Infleqtion, the world’s leading quantum information company, is proud to announce the expansion of its Oxford operations, building on a series of recent achievements that reinforce the UK’s position as a quantum-enabled economy. Through collaborations with government, academia, and industry, Infleqtion is accelerating the development and deployment of quantum technologies and demonstrating the transformative impact they can have in areas like transportation, energy, healthcare, security, defence, advanced manufacturing, digital technologies, finance and banking. These efforts align with the UK’s strategic goals to strengthen its technological infrastructure and national security, and will be on full display at the UK National Quantum Technologies Showcase 2024 on the 8th of November, 2024.

QuEra Computing, the leader in neutral-atom quantum computing, today announced that on September 6th, it signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) to strengthen their collaboration towards the advancement and industrialization of quantum technology. This agreement builds on an April 2024 contract, under which QuEra will deliver a state-of-the-art quantum computer to Japan, installed on-premises alongside AIST’s NVIDIA-powered ABCI-Q supercomputer.

In a groundbreaking study, researchers from Purdue University and the Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Munich have revealed an unexpected twist in molecular physics: they can break molecules apart using laser light, only to reform them in a new, stable state. This discovery defies conventional chemistry, where severing chemical bonds typically results in the destruction of the molecule.

An interdisciplinary collaboration by Quantum Systems Accelerator (QSA) researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, University of Maryland, and Duke University demonstrated a zero-field NMR digital quantum simulation experiment on a programmable trapped-ion processor.

QuEra Computing today announced an investment in QuEra by Google Quantum AI. The investment marks a significant milestone in QuEra’s journey to develop and make available useful, scalable and fault-tolerant quantum computers and affirms the recent significant technical progress made by the company.

Since its founding in 2020, the Quantum Systems Accelerator (QSA) has advanced the science and technologies required to bridge the gap between today’s NISQ (Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum) information systems and those that will be fully fault-tolerant to facilitate impactful scientific discovery. As a U.S. National Quantum Information Science Research Center funded by the Department of Energy Office of Science, QSA has developed algorithms and applications constructed explicitly for the current near-term, imperfect quantum systems to advance fundamental research across various fields such as chemical science.

A team of physicists led by Johannes Zeiher, research group leader in Immanuel Bloch's Quantum Many-Body Systems department and co-founder of the MPQ spin-off planqc, has achieved significant progress in scaling up quantum computing platforms with neutral atoms.

Welinq, a pioneering modular quantum computing company, is proud to announce the formation of its Scientific Advisory Board, composed of four of the world’s most influential figures in quantum science. This esteemed board will guide Welinq’s strategic direction and R&D efforts, positioning the company at the forefront of modular quantum computing—a critical architecture for the future of distributed quantum computing.

Infleqtion, the world’s leading quantum information company, today announced it has been awarded a $1.15M grant by the Department of Energy (DOE) under the SBIR Phase IIB program. This grant marks the first DOE SBIR Phase IIB award given to software for quantum computing and will help advance Infleqtion’s work on Superstaq, the company’s software platform purpose-built to optimize quantum computing performance.

In the CiRQus project, we have implemented laser-controlled interactions between a highly-excited circular Rydberg qubit and a second ionic core electron. This achievement advances control of circular Rydberg atoms from the microwave to the optical domain by combining established tools for manipulating trapped ions with neutral atom arrays.