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.

oday Microsoft announced a game-changing collaboration to extend our lead in the race: together we will build the world’s most powerful quantum computer on a path to scientific and commercial advantage. Microsoft and Atom Computing have been working closely together to accelerate the development of fault-tolerant quantum supercomputers that can solve impactful problems too difficult for even the most powerful classical supercomputing systems.

Collaborative research teams funded by the Quantum Systems Accelerator (QSA) have made significant strides in developing quantum computing hardware and techniques based on neutral atoms, moving the future of scalable quantum computing closer to reality.

In the past year, the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) has teamed up with the Boston-based quantum computing company QuEra Computing, exploring one up-and-coming approach to quantum computing known as neutral-atom technology. After a successful first year punctuated with strong scientific results, the partnership has been extended, with plans to offer neutral-atom quantum computing access to some users in the coming year.

E4 Computer Engineering, a leading Italian company in the field of high-tech hardware and software solutions for Artificial Intelligence, High-Performance Computing (HPC), Quantum Computing (QC), Cloud Computing and Data Analytics, is among the founding members of the QuEra Quantum Alliance Partner Program.

QuEra Computing, the leader in neutral-atom quantum computing, and Quantum Intelligence Corp. (QIC), a South Korean pioneer in AI-driven drug development, have announced a strategic partnership. This collaboration is set to transform the way drugs are discovered and developed by harnessing QuEra's cutting-edge neutral atom-type quantum computers.

Atom Computing’s highly scalable neutral atom technology allows the company to race towards building the first fault-tolerant quantum computers and achieve larger numbers of qubits with each generation of its quantum computing platforms – at a rate of 10x increase per generation.

QuEra Computing, the leader in neutral-atom quantum computing, today announced the launch of the QuEra Quantum Alliance Partner Program. This initiative aims to accelerate the development, deployment, and utilization of neutral-atom quantum computers to solve the world’s most challenging computational problems. Through the QuEra Quantum Alliance, QuEra’s goal is to collaborate with leading technology and solutions companies to deliver unparalleled quantum computing experiences to organizations worldwide.

Researchers from North Carolina State University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have designed a protocol for harnessing the power of quantum sensors. The protocol could give sensor designers the ability to fine-tune quantum systems to sense signals of interest, creating sensors that are vastly more sensitive than traditional sensors.

Researchers at Purdue University have trapped alkali atoms (cesium) on an integrated photonic circuit, which behaves like a transistor for photons (the smallest energy unit of light) similar to electronic transistors. These trapped atoms demonstrate the potential to build a quantum network based on cold-atom integrated nanophotonic circuits. The team, led by Chen-Lung Hung, associate professor of physics and astronomy at the Purdue University College of Science, published their discovery in the American Physical Society’s Physical Review X.