for imaging. The aim is to guide the development and use of this mature and promising quantum technology, which is known for its ease of operation. PROMISE leads the NV based quantum imaging sensors to the next level of development building widefield magnetometer prototypes to measure relevant samples into operational environments (TRL7) to foster its market uptake.

The Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C) today announced the results of a research and development (R&D) program that focused on using cryogenic technologies to advance innovation in quantum technology.

The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) funds research into controlled quantum states of individual or coupled systems with its ongoing emerging talent program “Quantum Future”. Among the first selected projects, which kicked off in January 2025, is “qHPC-GREEN”, proposed by junior research group leader Dr. Werner Dobrautz, who began building his research team at the Center for Advanced Systems Understanding (CASUS), an institute of Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), only in late 2024. The computational chemist aims to model quantum mechanical systems at the heart of certain biochemical and physical phenomena that are relevant to environmental and energy challenges. The project running until the end of 2029 will combine quantum and high-performance computing to achieve this goal.